CDR & Negative Emission Markets

Negative Emissions and Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) is increasingly becoming mainstream mitigation policy.

The workshop on the topic held during the NTNU Energy Transition Week in 2022, left us with the following:

To meet the climate ambitions, the emerging Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) industry must grow fast and become sizeable as will the need for permanent geological storage of CO₂ that comes with it. This industry will need to be developed on terms that are acceptable to the natural systems which our human systems rely on.

“What we are basically looking at is how to develop a CDR industry probably using both nature-based solutions and industrial techniques like the fossil fuels industry and establishing social practices in an economy at record pace. So, it is a fundamental challenge.” — J. Røttereng, Enova SF.

Two years after, it is legitimate to ask the questions - where are we now, what and where are the key challenges, what and how to focus to unlock the potential required?

In this workshop we will look at the progress in CDR technologies, hereunder also examples on adoption and scaling through business build. Further, we will take a closer look at the negative emission markets including policies and regulations to stimulate the markets and the investment appetite, how they have evolved, and what actions are taken and are planned to be taken to make them run at scale. 

Please also find the links to the summary reports / Policy briefs from the workshops on CDR held during NTNU Energy Transition Weeks in 2021 and 2022. 

Program outline

12:00    Lunch and registration

12:45     Welcome and setting the scene 

• Opening remarks by Steven Gabriel (Univ. of Maryland and NTNU)

13:00     Session 1: CDR Technology overview, adoption and scaling through business build

    Session chair: Simon Roussanaly, SINTEF

• Keynotes
  • Global overview – Jay Fuhrman, PNNL 
  • CDR to products – Andrea Ramirez, TU Delft 
  • Adoption and scaling through business build – Oliver Jordan, Equinor 
• Moderated Q&A and dialogue

13:45    Break

14:10    Session 2: Negative emission markets and regulatory development

    Session chair: Simon Patterson, Equinor

• Introductory remarks
  • EU regulatory and policy updates – Andrea Klaric, EU Commission
  • US regulatory and policy updates – David Daniels, VTI
  • A producer of negative emissions – Jannicke Bjerkås, Oslo Hafslund Celsio
  • In the negative emission market – Simon Patterson, Equinor
  • Entering the negative emission market – Liv Rathe, Hydro
  • International research efforts on CDR – Olivier Massol, IFP
  • Inside climate policy – Eve Tamme, Climate Principles
• Moderated Q&A and plenary discussion 

15:25    Summing up and closing remarks

• Summing up the day
• Closing remarks

15:45    END

Confirmed speakers:

Steven A. Gabriel, University of Maryland and NTNU

Simon Roussanaly, SINTEF (session chair)

Jay Fuhrman, PNNL

Andrea Ramirez Ramirez, TU Delft

Oliver Jordan, Equinor

Andrea Klaric, DG CLIMA - EU Commission

David Daniels, VTI

Janicke G. Bjerkås, Oslo Hafslund Celsio

Simon Patterson, Equinor

Liv Rathe, Hydro

Olivier Massol, IFP

Eve Tamme, Climate Principles