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Sorry Na'im I don't agree with some remarks (but still with most of it). Let me explain why.

"sending a strong market signal for suppliers to increase their CDR production capacity now. "

At this moment there is hardly a CDR production capacity. The market is already bigger than the supply.

At this stage it is merely about the development of the various technologies, and some are indeed scaling up (the Direct Air Capture, but even here are different technologies still developing). And please take into consideration Climeworks started about 15 years ago. So now after more than a decennium they are starting to scale.

So the main difference is that in vaccins people know how to make them and it required huge capital to scale it up. The fundamental questions were solved once they needed to scale (and scale FAST). And yes also the characterisation of the type etc.

But for CDR most of the technologies are still (besides small) still developing.

And I agree more (high risk) money is required. And with most other remarks.

Txs for the article.

Best regards, Pol Knops

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