We drive collaboration and practical policy action across the Nordics to scale carbon removal.
Our mission is to drive strong and sustained demand for high-quality carbon removal in the Nordics while fostering a globally competitive Nordic CDR industry.
Building the Nordic CDR ecosystem
Founded in 2025 to position the Nordics as global leaders in scalable, science-backed carbon-removal.
Regional leadership
Positioning the Nordics as a global leader in carbon removal technologies and policies
Stakeholder Engagement
Uniting industry, policymakers, researchers, and the public to build trust and collaboration
Science-backed solutions
Promoting high-integrity carbon removal methods based on scientific consensus and best practices
Nordic collaboration
Strengthening cross-border partnerships to scale effective carbon removal solutions.
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The Nordics as Europe’s Carbon Removal Hub: A Blueprint for Nordic Action
The Nordic Carbon Removal Association, in partnership with Implement Consulting Group, unveils the first region-wide blueprint showing how the Nordics can scale permanent CDR fast enough to matter.
Nordic Carbon Removal Association launch: a blueprint for action
This event is more than a launch – it’s a call to action. This is your chance to help shape the policies, markets, and momentum that will make the Nordics a global leader in carbon removal.
The Near – Term Future Of Carbon Removal Is National – And Nordic
Article written by Valter Selén and Alexander Mäkelä, Co-founders of the Nordic Carbon Removal Association
The Nordic advantage
Together, the Nordics form a powerful ecosystem uniquely positioned to drive credible carbon removal globally.
Sweden
Sweden emits vast amounts of biogenic CO₂, positioning the country to lead on BECCS. Generous auctions and a 2045 net-zero law that recognises removals support demand, while fertile farmland enables biochar and ERW co-benefits. Lacking its own geology, Sweden is building export hubs to funnel captured CO₂ to Danish and Norwegian stores, knitting it tightly into the Nordic carbon removal chain.
Denmark
Denmark combines biomass-rich waste-to-energy assets, abundant cropland and both on- and offshore storage to play “all-rounder” in a Nordic CDR network. With world-leading subsidies for BECCS and biochar, new CO₂ terminals on its west coast and access to Greenlandic rock flour, it can capture and sequester carbon domestically while serving as a transit hub for neighbours.
Finland
Finland’s forest-rich economy yields abundant biogenic CO₂ for BECCS and biomass for biochar, and its ambitious 2035 net-zero law underpins demand. While geology precludes storage at home, efficient logistics can route captured CO₂ to Nordic reservoirs, allowing Finland to monetise removals and over-achieve climate goals.
Norway
Norway anchors the Nordic removal hub with vast offshore sandstone and saline stores, publicly funded pipelines and first-mover projects like Longship. Cheap hydropower and offshore skills make it a promising DACCS location, while rich olivine deposits let it supply ERW feedstock. Though its own biogenic emissions are small, Norway’s infrastructure can store CO₂ captured across the region.
Iceland
Powered almost entirely by renewables, Iceland offers the world’s premier basalt sponge for permanent CO₂ mineralisation and hosts headline DACCS plants that tap cheap geothermal electricity and sell heat into 90 % district-heating coverage. With a 2040 net-zero pledge and EU-backed Carbfix infrastructure, the island can act as a boutique but strategic removal and storage node for the wider Nordic system.
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