DACMA signed the DAC coalition position paper
Position paper about integration of carbon dioxide removals (CDR) into the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS)
The DAC Coalition is a nonprofit organization founded in 2022 with meanwhile over 110 companies, organizations, and institutions working to advance and accelerate the deployment of direct air capture technologies.
The coalition supports high-quality, measurable, verifiable, and permanent carbon dioxide removals (CDR) into the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) to help scale the industry and meet net zero goals. A well-designed integration could create a stable, long-term market for permanent CDR.
However, relying solely on ETS integration without additional support will not be enough to ensure widespread deployment and use.
According to the position paper, there are the following challenges to integration:
„These challenges include extended sale cycles due to limited familiarity with the product, the nascent state of CDR credit transactions, lack of market liquidity, evolving science around permanent removals pathways, and dependency on climate policy to motivate purchases.“
Accordingly, the position paper sets out all the important key features that should be ensured when integrating carbon dioxide removals (CDR) into the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) such as:
- Only removals that isolate CO2 from the atmosphere on the timescale of the lifetime of CO2 emissions should be eligible for integration in order to maintain the integrity of the ETS.
- All tonnes of CO2 removed are measurable and verifiable
- Define a CDR sub-mandate that increases over time
- Maintain the gross cap on emissions
Read about all key features and the full position paper HERE:
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“The DACMA GmbH with Jörg Spitzner and his team are not only valuable partners in our network, but also key initiators and innovators who, with DACMA, are driving forward DAC system engineering in the Hamburg metropolitan region – an essential future climate change mitigation technology.”
“Together with our partner DACMA GmbH, we are delighted to be building the first DAC machine on the HAMBURG BLUE HUB site in the Port of Hamburg. The 30-60 tons output of CO2 annually of the DACMA machine can later be used to produce e-methanol for the Port of Hamburg, for example. This is a joint milestone, as it fits in with the plan to purchase large volumes of synthetic fuels from Power-to-X plants in Africa and South America for Germany through the HAMBURG BLUE HUB”.
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