Following the Paris Agreement’s climate targets and the modelling community’s scenarios of how to reach them, carbon dioxide removal is gaining increasing importance in national climate policies. This is also the case in Denmark – considered by itself and others a climate frontrunner – where biochar is envisioned to cover 10% of the 2030 reduction goal. However, apart from research experiments and test sites, biochar is at the time of research not employed in Denmark, raising the question how it came to constitute a large part of the national goal. This paper explores how biochar, as a method for carbon removal, comes into being as a relevant solution in Danish climate policy, and what this means for emission reduction efforts. Through document analysis, participatory observation, field visits and semi-structured interviews, I employ the framework of the dramaturgical regime and analyse how biochar is enacted as a climate solution through policy documents, conferences, media and network meetings. Here the concept of enactment indicates that different people’s actions are not overtly coordinated, and the effects of such actions are not necessarily fully intentional, but they are nevertheless political. I argue that through different scientific, administrative, political, and media practices, biochar is enacted as a viable climate solution that enables the continuation of current forms of production and consumption. As biochar likely substitutes for emission reductions and is in risk of failing to deliver the anticipated amount of carbon removals, the enactment of biochar as a climate solution in Danish cliamte policy possibly constitutes a case of mitigation deterrence.

根据《巴黎协定》的气候目标和建模界如何实现这些目标的设想，二氧化碳清除在国家气候政策中变得越来越重要。丹麦也是如此，该国被自身和其他国家视为气候领跑者，预计生物炭将实现 2030 年减排目标的 10%。然而，除了研究实验和试验场外，生物炭在研究时并未在丹麦使用，这引发了一个问题：生物炭如何构成国家目标的很大一部分。本文探讨了生物炭作为一种碳去除方法如何成为丹麦气候政策的相关解决方案，以及这对减排工作意味着什么。通过文件分析、参与式观察、实地考察和半结构化访谈，我采用戏剧制度的框架，分析生物炭如何通过政策文件、会议、媒体和网络会议作为气候解决方案被制定。这里“制定”的概念表明，不同人的行为并不是公开协调的，这种行为的效果不一定是完全有意的，但它们仍然是政治性的。我认为，通过不同的科学、行政、政治和媒体实践，生物炭被制定为一种可行的气候解决方案，使当前的生产和消费形式得以延续。由于生物炭可能替代减排，并且存在无法实现预期碳清除量的风险，因此在丹麦气候政策中将生物炭作为气候解决方案的制定可能构成减缓威慑的案例。