Etienne Schneider is a political scientist focussing on the political economy of EU industrial and climate policy at the Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna. His current research project, funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, investigates how CDR reshapes the politics of climate and green industrial policy in the EU. The project’s website is https://www.industrialpolitics-cdr.net/. Photo credit: ©Oliver Ottenschläger
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11.02.2026
The EU’s 2040 Climate Target: Emit Now, Remove Later?
By allowing CO₂ removal and storage technologies as a way of lowering emissions, the target risks deterring direct emission cuts.
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