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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

🌍 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

🚨 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

🏛️ 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

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

😮 Hard to believe, but we’ve done 101 episodes which have been listened to and watched over 60,000 times. For the next 100, my incredible co-host Eve Tamme and I decided to do three things: 1️⃣ Rebrand from the CDR Policy Scoop to the more accessible Carbon Removal Scoop 2️⃣ Expand the scope from policy only (still our core focus), to markets and tech 3️⃣ Increase releases from around 4 to 6-7 per month 🎙️ What won‘t change: our punchy <30 minute format with incredibly sha

🇹🇼 Imagine if the European Union announced a 20Mt/year target by 2030 for biochar carbon removal alone? That is exactly what Minister ChiMing Peng of Taiwan just did. 🎯 His bold vision: Taiwan is to produce 1Mt of removals through biochar per year by 2030. 💪 Remember, Taiwan is a country of 23 million people with very limited biochar production at present, which makes this even more remarkable. Eve Tamme and I had the great pleasure to host Minister Peng on the CDR Policy

✍️ 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

🎙️ 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

💶 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

📈 Yesterday, I posted about the >€50b compliance market for CDR that the planned integration into the ETS would mean. 💶 The math was simple: the Commission suggested procuring 250Mt of CDR. At an average cost of €200/t, we’d be looking at €50b between 2031-2040. 🤔 The reality - as I understood today - is more complex, and worrying. 🔦 The proposal does not commit the EU to procuring 250Mt of CDR. It commits the EU to selling 250Mt of EUAs (+ an additional 10Mt contingency

🌎 Applications are open for remove's first CDR accelerator dedicated to founders building in Latin America. The region has a strong case for durable carbon removal: ▶️ Natural resources ▶️ Industrial and agricultural systems suited to it ▶️ The world’s largest CDR company Exomad Green 🚀 What's been missing is dedicated program support to get early-stage teams from idea to delivery. 🤩 Introducing remove’s Innaugural Latin American Cohort Programme: an 8-month, two-stage a

🐝 Lots of buzzing about this big drop next week by the EU. If you want to find out what you need to know ahead of time, what to look out for, we’ve got you covered with the latest CDR Policy Scoop Scoop Episode featuring Carbon Gap. Eve Tamme sat down with Francesca Battersby and Louis Uzor from Carbon Gap to unpack: 🔹What integration could actually look like: a public authority or a market led model 🔹 Whether CDR sits below or above the declining cap 🔹 How to close the

♀️Women working tirelessly across five governments and the EU institutions, designing the frameworks for funding and market access that decide whether carbon removal actually scales to climate relevance. 🇨🇭 Switzerland Veronika Elgart, Deputy Head International Climate Policy, BAFU/OFEV Sophie Wenger, Climate Policy Officer, International Climate Policy, BAFU/OFEV 🇳🇴🇸🇪 Nordics Sonia Ruyter, Case Manager, National Centre for CCS, Swedish Energy Agency Ane Gjengedal, Seni

For our second quarterly catch up to chat about: 🎯 Why twenty seven different national CDR targets might actually be better for the sector than one clean EU wide number 🪑 Why nobody in CDR has bothered to fight for a seat at the table in the ReFuelEU Aviation review- but probably should ✈️ How CORSIA's enforcement looks completely different depending on which continent you're standing on 🇳🇴 The Norwegian auction scheme neither of us saw coming. 🏛️ So if you want to find

🙋🏻 If there is one person that has the answer, it is Delia Meth-Cohn, who set up and led the CDR working group within the ISO process. 🎙️ In today’s CDR Policy Scoop, I get to ask her all the hard questions. Here are a few things that stood out to me: 1️⃣ ISO feels genuinely complementary to SBTi. By design, it aims to cover all those companies that would not necessarily voluntarily sign-up to a standard. 2️⃣ ISO has credibility and will likely be used for governments, cre

💚 I had the great pleasure of attending the first Carbon Drawdown Symposium in Erlangen, Germany. It gathered the who’s who of ERW: startups, standards, policy, and a lot of academia. It was a fascinating deep dive into the current state of the sector. So what did I take away from it? 1️⃣ We still cannot explain the [sometimes huge] differences in soil vs water measurements, which in turn have a significant impact on the expected amount of carbon removed. 2️⃣ ERW credits to

🇪🇺 This timely new Ariadne dossier (Frank Best, Michael Pahle, Darius Sultani Claudia Günther, Malte Herten, Jörn Constantin Richstein, and Professor Ottmar Edenhofer, 2026) seems to have drowned in the whole SBTi noise. Yet it is one of the best analyses I have seen to date on why CDR is truly needed for the long-term effectiveness of the EU Emission Trading System. 📈 It starts with an assessment of what could happen to ETS prices, especially if CCS and green hydrogen dep

🤩 Few people understand the intricacies of carbon removal policy better than Oliver, who has been working across academia and the IPCC, all while actively advising governments around the world. 🔥 I was thrilled to learn that I was going to host a fireside chat at the Negative Emissions Platform Summit in Brussels with Oliver. There are few people I’d rather spend 30 minutes talking to than him. The best bit: we recorded the whole thing and published it as a CDR Policy Scoop

🙋🏻 Today, I was elected to serve three more years on the board of the Negative Emissions Platform. 🇪🇺 CDR to date has been shaped by voluntary demand. The next phase - and where we unlock real scale - will be compliance demand, a story that will largely be written in Brussels and European capitals. 📣 We need to make sure that this industry has a strong voice in this process, sharing on the ground operational experiences and ensuring that future policies are fit for purp