Assessing how ready countries are to deploy carbon removal
Most countries aim for net-zero—but few know how much carbon they can actually remove to get there.
Carbon Removal Readiness Assessments (CRRA) close this gap by analysing national carbon dioxide removal (CDR) potential and answering three key questions:
How much CDR is possible?
Which mix of CDR methods works best?
What must happen to make it real?
Carbon removal readiness assessments deliver:
National CDR Potential Analysis
A bottom-up look at land, minerals, infrastructure, and policy to assess feasibility.
Stakeholder-Driven Roadmaps
Each country gets a tailored action plan, co-created with local experts to turn CDR potential into progress.
Using the CRRA project: Read, Access, Publish
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Read the CRRA methodology, its goals, and published reports.
Access the toolkit for supporting documentation and explore the optimisation tool
Publish your report with our CRRA methodology, so we can reference it here.
Latest updates
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Read moreFrequently asked questions
What is the Carbon Removal Readiness Assessment (CRRA) project?
The CRRA is a bottom-up methodology designed to evaluate a country’s realistic potential to deploy carbon dioxide removal (CDR) techniques, considering technical, social, and policy factors.
Who is the project's intended audience?
The CRRA reports are a public resource for anyone to access. However, they are particularly relevant for national decision-makers so they may better understand what is achievable domestically with what policy measures. The CRRA methodology can be used by anyone in any country to create a full assessment of a country’s readiness for deploying carbon removal.
A CRRA can be initiated by a government in need of data to better understand the role CDR could play in their country’s climate strategy, a professional organisation desiring to boost the national climate debate, or by civil society organisations wanting to raise awareness.
Can I develop my own CRRA report?
Yes! We want all countries to understand the opportunities and constraints they face for deploying carbon removal. We encourage you to use the methodology, toolkit, and optimisation tool to develop your own assessment.
There are multiple ways of developing a CRRA, but you will find an overview of the typical time, skills and resources required to conduct a CRRA in the toolkit page’s main guidance document.
About the project
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Initiated by Carbon Gap and supported by the Grantham Foundation, the project aims to produce useful reports and roadmaps for policymakers, so they can understand possibilities and limitations in drafting legislation to reach net-zero.
The project gives local stakeholders a better understanding of the CDR potential of their country based on natural resource potential, political frameworks and socioeconomic constraints.
Alongside research on land-use and energy infrastructure, these assessments take into account stakeholder interviews and a citizen panel to understand how much carbon removal a country could deploy compared to its physical potential.
PHASE 2 – Publication of 5 more country reports with additional support from Grantham – Finland, Germany, Spain, Italy and Poland.
Countries were selected for their combination of large theoretical potential, underdeveloped CDR policy/ecosystem, absence of such assessment and GDP, as a proxy of their weight in the EU economy.
Get in touch
Email us at crra@carbongap.org
Support our work
Making the CRRA accessible at no cost empowers countries to quantify their domestic CDR deployment potential and develop clear pathways for achieving that potential.
This work would not be possible without the generous support of those who share our vision.
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