🏛️ What a year! Time to reflect on what 2025 really delivered for carbon removal policy.

🗓️ To wrap up the year, Eve Tamme and I recorded a CDR Policy Scoop episode reflecting on the biggest CDR policy developments of 2025 - from very different angles.

📉 From my side, the biggest low point was the US retreat from climate leadership: withdrawal from Paris, attacks on climate science, and frozen DAC funding all had real impacts on carbon removal.

🇪🇺 At the same time, leadership didn’t disappear, it just shifted. Europe stepped into the spotlight with:

1️⃣ Carbon removals embedded at the highest level via the EU’s 2040 target

2️⃣ Steady progress on the CRCF and permanent removal methodologies

3️⃣ Early signals on buyers’ clubs, ETS integration, and public procurement

🌍 At the national level, 2025 also delivered some stand-out case studies:

🇬🇧 The UK kept CDR ambition alive across a change in government

🇩🇪 Germany put serious public money behind removals

🇨🇭 Switzerland continued to lead on Article 6 and durable CDR

⚠️ 2025 also exposed the limits of voluntary frameworks. Expectations were high, but the reality was sobering.

🎧 If you want a clear-eyed deep dive into what moved CDR forward - and what didn’t - but sure to check out this episode to get more deep dives into what Eve and I thought about CDR Policy in 2025.

🎧 Listen here:

https://lnkd.in/g9iP5Dv7

▶️ Watch on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gbkSNfrT

❓What do you think? What did I miss?

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