Carbon Dioxide Removal and Certification – What is it and why is it needed?

The document argues that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is essential to counterbalance residual emissions to limit global warming to 1.5°C, requiring 20-660 gigatons of net negative CO2 emissions until 2100. It emphasizes the need for high-quality certification to ensure environmental protection and reliability, highlighting the EU's proposed Certification Framework for Carbon Removals (CRCF) as a regulatory tool to monitor, report, verify, and certify removal activities across three categories: permanent carbon storage, carbon farming, and carbon storage in products.

• To maintain at least a 50% chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C with limited or no overshoot, realistic pathways estimate a requirement of 20-660 gigatons of net negative CO2 emissions by 2100, implying that gross CDR deployment must be even higher.
• CDR methods are divided into short-cycle removal (terrestrial reservoirs and living biomass), which are more vulnerable and have shorter durations, and long-cycle removal (geological reservoirs), which offer more durable storage.
• The European Commission's proposed Certification Framework for Carbon Removals (CRCF) aims to be the first EU regulatory framework for monitoring, reporting, verifying, and certifying CO2 removal. It is a voluntary framework that categorizes removals into carbon farming, permanent carbon storage, and carbon storage in products, requiring all certified data to be traceable and public.
• High-quality CDR certification should be based on seven minimum standards: creating real climate benefit (considering full lifecycle emissions and albedo), measurability via robust MRV, permanence (long-term storage over centuries), additionality, avoidance of leakage, avoidance of double counting, and avoidance of unintended negative impacts on people and the environment.

APA

Clean Air Task Force (n.d.). Carbon Dioxide Removal and Certification – What is it and why is it needed? https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/11100647/cdr-certification.pdf

Chicago

Clean Air Task Force. Carbon Dioxide Removal and Certification – What is it and why is it needed? n.d. https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/11100647/cdr-certification.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{cleanairtaskforcendcarbon, author = {{Clean Air Task Force}}, title = {{Carbon Dioxide Removal and Certification – What is it and why is it needed?}}, institution = {Clean Air Task Force}, url = {https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/11100647/cdr-certification.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }