Now it’s your turn: Carbon Gap releases free toolkit for any country to assess its carbon removal potential
Free, open-access toolkit to estimate how much carbon dioxide your country could realistically remove. Explore assessments for seven countries. (143 characters)
Carbon Gap has launched a free, open-access toolkit that empowers users to estimate how much CDR a country could realistically deliver. The toolkit is available on the new Carbon Removal Readiness Assessment (CRRA) website, alongside every CRRA published to date.
The gap in most net-zero plans
Carbon Gap and its local partners have spent two years refining a methodology and using it to assess CDR potential in seven countries. The open-access toolkit packages that methodology so governments, researchers, and civil society organisations can run the same assessment for their own country.
Most countries have a net-zero target. Few know how much carbon they could remove at home to help reach it, which carbon removal methods suit them best, or what policies would be needed.
CRRAs begin by identifying what resources a country has, such as land, energy, minerals, and geological storage. They then test that physical potential against national policy, stakeholder views, and public opinion to build realistic scenarios.
“For two years we’ve been asking the same question, one country at a time: how much carbon could you actually remove? Now we’re handing over the recipe. Any government, university, or NGO can pick up this toolkit and get a credible answer for their own country, autonomously” said Sylvain Delerce, Chief Scientist at Carbon Gap.
Everything you need to run your own assessment
A step-by-step guide covering the methodology, timelines, budgets, and staffing.
Templates for the background report and the national roadmap.
Materials for stakeholder interviews and citizen panels.
A taxonomy of CDR methods and a database of resource requirements, developed with RMI.
An optimisation tool modelling how a country’s resources could be efficiently allocated across CDR methods.
Next stop: COP31
Carbon Gap will present the toolkit to national delegations at the Think Negative Pavilion at COP31 in Antalya, which runs from 9 to 20 November.
Teams that complete an assessment using the CRRA methodology can share it with Carbon Gap at [email protected] to be featured on the website.