German Think Tank: CDR Must Defend Net Zero Against Climate Backsliding
🌍 From Germany: Climate backsliding isn’t just a Washington story. Felix Schenuit at Liberale Moderne is watching it happen in Europe, and his new policy paper makes an uncomfortable argument about what that means for CDR. The core thesis: if net-zero commitments erode under political pressure, carbon dioxide removal loses its entire investment rationale. CDR exists, in the current policy architecture, as the tool that handles the residual emissions that can’t be zeroed out any other way. Remove the net-zero target and you’ve removed the demand signal. The market for CDR disappears before it ever properly forms. ...