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👨‍🍼 I have had a lot of “firsts” this year as a new parent. First laugh. First Christmas. First meal. Each new milestone presents an opportunity to take stock and reflect. 😥 Let’s be honest. It’s been a ROUGH year. For the climate, for the world, and certainly for me personally. 🏔️ One solace I have is retreating back to nature. And in these last 9 months, I have spent a lot of time in nature with my daughter - basically daily - sharing my love for the mountains and the s

🇦🇺 Australia's biochar potential is bigger than most people realise. 📊 When Andrew Lenton at CSIRO - Australia’s science agency - ran the numbers for the first national CDR roadmap, biochar came out stronger than expected. 🔥 In Australia, over 50 million tonnes of biomass residues are currently burned, landfilled, or wasted every year. Post-cyclone timber in the north. Invasive mesquite spreading across Western Australia. Bushfire-damaged wood across the country. 🪨 Unsur

👂 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

🌲 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

🇮🇹 If you live or happen to be in Italy next week, make sure to join us in Padova for the launch event of the Rete Italiana Rimozione Carbonio (RIRC) . 📅 Tuesday 14th of April, 3-6pm - you can sign up here: https://luma.com/oc2kvtaf 💪 It's the first time the Italian CDR community will gather. Hopefully the start of a movement akin to what we have seen in Germany and France. 🍝 And, Italy being Italy, there will be plenty of socialising over delicious food and wine. 👋 C

⚡ Something remarkable is happening in energy. The technology that environmentalists spent decades fighting is suddenly everywhere. ☢️ Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta have collectively contracted for over 13 gigawatts of nuclear power. Global nuclear generation hit a record high in 2025 and is set to keep climbing. Investment in nuclear has risen 50% in five years and is expected to exceed $70 billion in 2025 alone. 🔄 The nuclear narrative is changing rapidly, alongside i

📣 No surprises here: I believe the EU holds the key to scaling carbon removal policy. As such, I am thrilled to join the Board of Negative Emissions Platform (NEP), Europe’s most established industry voice for CDR. 🙋🏻 Formally, I took over the Carbonfuture seat a month ago from Leila Toplic and hold it until the next election this June. Then hopefully beyond that. 🌍 I look forward to joining Sacha Corby, PhD , Dirk Paessler , Rafael Broze (Microsoft), Johan Bör

🎓 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

💡 If not, you should! It is dishing out incredible insights. 💚 It is CDR’s first public AI agent, created by Dirk Paessler with the objective to support the scale up of the sector through public assets and news. 📚 For example, its CDR Company Directory gives you a beautiful and searchable overview of all CDR companies, including their “aliveness” status and hiring trends. 🤯 On its blog, Captain Drawdown has published the ultimate CDR pitch deck and analysed how many pe

🧭 Navigating Net Zero with Alexia Kelly recently did an episode with Tisha Schuller on on Real Climate Progress and the Messy Middle. She’s an environmental activist turned strategic advisor to the oil and gas industry. 🫣 Sounds uncomfortable right? This is exactly the type of conversations we need to be having. Like it or not. 🌎 Her argument, roughly: the climate community's refusal to engage constructively with oil and gas isn't principled. It's counterproductive.

🇩🇪 Another awesome job opportunity at the Deutscher Verband für negative Emissionen e.V. (DVNE) ! Shape the future of CDR in one of the leading countries globally: Germany. ✅ If you follow the DVNE, you will have noticed that we organise tons of events, including world first’s like the Experience Tour last year (next one this June!). 👩‍💻 Making these happen takes a LOT of work and dedication. 💚 Peaked your interest? The DVNE is looking for an Event Manager to complement

🪨 To figure out how, we at the CDR Policy Scoop spoke to Maureen Walsh , Executive Director of the US Biochar Coalition (USBC) . 💡 Tune into our latest episode to find out how biochar has managed to navigate this administration, what bills are currently in the pipeline, what other CDR approaches can learn from this, and so much more. 🎧 Listen here: https://lnkd.in/eThC8SCp ▶️ Watch on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eD7s7SBd 💚 This was a bit of a homecoming for me. I was one

👀 On International Women’s Day ( #IWD2026 ), let’s celebrate the amazing trail-blazers of our industry. 👩‍💻 CEOs Aurélie Gonzalez Bilha Ndirangu Marta Krupinska Marta Sjögren Mónica Larrazábal Álvarez-Guerra Laura Fritsch, PhD Maddi Erdall Mary Yap Vida Gabriel (Ph.D) Shilpika (Shilps) Gautam 👩‍💻 POLICY Eve Tamme Alexia Kelly Anu Khan Olga Gassan-zade Giana Amador Julie GOSALVEZ Nadine Saken-Walsh Rodica Avornic Erin Burns Ugbaad Kosar 👩‍🔬 SCIENCE Gabrielle Walker Dr.

📈 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

😅 For the past year, policy news coming out of the U.S. have been confusing at best. Whenever I tried to figure out what was going on, I ended up with more questions than answers. No more. 🤩 Over the last week, two podcasts were released with the same objective: clearing the air. First, the Carbon Curve featured Giana Amador , Erin Burns , and Peter Minor for a round-table. Then - great minds think alike - we at the CDR Policy Scoop released an episode with Professor

🎬 Picture this: Diego Justiniano and I are shooting a scene in the Amazon: it is loud, it is noisy, it is hot, it is humid, and thousands of insects/mosquitos are hovering around us. 🪨 Yet there is no better place to tell the story of this black gold called biochar. 💚 In my wildest dreams I would never have imagined that this short-film would be seen by so many people. What makes me particularly happy? Over 45,000 of these views came through Youtube recommendations, so

🎙️ And this clip is not some fringe outlet: The Diary Of A CEO is one of the world’s leading podcasts, with over a billion downloads/views to date. 🌍 I was fairly shocked by this episode with Konstantin Kisin . His discussion with host Steven Bartlett on global warming is yet another example of how we have moved from outright denying climate change to reframing it in misguided, binary outcomes: ❌ Net-zero means destroying our economy. ❌ Net-zero means killing pensioner

🤔 Clearly the current system is not working. But what needs fixing? And how exactly do we go about it? 👀 Check out our latest CDR Policy Scoop episode with Robert Höglund to find out more about his proposal for conditional net-zero targets: ▶️ Watch on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eh_fJQy5 🎧 Listen here: https://lnkd.in/eDWU7xG5

👀 Did you watch U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s address at the Munich Security Conference? 🤷‍♂️ So apparently we are all part of a cult - I had no idea. 🔦 As a reminder, a cult is a social group organized around a particular leader, belief system, or ideology that is often considered unconventional, highly controlling, or outside mainstream norms. 🤦‍♀️ Really? Climate? 😂 Anyway, I’ve been a member since 2022 - and you?

🏠 Like many of you, I work from home. I love being able to live in different countries (Italy, Portugal, and Brazil) and being there to see my daughter grow up. 💻 It does, however, come with clear downsides: I only get to see my colleagues on a tiled screen and there is rarely time for non-work chatter. 🌲 That is why I am always super excited about the yearly (now biyearly) Carbonfuture Team Days hosted in the picturesque and beautiful Freiburg in the Black Forest. 🏃 Thi