Germany's CDR Potential: Up to 95 Million Tonnes CO₂ Per Year by 2045
Global durable carbon removal today stands at roughly 0.1 million tonnes per year. Germany alone could be doing 95 million tonnes annually by 2045 — if it gets serious. That’s the headline finding from a new Carbon Removal Readiness Assessment (CRRA) published by Sweco Finland and Carbon Gap. The report is the most comprehensive analysis yet of what CDR deployment could actually look like in Europe’s largest economy. The Numbers Germany’s climate targets are among the world’s most ambitious: climate neutrality by 2045, net-negative emissions by 2050. The theoretical CDR potential is enormous — approximately 258 MtCO₂ per year by 2045. But “theoretical” does a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. ...