Climate goals require pragmatic deployment of solutions we have now—not just betting on technologies that may take decades to prove viable at scale.

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When utility companies spend half a billion preparing CCS applications they ultimately abandon, it raises important questions about resource allocation in the climate transition. How much good could this amount of money have done, if allocated to viable projects instead?

It can store carbon for centuries, improves agricultural productivity, and requires a fraction of the infrastructure investment that CCS demands. The technology is mature, scalable, and projects can start without multi-year tender processes.

We have a fundamental choice in climate action:
Wait for complex, capital-intensive technologies that require years of planning and billion-kroner subsidies, or deploy proven solutions that work today.

Biochar production is one such solution.

The result: Only one company remains in the bidding process for a 28 billion DKK fund meant to capture 2.3 million tons of CO2 by 2030. Meanwhile, consumers and taxpayers absorb the cost of hundreds of millions spent on applications that were never submitted.