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🏭 According to a recent study: BECCS / Bionenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage. All the way. It delivers around double the climate benefit of the next best solution: animal feed substitution. 🧑‍🔬 A bit more context on this fascinating study: the authors looked at a concrete use case, namely two Dutch coal-fired power plants to be converted to 100% BECCS. 📊 The residues in question were pellets from the U.S. and bagasse from Brazil. It then looked at the overall climate

🙅 Stop pitching biochar. Nobody cares. Start understanding and pitching your business fundamentals. 👌 Pure gold here from  Alastair Collier  on the latest  Reversing Climate Change podcast  with  Ross Kenyon . ❗  No matter what type of CDR project you are trying to get funded: listen to this episode. It is just so, so good. 🙏 Alastair, thank you. You did the industry a big service by sharing your experiences. ✅ Ross, as always, great stuff. Regular listener here and encour

✅ The green transition represents a huge opportunity for countries to promote economic growth. Those who succeed will reap the rewards for decades to come. Those who ignore it, are likely to fall behind. 🏛️ Markets alone will not be sufficient: strong, coordinated industrial policy is needed to create and promote these new sectors. 📗  Amir Lebdioui  is the author of this compelling book and also the Director of  TIDE Centre, University of Oxford . He personally advises gove

🧐 However, one could argue that the money is not being allocated efficiently. Here’s why: 🏭 Technological concentration: 61% of all investment to date went to DACCS. While BiCRS follows with just 15% (of which Biochar Carbon Removal accounts for 5%). These numbers stand in stark contrast with deliveries, where BiCRS accounts for >95% while DACCS <0.1%.  🌎 Geographical concentration: the U.S. and Switzerland account for 77% of all investment. The Global South for just 2%. A

✊ Last month, CDR’s very own  Noah McQueen  joined the Founding Advisory Council of  Out in Climate , which is building a climate movement that truly reflects the world we’re all working to protect. ⚠️ This is why representation matters. Climate change hits marginalised communities first and hardest, including LGBTQ+ people, but their voices are still missing from too many decision-making spaces. Better climate solutions start with who’s IN the room. 🤓 Diversity isn’t optio

I expect this year to mark a step-change for CDR in at least three ways: 1️⃣ Formal recognition in compliance markets 2️⃣ Explicit government endorsement (certification + direct procurement) 3️⃣ Entry into the climate mainstream 👀 In case you missed it, make sure to tune into the 2025 review and 2026 forecast  Eve Tamme  and I released over the break (link in comments) where we dive into the above and much more in the usual, punchy format. 😶‍🌫️ Today, I want to share somet

What makes me so confident? Here a few highlights I expect: 🏛️ First-ever government purchase of durable CDR 📈 EU ETS integration 🧾 First EU CRCF-certified credits could be a real milestone 🌍 Rise of international credits Tune into the latest  CDR Policy Scoop  for the deep dive, as well as  Eve Tamme ’s list. 🎧 Listen here:  https://lnkd.in/d4sEDUdb   ▶️ Watch on YouTube:  https://lnkd.in/d9W7sSCW ❓What do you think will move the needle most next year?

🗓️ To wrap up the year, Eve Tamme and I recorded a CDR Policy Scoop episode reflecting on the biggest CDR policy developments of 2025 - from very different angles. 📉 From my side, the biggest low point was the US retreat from climate leadership: withdrawal from Paris, attacks on climate science, and frozen DAC funding all had real impacts on carbon removal. 🇪🇺 At the same time, leadership didn’t disappear, it just shifted. Europe stepped into the spotlight with: 1️⃣ Carb

💭 Like most people, I prefer to imagine a future without fossil fuels. Yet the reality is sobering: oil & gas (O&G) is set to remain a part of the global energy system for years to come, likely even decades. ⛽ That raises an uncomfortable but unavoidable question: if we can’t get rid of O&G fast enough, should we at least decarbonise it as aggressively as possible? Or does that risk locking it in forever? 🔥 That’s exactly the conversation I’ll be having -live here on Linked

🎯 A final agreement has been reached: 5% international credits (1990 levels) plus a potential additional 5% (2005 levels) at member state level. 📈 Starting as early as 2031, we are talking 100s of megatons, potentially more than a gigaton worth of credits (we are still thin on details). 📋 But what credits exactly? So far, all we have is reference to “high-quality” and a reference to the Paris Agreement. It will be up to the EU Commission to prepare an impact assessment and

🤔 Are you paying or being paid fairly? What jobs are particularly in demand? How big are regional differences? 📄 At CDRjobs, we just published the second edition of our annual compensation report and it is packed with insights! 📊 For 2025, we almost tripled the amount of job data we analysed to over 4,000 jobs in carbon removal! Some highlights: 🌍 The global median annual salary dropped 12% to $100k 💶 Without the U.S., the median is $70 (also 12% below 2024) 📍 The U.S.

🔥 The topic that keeps giving… how permanent is biochar? 📄 A paper recently appeared challenging that soil-applied biochar can be permanent for 1,000s of years. It generated lively discussions and several folks asked me for my take. 🧪 First things first: I am not a scientist, and this is a matter that needs to be settled 100% by science. However, the latest paper is explicitly a policy commentary. So allow me to weigh in. My main observations: ⚖️ The debate is not on wheth

🏛️ This is my core takeaway from Harry Smith PhD’s (University of East Anglia) excellent doctoral thesis analysing 41 government Long-Term Low Emissions Development Strategies (LT-LEDS) submitted to the UNFCCC. 🌍 As a reminder: LT-LEDS represent countries’ highest-level long-term climate strategies and therefore provide a clear window into current and future national climate policy. 📄 So what did the thesis find? First, a huge over-reliance on nature based removals vis-a-v

😎 The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies today published a paper I co-authored with Raphaël Cario. (And yes: this is different from last week’s Oxford University paper on Global South CDR industrialisation - I know, we are on a roll!). The core message? 📣 Biochar carbon removal (BCR) is the most deployment-ready, lowest-risk durable CDR option available today and should be among the first options integrated into the EU and UK ETS. 🇪🇺 As a reminder: the European Commissi

👎 Let’s start with the bad news: Multilateral climate policy is failing us. 🪵 Yet again, a COP has been unable to deliver what we need most: a clear commitment to phase out of fossil fuels. To add insult to injury, a COP hosted in the Amazon also failed to propose a deforestation roadmap. ⚠️ This is inexcusable. It’s not aligned with science. And the world deserves better. 🏃 Yesterday, as I went on my angry post-COP run, I listened to (the very appropriately titled) Outrag

🤷 Yesterday, I asked you whether we should have a COP at all. Is all this massive effort - and the associated emissions - even worth it? The community seems split, which isn’t surprising. 🎯 I personally believe that COPs have an important role to play, and that it will take years of hard work to position CDR where it needs to be: as a horizontal, essential building block across climate targets and initiatives at large. 🤩 So did we make any progress on this front during COP

📈 Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen job seeker traffic across all the CDRjobs channels more than double: from 300-400 individuals to almost 800 per week, hitting an all time high since we started tracking. So why are we seeing this trend and why now? Couple of hypothesis: ✅ Carbon removal is becoming better known - see some of my recent posts for proof ✅ People are increasingly looking to switch careers into more meaningful, climate work ✅ The CDR job market stays strong a

👀 I had to rub my eyes to believe it. The Guardian, not necessarily the most pro-CDR media outlet, highlights the need for carbon removal scale up as its top global news item. 🌐 Yesterday, I shared Johan Rockström’s excellent pre-COP30 article that we need 600Gt of CDR this century. He was now joined by more leading climate scientists in this Guardian piece. 📣 Their message is clear: to avoid climate tipping points and reverse overshoot, we will need hundreds of gigatons o

😬 For years, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has been the gold standard for corporate climate targets. But SBTi has struggled: governance issues, inconsistent guidance, and growing pushback from companies frustrated by its rigidity and lack of clarity. ⭐ Into that gap now steps the ISO Net Zero standard, developed with input from over 170 countries and promising global legitimacy and harmonisation. It will officially launch with a big splash at COP30. 🏢 And, let

🚌 60 passionate individuals, 2 days, 300 kilometres, 5 CDR projects, 1 bus. What a blast! 😍 Hands down my favourite CDR event ever. See it to believe it. 👀 To be repeated by Deutscher Verband für negative Emissionen e.V. (DVNE) in 2026!