As global emissions continue to rise, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) has become an indispensable tool of the low carbon transition. Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies: Market Overview and Offtake – developed by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with Oliver Wyman and ClimeFi – offers a data-driven overview of the rapidly evolving CDR landscape, analysing the maturity, scalability, financing profiles and offtake contracting trends across key technologies including direct air capture, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, biochar and enhanced rock weathering.
Drawing on aggregated marketplace data and interviews with industry leaders, the paper maps current deployment, highlights emerging investment and contracting patterns and identifies the structural barriers – such as fragmented standards, unclear accounting rules and limited access to capital – that constrain market growth. Designed to support buyers, developers, investors and policy-makers, the paper provides transparency on risk, cost and bankability considerations and outlines the actions needed to turn early demand signals into durable, scalable carbon removal supply.