CDR library

✈️ 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