General monitoring of developments: UNEP Emissions Visualisation summarising state of CDR

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There is a lot of hype around carbon capture, but I’m willing to bet not a lot of clarity around what that actually means in practice. I found this visualisation from UNEP Emissions Gap Report chapter on CDR. It provides an overview of CDR method categories. NB: I’m sceptical about the whole thing, so file under “omvärldsbevakning”:

Coloured circles: progress toward the “ideal scenario”. Some factors probably fixed ( land use) while others may change over time (e.g. energy efficiency).

Note: No idea how they calculated this (don’t have time to read into details much). Going to guess the numbers assume a lot of this is happening in global south. So, count on maybe 10xCosts if people opt for CDR initiatives are in the North.

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The people who make the report are friends form my 2 years working in Copenhagen :slight_smile: I would suggest:

Our plan is:

  1. All schools kitchens -50% firewood use
  2. Net-Zero or Negative Schools i.e. Foodforest + Solar hot Water + Gasifier / Biochar Stove in all schools by 2050.

ON CDR: Always remember: Buying coal in the world market and dumping it in the ocean currently costs 30 USD / tCO2… Also remember: Unless people start blowing up pipelines today, CDR will be necessary for the 2° Goal.