Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) approaches

Call Updates

Oct 7, 2022 6:41:49 PM

Call HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-two-stage (second stage) has closed on 27 September 2022, 17:00:00 Brussels time.

13 proposals have been submitted.

The breakdown per topic is:

• HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-01-two-stage: 4 proposals

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in December 2022.

May 19, 2022 7:39:34 PM

GENERALISED FEEDBACK for successful applicants after STAGE 1

In order to best ensure equal treatment, successful stage 1 applicants do not receive the evaluation summary reports (ESRs) for their proposals, but this generalised feedback with information and tips for preparing the full proposal. 

Information & tips

Main shortcomings found in the stage 1 evaluation of topic HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-01:

• The objectives were not always clearly linked to verifiable outputs to enable monitoring and measurement of their achievement.
• The rationale for the selection of the proposed carbon dioxide removal methods was sometimes not sufficiently explained. 
• The extent to which the research outputs would advance the state of the art was sometimes not fully convincing, due to a lack of clarity in terms of the different stages of technology development.  
• The proposals did not always sufficiently clarify how the methodology would be tailored to cover different types of carbon dioxide removal technologies with various monitoring and quantification requirements.  
• Several proposals did not fully take into consideration the overall policy framework, including compliance with key climate policies.

In your stage 2 proposal, you have a chance to address or clarify these issues.

Please bear in mind that your full proposal will now be evaluated more in-depth and possibly by a new group of outside experts.

Please make sure that your full proposal is consistent with your short outline proposal. It may NOT differ substantially. The project must stay the same.

May 13, 2022 7:01:02 PM

Call HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-two-stage: first stage evaluation results

Published: 11/05/2022

Deadline: 10/02/2022

Available budget: 51 EUR million

In accordance with General Annex F of the Work Programme, the evaluation of the first-stage proposals was made looking only at the criteria ‘excellence’ and ‘impact’. The threshold for both criteria was 4. The overall threshold (applying to the sum of the two individual scores) was set at 8 for each topic/type of action with separate call-budget-split.

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

Topic HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-01-two-stage: Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) approaches

• Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 7
• Number of inadmissible proposals: 0
• Number of ineligible proposals: 0
• Number of above-threshold proposals: 4

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: 27.96 EUR million

We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.

For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation/contact/research-enquiry-service_en 

Feb 16, 2022 11:25:12 AM

Call HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-two-stage (first stage) has closed on 10 February 2022, 17:00:00 Brussels time.

28 proposals have been submitted.

The breakdown per topic is:

• HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-01-two-stage: 7 proposals

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in May 2022.

Oct 12, 2021 9:42:14 AM

The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-01-two-stage(HORIZON-RIA)

Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) approaches

TOPIC ID: HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-01-two-stage

Programme: Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON)
Call: Climate sciences and responses (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-two-stage)
Type of action: HORIZON-RIA HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
Type of MGA: HORIZON Action Grant Budget-Based [HORIZON-AG]
Deadline model: two-stage
Planned opening date: 12 October 2021
Deadline dates:
10 February 2022 17:00:00 Brussels time
27 September 2022 17:00:00 Brussels time

Topic description

ExpectedOutcome:

Project results are expected to contribute to some of the following expected outcomes:

• Support climate policies through an enhanced understanding of existing and emerging carbon dioxide removal options in terms of their technical readiness, key requirements (land and other resource needs, geographical and geological constraints, primary energy needs, etc.), short- and long-term sequestration potential, permanence, impacts (environmental, social, health, resource depletion, etc.) including potential co-benefits.
• Support climate models and integrated assessment models through an improved parametrisation of these technologies and solutions, allowing their better integration into pathways and strategies and broadening the carbon dioxide removal technology options that can be numerically modelled.
• A harmonised, comprehensive and transparent methodology for the characterisation and comparison of such technologies and the barriers to their deployment, which can facilitate public discourse on their role and impacts.
• Gain better insight into the extended, system-level impacts of these technologies by considering ripple effects (e.g. extended impacts, land benefits foregone, opportunity costs, and rebound effects).
• Develop abatement cost estimates in function of time profile as well as factors like scale of deployment, key input factors (e.g., land/sea space, energy, reservoirs).
• Exploration and demonstration of business/ policy/ MRV (Monitoring, reporting and verification) frameworks for CDR uptake at scale, ranging from plant level to incorporation of CDR in international MRV and accounting (for example in the case of bioenergy trade).

Scope:

Projects under this topic should identify an extended range of nature-based and technical CDR methods, analyse and characterise them in a consistent and transparent assessment framework. In this way, projects should:

• Deliver realistic estimates of each approach’s potential scale, cost, and effectiveness: on the basis of factors such as technical readiness, key land and other resource needs, geographical and geological constraints, primary energy needs (and associated impacts, including emissions), short- and long-term sequestration potential (including risk of non-permanence), key impacts (environmental, social, health, resource depletion, etc.) and risks.
• Allow the better parametrisation of integrated assessment models with respect to removals as well a better design of forward-looking policies. Develop abatement cost estimates in function of time profile as well variables like scale of deployment and key input factors.
• Explore efficient incentive and governance frameworks to facilitate CDR uptake at scale, including social acceptance, ethical and regulatory considerations, as well as identifying major issues and options for establishing MRV and accounting systems associated with CDR in general and specific technologies where applicable.

Analysis under this action should be based on practical experiences (in particular with a range of land-based projects), existing pilot and experimental projects, technical and theoretical analysis and review, including system-level impacts by considering ripple effects through consequential analysis, including land benefits foregone, opportunity costs and rebound effects, key barriers to deployment and governance challenges.

Interactions with CCUS topics under Destination 3 and HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01-08: Emerging technologies for a climate neutral Europe under Breakthrough Technologies are encouraged.

Projects investigating the use of CDR technologies for enhanced oil recovery are not eligible.

Where appropriate, interaction with the topics related to climate-ecosystem interaction (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D1-01-08, HORIZON-CL5-2021-D1-01-09, HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-02-05) as well as marine topics (Cluster 6) is encouraged in order to foster integrative and system approaches including different scientific communities and disciplines, as well as different sectors of the society.

This topic requires the effective contribution of SSH disciplines and the involvement of SSH experts, institutions as well as the inclusion of relevant SSH expertise, in order to produce meaningful and significant effects enhancing the societal impact of the related research activities.