Marginal Carbon

Will the EU & UK ETS decarbonize industry and drive demand for CDR?

Tax payers may need to spend more than we are preparing for.

Nov 24 • 

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Carbon removal is mitigation, stop treating it as a last resort

If you restrict removal use for "unavoidable" emissions, you end up using it for nothing. We need to treat CDR as any other mitigation solution, and let…

Nov 6 • 

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September 2025

Where policy shuts out CDR - and how to change it

Current policy blocks CDR from being part of shipping and aviation in ways that are not widely understood. But there are solutions.

Sep 23 • 

Robert Höglund

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Allow Near-term Net Zero

Allowing companies to reach near-term net zero targets matters more for CDR than anything else standards can come up with.

Sep 5 • 

Robert Höglund

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August 2025

What role will CDR play for shipping?

Cost is one thing, rules are another

Aug 28 • 

Robert Höglund

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May 2025

CDR has three jobs, only one needs permanence

Arguments over CDR permanence miss the point when net zero, legacy emissions, and interim responsibility are conflated

May 23 • 

Robert Höglund

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March 2025

What needs to change in the SBTi Net Zero Standard 2.0 to scale carbon removal

The just-published draft standard is unlikely to significantly increase demand for CDR. Crucially, Interim CDR targets must include the total CDR needs…

Mar 18 • 

Robert Höglund

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Let markets allocate CDR

Three pieces of news: Free market CDR op-ed, Corporate carbon removal target setting white paper, and a new multimillion funding opportunity.

Mar 5 • 

Robert Höglund

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February 2025

Is 'What is CDR?' the wrong question?

On carbon accounting and optimal versus allowed CDR

Feb 26 • 

Robert Höglund

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January 2025

Switzerland introduces corporate milestone targets for carbon removal

The Swiss Climate Act include first-of-its kind regulation for companies.

Jan 22 • 

Robert Höglund

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Halfway through the CDR startup-decade

We had a fast start, but it will be slow before it speeds up again.

Jan 1 • 

Robert Höglund

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November 2024

NEW PAPER: Only 18 countries need to exceed their climate targets to meet 1.5°C

Hot off the press! I am a co-author of a new study in Nature Communications estimating countries' “additional carbon accountability" beyond their…

Nov 13, 2024 • 

Robert Höglund

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