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👀 As expected, the EU Parliament's Rapporteur on the Emission Trading System Revision Peter Liese is pushing for significant changes to the Commission's proposal. A Contexte leak of the [soon to be published] draft shows how far Liese wants to go: ➡️ Start date in 2029 instead of 2031 ➡️ Biochar added to the eligible pathways alongside DACCS and BioCCS with a 20% cap ➡️ [Uncapped] additional allowances to be auctioned to cover a potential price gap ✅ And much more. This is v

🤩 Our star guest was no other than Peter Liese, a 32-years veteran member of the European Parliament and its Rapporteur on the EU ETS review proposal. 🏆 And - dare I say - I have never spoken to a politician who champions carbon removals the way Peter does. 🏭 Peter has been advocating for CDR in the EU ETS since 2021, when he oversaw the last review, also as the Parliament’s Rapporteur on the file. So what does he think of the proposal now that CDR finally made it in? 🏁 I

🧒 I love working from home. For being able to be part of my daughter’s daily life from the little things to the big milestones. For being able to call three different countries my home. 💻 But there are its drawbacks. Despite really intentional processes that make remote work possible and effective, there are some things that just can’t be replicated by seeing your colleagues on a tiled screen. 🌲That’s why I really look forward and get excited about the biyearly Carbonfutur

✍️ Semantics, you might say. Not really. There are huge differences and getting this wrong can end up being very costly, to everyone involved. ⚖️ Lisa (Elisabeth) DeMarco is one of the legal architects of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. She helped governments draft the rules we all talk about today. 🎙️ It was thus a huge pleasure to sit down with her in our latest CDR Policy Scoop to ask her all our questions - and there were many. 🇪🇺 Looking at the EU - which tends to

👀 This is a particularly important one to scrutinise, as excessively low BCR costs - €37/t anyone? - were explicitly highlighted by the EU Commission as a reason NOT to integrate BCR into the ETS, given it could potentially lead to distorting effects. 🇪🇺 Now I know the BCR industry well enough to immediately realise that the Commission’s numbers were off. So let’s dig in - here is how the numbers come together: 1️⃣ The entire lower bound (€66-€37/t) comes / is derived fro

🔥 The planet is burning. We are running out of time and cannot afford the luxury of certainty anymore. 💬 That is why these wise words from carbon removal veteran Dirk Paessler paessler resonate a lot with me, yet they seem so far away from the policy halls I spend most of my time in. 🪨 Let’s make it concrete: enhanced rock weathering (ERW) was hailed as one of the most scalable and potentially affordable durable CDR solutions out there. 🤝 I shared this belief and even bro

👀 Last week, I shed some light on the pretty shaky assumptions behind the BioCCS cost forecast in the EU ETS proposal. Today, let’s shift focus to the other CDR method eligible for integration into the ETS: DACCS. 💶 Unlike with BioCCS, I didn’t find the DACCS numbers intuitively off. In fact, I had a bunch of DACCS project developers tell me they were quite happy about those numbers, which might be even higher than what they could get on the voluntary carbon market (VCM). �

🎙️ Every week, I get to ask industry experts all my toughest questions on the CDR Policy Scoop. With almost 100 episodes down, we decided to flip the tables. 🫵 Now it is YOU who gets to ask Eve Tamme and I whatever you want. Policy, markets, technology, or the show itself - nothing is off limits. How to submit your question - do any of the below: 1️⃣ Drop it in the comments below 2️⃣ Send us a voice message and we might air you on the episode: https://lnkd.in/e-uyCTfu 3️⃣ P

💎 This is a real gem: the department leading carbon removal policy within the European Commission is hiring for a Policy Officer. 🇪🇺 DG Clima C3 within the European Commission has been driving cutting-edge CDR policy, amongst others the Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming Regulation (CRCF), and - more recently - the EU Buyers Club. 🫵 Now you can join them! Key tasks include: 🔹 Helping to implement the CRCF, including managing the Carbon Removal Expert Group 🔹 Contributing

💶 The BioCCS cost assumptions are the Achilles Heel of the current ETS CDR proposal. The numbers - see comments for a reminder - just don’t look right, with all the downstream implications they have. 👀 So I dove deep. Very deep. Three numbers are key to understand: 1️⃣ €172/t in 2020 - this forms the lower bound starting point (in 2023, using EUR2020) 2️⃣ €153/t in 2050 - this forms the single end point for all three (lower/average/upper) scenarios. 3️⃣ €314/t in 2024 - t

🔴 What is happening right now is tragic, terrifying, and - this is key - in many ways preventable. 🥲 Yes, wildfires have always been there, but no one in their right mind can look at the images coming out of North America or Europe right now and claim that there is anything "normal" about it. 🤷‍♂️ So will we be looking at even worse fires next year, and the year after, and the year after? ✅ Or will society finally act and do whatever it can to prevent these fires in the fi

🎙️ Mette Quinn heads up the team at the European Commission which has spent years thinking about the CDR integration into the EU ETS. Eve Tamme and I managed to get Mette on the CDR Policy Scoop to ask her all our hard, outstanding questions. 🎯 Sneak preview: yes, the 250Mt of CDR in the 2030s is a promise, not just an aspiration. 💡 There is much, much more. Mette was generous, clear, and insightful. I guarantee you will learn something you didn’t know. Make sure to check