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👀 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

🌟 For too long, I have ignored you. Yet there you are: reliably removing 2 gigatons of CO2 year on year, while providing countless co-benefits to forests, animals, farmers, and us humans. 💪 Yes, we need to figure out how to compensate our emissions for the long-term. But this will take us years, yeah decades to scale up. In the meantime, you can help us lower warming at this crucial moment in time. ✅ I don’t need to tell you how to do your job: it comes natural to you. You

⛽ I used to have a pretty clear opinion on the role of oil and gas on the way to net zero: boycott and phase out basically. 🫣 This is a very commonly held stance in the climate bubble. It is also one that is not particularly helpful. 📉 Of course, we need to phase out fossil fuels as quickly as possible. ⚠️ However, given the massive dependence of humanity on fossil fuels, there can be no net zero without decarbonising this sector. ⚖️ And not all actors are the same: some ar

😳 There, I said it. A statement that will lead to a lot of nodding for some, and fury for others… 👀 It is also the takeaway from a fascinating paper just released by  Carbon Gap  and authored by  Sylvain Delerce .  🤓 Quick recap: What is the Like-for-Like (LfL) principle? From the paper: “Like-for-Like neutralisation requires balancing anthropogenic GHG sources with removals by sinks of similar or greater permanence than the carbon pool the emissions originate from and / o

🤬 That sentence triggers me too… 🤔 But - as so often in climate - reality is not black or white. The slogan is wrong, but the directionality isn’t. 🔎 Fossil fuels, like it or not, will be with us for decades to come (although definitely not forever as stated in this video - phase out is coming for you, O&G!). 🔥 Billions of barrels will be pumped and used, gigatons of CO2 and methane emitted. So the carbon intensity of each barrel does really matter. A ton is a ton after a

🏭 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