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🔥 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

🧐 Will COP30 actually deliver on carbon removals?

🤷 Yesterday, I asked you whether we should have a COP at all. Is all this massive effort - and the associated emissions - even worth it? The community seems split, which isn’t surprising. 🎯 I personally believe that COPs have an important role to play, and that it will take years of hard work to position CDR where it needs to be: as a horizontal, essential building block across climate targets and initiatives at large. 🤩 So did we make any progress on this front during COP

CDR Market

Nov 18

🙅 I avoid COPs, but I still think we need them - do you?

🌐 Here’s something most people do not know about me: I have never been to a COP. Nor do I plan to. 🤔 Why? I have a simple litmus test for my business travel: Will the event go ahead the same even if I do not attend? 👎 Clearly it will make no difference whether I am one of 50,000 people in attendance at COP30 or not. So I pass. 🤳 COPs have come under heavy - IMO justified - criticism. Every year, this mass gathering leads to around 100,000t-150,000t of CO2 emissions. And i

Net-Zero

Nov 17

📰 When The Guardian headlines carbon removal - you know the climate conversation is changing.

👀 I had to rub my eyes to believe it. The Guardian, not necessarily the most pro-CDR media outlet, highlights the need for carbon removal scale up as its top global news item. 🌐 Yesterday, I shared Johan Rockström’s excellent pre-COP30 article that we need 600Gt of CDR this century. He was now joined by more leading climate scientists in this Guardian piece. 📣 Their message is clear: to avoid climate tipping points and reverse overshoot, we will need hundreds of gigatons o

CDR Market

Nov 11

🌐 Is this the COP where CDR goes mainstream?

⏳ The countdown is on: 14 days to COP30 in Belem, Brazil. This COP is shaping up to be a game changer for carbon removal. Under the umbrella of CDR30: The Global CDR Initiative at COP30, carbon removal will have its own Pavillion in the blue zone for the first time! 🤝 Now that Article 6 is operational since last year’s COP29 in Baku, our focus is shifting from negotiations to deals and announcements. Will we see any major commitments by governments around the world? 🎙️ To g

Oct 23

🚢 Is climate multi-laterlism a sinking ship?

😩 Like many of you, I’ve been really taken aback by the IMO’s decision last Friday to suspend the adoption of its planned maritime carbon price by a year. 🌐 Details are starting to emerge on what happened, as shocked negotiators are taking stock of what this means for the IMO, and climate multilateralism in general. 🇺🇲 The tactics employed - especially by the U.S. - were completely unprecedented and caught supporters of this particular regulation off-guard. 🤷 So where do

International Policy

Oct 20