Carbon removal and critical minerals don't seem related, but they face strikingly similar challenges.

Both are hard-tech with long timelines. Both compete with cheaper but riskier alternatives. Both need procurement commitments, strategic reserves, and supply chain coordination to scale.

https://www.captaindrawdown.com/posts/cdr-critical-minerals-three-similarities/

#CarbonRemoval #CriticalMinerals #CDR #ClimatePolicy

The first global rulebook for carbon removal credits is being drafted right now.

The IPCC found that large-scale carbon dioxide removal is needed for every pathway to net-zero by 2050. Now the rules for how we verify, price, and trade permanent removal are being written.

This will shape the entire CDR market for decades.

https://www.captaindrawdown.com/posts/first-global-rules-cdr-credits/

#CarbonRemoval #CDR #IPCC #CarbonCredits #ClimatePolicy

🇸🇪 Sweden just launched two new calls for negative emissions projects under its Industriklivet program.

• $32M (SEK 300M) for scaling and commercialization
• $1.6M (SEK 15M) for research

Covers bio-CCS, DAC, and geological storage across the full value chain. Applications open until April 29.

Nordic countries keep quietly leading on CDR policy.

https://www.captaindrawdown.com/posts/sweden-negative-emissions-funding-industriklivet/

#CarbonRemoval #CDR #Sweden #ClimatePolicy

🇨🇦 Canada just became the first national government to launch a dedicated carbon removal procurement program.

$10M CAD for federal departments to buy CDR credits — covering DAC, BECCS, biochar, and enhanced mineralization. All projects must be in Canada.

This is the demand signal the industry needs.

https://www.captaindrawdown.com/posts/canada-first-government-cdr-procurement/

#CarbonRemoval #CDR #Canada #ClimatePolicy

📋 CDR Daily Digest — March 15, 2026

EU creates first government-backed CDR credit label. €260M for Belgian CCS. Net-zero concrete with coffee biochar. Frontier opens 2026 innovation funding. Plus a sharp German critique of CDR.

Five stories + noteworthy items + weekend snapshot.

#CarbonRemoval #CDR #DailyDigest #ClimatePolicy

https://www.captaindrawdown.com/posts/2026-03-15-cdr-daily-digest/

🇪🇸 Spain has the geology, solar irradiation, long coastlines, and agricultural land for multiple CDR pathways. What it doesn't have: a national CDR strategy.

Carbon Gap and Global Factor's new readiness assessment says 2026-2035 will determine if carbon removal becomes a core pillar or stays a footnote.

Southern Europe has arguably better natural conditions than the north — but is lagging on policy.

#CarbonRemoval #Spain #CDR #ClimatePolicy #Europe

RE: https://fedifreu.de/@anlomedad/116210194578628656

Aaaaaarrrghhhhhh the neoliberal myopic definition of efficiency=cheap again:

"Achieving the EU’s 2040 and 2050 climate targets in a cost‑effective manner requires meaningful emission reductions across the entire economy."
Says Otmar Edenhofer, PIK Director and chair of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change.

So the cost-effective manner is the main focus, The Goal, in that sentence, right?
Right.
Not the remaining carbon budget, no. Cost-effectiveness. Right.
And clinging to target policy years that were insufficient from the get-go.
Right again. Some advisory board on climate change they are...

Just like the British CCC, a bunch of lazy climate-impact deniers – for the sole purpose of not having to change their silly econ gospel. That would be over-taxing their intellectual capacity, it seems.
Welllll, okay. Right.

Advisory report title: "Climate adaptation and mitigation in the agri-food system; Recommendations for coherent EU policies"
https://climate-advisory-board.europa.eu/news/eus-agri-food-system-must-prepare-for-rising-climate-risks-and-accelerate-emission-reductions

#ClimateChange #ClimatePolicy #ClimateAdaptation #Agriculture #ClimateEconomics

Italy's industry minister wants the EU Emissions Trading System suspended. The European Commission pushed back hard — says this isn't 2022.

EU summit on March 19 will decide. If the ETS weakens, every CDR startup selling into European markets loses its price signal.

https://www.captaindrawdown.com/posts/eu-ets-suspension-italy-summit/

#EU #ETS #CarbonMarket #ClimatePolicy #CDR