![]() What is less clear, and what the government has been very reluctant to tackle, is what to do with the residual emissions - those that cannot be avoided, even in the highly electrified future of 2045. This much was immediately clear when Chancellor Angela Merkel’s outgoing government, pushed hard by youth activists and a damning judgement by the country’s highest court, ratcheted up its emission reduction goals in May this year. But a deep aversion to carbon capture and (underground) storage ( CCS) is preventing an easy decision, while the European Commission is preparing carbon removal legislation and other players and nations are darting ahead planning the future carbon offset market and a CO2 infrastructure.Ĭlimate neutrality 2045 – the new German climate target means even more emission cuts in even less time, more renewable power, and more energy efficiency wherever possible. In Germany, the debate on negative emissions is picking up, as all projections show there won’t be a way around them in 2045. Others warn that relying on removal methods, be they carbon storage in soils or capturing CO2 from industrial processes or directly out of the air and then storing it underground, only draws attention away from the really important task of avoiding emissions altogether. ![]() Many argue that it is high time countries start building up a new industry of CO2 removers, scale it up and drive down prices, or at least standardise the use of readily available nature-based carbon uptake options. ![]() But when it comes to reaching a balance of greenhouse gases and carbon removal – as not all emissions from food and industrial production can be entirely prevented – views start to diverge. “Achieving net-zero” emissions by the middle of the century is a goal that few would fault. ![]()
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