Germany has signed CO2 export agreements with the Netherlands and Denmark, marking progress towards the establishment of a valuable cross-border carbon infrastructure.

The agreements were signed during the Strategic Dialogue of the Carbon Management Forum, held in Berlin on October 5–6, 2026. 

At the event, the contracts were signed by Hester Somsen, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Thomas Østrup Møller, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark, and Frank Wetzel, State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. 

This motion will support the development of carbon management solutions, specifically backing carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies that depend on access to permanent CO₂ storage to be able to scale operations to climate-relevant levels. 

CDR approaches such as Direct Air Capture and Carbon Storage (DACCS), Biogenic Carbon Capture and Storage (BioCCS) and removals from other biogenic CO2 streams are among the solutions that can benefit from a cross-border carbon dioxide cooperation.

Carbon removals are considered a complementary measure to emissions reductions and are expected to play a key role in achieving climate targets on time.

Once these solutions capture and lock in CO2, they need to either process it to a purity that will allow industrial repurposing, or they need to store it in permanent storage sites that will prevent its release back into the atmosphere for long periods of time.

While these technologies offer evidence-backed results, in order for them to make a dent in the global CO2 footprint, they need to be deployed at a much larger scale than the current one.

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