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This regulatory differentiation reduced the probability of a grandfathered boiler retiring by 2.4 percentage points and increased annual operations by approximately 1,150 hours. 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Bioenergy Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) and forest-based methods are expected to provide the largest shares of removal by 2075, with forest-based removal being the most cost-effective. Despite predicting a need for over 12 Gt of CDR to reach net-zero by 2075, respondents project actual removal levels to be significantly lower, suggesting a gap between necessity and expected implementation.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"polint-000023#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Experts identify market costs and a lack of government policy-driven demand as the most significant challenges inhibiting the widespread adoption of carbon dioxide removal (CDR).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"polint-000023#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Researchers project that CDR will reach multi-gigaton scales by 2050, with median estimates of 2.3 Gt in 2050, 5 Gt in 2075, and 10 Gt in 2100.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"polint-000023#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"By 2075, BECCS is expected to be the largest CDR contributor (over 20%), followed by forest-based CDR and Direct Air Capture (DAC) at 15-20%.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"polint-000023#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Forest-based CDR is projected as the cheapest option for 2075 with a mean cost of $49/tonne, while DAC is the most expensive technological approach at a mean cost of $163/tonne.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"polint-000023#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"There is a significant discrepancy between the amount of CDR experts believe is necessary for net-zero by 2075 (over 85% believe more than 12 Gt is needed) and the amounts they actually predict will be achieved.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"polint-000023#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Nearly half of the surveyed experts believe that the absence of viable widespread CDR by 2075 would lead to significantly greater emissions-mitigation efforts.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"polint-000023#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["carbon dioxide removal","Net-zero emissions","bio-energy with carbon capture and storage","direct air capture","carbon price","carbon capture and storage","climate finance"],"geography_discussed":[],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["expert elicitation","forecasting"]},{"id":"polint-000029","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/polint-000029","title":"Defining Adequately Demonstrated","publisher":{"name":"Institute for Policy Integrity","organization":"institute-for-policy-integrity"},"document_type":"policy brief","language":"en","date_published":"2024-04-24","source_url":"https://policyintegrity.org/publications/detail/defining-adequately-demonstrated","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The brief defends the EPA's use of the 'best system of emission reduction' (BSER) to mandate carbon capture and storage (CCS) for certain fossil-fuel-fired power plants. 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