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Carbon dioxide removal includes approaches that take CO2 from the atmosphere and store it in land, geological, ocean, or product reservoirs.
Assessments such as the State of Carbon Dioxide Removal compare existing capacity and national plans with the much larger volumes in climate pathways, while tracking the readiness and measurement challenges of methods from land-based removal to direct air capture. Policy, research, financing, carbon-credit demand, and the distribution of investment all shape what can be deployed and where. Removal is considered alongside—not instead of—deep cuts to emissions.
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Microsoft’s pause in new carbon-removal purchases adds a near-term demand concern, especially as purchasing is concentrated among a small number of buyers. The update also quantifies the 2050 gap between 1.5°C pathway requirements and current plans.
The United Nations Environment Programme reports that limiting post-overshoot warming requires unprecedented carbon removal, while researchers find geological storage deployment remains far below modeled expectations.
More than 260 researchers met in Milan in 2024-2025 to evaluate how carbon dioxide removal could scale for Paris 1.5C, including ocean response limits and overshoot links.
A State of CDR assessment finds insufficient current carbon dioxide removal plans for 1.5C, requiring rapid scale-up by 2050 across countries and regions.
6/2/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
Kleinman Center for Energy Policy / Makenna Damhorst, Noah Deich, Jennifer Wilcox67
CDR.fyi's February 2025 landscape map tracked 563 carbon removal organizations across at least 49 countries, including 411 suppliers and 152 ecosystem-service actors.
The third State of Carbon Dioxide Removal report projects novel carbon removal at 2 million tons in 2025, but requires 70 million tons by 2030 for Paris-aligned goals.
William Lamb and a carbon removal assessment project that current and pledged carbon dioxide removal rates are far below needed climate pathway levels.
William Lamb and climate researchers report carbon removal at about 2.2 billion metric tons per year, stressing scale-up is needed alongside emissions cuts.
University of Graz researchers in Global Environmental Change propose fair allocation of CO2 removal budgets to prevent unequal burdens under net-zero targets.
Carbon removal methods and voluntary carbon-market demand are expanding as buyers increase purchases, while MRV, permanence, and ambition concerns prompt calls for governance such as clean-up certificates.
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