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🤔 What happens if we DON’T scale CDR fast enough? Do we need more drastic solutions?
💭 I’m a pathological optimist. But in the current geopolitical climate, these questions have been plaguing me more and more. And I am not the only one… 🇮🇸 Even Iceland’s Climate Minister, Johann Pall Johannsson, told Reuters that, “We cannot afford to wait for definitive, long-term research before acting", in the context of the existential threat that the AMOC collapse would pose to his country (and the rest of the world, frankly). ❄️ That’s why I’m going to chat - live he
Nov 13, 2025


🚨🇪🇺 BREAKING: EU Parliament backs 2040 Climate Target 🇪🇺🚨
📥 Just a few minutes ago, the EU Parliament voted (379 Yes, 248 No, 10 abstentions) to adopt its position on the EU 2040 Target. 🎯Despite attempts by the right to water down the target to 83% – which was thankfully voted down and averted – it’s almost identical to the Council’s position from last week: 90% overall target, 5% international credits, up to 5% additional international credits at member state level, and a review clause every two years. 🌍 A notable difference, h
Nov 13, 2025


📰 When The Guardian headlines carbon removal - you know the climate conversation is changing.
👀 I had to rub my eyes to believe it. The Guardian, not necessarily the most pro-CDR media outlet, highlights the need for carbon removal scale up as its top global news item. 🌐 Yesterday, I shared Johan Rockström’s excellent pre-COP30 article that we need 600Gt of CDR this century. He was now joined by more leading climate scientists in this Guardian piece. 📣 Their message is clear: to avoid climate tipping points and reverse overshoot, we will need hundreds of gigatons o
Nov 11, 2025


‼️ If you read one thing today, it’s this.
⏰ 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
Nov 10, 2025


👀 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 9, 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 6, 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 5, 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 4, 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 3, 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 2, 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 30, 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 29, 2025
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