Criteria for High-Quality Carbon Dioxide Removal

This report by Carbon Direct and Microsoft can help you understand what high-quality carbon dioxide removal (CDR) project criteria look like. The report presents a common set of shared principles that are intended to help characterise high-quality CDR projects and provides specific criteria for eight different types of CDR, including forestation, soil carbon, enhanced rock weathering, and direct air capture. Each section covers social criteria; environmental criteria; additionality; measurement; durability; and leakage. This resource will be most useful to sustainability and procurement practitioners engaged in procuring CDR.