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⚡ 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

👂 I keep hearing this. And - on the surface - it makes sense. Every ton we do not reduce will have to be removed. 📈 However, the simple economics of abatement and removals tell a different story: The less we reduce, the more unlikely we will remove. To understand this argument, we need to look at two cost curves: 🔴 Carbon dioxide removals (CDR): this one is straight-forward. Using a blended ton of durable removal, we are averaging $310/t today and predictions see us gettin

😍 On Tuesday, the Rete Italiana Rimozione Carbonio (RIRC) was launched amidst the beautiful 600 years old frescoes of the Scuole della Carita in Padova. 🙋🏻 If you follow me, you know I love a CDR association. So much so, that I’ve personally founded my fair share in the CDR space and currently sit on numerous boards spanning geographies and technologies. 🤔 So do we really need another one? Is this leading to association overload and fragmentation for an already small s

📖 No, this is not another post on Microsoft. Instead, a suggestion: How about turning the page and focusing on what matters most now - ensuring continued purchases of and finance for CDR. 💸 One thing is obvious: we need to ensure that capital continues to flow into the CDR space. 🤔 If we were only able to gather them all in one place sometime soon… 🇨🇭 Welcome to Zurich, one of the world's great financial hubs, which decided to host its first ever Climate Week from the

🌲 Are you working on mangroves, reforestation, or agroforestry projects? Then make sure to check out Symbiosis Coalition 's latest request for proposals. 😮 If you are unfamiliar with Symbiosis: it is a 20Mt advance market commitment (AMC), bringing together the who's who of corporate carbon credit buyers with the aim to lay the foundation for the next generation of nature-based carbon removal projects. 💪 It's great to see mangroves included for this round, given they stor

⭐ In fact, when it comes to CDR in carbon pricing systems, quality > size every time. 📊 Having analysed the 17 most high potential compliance markets, I recently argued that CDR eligibility alone tells us little about actual market potential - see comments. 👉 Today, I want to draw attention to another factor: size. 🏭 Let’s take two extremes to illustrate the point: China’s emissions trading system (ETS) is - by far - the biggest in the world, covering almost 8Gt or 15% of

😐 Honest admission: I knew/know almost nothing about LTSs. In fact, I barely hear anyone talk about them. One exception is Harry Smith PhD , who actually wrote a full PhD about it. Here are a few things I learnt in our CDR Policy Scoop with Harry: 🎯 Residual emissions in government plans are double what the CDR community assumes. We often talk about 5-15%. In LTSs, they are often more than double this. An even bigger issue: only 26 countries actually quantified their res

🎓 Despite all the hype around AI workforce automation, the carbon removals industry is still very much recruiting early stage career professionals. 📊 A new analysis from CDRjobs shows that, in 2025, almost 70% of all new job openings (N = 2,566) were for entry level (26%) or early career (43%) professionals. 😍 I loved this stat when I saw it! It runs counter to the really depressing message young people seem to be getting: AI is taking over, there are no more opportuniti

📈 Love it or hate it, but humanity is flying more and more. The sector is growing at 3-4% a year and it’s been estimated that 2 billion annual journeys today will become 10 billion by 2050, with emissions more than doubling to over 2Gt. 🎯 Thankfully, aviation has a collective, global net-zero target for 2050. According to IATA, the plan is to achieve this by primarily focusing on sustainable aviation fuel to do around 65% of the job. Technology innovation will reduce a fur

Eve Tamme and I sat down with the one and only carbon markets MVP Alexia Kelly , Managing Director of High Tide Foundation for a deep, practical conversation about the state of the market If you follow Alexia, you know she doesn’t hold back. So expect honest takes on the mess that SBTi has become, the confusing proliferation of actors in the space, and - crucially - what needs to be done to fix it. If you care about where this space is heading, this one’s worth your time

💭 When I think about what will generate the biggest demand for CDR in the coming decade, I come back to three things: 1️⃣ EU ETS integration 2️⃣ International credit procurement towards the EU 2040 target 3️⃣ Use for EU CBAM carbon price deduction. 💪 The last one is the big underdog amongst the three. Yet, unbeknownst to many, things are happening! 🇪🇺 The EU Commission is currently working on detailed rules of what the use of international credits - likely under Article

🏭 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