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✍️ 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

🇪🇺 Just touched down in Brussels where I am joining my wonderful colleagues from the The Global South Carbon Dioxide Removal Coalition (GS CDR) to deliver this simple message to European policy makers. 🤝 Looking forward to two days packed with meetings across the EU Commission, Parliament, and Council to share our perspectives and experiences at this crucial moment in time. 🎯 By the end of the year, the Commission will deliver a proposal on the use of international credit

📙 After two long years of waiting, the third edition of the State of Carbon Dioxide Removal was just published. And it doesn’t disappoint. ✨ >300 pages written by 74 of the sector’s leading voices. The report is remarkable in both its depth and breadth. 🎙️ Luckily, I got a sneak preview and had the whole weekend to devour this beauty. And - alongside Eve Tamme - we already discussed our hot takes on the CDR Policy Scoop for you to listen to. 👀 Check it out here: Podcast:..

🚀 Yesterday, hundreds of carbon removers gathered in Brussels and online for the launch of the EU Buyers Club. Let’s start with the big, positive news: the Club has launched! 🧨 In typical European understatement, there was no big bang, even some people in the room missed this important detail: there is now an open group of buyers, working together with the European Commission, selecting eligible European projects. The first offtakes are expected this year. The day itself -

🇪🇺 Tomorrow, I will be travelling to Brussels for the highly anticipated CRCF Days: the first open CDR conference organised by the European Commission! 👂 What is the future of the EU Buyers Club? Is CRCF operationalisation on track? I look forward to getting answers to these questions and will be recording a CDR Policy Scoop episode with Eve Tamme on the ground to share our learnings. 🥂 I will also be attending the Carbon Management Europe and Negative Emissions Platform

⚛️ For most of my life, nuclear power felt like a betrayal of everything I stood for. 🍄 Growing up in the Alps, I was told which mushrooms to avoid in the forests near my home still radioactive from Chernobyl. The Greenpeace magazine I read told me nuclear power was the enemy of the planet. When Fukushima hit and Merkel announced Germany's nuclear exit, I strongly believed we were standing on the right side of history. 📊 The science was never ambiguous. Nuclear is statisti

✅ Yes, it is starting to be, finally! But some approaches more than others. 🇨🇭 That is my main takeaway from Zurich Climate Week and the Financing CDR Summit hosted by Carbonfuture, SIX, and Google. 🤔 Until now, most financing for durable CDR has come from venture capital. This works well for some approaches, especially tech heavy, high-risk, high-reward ones such as DACCS. But it has clear limitations: it cannot pay for large-scale projects and did barely touch more matur

🇨🇭 The Swiss government is undoubtedly leading - globally - on climate collaboration under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, having signed >15 bilateral agreements already. 🤝 This includes the first ever durable CDR Article 6 transaction with Norway. Today, in Climate Week Zurich, the Swiss and Norwegian governments are sharing their learnings and announcing some exciting news. 🎙️ Eve Tamme and I are on the ground in Zurich today recording a special episode of the CDR Pol