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‼️ 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:..

The GigaTen is my monthly briefing, where I distill what is happening in the CDR into a compact and clear format. 💡 Get insights into policy and market developments by myself and others, featuring blogs, reports, blogs, and spotlights amazing women leaders in CDR. 😍 Over 1700 subscribers love my TL;DR format. 📩 Sign up today to get the Top 10 CDR news of the month delivered straight to your inbox: https://lnkd.in/gJt3tSM9 📽️ Prefer a deeper dive and video format? Then yo

🔴 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

⚛️ Nuclear energy, geoengineering, clean oil. These are some of the topics I decided to cover in my “Uncomfortable Climate” series so far. 💔 They all have one thing in common: they are controversial and seem to split the climate community into a pro and against camp. 💡 However, in my experience, the story is never black & white. The truth tends to lie in the messy middle. ⁉️ So what topics should I cover next? What polarises our community and would benefit from an open, hon

🌎 No surprises here: I believe the Global South will play a huge role in scaling carbon removal to climate relevance. 📈 It’s for this reason that we founded the Global South CDR Coalition in early 2025. From its humble beginnings, it has now grown into a powerful coalition of the world’s leading GS CDR companies. 🇪🇺 In light of the recent policy developments in Europe - first and foremost the central importance of international credits these days - we are levelling up an

☀️ On Portugal’s coast, my adopted home, summers are hot and the wind quickly dries out any soil. My first summer there, I saw the impact on my terraced garden first hand: daily watering. 🪨 Time to superpower my fruit and veg, using the black gold I write about so much: biochar. 🚿 Did you know that biochar increases plant-available water by up to 30%, can reduce nutrient leaching by up to 60%, and improves soil aggregate stability. Ah, and it also stores carbon for hundreds

🇪🇺 Tomorrow, I will be travelling to Brussels for the highly anticipated CRCF Days: the first open CDR conference organised by the European Commission! 👂 What is the future of the EU Buyers Club? Is CRCF operationalisation on track? I look forward to getting answers to these questions and will be recording a CDR Policy Scoop episode with Eve Tamme on the ground to share our learnings. 🥂 I will also be attending the Carbon Management Europe and Negative Emissions Platform

🗣️ Gave this short speech at a dinner at Zurich Climate Week and I thought you might all enjoy it. 🌟 Bold statement: 2026 is going to be - by far - the best year for CDR policy yet. 🏛️ There are dozens of people in government working full time on CDR. Hundreds part-time. Thousands who are aware of CDR and support it. 🇨🇭 If you want to hear a concrete example check out the CDR Policy Scoop on inter-governmental CDR transactions that Eve Tamme and I recorded at Zurich Clim

📽️ 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/

⚛️ For most of my life, nuclear power felt like a betrayal of everything I stood for. 🍄 Growing up in the Alps, I was told which mushrooms to avoid in the forests near my home still radioactive from Chernobyl. The Greenpeace magazine I read told me nuclear power was the enemy of the planet. When Fukushima hit and Merkel announced Germany's nuclear exit, I strongly believed we were standing on the right side of history. 📊 The science was never ambiguous. Nuclear is statisti