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CDR Türkiye Launches Ahead of COP31 to Turn Türkiye’s Potential for Durable Carbon Dioxide Removal into Regional Leadership
CDR Türkiye, an independent platform for durable carbon dioxide removal, launches ahead of COP31.
CDR Brief
Every issue of the CDR Brief newsletter, published within COP31 Türkiye Brief, and analysis on durable carbon removal. Every figure with its source and date.
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CDR Brief Issue 13: CDR at COP31 | Building the Implementation Bridge for Durable Carbon Removal
From the first Carbon Removals Pavilion in Belém to Antalya: how COP31 can turn the CDR2030 benchmark into projects, finance and regional delivery.
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CDR Brief Issue 12: Türkiye Is About to Be Charged for Its Carbon; It Should Get Paid to Remove It
The Turkish ETS and the EU CBAM put a price on carbon. Geology, farmland and industry could turn that bill into a market for durable removal.
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CDR Brief Issue 11: Durable CDR – Why Durability Matters
Removal is half the job; storage is the other half. Where standards draw the line at 100 and 1,000 years, and why durability matters across generations.
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CDR Brief Issue 10: Biochar Potential in Türkiye and the Wider Region: Untapped Opportunities and Markets
Feedstock availability, zero waste alignment and Mediterranean climate vulnerability: the case for biochar in Türkiye and the wider region.
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CDR Brief Issue 9: The Current State of Carbon Removal Policy Around the World
Public funding, procurement and reverse auctions, certification systems and compliance accounting: how removal policy is taking shape, and where it is uneven.
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CDR Brief Issue 8: The Evolutionary Path from Global Frameworks to Regional Action
From the frameworks agreed in Baku, through the mobilisation in Belém, to the 2026 regulatory shift and the regional implementation role waiting at COP31.
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CDR Brief Issue 7: How Carbon Removal Projects Get Financed
Ten financing instruments, from grants and innovation prizes to offtake agreements, advance market commitments and public procurement, matched to project maturity.
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Resolving the Accounting Confusion: Nested Accounting to Replace Corresponding Adjustments for Durable CDR
Corresponding adjustments or nested accounting? A systemic reading of the double counting question for durable removal, tested against the REDD+ precedent.
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CDR Brief Issue 6: Growing a Balanced CDR Portfolio | Nature and Technology Complement Each Other
Nature-based and engineered removal are not competing options. How a balanced portfolio is financed, and what the S-curve implies for the next decade.
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CDR Brief Issue 5: CDR Credits, Supply Gaps, and the Shape of the Market
The delivery gap, the standards shaping supply, the mechanisms creating demand, and the pricing problem durable removal has yet to solve.
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Reflections from the First CDR Stage: Moving from Curiosity to Collective Action
Two thirds of the participants joined from Türkiye. What the opening CDR Stage session showed about the solar analogy, CDR2030 and regional potential.
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CDR Brief Issue 4: A Systems View on CCS and CDR
Capture and removal are not the same instrument. Where CCS ends, where CDR begins, and how both sit inside the mitigation hierarchy.
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The Invisible Support | Facilitation as an Enabler for Scaling CDR
Regulation alone does not build a sector. What facilitation means for carbon removal, with precedents from earlier market-building initiatives.
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CDR Brief Issue 3: A Practical Guide to the Language of Carbon Removal
Six groups of terms — the removal itself, storage and durability, measurement, additionality, delivery and claims, and project governance — each in plain language.
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CDR Brief Issue 2: Greenwashing or Necessity?
Removal is not a licence to pollute. Eight hundred thousand years of ice core record, roughly 1,000 billion tonnes of excess CO2, and four beliefs that need clearing.
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The Climate Borderlands: Navigating the Edge of Complexity and Chaos
The Cynefin framework applied to climate diplomacy: what the missing fossil fuel language in Belém revealed, and why a dual-track leadership is emerging.
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CDR Brief Issue 1: What is Carbon Dioxide Removal, and Why is It Needed?
The bathtub analogy, why residual emissions and overshoot make removals necessary, and the line between the nature-based and engineered families.
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COP31 Türkiye Brief proudly presents the launch of “CDR Brief” and announces the upcoming “CDR Stage” Event Series!
COP31 Türkiye Brief opens a dedicated section on carbon dioxide removal: a bi-weekly newsletter, and the monthly CDR Stage event series running to Antalya.
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Carbon Removal and COP31: A Türkiye Agenda for 2026
Carbon removal defined, the pathways Türkiye is positioned for, and a concrete programme proposal — TR-BioCarbon — with two crediting lines under one roof.
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COP29 | A Turning Point for Carbon Removal in Baku
What COP29 in Baku showed about durable carbon removal: the Article 6.4 breakthrough, the double claiming debate, and the models that move past offsetting.