CDR library

💡 The question is when, not if, China will become a - or the - global leader in carbon removals. 🤩 I remain puzzled how little is reported about the status quo and potential. As such, I was thrilled to see this study by Han et al (2026) which looks at the potential of retrofitting China’s existing biomass plants (N = 426) with pyrolysis units for residual biomass only. 📈 What did it find? Up to 30Mt of carbon removal per year through BCR could be done through retrofitting

🤯 The Chinese emission trading system is a whopping 6x the size of Europe’s ETS and now covers 60% of all Chinese and 15% of global emissions. Mind-blowing. Honest admission: I knew almost nothing about the world’s biggest carbon market until I started doing my own research. It’s fascinating: ◾The ETS was launched in 2021, designed to support the national goal of peak emissions in 2030 (65% reduction vs 2005) and net-zero in 2060 ◾The ETS started with power (2021 - 5Gt - 40%

In case you missed it in the flurry of the craziness that is December, Tencent launched its CarbonX Program 2.0 to Accelerate Climate...

The anticipated relaunch of China's domestic voluntary carbon mechanism, the China Certified Emission Reduction program (#CCER), is...