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👉 Make sure to check out Think Negative - Carbon Dioxide Removal Pavilion - the official carbon removal coalition for COP. 🤩 COP30 in Belem was the first time CDR had its own pavilion. Now in its second year, you can expect even more events, more attendees, and just more overall momentum. 👀 There are 43 (!!!) sessions on CDR registered already. You can check them all out on Think Negative’s handy calendar: https://lnkd.in/eA9epuVf 🧩 What stood out to me is the breadth of

🌍 Did you know that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is currently writing new guidance for how governments around the world can account for their carbon dioxide removals - and you can help review it. 📄 More specifically, the IPCC is drafting a new Methodology Report on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies, Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage, set for approval by end of 2027. 🤓 While the drafting itself is limited to a number of hand-selected experts, the f

💪 I doubt that Germany would be leading in carbon removal policy the way it is had it not been for the immense contribution of a real force of nature: Lisa Mangertseder 🇩🇪 Over three years ago, she became the founding Vice-Chairwoman for the Deutscher Verband für negative Emissionen e.V. (DVNE). Back then, removals was an unknown or completely misunderstood topic for most policy makers. 🚀 Fast-forward and folks are looking at Germany as one of the removals pioneers: €500m

🇧🇷 Brazil just voted. President Lula is staying in power for another term. No matter what you think of Lula or Bolsonaro’s politics, this is unquestionably good news for the planet. 🌳 The Amazon is the lungs of Planet Earth. We need it to survive. Now 60% of it sits in Brazil and has historically been subject to insane amounts of deforestation, putting at risk its entire ecosystem and - by extension - all of us. 👏 Under Lula, deforestation reached a decade low of 5,796km

😍 That would be Ross Kenyon. He has been producing CDR content for longer than anyone else, and the quality has been consistently high throughout. What I love about what he is doing now is that he is building a whole ecosystem of content, not just a show: 🔹 Reversing Climate Change podcast - his podcast, and a staple for anyone following the sector. 🔹 Climate Workers Anonymous - a podcast where you can get it all off your chest. 🔹 Carbon Removal Memes - proof that CDR

🧒 I love working from home. For being able to be part of my daughter’s daily life from the little things to the big milestones. For being able to call three different countries my home. 💻 But there are its drawbacks. Despite really intentional processes that make remote work possible and effective, there are some things that just can’t be replicated by seeing your colleagues on a tiled screen. 🌲That’s why I really look forward and get excited about the biyearly Carbonfutur

🔥 The planet is burning. We are running out of time and cannot afford the luxury of certainty anymore. 💬 That is why these wise words from carbon removal veteran Dirk Paessler paessler resonate a lot with me, yet they seem so far away from the policy halls I spend most of my time in. 🪨 Let’s make it concrete: enhanced rock weathering (ERW) was hailed as one of the most scalable and potentially affordable durable CDR solutions out there. 🤝 I shared this belief and even bro

💶 The BioCCS cost assumptions are the Achilles Heel of the current ETS CDR proposal. The numbers - see comments for a reminder - just don’t look right, with all the downstream implications they have. 👀 So I dove deep. Very deep. Three numbers are key to understand: 1️⃣ €172/t in 2020 - this forms the lower bound starting point (in 2023, using EUR2020) 2️⃣ €153/t in 2050 - this forms the single end point for all three (lower/average/upper) scenarios. 3️⃣ €314/t in 2024 - t

🔴 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

‼️ CLARIFICATION: the mechanism is more nuanced than I had initially understood. The Commission is not committing to 250Mt of CDR. It is suggesting to auction 250Mt (+10Mt contingency) of allowances "to generate revenues for the purchase of an equivalent amount of domestic permanent carbon removal units". Should the budget be insufficient (possible), it could simply buy less removals. I wrote an update here: https://lnkd.in/d6jUuJzm 🇪🇺 The European Commission’s long awaited

🥊 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

☀️ Our family's 70-year-old business in the Dolomites finally runs on solar. Our new system will produce over 500 MWh of clean electricity over its lifetime using 20kW of panels, backed by a 25kW battery in the cellar and an EV charger in the garden. ⚡ Italy already gets 17% of its electricity from solar, with rooftop the fastest-growing segment, thanks to good national subsidies and permitting frameworks. 🧑‍⚖️ However, my local authorities did not make it easy. In order to

For our second quarterly catch up to chat about: 🎯 Why twenty seven different national CDR targets might actually be better for the sector than one clean EU wide number 🪑 Why nobody in CDR has bothered to fight for a seat at the table in the ReFuelEU Aviation review- but probably should ✈️ How CORSIA's enforcement looks completely different depending on which continent you're standing on 🇳🇴 The Norwegian auction scheme neither of us saw coming. 🏛️ So if you want to find

💦 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

📈 Last Friday, an infographic by Propublica went absolutely viral here on LinkedIn. It made a simple point: CCS and CDR suck. 😡 I was irritated to say the least. Starting with the obvious. The infographic - and the accompanying blog post - weren’t great… 1️⃣ It conflated various concepts into one: CCS / DACCS / CDR 2️⃣ It cherrypicked data for dramatic effect, e.g. on historic CCS deployments/capacity ☀️ Yes, solar and renewables are great - I am all for them. But now - in

🖤 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

🎬 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

⚡ 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

📙 After two long years of waiting, the third edition of the State of Carbon Dioxide Removal was just published. And it doesn’t disappoint. ✨ >300 pages written by 74 of the sector’s leading voices. The report is remarkable in both its depth and breadth. 🎙️ Luckily, I got a sneak preview and had the whole weekend to devour this beauty. And - alongside Eve Tamme - we already discussed our hot takes on the CDR Policy Scoop for you to listen to. 👀 Check it out here: Podcast:..