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🇧🇷 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

😮 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

😍 Have you seen Carbon Gap’s wonderful overview of (probably) all CDR approaches? I love how it shows the incredible breadth of the sector: from ocean to soils to forests to machines. There is something in there for everyone. Why does this matter? Why do we truly need a portfolio of approaches? 🔹 SCALE: no single technology will deliver the volumes we need. Period. 🔹 RESILIENCE: what if inputs for one approach (e.g. biomass, sorbents, energy) suddenly become uneconomical?

✒️ Now we have the answer! Terradot and Google signed the world’s largest enhanced rock weathering deal to date: 1,000,000 tons of carbon removed. 🇧🇷 That literally requires 5,000,000t of basalt to be spread across farms in Southern Brazil. This is a humongous amount of rock. 😮 It took the Egyptians 20 years to build the world’s biggest pyramid. Terradot will have five years to distribute the equivalent amount of rock. 🚜 I cannot wait to go visit this first-of-its-kind pr

🔥 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

🔴 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

🥊 Not one day goes by in which I do not see folks pitting these two approaches against each other. This then plays out in policy, where we see arbitrary hurdles, e.g. permanence thresholds or the lack thereof, created to lock one side out. 💬 And - to be honest - I used to be part of this problem too, actively taking one side only. But the more I speak to policy makers and corporate buyers, the more I realise that what they need is a holistic approach, one which encompasses

🌎 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

🧪 Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is one of the most promising carbon removal methods. But it is complex, and its success depends largely on supportive policy. 💼That’s why Carbon to Sea Initiative - a nonprofit that funds and coordinates scientific research into OAE - is hiring a VP, Global Policy to lead the regulatory, financial, and field conditions OAE research and scale-up depend on. They’re looking for someone with: 🔹15+ years in senior climate / ocean / energy /

♀️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

💦 This is more than a fun fact. It explains biochar’s water retention superpower which allows it to fight droughts and fires. 👀 Check out the full documentary “CHAR: Fighting Wildfires with Biochar” in 4k on Youtube: https://lnkd.in/deEgPbwT 🖤 And if you want to support projects like Ibero Massa Florestal, S.A. directly, you can now do so here: https://lnkd.in/e9KuXhNS

🖤 No surprises here: I am very passionate about biochar for wildfire prevention, having written and even shot a documentary on it myself (in the comments). 🇺🇸 Now, #forestproud with the support of the USDA Forest Service produced a wonderful 10 minute film on how biochar can help reduce the risk and impact of wildfires in the United States. 🖇️ Check it out in HD on Youtube: https://lnkd.in/eza-Bt3S 🔥 The arrival of summer sadly brings with it wildfires, every year more i

For being selected as one of 16 winners of Tencent's CarbonX 2.0 program providing $30M in catalytic funding to 16 teams globally. 🇰🇪 What’s more, Kenya will host all of the CarbonX 2.0 programme’s carbon removal pilots (5 companies including Octavia) to create Kenyan DAC and storage hub. 🔥 Octavia is on fire! Not only are they the first DAC company in the Global South, they also made history just last month as the world's 4th DAC company to achieve permanent geological s

🤩 As in previous years, Biochar Europe has just released their fantastic market report, which provides the best analysis of where the European biochar industry is really at. 🏛️ Tl:dr: BCR continues to demonstrate its technical maturity and ability to deliver. While growth has slowed down, capacity keeps being added. Clear policy incentives will be needed for BCR to truly scale and to incentivise use of biochar for BCR versus charcoal and especially metallurgy. Now for thos

🎬 It’s a wrap: the second CDR Experience Tour was a smash hit. 🚌 Over 90 senior leaders across policy, business, and academia packed in a bus braving a heat wave - peaking at 43 degrees in Carbon Drawdown Initiative’s greenhouse - for eight stops to witness carbon removal in real life. 👏 Thank you for everyone who took part and who made this a success. First and foremost, the incredible team at the Deutscher Verband für negative Emissionen e.V. (DVNE), who worked tirelessl

🙋🏻 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

⚡ Enova, the Norwegian state energy agency, is looking to launch NOACCS (Norwegian Auction Scheme for Carbon Capture and Storage): a competitive auction scheme for carbon capture and permanent geological storage, covering everything from waste incineration and biogas to direct air capture. THE KEY INFO: 🏛️The budget ceiling is €1.7bn but nothing is actually allocated yet. Real funding depends on annual government decisions 🗓️ NOACCS is proposed to run between 2027 and 2032