INSIGHTS

Pragmatic, Possible and Pivotal – Five steps to integrate carbon dioxide removal into Europe's biggest industrial decarbonisation effort.

Explore EU policy options for scaling carbon removal through compliance mechanisms like ETS integration, removal trading schemes, and carbon takeback obligations, ensuring demand, integrity, and net-zero progress.

The Green Claims Directive must enshrine three principles to ensure transparent and credible climate claims. With trilogue negotiations on the Green Claims Directive underway, the EU has a unique chance to tackle both problems at once.

Carbon removal takes centre stage at the European Parliament, highlighting the need for clear policy frameworks, funding, and market incentives to scale CDR across Europe.

Carbon Gap calls on EU negotiators to ensure that the Green Claims Directive enables private investments in permanent carbon removal

The EU just published its Clean Industrial Deal, aimed at aligning competitiveness and climate ambition, but it is yet unclear what the new legislative proposal means for carbon removal

Discover key recommendations from the EU’s climate advisory body on scaling carbon removal. Learn how targets, funding, infrastructure, and market frameworks can accelerate CDR deployment in Europe.

An analysis of current EU funding programmes and what has been allocated for carbon removal revealing a significant gap in spending

Explore why the EU must increase funding for carbon removal research and innovation. Targeted investment is key to scaling CDR technologies, closing funding gaps, and achieving net-zero competitiveness.