On 28 May 2024, with Perspectives Climate Research and Carbon Limits, Carbon Gap coordinated the launch of the Norway edition of the “Country CDR Readiness Assessment” project with Perspectives Climate Group and Carbon Limits to fill this gap by assessing the real potential to deploy CDR through a bottom-up approach in the region.
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is needed at significant scales, both to reach net zero and to support a net negative phase, the latter to compensate for any overshoot and bring atmospheric concentrations back to safer levels. The targeted volumes are significant – 5 to 16 GtCO2/yr by 2050 according to the IPCC to stay well below 2°C – and the time to deploy such CDR capacity is short – 27 years max.
Immediate action and investments are, therefore, required. Yet, most estimates of how much CDR will be necessary are global in nature, and it is unclear what is achievable on a country-specific basis. Revealing the potential for CDR deployment on a country-by-country basis and co-creating specific roadmaps with key stakeholders for each country will assist decision makers in understanding what opportunities exist and what actions need to be taken to realise them.