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👀 Take a look inside the November’s edition of my monthly newsletter, the Gigaten.
📩 Over 1600 subscribers love my TL;DR format. Sign up today to get the Top 10 CDR news of the month: https://lnkd.in/gJt3tSM9 📽️ Prefer a deeper dive and video format? Then you can watch me dig in monthly with Leila Conners (link in comments).
Nov 10, 2025
🔥 Hot Brussels insights: where is EU CDR policy heading? 🔥
🇪🇺 What a week it’s been for climate in Europe! Just wrapped up a few days of meetings across European institutions. My key takeaways: 👎 European climate ambition is weakening The big picture is not looking good. CEOs of Europe’s biggest companies are calling Ursula von der Leyen on a weekly basis, urging her to walk back on climate policy to keep European industry “competitive”. The result? The heart of European decarbonisation, our Emission Trading System (ETS), is shaki
Nov 7, 2025
🚨 Breaking: Germany finally legalises CO2 transport and storage 🚨
🇩🇪 Today is the big day: a long time in the making, the German Bundestag finally amended its 2012 law which effectively banned the storage of CO2 (KSpG) with a new law allowing storage, but also transport of CO2 (KSpTG). 🚛 This is huge news, as it creates the foundation for Germany’s ambitious plans to become a leader in carbon management - CCS, CCU, and CDR - and also a key CO2 transit country in Europe. 🏗️ It also attached “overriding public interest” to the constructio
Nov 6, 2025
🔥 Breaking: EU Environment Ministers Agree on 2040 Climate Target 🔥
🇪🇺 Huge news coming out of Brussels today! An agreement has been reached. And it will certainly make waves, for good and bad reasons. 💚 For carbon removal, this could be a make or break moment. It will all come down to what type of "international credits" the EU will rely on to achieve its 90% target. 👇 Check out my reaction - live from Brussels - below 👇
Nov 5, 2025
👀 The Net Zero Standards face off: ISO vs SBTi
😬 For years, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has been the gold standard for corporate climate targets. But SBTi has struggled: governance issues, inconsistent guidance, and growing pushback from companies frustrated by its rigidity and lack of clarity. ⭐ Into that gap now steps the ISO Net Zero standard, developed with input from over 170 countries and promising global legitimacy and harmonisation. It will officially launch with a big splash at COP30. 🏢 And, let
Nov 4, 2025
💻 >30,000 words. 1 month. All on carbon removal
😮💨 October was - by far - my biggest month to date. I wrote the equivalent of a 140 page book this month, all on CDR. 🔎 HOW IT BREAKS DOWN: ▪️ 26x LinkedIn posts ▪️ 3x Carbonfuture Country Briefs: UK & DE (published) and BR (coming soon) ▪️ 1x 2,500 essay on the potential of BCR in compliance markets (coming soon) ▪️ 1x 9,000 word academic paper on the potential of CDR in the Global South (coming soon) ▪️ 1x October’s Gigaten newsletter 🎙️ On top of that we produced 7x
Nov 3, 2025
✅ It's a wrap - the world's first CDR Experience Tour ✅
🚌 60 passionate individuals, 2 days, 300 kilometres, 5 CDR projects, 1 bus. What a blast! 😍 Hands down my favourite CDR event ever. See it to believe it. 👀 To be repeated by Deutscher Verband für negative Emissionen e.V. (DVNE) in 2026!
Oct 31, 2025
☠️ Is DACCS dead? ☠️
❗No, and especially not in Germany according to 🌱🌎 Florian Hildebrand, CEO of Greenlyte Carbon Technologies. 😍 I had a the great pleasure of getting a sneak preview of their newest facility in Essen, Germany, a prime example of what DAC 3.0 looks like. 📉 Much has been written about the end of direct air capture. The reality is more complex: yes, there are probably too many DAC companies (almost 200...). And many of them are using technology that will likely not prevail. �
Oct 30, 2025
👀 Let’s unpack Bill Gates’ controversial new take on climate change 👀
✉️ Gates' letter "Three Hard Truths About Climate Change" is certainly making the rounds in my circles. I have some important observations: 👎 Climate and aid budgets are NOT zero sum. Between 2015 and 2024, aid grew 60% ($132B → $212B). In the same period, total global investment in climate solutions more than doubled, from roughly $600B to over $1,300B a year. Pitting the two against each other is not just unhelpful, it is unfounded. 🌎 Tipping points matter. Gates assumes
Oct 29, 2025
❓"What's your target: is it to stop global warming or get rid of fossil fuels?"❓
💡 I had never thought about this as an either / or question and always assumed we can only stop global warming IF we get rid of fossil fuels. ✈️ In the latest CDR Policy Scoop, Robert Höglund and I got to go deep on the role of carbon removal in aviation and shipping. 🤔 One of the key arguments Robert makes is that our best shot at net-zero could be to focus on whatever solution has the lowest cost, e.g. CDR + regular jet fuel vs eSAF. Loved recording this one - go check it
Oct 28, 2025
😮 See it to believe it! 😮
🌍 Carbon dioxide removal is not a future phantasy. It is here today. There are hundreds of companies all around the world removing CO2 from the atmosphere day in, day out. 🇩🇪 This Thursday and Friday, I will be joining 60+ German politicians, corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, and scientists as part of Deutscher Verband für negative Emissionen e.V. (DVNE)'s CDR Experience Tour 2025. 💚 Travelling together by bus through the West of Germany, we will be visiting CDR projects
Oct 27, 2025
🌐 Is this the COP where CDR goes mainstream?
⏳ The countdown is on: 14 days to COP30 in Belem, Brazil. This COP is shaping up to be a game changer for carbon removal. Under the umbrella of CDR30: The Global CDR Initiative at COP30, carbon removal will have its own Pavillion in the blue zone for the first time! 🤝 Now that Article 6 is operational since last year’s COP29 in Baku, our focus is shifting from negotiations to deals and announcements. Will we see any major commitments by governments around the world? 🎙️ To g
Oct 23, 2025
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