The third project meeting and stakeholder workshop of the European research project UPTAKE took place in Athens from October 7 to 9, 2025. UPTAKE is investigating various negative emissions technologies and developing strategies for their practical use as a climate protection instrument.
The project meeting focused on the exchange between the project partners and reports on the progress made in the individual work packages. These deal with the evaluation of methods for removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere (CDR) as part of an Integrated Assessment Model (IAM), social perceptions and political and legal recommendations for negative emission technologies.
The stakeholder workshop was held under the motto “Policy, Governance, and Equity in CDR Scaling” and brought together experts from science, politics, business and civil society in four thematic panels. This annual exchange is supplemented by regular webinars and an
Within UPTAKE, IKEM is responsible for the legal framework and specific legal issues relating to the upscaling of CDR and was represented in Athens by Dr. Michael Kalis and Till Reinholz. Till Reinholz also moderated the panel “Outsourcing CDR in a Policy-Fragmented World: Resource Grabbing or Fostering Innovation?”, which dealt with political challenges and opportunities in the international implementation of CDR strategies and focused on global distribution conflicts and aspects of justice.
The UPTAKE project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation program.
