Our Article 6.4 response
- May 25, 2023
When an UNFCCC info note argued that durable carbon removals are not suitable for implementation in the Global South and not part of climate mitigation, the Doers Club had to respond.
In June, TED Countdown hosted a Dilemma Session in New York focusing on the role of carbon credits in climate action. Gabrielle Walker and Delia Meth-Cohn of Rethinking Removals joined forces with Julio Friedmann (Carbon Direct) and Eli Mitchell-Larson (Carbon Gap) to design and present a workshop on carbon removals. We were aiming to focus on understanding quality criteria such as additionality and durability - but we started by looking at why we see carbon removals as a source of hope for climate action, not as climate denial or and moral hazard.
Here, Delia takes us through the stages of that event.
Last year, we convened many conversations across the removals ecosystem to work out what is needed to accelerate the scale-up of high-quality removals.
We are now translating these into a set of focused but coordinated initiatives.
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