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🎙️ Sounds alarming? It is! And don’t take it from me, but from climate policy expert Danny Cullenward on our latest Carbon Removal Scoop. 🌲 Earlier this year, Danny resigned from GHG Protocol’s Independent Standards Board (ISB) as a result of a conflict about its upcoming Forestry Protocol. Might sound technical, but trust me, it could affect all of us. ⚖️ The GHG Protocol is the global rulebook for corporate carbon accounting, and many governments' corporate disclosure law

📑 The European Parliament has released more than 3,000 amendments to the ETS revision proposal made by the members of its ENVI Committee. 🎙️ I have previously covered the positions of the Rapporteur Peter Liese and the Shadow Rapporteurs both here on LinkedIn and on the Carbon Removal Scoop. Now that we have the full picture, time to see what might change. 👍 Big picture for removals, it seems like the EPP - the largest block in Parliament - has largely rallied behind Peter

👉 Make sure to check out Think Negative - Carbon Dioxide Removal Pavilion - the official carbon removal coalition for COP. 🤩 COP30 in Belem was the first time CDR had its own pavilion. Now in its second year, you can expect even more events, more attendees, and just more overall momentum. 👀 There are 43 (!!!) sessions on CDR registered already. You can check them all out on Think Negative’s handy calendar: https://lnkd.in/eA9epuVf 🧩 What stood out to me is the breadth of

🌍 Did you know that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is currently writing new guidance for how governments around the world can account for their carbon dioxide removals - and you can help review it. 📄 More specifically, the IPCC is drafting a new Methodology Report on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies, Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage, set for approval by end of 2027. 🤓 While the drafting itself is limited to a number of hand-selected experts, the f

💪 I doubt that Germany would be leading in carbon removal policy the way it is had it not been for the immense contribution of a real force of nature: Lisa Mangertseder 🇩🇪 Over three years ago, she became the founding Vice-Chairwoman for the Deutscher Verband für negative Emissionen e.V. (DVNE). Back then, removals was an unknown or completely misunderstood topic for most policy makers. 🚀 Fast-forward and folks are looking at Germany as one of the removals pioneers: €500m

🇧🇷 Brazil just voted. President Lula is staying in power for another term. No matter what you think of Lula or Bolsonaro’s politics, this is unquestionably good news for the planet. 🌳 The Amazon is the lungs of Planet Earth. We need it to survive. Now 60% of it sits in Brazil and has historically been subject to insane amounts of deforestation, putting at risk its entire ecosystem and - by extension - all of us. 👏 Under Lula, deforestation reached a decade low of 5,796km

🗞️ I love a bit of good news to start the week. So here you go: 🙋🏻 Of the 590 open roles on the CDRjobs board today, 228 are for people with 0-2 years of experience. That’s almost 4 in 10 jobs open to people at the very start of their careers. 🎓 Everywhere you look right now, people are saying AI is wiping out junior and graduate roles. Entry-level jobs are drying up, and new grads are being told there’s no way in. Not in carbon removal. So why is CDR still hiring junior

🚨 Hot off the press: three more Swedish BioCCS projects were awarded a collective 9.3b SEK (€840m) in the second round of its reverse auction tender, bringing the total awarded by the Swedish government to date for BioCCS to 29.3b SEK (€2.63b). 🏗️ The three projects in question are Öresundskraft (1.26Mt), SYSAV (3.6Mt), and Renova (890Kt). While we do not know individual pricing, the average subsidy per ton amounts to €146. 🤝 In the first round, Stockholm Exergi was awarde

🥊 Yesterday, live from Carbon Unbound Europe, the Carbon Removal Scoop hosted its 5th Showdown Debate, arguably our most beloved format. 🏛️ The topic couldn’t be more timely: is Europe putting all its eggs in one basket? Should it adopt a more tech neutral removals policy? Decisions taken now will shape decade(s) to come. 📣 If you follow me, you will know that this matter is close to my heart and that I have a pretty strong opinion on it. 🤩 Luckily for you, it wasn’t me o

🏛️ ETSs might well be one of the most effective climate policy humanity ever invented. I was pleasantly surprised to see that - despite the global headwinds for climate - ETSs are increasing in size and impact. 📊 Just this year, 3 new ETSs came online (Japan, India, and Vietnam) bringing the total to 41 covering 63% of the world’s GDP, with another 16 under development or in consideration. 💵 These ETSs generated record revenue of $79b in 2025, up from $70b the previous y

📝 They should. These three institutions are writing the rules for our sector, including what role removals play in the EU ETS, arguably the hottest file in Brussels right now. 🤓 If you know who to talk to and when, you get a say in those rules. 🔎 DECODE is my free six-day email course on EU CDR policy. Over 1,000 people have taken it. 📨 Lesson 1 goes out when you sign up: https://lnkd.in/e4ViTbMC

165, and counting… 🤩 Carbon Gap recently launched its impressive and incredibly useful Policy Levers Library. 165 levers across 6 categories and each scored on 11 criteria. 🎙️ Eve Tamme and I sat down with its architect Alexander Mäkelä in our latest Carbon Removal Scoop who talked us through it. Here are a few highlights that stuck with me from this conversation. 🔹 We keep focusing on the same policies: ETSs, CCfDs, procurement. But there is so much more out there which c