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⚡ Enova, the Norwegian state energy agency, is looking to launch NOACCS (Norwegian Auction Scheme for Carbon Capture and Storage): a competitive auction scheme for carbon capture and permanent geological storage, covering everything from waste incineration and biogas to direct air capture. THE KEY INFO: 🏛️The budget ceiling is €1.7bn but nothing is actually allocated yet. Real funding depends on annual government decisions 🗓️ NOACCS is proposed to run between 2027 and 2032

🇩🇪 Next week, we will be travelling across Southern Germany with more than >25 members of the federal and Bavarian parliaments as well as >30 corporate sustainability leaders in tow. 🫶 Last year’s #CDRExperienceTour was - by far - my favourite CDR event to date. There is just nothing like it. 🤩 This year, the team at the Deutscher Verband für negative Emissionen e.V. (DVNE) - in close collaboration with remove, CDRterra and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München - ha

🤩 Few people understand the intricacies of carbon removal policy better than Oliver, who has been working across academia and the IPCC, all while actively advising governments around the world. 🔥 I was thrilled to learn that I was going to host a fireside chat at the Negative Emissions Platform Summit in Brussels with Oliver. There are few people I’d rather spend 30 minutes talking to than him. The best bit: we recorded the whole thing and published it as a CDR Policy Scoop

🔴 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

🗣️ Gave this short speech at a dinner at Zurich Climate Week and I thought you might all enjoy it. 🌟 Bold statement: 2026 is going to be - by far - the best year for CDR policy yet. 🏛️ There are dozens of people in government working full time on CDR. Hundreds part-time. Thousands who are aware of CDR and support it. 🇨🇭 If you want to hear a concrete example check out the CDR Policy Scoop on inter-governmental CDR transactions that Eve Tamme and I recorded at Zurich Clim

📽️ Check out the full documentary "CHAR: Fighting Wildfires with Biochar" on Youtube: https://lnkd.in/ekewGGt3 💚 And if you feel inspired to buy some carbon removal today, head over to CDR Shops: https://www.cdr-shops.com/

💶 That is the billion euro question. A new study sheds light on this, and the numbers are big: 68-86Mt/year of durable CDR demand, easily >€10b/year. 🇪🇺 We are just 1-2 months away from the European Commission’s proposal on how CDR is to be integrated into the world’s largest emission trading system. I’ve seen a number of opinions on the potential impact on such an integration. 📄 However, to my knowledge, this is the first peer-reviewed paper modelling the exact demand th

😮 Today, Exomad Green announced they passed 2Mt of biochar carbon removal (BCR) sold. That is huge. ✅ The best bit? At almost 400Kt delivered - by far the most of any CDR company in the world - they are the living proof that BCR can scale both sales AND deliveries. 🇨🇭Great catching up with Diego Justiniano and Francesco Guglielmi at Zurich Climate Week to celebrate this milestone. 👀And I hear this won’t be the last big news of the week from Exomad… watch this space.

🔎 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

🇦🇺 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

👂 I keep hearing this. And - on the surface - it makes sense. Every ton we do not reduce will have to be removed. 📈 However, the simple economics of abatement and removals tell a different story: The less we reduce, the more unlikely we will remove. To understand this argument, we need to look at two cost curves: 🔴 Carbon dioxide removals (CDR): this one is straight-forward. Using a blended ton of durable removal, we are averaging $310/t today and predictions see us gettin

📖 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

😍 Finalmente! The Italian CDR ecosystem is mobilising with two exciting events in April: 1️⃣ 14 APRIL IN PADOVA: The launch of the Rete Italiana Rimozione Carbonio (RIRC) , in collaboration with the Negative Emissions Platform . Science, policy, startups, and opportunity - all in one afternoon. After the event, there will also be a traditional aperitivo and dinner. 📍 Scuola della Carità from 15:00–18:00 🔗 Register: https://luma.com/oc2kvtaf 2️⃣ 20 APRIL IN ROME: The lau

📣 No surprises here: I believe the EU holds the key to scaling carbon removal policy. As such, I am thrilled to join the Board of Negative Emissions Platform (NEP), Europe’s most established industry voice for CDR. 🙋🏻 Formally, I took over the Carbonfuture seat a month ago from Leila Toplic and hold it until the next election this June. Then hopefully beyond that. 🌍 I look forward to joining Sacha Corby, PhD , Dirk Paessler , Rafael Broze (Microsoft), Johan Bör

💬 Barely a week passes in which I don't hear something along the lines of "CDR is about to take off, country X already integrated it". ❎ As I am sure you know, I also believe that compliance markets are the future for CDR. But I also think that looking at ELIGIBILITY is not sufficient. 💰 Eligibility is just the first gate. Whether any meaningful market for CDR will actually emerge depends on a second, arguably more important factor: PRICE. 👇 Here is what I did: below you c

🎓 Despite all the hype around AI workforce automation, the carbon removals industry is still very much recruiting early stage career professionals. 📊 A new analysis from CDRjobs shows that, in 2025, almost 70% of all new job openings (N = 2,566) were for entry level (26%) or early career (43%) professionals. 😍 I loved this stat when I saw it! It runs counter to the really depressing message young people seem to be getting: AI is taking over, there are no more opportuniti

💡 If not, you should! It is dishing out incredible insights. 💚 It is CDR’s first public AI agent, created by Dirk Paessler with the objective to support the scale up of the sector through public assets and news. 📚 For example, its CDR Company Directory gives you a beautiful and searchable overview of all CDR companies, including their “aliveness” status and hiring trends. 🤯 On its blog, Captain Drawdown has published the ultimate CDR pitch deck and analysed how many pe

🪨 To figure out how, we at the CDR Policy Scoop spoke to Maureen Walsh , Executive Director of the US Biochar Coalition (USBC) . 💡 Tune into our latest episode to find out how biochar has managed to navigate this administration, what bills are currently in the pipeline, what other CDR approaches can learn from this, and so much more. 🎧 Listen here: https://lnkd.in/eThC8SCp ▶️ Watch on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eD7s7SBd 💚 This was a bit of a homecoming for me. I was one

📑 Today, Carbon Gap is releasing yet another gem: its Spain CDR Readiness Report. 💪 The one line takeaway: no other country in Europe can match the sheer potential of Spain when it comes to CDR, yet the country is far from realising this potential. First, let’s look at why Spain is so well placed: ⚡As fossil fuel prices soar, Spain’s bet is paying off: 55.5% of electricity renewables, with a target of 81% by 2030 building an industry expected to be worth €308b and 560,00

💡 The question is when, not if, China will become a - or the - global leader in carbon removals. 🤩 I remain puzzled how little is reported about the status quo and potential. As such, I was thrilled to see this study by Han et al (2026) which looks at the potential of retrofitting China’s existing biomass plants (N = 426) with pyrolysis units for residual biomass only. 📈 What did it find? Up to 30Mt of carbon removal per year through BCR could be done through retrofitting