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🤷‍♂️ Here we go again: wild CDR costs in an official EU proposal (the Commission's Impact Assessment for the ETS Review, Annex 8 on Removals specifically). Only problem: this time it looks like the entire CDR integration into the ETS rests on these assumptions… 💶 Here is why: the EU is planning to sell 250 million EUAs to buy 250 million tons of CDR. As per the impact assessment, they assume that - by 2036 - the cost of an EUA will reach around €200 and the cost of CDR (esp

🤔 Can we leverage future ETS revenues for present day investments into CDR? What would that look like and what would its impact be? 📄 That is the big question Raphaël Cario cario and I are addressing with our new peer-reviewed research paper published by the American University’s Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal . 💶 The idea is not new: use European Investment Bank bonds backed by an ETS1 and ETS2 guarantee base to mobilise up to 200 billions of euros in green inve

🌎 No surprises here: I believe the Global South will play a huge role in scaling carbon removal to climate relevance. 📈 It’s for this reason that we founded the Global South CDR Coalition in early 2025. From its humble beginnings, it has now grown into a powerful coalition of the world’s leading GS CDR companies. 🇪🇺 In light of the recent policy developments in Europe - first and foremost the central importance of international credits these days - we are levelling up an

🔥 As we head into the summer, wildfires will likely be raging throughout the Mediterranean again, causing widescale destruction and damage. 🌱 This is the powerful story of how a Portuguese company - Ibero Massa Florestal, S.A. - decided to turn this devastation into a multi-facetted solution. 🎥 Check it out this beautiful short documentary in collaboration with Carbonfuture on Youtube: https://lnkd.in/eqXUN-XP 🖤 And help us share this story: if more people knew about the

🙅 Growing up, any mention of nuclear at the dinner table would lead to prolonged tirades and to this day I avoid talking about it in family circles. 📗 The Greenpeace Magazine - which I reliably read cover to cover every month for 15 years - would provide story after story of how nuclear energy was contaminating the earth for generations. 🍄 Even when collecting mushrooms in the pristine forests of my Alpine hometown, I would be reminded to avoid certain delicious mushrooms