CDR in Germany

The study “A Comprehensive Assessment of Carbon Dioxide Removal Options for Germany” provides a comprehensive assessment of challenges and opportunities for using technologies and ecosystems for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in Germany. Three findings of the study:

• More context-specific assessments of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) options are needed to guide national net-zero decision making.
• Ecosystem-based CDR options with comparably low implementation hurdles in Germany show relatively small CO2 removal potentials.
• “High-tech” options show a higher CDR potential but face institutional, technological and societal hurdles linked in many ways to geological carbon storage.

Many CDRterra researchers contributed to the study.

Publication:

Malgorzata Borchers, Johannes Förster, Daniela Thrän, Silke Beck, Terese Thoni, Klaas Korte, Erik Gawel, Till Markus, Romina Schaller, Imke Rhoden, Yaxuan Chi, Nicolaus Dahmen, Roland Dittmeyer, Tobias Dolch, Christian Dold, Michael Herbst, Dominik Heß, Aram Kalhori, Ketil Koop-Jakobsen, Zhan Li, Andreas Oschlies, Thorsten B. H. Reusch, Torsten Sachs, Cornelia Schmidt-Hattenberger, Angela Stevenson, Jiajun Wu, Christopher Yeates and Nadine Mengis: A Comprehensive Assessment of Carbon Dioxide Removal Options for Germany. Earth’s Future. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EF003986.