CDR library

⛰️ 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...

💙 The ocean’s biodiversity and beauty are not the only thing that make the ocean remarkable. The ocean covers 70% of our planet and...

😱 Few things I hear regularly are less grounded in reality than this one. The facts? Carbon dioxide removals (CDR) accounted for 0.14%...

🥲 Let’s be honest: times are tough for anyone working in climate today. And - unfortunately - we might see some major news today which...

😍 It's out - finally. My feed has been blowing up with great analyses (see comments). What is your take? Which of the three suggested...

🏆 Just the boost of optimism and hope we needed! Passing the necessary two thirds majority (513 in favour, 207 against, no abstentions),...

✈️ Over the last 24h, the world has pounced on the CEO of Atlassian, Mike Cannon-Brookes for owning a private jet and using it to fly...

✈️ Aviation is one of the hardest to decarbonise industries I can think of. It already contributes 2.5% of global CO2 emissions and that...

📊 Nat Bullard just released his annual decarbonisation deck. 200 carefully curated graphs that provide you with a full overview of how...

🏦 And I am not talking about eating less/no meat, switching to renewable energy, and flying less (although you should be doing all of...

🇧🇷 COP30 in Brazil will be huge and will set the stage for years/decades to come. Building on the great progress for CDR at COP29, the...

🇩🇪 Listen to this [German] podcast if you are fairly new to carbon dioxide removal ( hashtag#CDR ) and want to get a full lay of the...

While I believe governments are the key agents to tackle the climate crisis, I also see the huge potential of collective behavioural...

💚 Last year, I married the love of my life. Like so many people, I wanted to have family and friends there to share this special moment....

✅ New from Nature Communications study shows people in the Global South are more supportive of climate tech and carbon dioxide removal...