About

The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal report is a global assessment of the state of CDR and the gap we need to close.

We aim to build a community, bridge data gaps and support the scale up of CDR responsibly and equitably.

The project is led by leading academics Oliver Geden (German Institute for International and Security Affairs, SWP), Matthew J. Gidden (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, IIASA), William F. Lamb (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, MCC), Jan C. Minx (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, MCC), Gregory F. Nemet (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Stephen M. Smith (University of Oxford).

This year’s report is led by the University of Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and has been supported by:

  • Quadrature Climate Foundation (grant ref: 01‐21‐000268);

  • CO₂RE, a project funded by the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council (grant ref: NE/V013106/1);

  • GENIE, a Synergy Grant funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement 951542);

  • CDRSynTra, a project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant agreements 01LS2101H and 01LS2101F);

  • ASMASYS, a project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant agreement 03F0898E).