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🤑 THIS is how you get your CDR project funded 🤑

🙅 Stop pitching biochar. Nobody cares. Start understanding and pitching your business fundamentals. 👌 Pure gold here from Alastair Collier on the latest Reversing Climate Change podcast with Ross Kenyon . ❗ No matter what type of CDR project you are trying to get funded: listen to this episode. It is just so, so good. 🙏 Alastair, thank you. You did the industry a big service by sharing your experiences. ✅ Ross, as always, great stuff. Regular listener here and encour

CDR Market

5 days ago

📰 Is geoengineering having its moment?

Finally! 📣 The Guardian , a mainstream media outlet historically skeptical on the topic of geoengineering, has published four op-eds in the last month, all calling for a drastic change in our approach to geoengineering. 🌍 I was glad to see this editorial decision. The more I learn about the topic, the more I believe the current stigma around it is not serving humanity well. 🔬 No one here is arguing we should deploy commercial scale geoengineering today. All these authors

Net-Zero

Jan 19

🤔 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

Dec 14, 2025

🚨 Breaking: We have just passed 1,000,000t of durable CDR delivered 🚨

💪 What a moment of collective success. Anyone in the sector knows just what a monumental lift it has been to get to 1Mt today. 🚀 The speed has been remarkable: it took us over five years to get from zero to 500Kt, and only 15 months to double that to 1Mt. 💧 Before you say it: I know: it's a drop in the ocean. And the haters are going to be quick to point out that billions have been spent to make up for the equivalent of <2 minutes worth of global annual emissions. 📌 And -

Dec 11, 2025

🇩🇪 Germany just went big on CDR and we’re only getting started

💶 Last Friday, Germany made headlines with its announcement to spend almost €500m on CDR. This marks the pinnacle of a year full of positive news coming out of Europe’s biggest economy. 📄 Yesterday, the Board and Team of the Deutscher Verband für negative Emissionen e.V. (DVNE) met for our yearly (already third!) strategy day in Berlin. We reflected on what has been achieved and discussed the work ahead of us. Couple of highlights I’d like to share: 1️⃣ We’ve come so far: i

Dec 7, 2025

🌍 Global Cooling: Would you support it… even temporarily?

🌡️ The world’s leaders just reaffirmed their commitment to 1.5 degrees of global warming. With less than 6 years of carbon budgets left, this feels like a lofty goal to many. Even 2 degrees feels out of reach given current trajectories. Broadly speaking, humanity has three options to prevent climate catastrophe: 1️⃣ Reduce emissions 2️⃣ Remove emissions 3️⃣ Global cooling interventions 🏭 Before the 2018 IPCC 1.5°C report, most people and governments thought we could just re

Net-Zero

Dec 1, 2025

🔥 Hot off the press: My University of Oxford paper on the economic potential of CDR for the Global South

🤩 This is the biggest research project I’ve ever worked on: months of work with the TIDE Centre, University of Oxford, together with my brilliant co-author Raphaël Cario , culminating in a 60-page analysis on the Global South’s overlooked industrialisation opportunity. 📈 The headline: if scaled with the right policies, durable CDR could create 3 to 9.5 million jobs and $180-600 billion in annual economic value across the Global South by 2050. 🚀 Holding >70% of global bioma

Net-Zero

Nov 19, 2025

⏪ Throwback Thursday: DAC vs Biochar

🥊 Remember that time when I went head-to-head with Martin Freimüller - aka DACman - in the CDR Policy Scoop’s inaugural SHOWDOWN debate: Biochar vs DAC? ⭐ It was such a personal highlight for me to engage with something I feel particularly passionate about - in a new, exciting format. Check it out: https://lnkd.in/dG8Wkph9 😍 Sure, this debate ruffled some feathers at first. But, it clearly resonated with a lot of people too. We had over 1,000 registrations to the Linkedin l

CDR Market

Oct 8, 2025