It is very simple. If companies want to use air carbon removal, they should be forced to do that for all of their emissions. No cheap carbon credits, but real proper removal. I am fully aware that that costs $500/t or so, but that happens to be the real carbon price.
If they do have a problem with that then they can always stop emitting.
It seems like if a company was actually going to try to remove all carbon that they emitted, it’d be a HELL of a lot easier to just capture emissions directly at the major sources and capture it then. For things like power plants and refineries that’s a lot fewer sources to filter than the entire atmosphere.
Oil-producers want to stay relevant so they do the mock conferentions like COP28, because their business is built on it and it guarantees their further political power. What Dubai could be like if not for all this oil? An artifical installation in the desert that is kept alive by exports alone. Cutting consumption of local, international oil should be a no-brainer. It’s always more effective than cathcing emmisions after the fact.
