Cabon recycling Technology as a system efficiency

Carbon Recycling Technology (CRT) as Systemic Efficiency Why Decarbonisation Fails Without System Boundaries — and How CRT Fixes It Most net-zero strategies fail for one simple reason: they confuse the system with its surroundings. The United Nations (UNECE, 2025) now frames decarbonisation not as a technology choice, but as a system-design problem — calling it systemic efficiency: reduce demand first, substitute clean energy second, and only then deal with residual emissions. This framing exposes the flaw in many popular pathways: • Electrification without 24/7 clean supply • CCS that shifts carbon elsewhere • Hydrogen without a closed carbon logic Carbon Recycling Technology (CRT) is built precisely around this missing boundary. CRT is not an offset. It is not CCS. It is not hydrogen hype. CRT is a closed-loop energy system: • Carbon stays inside the system as a recyclable carrier • Renewable hydrogen supplies the energy • Energy is extracted, carbon is recovered, and the loop is closed again No displacement. No accounting tricks. Zero emissions by design. Why this matters • Fuels still beat electrons for resilient, continuous baseload • Energy security comes from system design, not fuel geopolitics • Carbon is not the enemy — uncontrolled carbon is As the UN now recognises, efficiency, resilience, digitalisation, and circularity only work when the system boundary is explicit. CRT is a practical expression of that principle. Decarbonisation is not about eliminating carbon. It is about closing the carbon loop. Carbon as the carrier. Renewable hydrogen as the fuel. Systemic efficiency as the outcome.