This toolkit offers a roadmap to unlock the full potential of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) as a strategic investment for climate stability and industrial competitiveness. Drawing on experiences from pioneering countries and other innovations, it provides actionable guidance for decision-makers across ministries, agencies, and funding bodies to bring novel CDR to mega-tonne scale by the 2030s.

July 2025

Despite 2024 being a challenging year for the carbon dioxide removal (CDR) industry, NEP played a leadership role in laying critical foundations. This report goes into NEP's key activities throughout 2024, showcasing our membership growth, policy and advocacy efforts—including significant legislative achievements and coordination within our internal Working Groups—CDR financing initiatives, flagship projects like the CDR Industry Commitments, and impactful communications work carried out during the year. For further details, please reach out to NEP's Secretary-General, Chris Sherwood, at chris.sherwood@negative-emissions.org.

January 2025

This scoping paper - developed by the Center for European Policy Studies with support of Negative Emissions Platform -explores the different concepts relevant to discussing negative emissions in an EU policy context. Starting with the scientific basis described by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) the paper then discusses different ways negative emissions technologies can be categorised, and the potential trade-offs associated with their deployment. Finally, some political considerations for negative emissions policy are discussed. The paper will form the basis for an upcoming policy paper on how the EU should approach negative emissions in its climate policy framework.

September 2021

Looking ahead to COP26, with the momentum and public pressure building to shift from our current fossil dominated economy to one that is de-fossilised, there is a strong need to explore not only the amount of removals needed to reach net zero targets, but also the configuration of the portfolio of methods and technologies required. In this report, we also explore the necessary scale up of these  solutions by 2030 and 2050, and the role of corporate action in the broader carbon dioxide removal (CDR) ecosystem.

This short external report covers the key activities that NEP has conducted in 2023. Key elements covered are membership makeup, number of advocacy meetings, projects and communications activities conducted. For more details, please contact NEP Secretary-General Chris Sherwood at chris.sherwood@negative-emissions.org

January 2024

Looking ahead to COP26, with the momentum and public pressure building to shift from our current fossil dominated economy to one that is de-fossilised, there is a strong need to explore not only the amount of removals needed to reach net zero targets, but also the configuration of the portfolio of methods and technologies required. In this report, we also explore the necessary scale up of these  solutions by 2030 and 2050, and the role of corporate action in the broader carbon dioxide removal (CDR) ecosystem.

March 2022

This scoping paper - developed by the Center for European Policy Studies with support of Negative Emissions Platform -explores the different concepts relevant to discussing negative emissions in an EU policy context. Starting with the scientific basis described by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) the paper then discusses different ways negative emissions technologies can be categorised, and the potential trade-offs associated with their deployment. Finally, some political considerations for negative emissions policy are discussed. The paper will form the basis for an upcoming policy paper on how the EU should approach negative emissions in its climate policy framework.

September 2021

The European Commission’s scenarios show that the EU will have to rely on a substantial amount of carbon removals to reach climate neutrality by 2050, and achieve net-negative emissions thereafter. We are hoping that contributions from our speakers can support the Commission in the challenge of developing regulation that will enable the EU to take a global leadership in carbon removal.

April 2021