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🔴 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

🇩🇪 Next week, we will be travelling across Southern Germany with more than >25 members of the federal and Bavarian parliaments as well as >30 corporate sustainability leaders in tow. 🫶 Last year’s #CDRExperienceTour was - by far - my favourite CDR event to date. There is just nothing like it. 🤩 This year, the team at the Deutscher Verband für negative Emissionen e.V. (DVNE) - in close collaboration with remove, CDRterra and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München - ha

🔴 This is not an abstract question. Things go wrong: reversals, non delivery, even fraud. 👮‍♀️ We need to be able to trace the stored carbon from its very source to its final site, including clear legal and liability mechanisms to hold the responsible actors accountable. 💚 That is exactly what Carbonfuture settlement infrastructure enables. 📽️ Check out the short documentary we shot with Ibero Massa Florestal, S.A. in 4k on Youtube for more: https://lnkd.in/deEgPbwT

🇪🇺 Huge news coming out of Europe this week! The European Commission released a draft implementing act for the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) covering the use of carbon credits. 🔎 The punchline: Europe is looking to allow up to 10% of international carbon credits (Article 6) and what looks like unlimited domestic compliance carbon credits to be used to reduce CBAM levies for companies exporting to Europe. 💶 Why is this so big? Let’s do the maths: the CBAM - cur

📽️ Check out the full documentary "CHAR: Fighting Wildfires with Biochar" on Youtube: https://lnkd.in/ekewGGt3 💚 And if you feel inspired to buy some carbon removal today, head over to CDR Shops: https://www.cdr-shops.com/

😮 Today, Exomad Green announced they passed 2Mt of biochar carbon removal (BCR) sold. That is huge. ✅ The best bit? At almost 400Kt delivered - by far the most of any CDR company in the world - they are the living proof that BCR can scale both sales AND deliveries. 🇨🇭Great catching up with Diego Justiniano and Francesco Guglielmi at Zurich Climate Week to celebrate this milestone. 👀And I hear this won’t be the last big news of the week from Exomad… watch this space.

🔎 I've long wanted to bring deep podcast conversations to CDR. Too often, we stay on the surface and keep hearing the same messages from the same people over and over again. 💚 This is why the CDR Policy Scoop launched the new "Digging Deep" format, with the one and only Gabrielle Walker as our inauguratory guest. 🌟 Gabrielle is arguably one of the MVPs of CDR. She has been at it for over 30 years, has seen the ebbs and flows, regularly speaks to the who's who of climate, a

🔥 As we head into the summer, wildfires will likely be raging throughout the Mediterranean again, causing widescale destruction and damage. 🌱 This is the powerful story of how a Portuguese company - Ibero Massa Florestal, S.A. - decided to turn this devastation into a multi-facetted solution. 🎥 Check it out this beautiful short documentary in collaboration with Carbonfuture on Youtube: https://lnkd.in/eqXUN-XP 🖤 And help us share this story: if more people knew about the