Retire the concept of residual emissions
Either you accept carbon removal as a climate solution, or you reject it to avoid lock-in. Either way, residual emissions is not a thing.
Marginal Carbon
First-principles writing on corporate climate action, carbon removal, and climate policy, grounded in real-world constraints. By Robert Höglund.
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The main thing holding carbon removal back
The EU sees CDR as equal to other mitigation solutions, the SBTi does not and needs to justify why.
Corporate net zero is not a target
It is a vision with a target component, and an obligation to make that vision a reality, even when it doesn't show up in GHG accounting.
The fight over what counts toward targets misses a bigger question
First published in Trellis
The Carbon removal sector needs a new story
From speed and scale to prove and learn
Net zero targets are conditional
Introducing a new lens on corporate net zero
Aviation, not shipping, drives EU CO₂ demand under current fuel mandates
Europe will need significant volumes of CO₂ to meet the criteria in predominantly ReFuelEU, and even more to reach net zero across the two sectors
Will the EU & UK ETS decarbonize industry and drive demand for CDR?
Tax payers may need to spend more than we are preparing for.
Carbon removal is mitigation, stop treating it as a last resort
If you restrict removal use for "unavoidable" emissions, you end up using it for nothing. We need to treat CDR as any other mitigation solution, and let markets allocate its use.
Where policy shuts out CDR - and how to change it
Current policy blocks CDR from being part of shipping and aviation in ways that are not widely understood. But there are solutions.