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📣 Just one of the many bold statements European member of parliament Emma Wiesner made on today’s CDR Policy Scoop. 🇪🇺 As Renew Europe’s Shadow Rapporteur on the EU ETS revision, Wiesner’s voice carries a lot of weight in the upcoming negotiations. 🎙️ Just days before the release of her party’s position, she generously shared her insights with Eve Tamme and I. What stood out to me regarding the role of removals in the proposal: 🔹 Reduce the role of the EU Commission in

✒️ Now we have the answer! Terradot and Google signed the world’s largest enhanced rock weathering deal to date: 1,000,000 tons of carbon removed. 🇧🇷 That literally requires 5,000,000t of basalt to be spread across farms in Southern Brazil. This is a humongous amount of rock. 😮 It took the Egyptians 20 years to build the world’s biggest pyramid. Terradot will have five years to distribute the equivalent amount of rock. 🚜 I cannot wait to go visit this first-of-its-kind pr

🧒 I love working from home. For being able to be part of my daughter’s daily life from the little things to the big milestones. For being able to call three different countries my home. 💻 But there are its drawbacks. Despite really intentional processes that make remote work possible and effective, there are some things that just can’t be replicated by seeing your colleagues on a tiled screen. 🌲That’s why I really look forward and get excited about the biyearly Carbonfutur

✈️ After the buzz of the CRCF Days, I am heading back to Brussels. 🌐 On June 2nd, I will be joining my colleagues from the The Global South Carbon Dioxide Removal Coalition (GS CDR) for meetings around town to discuss the role of CDR in Europe’s international credits ambitions. 🗳️ On June 3rd, the Negative Emissions Platform (NEP) is hosting its annual general assembly where I am running for another three year term on its board. 💬 On June 4th, NEP is organising its annual

🔴 This is not an abstract question. Things go wrong: reversals, non delivery, even fraud. 👮‍♀️ We need to be able to trace the stored carbon from its very source to its final site, including clear legal and liability mechanisms to hold the responsible actors accountable. 💚 That is exactly what Carbonfuture settlement infrastructure enables. 📽️ Check out the short documentary we shot with Ibero Massa Florestal, S.A. in 4k on Youtube for more: https://lnkd.in/deEgPbwT

🇺🇲 He has been pioneering CDR before it was cool. And if anywhere is going to scale carbon removal in the U.S., my bet is still on California. ✅ If it were a country, t would be the 4th largest economy in the world. ✅ It has a 2045 net-zero target. ✅ And crucially, it has actually quantified the need: 75 Mt of removals by 2045. 🏛️ Sure, last year’s veto by governor Newsom of the $50M state procurement program hurt. But behind the scenes, something more structural (and argu

🤨 I recently found out that 9 out of 10 pre-qualified entities withdrew their applications from this much praised fund, leaving a single contender for what is supposed to be a competitive, landmark fund. 🔎 So I dug deeper, and what I found provides really useful lessons for how we need to structure government funding for fairly novel technologies like CCS and CDR. 💰 Back to the start: the Danish government created a 28.7bn Danish Krona fund (€3.9bn) with the objective of c

😳 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