🇩🇪This week’s spotlight on an emerging carbon management leader in Europe: Germany 🇩🇪

Huge news has emerged from the German government earlier this week announcing plans to set carbon dioxide removal (#CDR) targets for 2035, 2040, and 2045. Coming from the largest economy in Europe, this marks yet another major development in the EU carbon management sector.

What CDR policies has Germany implemented so far?

📝 The Ministry of Education and Research will be financing CDR research including #CDRterra for terrestrial atmospheric CDR. This will include direct air capture and carbon storage (#DACCS), biochar carbon removal (#BCR), and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (#BECCS).

🇳🇴 Germany entered a joint partnership with #Norway to develop CCS storage projects and CO2 export infrastructure, including Equinor and Wintershall Dea’s plans for a CO2 pipeline between the two countries with a planned capacity of up to 40 Mt/year.

🌊 Research mission #CDRmare will investigate the removal and storage of CO2 from the atmosphere into the ocean. This will establish a Marine Carbon Roadmap for the sustainable use of #marinecarbonstorage at regional to global scales.

🇪🇺 Infrastructure projects like Open Grid Europe’s CO2 Netz will enable CO2 captured by Germany’s industrial emitters to be transported for storage abroad.

❗The German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action released an evaluation report in December to amend the Carbon Capture and Storage Act (#KSpG) to enable CO2 storage in the country.

The current government in Germany - under the leadership of Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Robert Habeck - has been making strides in realising Germany's potential for CDR to achieve its net-zero goal by 2045.

What is your take on the direction Germany is heading? What other initiatives are worth highlighting? Leave them in the comments for all of us to check out.