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How Europe Can Use Emissions Trading to Also Manage Carbon Removals
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In the EU, CO2 emissions are as expensive for companies as hardly anywhere else in the world. Several Member States therefore want to defuse emissions trading. German scientists have an idea for this.
How Europe can use emissions trading to also manage carbon removals
The emissions trading system launched by the European Union in 2005 could one day also be used to capture CO₂ on a large scale. A new model study quantifies the potential, and outlines that phased integration of removals into the trading system can avoid misguided incentives, while providing industry with planning security for residual emissions that are hard-to-abate.
Carbon dioxide can be separated directly from the air or from biomass in order to limit global warming. What role will such processes play in emissions trading?
March 31, 2026 – The emissions trading system for CO₂, launched by the European Union in 2005, could one day also be used on a large scale to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere. A new modeling study quantifies the potential and outlines a gradual integration of CO₂ removals into the trading system as the right way to avoid perverse incentives. Industry would gain planning certainty for unavoidable residual emissions. The study builds on discussions …
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