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🧐 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
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
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
Nov 11
👀 Let’s unpack Bill Gates’ controversial new take on climate change 👀
✉️ Gates' letter "Three Hard Truths About Climate Change" is certainly making the rounds in my circles. I have some important observations: 👎 Climate and aid budgets are NOT zero sum. Between 2015 and 2024, aid grew 60% ($132B → $212B). In the same period, total global investment in climate solutions more than doubled, from roughly $600B to over $1,300B a year. Pitting the two against each other is not just unhelpful, it is unfounded. 🌎 Tipping points matter. Gates assumes
Oct 28
🚢 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
Oct 20
🤔 What comes after net-zero? And should you care?
⚠️ The IPCC is clear: we have to achieve net-zero CO2 by 2050. This is and has been the global rallying cry since 2018. 📉 What is less talked about: net-zero is not enough. Because every credible IPCC 1.5 °C and most 2 °C pathway assumes we overshoot our carbon budget — and must therefore spend part of the second half of the century removing more CO₂ than we emit. Some governments have already recognised it and are proactively developing roadmaps for this net-negativity. 🇸�
Oct 9
🚨🇩🇪 BREAKING: German Parliament enshrines 2045 net-zero in constitution 🇩🇪🚨
🏆 Just the boost of optimism and hope we needed! Passing the necessary two thirds majority (513 in favour, 207 against, no abstentions),...
Mar 17
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