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🤷 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!

💡 I had never thought about this as an either / or question and always assumed we can only stop global warming IF we get rid of fossil fuels. ✈️ In the latest CDR Policy Scoop, Robert Höglund and I got to go deep on the role of carbon removal in aviation and shipping. 🤔 One of the key arguments Robert makes is that our best shot at net-zero could be to focus on whatever solution has the lowest cost, e.g. CDR + regular jet fuel vs eSAF. Loved recording this one - go check it

🌍 Carbon dioxide removal is not a future phantasy. It is here today. There are hundreds of companies all around the world removing CO2 from the atmosphere day in, day out. 🇩🇪 This Thursday and Friday, I will be joining 60+ German politicians, corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, and scientists as part of Deutscher Verband für negative Emissionen e.V. (DVNE)'s CDR Experience Tour 2025. 💚 Travelling together by bus through the West of Germany, we will be visiting CDR projects

😵‍💫 There are 29 paradoxes to be precise, and they lie at the heart of why carbon markets are struggling to scale, leading to circular conversations with no end. My favourites: 🌲BASELINE PARADOX: you get money for growing but not for protecting trees (unless someone explicitly says they will cut them down…) 🤑 ADDITIONALITY PARADOX: the more financially successful your project, the less likely it will qualify for credit revenue. 🤩 NOVELTY PARADOX: we tend to prioritise an

📊 Lots has been written about this topic lately. Personally, I like to look at the data–not the gossip. That’s why I was so excited when I saw @cdr.fyi’s incredibly timely “Direct Air Capture Market Snapshot H1 2025” come out yesterday. 😬 On the surface, it doesn’t look good: of 167 DAC companies (as per @grant faber’s latest list - see comments), only 31 have made a sale, and only 2 (!) have delivered any CDR. 🤏 Almost 2.5Mt of DAC credits have been sold to date - of whic

🫶 You know who you are. 📈 The 2025 Global Biochar Survey is now live. It’s our chance to understand how biochar is being produced, used, and scaled worldwide. The 2023 report highlighted: ◾Revenues from biochar exceeded $600M USD in 2023 (CAGR of 97% from 2021-2023) ◾ Revenues projected to grow further to nearly $3.3 Billion by 2025 ◾ The CDR markets for biochar carbon credits are thriving, the majority of biochar producers do not generate Biochar Carbon Removal (BCR) credi

🤓 I’ve always appreciated when smart people take the time to structure and share their thoughts. Increasingly, I am finding that Substack is where I find this content, particularly long-reads. 🗞️ So if you want to get beyond the TL;DR level news - for which LinkedIn is unbeatable IMO - I cannot recommend these enough: 🎩 Robert Höglund needs no introduction in this space - we have all come to know and love him through his work at CDR.fyi and Milkywire. His Marginal Carbon A

🥊 Remember that time when I went head-to-head with Martin Freimüller - aka DACman - in the CDR Policy Scoop’s inaugural SHOWDOWN debate: Biochar vs DAC? ⭐ It was such a personal highlight for me to engage with something I feel particularly passionate about - in a new, exciting format. Check it out: https://lnkd.in/dG8Wkph9 😍 Sure, this debate ruffled some feathers at first. But, it clearly resonated with a lot of people too. We had over 1,000 registrations to the Linkedin l

💬 If we want to take carbon removal mainstream, we need to move hearts, not just minds. Data and reports can only go so far. Stories move people. 🔥 That’s why The Biochar Effect - a new documentary by Mathew Schmid and Leila Conners - matters. It captures the power and promise of biochar carbon removal like nothing else. How we turn waste into hope and science into storytelling. 🪨 The film explores how biochar transforms everything it touches: from agriculture to concrete,

🔥 Biochar is about to ignite 🌲 That is my resounding takeaway from a long-needed catch-up with Hannes Junginger jungiger cycling through the gorgeous autumnal Black Forest. 📈 What has changed? Years of consistent growth and deliveries seemed to have finally turned skeptics around. And newcomers to the market - buyers and investors alike - are seeing biochar carbon removal (BCR) for what it is: the most shovel-ready, reliable, mature durable CDR technology available today.

📗 Then you don’t want to miss this book launch of The Carbon Paradox, authored by the one-and-only Renat Heuberger on Monday, September 22nd from 5-8PM at Quick Eternity in Lower Manhattan. 🌍 Grab yourself a copy and join the characters on a climate fight journey covering the entire controversy from carbon credits to climate finance (link in comments). 🎙️ Eve Tamme and I will be delving into some of our favourite paradoxes from this “fiction-based on-facts” novel next mont

💬 A year ago, Eve Tamme and I thought it would be fun to jump on a livestream and nerd out about the latest developments in CDR. We had no idea that those casual conversations would turn into something that thousands of people now tune into regularly. What started as two policy wonks catching up has turned into a platform with: 🎧 38 episodes published 🧑 24 fantastic guests 🥊 2 Epic Showdown debates 🧑‍🏫 2 Scoop Schools for deep dives 🔔 And a community of 1000 subscriber

🤯 The Chinese emission trading system is a whopping 6x the size of Europe’s ETS and now covers 60% of all Chinese and 15% of global emissions. Mind-blowing. Honest admission: I knew almost nothing about the world’s biggest carbon market until I started doing my own research. It’s fascinating: ◾The ETS was launched in 2021, designed to support the national goal of peak emissions in 2030 (65% reduction vs 2005) and net-zero in 2060 ◾The ETS started with power (2021 - 5Gt - 40%

🧭 The Carbon Removal Standards Initiative (CRSI) just made it a whole lot easier. CRSI launched just over a year ago, and they’ve certainly been busy ever since. They’ve made their already awesome Policy Landscape Tool even better and it's now: 🔍 Searchable by jurisdiction, pathway, and more 🗺️ Fully navigable through an interactive map 🧰 The Policy Landscape Tool is a fantastic tool for your CDR Policy Toolbox, along with their recently launched Sectoral Integrations Map

📗 Then you don’t want to miss this book launch of The Carbon Paradox, authored by the one-and-only Renat Heuberger on Monday, September...

🤦 Time and time again, I look at a new CDR study and find myself speechless looking at cost estimates and projections for biochar carbon...