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🇪🇺 Just wrapped up a week of meetings and events across European institutions. Here are my hot takes on the TOP FIVE policy files for CDR: 🏭 ETS: CDR integration is a given at this point, DACCS/BECCS only (initially) as well. The focus is shifting to other questions: within or on top of the cap? International credits Y/N? And - this is a big one - will there be specific quantities/volumes or will the Commission kick the can down the road? 🎯 National CDR targets: We fail

🙋🏻 Today, I was elected to serve three more years on the board of the Negative Emissions Platform. 🇪🇺 CDR to date has been shaped by voluntary demand. The next phase - and where we unlock real scale - will be compliance demand, a story that will largely be written in Brussels and European capitals. 📣 We need to make sure that this industry has a strong voice in this process, sharing on the ground operational experiences and ensuring that future policies are fit for purp

📙 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

🚀 Yesterday, hundreds of carbon removers gathered in Brussels and online for the launch of the EU Buyers Club. Let’s start with the big, positive news: the Club has launched! 🧨 In typical European understatement, there was no big bang, even some people in the room missed this important detail: there is now an open group of buyers, working together with the European Commission, selecting eligible European projects. The first offtakes are expected this year. The day itself -

🌎 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

🇪🇺 Eve Tamme and I are on the ground today to participate in the first ever CRCF days. But not just that: we are recording a CDR Policy Scoop episode so you can learn all about the latest developments alongside our analysis of it. ✅ From the EU Buyers Club to the implementation of the CRCF, we got you covered. 👀 Our episode will air tomorrow. Make sure to subscribe to the Scoop wherever you get your podcasts: https://lnkd.in/eZNaA9pX 😍 Exciting times ahead!

☀️ 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

🇪🇺 Huge news coming out of Europe this week! The European Commission released a draft implementing act for the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) covering the use of carbon credits. 🔎 The punchline: Europe is looking to allow up to 10% of international carbon credits (Article 6) and what looks like unlimited domestic compliance carbon credits to be used to reduce CBAM levies for companies exporting to Europe. 💶 Why is this so big? Let’s do the maths: the CBAM - cur

✅ Yes, it is starting to be, finally! But some approaches more than others. 🇨🇭 That is my main takeaway from Zurich Climate Week and the Financing CDR Summit hosted by Carbonfuture, SIX, and Google. 🤔 Until now, most financing for durable CDR has come from venture capital. This works well for some approaches, especially tech heavy, high-risk, high-reward ones such as DACCS. But it has clear limitations: it cannot pay for large-scale projects and did barely touch more matur

🔎 I've long wanted to bring deep podcast conversations to CDR. Too often, we stay on the surface and keep hearing the same messages from the same people over and over again. 💚 This is why the CDR Policy Scoop launched the new "Digging Deep" format, with the one and only Gabrielle Walker as our inauguratory guest. 🌟 Gabrielle is arguably one of the MVPs of CDR. She has been at it for over 30 years, has seen the ebbs and flows, regularly speaks to the who's who of climate, a

🔥 As we head into the summer, wildfires will likely be raging throughout the Mediterranean again, causing widescale destruction and damage. 🌱 This is the powerful story of how a Portuguese company - Ibero Massa Florestal, S.A. - decided to turn this devastation into a multi-facetted solution. 🎥 Check it out this beautiful short documentary in collaboration with Carbonfuture on Youtube: https://lnkd.in/eqXUN-XP 🖤 And help us share this story: if more people knew about the

☂️ Just over a year ago, I brought together most of the world’s leading CDR companies from the Global South under the umbrella of the The Global South Carbon Dioxide Removal Coalition (GS CDR) CDR coalition. 💪 The premise was simple: the Global South is uniquely positioned to deliver the majority of high quality removals - in fact, it already is! Yet access to compliance markets in the Global North was far from certain. 🎯 Little did we know that our work was so quickly goi

🙈 We had a technical glitch last time around that shall not be named, so we're switching platforms. Come find us on our Youtube channel - and subscribe while you're at it! 🤔 Corresponding Adjustments: Necessary or Overkill? 🔥 This one has been sitting at the top of my list for a while. It sits right at the fault line between carbon market integrity and real-world finance. 🌐 In the “Necessary” Corner: Olga Gassan-zade, former chair of the Paris Agreement’s Article 6.4 Supe

🇦🇺 Australia's biochar potential is bigger than most people realise. 📊 When Andrew Lenton at CSIRO - Australia’s science agency - ran the numbers for the first national CDR roadmap, biochar came out stronger than expected. 🔥 In Australia, over 50 million tonnes of biomass residues are currently burned, landfilled, or wasted every year. Post-cyclone timber in the north. Invasive mesquite spreading across Western Australia. Bushfire-damaged wood across the country. 🪨 Unsur

📖 No, this is not another post on Microsoft. Instead, a suggestion: How about turning the page and focusing on what matters most now - ensuring continued purchases of and finance for CDR. 💸 One thing is obvious: we need to ensure that capital continues to flow into the CDR space. 🤔 If we were only able to gather them all in one place sometime soon… 🇨🇭 Welcome to Zurich, one of the world's great financial hubs, which decided to host its first ever Climate Week from the

🌲 Are you working on mangroves, reforestation, or agroforestry projects? Then make sure to check out Symbiosis Coalition 's latest request for proposals. 😮 If you are unfamiliar with Symbiosis: it is a 20Mt advance market commitment (AMC), bringing together the who's who of corporate carbon credit buyers with the aim to lay the foundation for the next generation of nature-based carbon removal projects. 💪 It's great to see mangroves included for this round, given they stor

⭐ In fact, when it comes to CDR in carbon pricing systems, quality > size every time. 📊 Having analysed the 17 most high potential compliance markets, I recently argued that CDR eligibility alone tells us little about actual market potential - see comments. 👉 Today, I want to draw attention to another factor: size. 🏭 Let’s take two extremes to illustrate the point: China’s emissions trading system (ETS) is - by far - the biggest in the world, covering almost 8Gt or 15% of

📍 Guess where I was - win 1 ton of carbon removal 🌍 Where was this picture taken? Hint: it might involve what I like to call 'black gold'. 🎥 I’ve been busy last week, shooting some incredible material with Carbonfuture and one of our partners. 👇 Put your guess in the comments. Whoever gets closest to the exact location (not just country 😉) receives one ton of carbon dioxide removal from the CDR company we were shooting with. ⌛ Guesses close Tuesday midday CEST. 👀 And

⚡ Something remarkable is happening in energy. The technology that environmentalists spent decades fighting is suddenly everywhere. ☢️ Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta have collectively contracted for over 13 gigawatts of nuclear power. Global nuclear generation hit a record high in 2025 and is set to keep climbing. Investment in nuclear has risen 50% in five years and is expected to exceed $70 billion in 2025 alone. 🔄 The nuclear narrative is changing rapidly, alongside i