Full Title: Scaling Up Carbon Dioxide Removals: Recommendations for Navigating Opportunities and Risks in the EU
Author(s): European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change
Publisher(s): European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change
Publication Date: February 6, 2025
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With global warming accelerating, the long-term goal to keep warming below 1.5°C set out in the Paris Agreement is increasingly at risk of being breached. Limiting this risk and stabilising the climate requires urgent and coordinated global efforts. The EU is legally committed to achieving climate neutrality at the latest by 2050 and to pursuing net-negative emissions thereafter. To meet these goals, the EU must both drastically reduce emissions and counterbalance residual emissions from activities with currently no or limited mitigation alternatives with carbon dioxide removals. Removals are essential for achieving net-negative greenhouse gas emissions and helping stabilise the global climate.
The European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change hereby makes nine recommendations to policy makers for rapidly scaling up removals, in ways that enhance EU’s industrial competitiveness while addressing associated opportunities and risks. These recommendations address both temporary removals, resulting from activities such as afforestation, reforestation and soil carbon sequestration, and permanent removals, including technologies such as bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and direct air carbon capture and storage (DACCS).