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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

🧐 Yesterday, I shared how the energy transition looks unstoppable, and all the incredible data from  Nat Bullard  to prove it. At the same time, it is a hard fact that the world will take years, maybe decades to wean itself off fossil fuels. 💡 If we’re going to burn oil anyway in the short to medium term, the difference between high-leakage, high-intensity barrels and cleaner ones is real climate damage avoided. 🔴 The common approach in the climate bubble is to dismiss any

🌍 Literally - through its holistic approach to building CO2 infrastructure we need to get scale CDR and CCS to achieve net-zero.  🏗️ Check out our latest conversation with  Sophie Wenger , Senior Policy Advisor at the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment, on  CDR Policy Scoop , “How is Switzerland using CO₂ infrastructure to meet its climate targets?” 👀 Catch up to find out about the unsexy but crucial plumbing behind net zero:  ▶️ Youtube:  https://lnkd.in/dH-GeTKn 🎧

Finally!  📣  The Guardian , a mainstream media outlet historically skeptical on the topic of geoengineering, has published four op-eds in the last month, all calling for a drastic change in our approach to geoengineering. 🌍 I was glad to see this editorial decision. The more I learn about the topic, the more I believe the current stigma around it is not serving humanity well. 🔬 No one here is arguing we should deploy commercial scale geoengineering today. All these authors

📊  Nat Bullard  just released his annual decarbonisation deck. 200 carefully curated graphs that provide you with a full overview of how decarbonisation is progressing. It is the single most insightful deck I see each year. 🌟 I highly recommend checking out the full deck. What stood out to me: 🇨🇳 It is all about China: 40% more electricity than EU and US combined (16). Emissions flat to falling (22). Half of all energy investment globally is China (67). Added more battery

📊 Just like for a business or government, we all have to take responsibility and minimise our impact on the planet. The first step is awareness and data. Only then can we act on it. I have to admit, 2025 is the first year I ran the numbers for my whole family - and they are higher than I’d like, particularly in a year where we: ➡️ Moved into a flat with a heat pump and renewable energy ➡️ Reduced air travel considerably ➡️ Switched all investments to be ESG aligned ➡️ Mainta

✅ 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

🧑‍💻 LinkedIn is FLOODED with AI slop nowadays. And climate influencers are no exception. Many of us are increasingly delegating our most time consuming task - content generation - to LLMs. 🤯 What I find particularly shocking, is that many of these blatantly 100% LLM written posts go viral and gather a ton of engagement. 🧓 Call me old-school, but I think this is a loss. I value authenticity, creative insight, and analysis above all. If we continue on this path, this platfo

😱 The Joe Rogan Show is the world’s most listened to podcast. On average, each episode reaches 10-20 million people.  🔬 While we are busy infighting within the climate bubble, arguing whether CCS or CDR is a scam or a much needed climate solution, the world outside is destroying the very foundation our work is built on: science. 🔨 Over the break, I spent hours listening to hugely popular podcasts way outside of my bubble. Over and over again, I encountered a diminishing i

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?

🌡️ The world’s leaders just reaffirmed their commitment to 1.5 degrees of global warming. With less than 6 years of carbon budgets left, this feels like a lofty goal to many. Even 2 degrees feels out of reach given current trajectories. Broadly speaking, humanity has three options to prevent climate catastrophe: 1️⃣ Reduce emissions 2️⃣ Remove emissions 3️⃣ Global cooling interventions 🏭 Before the 2018 IPCC 1.5°C report, most people and governments thought we could just re

⛰️ The latest example: Patagonia, just published one of the most transparent, self-critical sustainability reports in the corporate world. They immediately got dragged across social media, including by several climate influencers on my feed. 😡 This is a pattern I keep seeing (including in CDR). Every time a company actually tries to change its industry, we tear it down. Meanwhile, the 99% doing absolutely nothing are left *untouched*. But if the companies leading the transit

🤩 This is the biggest research project I’ve ever worked on: months of work with the TIDE Centre, University of Oxford, together with my brilliant co-author Raphaël Cario , culminating in a 60-page analysis on the Global South’s overlooked industrialisation opportunity. 📈 The headline: if scaled with the right policies, durable CDR could create 3 to 9.5 million jobs and $180-600 billion in annual economic value across the Global South by 2050. 🚀 Holding >70% of global bioma

🌐 Here’s something most people do not know about me: I have never been to a COP. Nor do I plan to. 🤔 Why? I have a simple litmus test for my business travel: Will the event go ahead the same even if I do not attend? 👎 Clearly it will make no difference whether I am one of 50,000 people in attendance at COP30 or not. So I pass. 🤳 COPs have come under heavy - IMO justified - criticism. Every year, this mass gathering leads to around 100,000t-150,000t of CO2 emissions. And i

⏰ Johan Rockström is one of the leading climate scientists globally. He just published an alarming wake up call ahead of COP (link in comments). 📣 His message is clear: if all current NDCs are kept, we are looking at 2.5 degrees of warming. Even in best case scenarios, we are looking at overshoot to 1.6-1.7 degrees. Our goal - at this point - has to be minimising overshoot and then moving as quickly as possible back to 1.5 degrees or lower. ❌ “Failure is not inevitable. It i

🏛️ Carbon removal is increasingly shifting from voluntary to government-regulated markets. In the process, concepts such as durability,...

🌎 At COP30, we have the historic chance to centre CDR in global climate policy. In order to achieve this, we need to present a unified...