The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal (University of Oxford Smith School and partners)
The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal, 3rd Edition (chapter 7 data)
Chapter 7 of The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal, 3rd Edition (2026), "Current levels of CDR": carbon dioxide removal actually delivered each year. Novel CDR is removal into durable storage by newer methods (biochar, BECCS, direct air capture with storage, enhanced weathering, mineral products, biomass burial and others), compiled project by project from registries, government data and CDR.fyi, 2017 to 2025; direct air capture counts only where the CO2 is shown to reach durable storage. Conventional CDR is removal by managed forests (afforestation, reforestation and forest management), from three bookkeeping models (BLUE, LUCE, OSCAR) and their mean, 2005 to 2024. Values are in million tonnes of CO2 a year.
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“©2026 SoCDR Reports licensed under CC BY 4.0”
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- Credit we give
- The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal, 3rd Edition (2026), chapter 7 data (https://www.stateofcdr.org/data-portal/3rd-edition). CC BY 4.0.
- Notice
- Novel CDR includes values the report takes from CDR.fyi for projects not listed on registries; CDR.fyi's own terms do not allow republishing its data, and whether the report's CC BY 4.0 licence covers them is not yet confirmed.
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- Cite as
- The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal, 3rd Edition. Smith, S. M., Grassi, G., Gupta, S., Schwingshackl, C., Harrington, K. J., Pilli, R., Rink, A. Chapter 7: Current levels of CDR, in The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal 3rd Edition 2026 (eds. Edwards, M. R. et al.). DOI: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/VH7U6 (2026)
Files
All chapter 7 data, one value per row: columns Chapter, Country, Region, Model, Variable (Conventional or Novel), Type, Indicator, Method, Unit, Value, Year, Edition, Notes, Quality, Year Range, Data portal reference. World novel CDR by method and year and in total (Fig. 7.2), world and country conventional CDR by model (Fig. 7.1), transfers into durable wood products (Fig. 7.3), the pipeline of novel CDR capacity (Fig. 7.4) and estimates from national inventories.
https://www.stateofcdr.org/asset/SoCDR-Edition-3-Chapter-7.csvChapter 7, "Current levels of CDR", as published (26 pages), for the statements the build checks.
https://www.stateofcdr.org/asset/SoCDR-Ed3_Chapter-7_Final.pdfChapter 7 technical annex (methods, sources and the novel CDR inclusion rules).
https://www.stateofcdr.org/asset/SoCDR-Ed3-Technical-annex-Ch7_Final.pdf
Status
- Programme
- Third edition published June 2026 (data file of 27 May 2026). Editions have appeared in 2023, 2024 and 2026; a new edition is a new registry entry. Academic consortium, not a US federal product.
- Updates
- Roughly every one to two years (a new edition)
- Last check
- Unchanged since the last fetch (2026-10-25T10:15:44Z)