Chapter 22: Carbon dioxide removal: climbing up the EU climate policy agenda
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Chapter
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14 Jul 2023
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322–336
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Political Science and Public Policy 2023
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789906981.00037
Keywords:
Carbon dioxide removal; European Union; Net zero; Decarbonisation; Residual emissions; Mitigation
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After the adoption of a EU-wide net-zero greenhouse gas emissions target, the issue of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is climbing up the EU climate policy agenda. Based on an analysis of CDR-related aspects of the Climate and Energy Framework 2030 and new actor positions in the context of the European Green Deal, the chapter traces the emergence CDR policymaking in the EU. We find that CDR is not entirely new in EU climate policy. Recently, spurred by the new climate target structure in the EU climate law, new CDR initiatives, processes and debates have been launched. The analysis shows that prospects of CDR policymaking will be shaped by ‘geographies of net zero’: Differences and conflicts over climate targets, composition of residual emissions, removal capacities, and socio-political preferences for different CDR methods in EU member states will affect future legislation.

Keywords: Carbon dioxide removal; European Union; Net zero; Decarbonisation; Residual emissions; Mitigation

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