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The GigaTen is my monthly briefing, where I distill what is happening in the CDR into a compact and clear format. 💡 Get insights into policy and market developments by myself and others, featuring blogs, reports, blogs, and spotlights amazing women leaders in CDR. 😍 Over 1700 subscribers love my TL;DR format. 📩 Sign up today to get the Top 10 CDR news of the month delivered straight to your inbox: https://lnkd.in/gJt3tSM9 📽️ Prefer a deeper dive and video format? Then yo

☀️ On Portugal’s coast, my adopted home, summers are hot and the wind quickly dries out any soil. My first summer there, I saw the impact on my terraced garden first hand: daily watering. 🪨 Time to superpower my fruit and veg, using the black gold I write about so much: biochar. 🚿 Did you know that biochar increases plant-available water by up to 30%, can reduce nutrient leaching by up to 60%, and improves soil aggregate stability. Ah, and it also stores carbon for hundreds

🗣️ 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/

⚛️ For most of my life, nuclear power felt like a betrayal of everything I stood for. 🍄 Growing up in the Alps, I was told which mushrooms to avoid in the forests near my home still radioactive from Chernobyl. The Greenpeace magazine I read told me nuclear power was the enemy of the planet. When Fukushima hit and Merkel announced Germany's nuclear exit, I strongly believed we were standing on the right side of history. 📊 The science was never ambiguous. Nuclear is statisti

🤷 Depending on who you ask, nuclear power is either humanity's best shot at a liveable planet or an expensive, dangerous distraction that we've already wasted too much time on. Recently, the technology that environmentalists spent decades fighting is suddenly everywhere: ☢️ Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta have collectively contracted for over 13 gigawatts of nuclear power. ☢️Global nuclear generation hit a record high in 2025 and is set to keep climbing. ☢️ Investment i

☂️ Just over a year ago, I brought together most of the world’s leading CDR companies from the Global South under the umbrella of the The Global South Carbon Dioxide Removal Coalition (GS CDR) CDR coalition. 💪 The premise was simple: the Global South is uniquely positioned to deliver the majority of high quality removals - in fact, it already is! Yet access to compliance markets in the Global North was far from certain. 🎯 Little did we know that our work was so quickly goi

⚡ Something remarkable is happening in energy. The technology that environmentalists spent decades fighting is suddenly everywhere. ☢️ Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta have collectively contracted for over 13 gigawatts of nuclear power. Global nuclear generation hit a record high in 2025 and is set to keep climbing. Investment in nuclear has risen 50% in five years and is expected to exceed $70 billion in 2025 alone. 🔄 The nuclear narrative is changing rapidly, alongside i

😐 Honest admission: I knew/know almost nothing about LTSs. In fact, I barely hear anyone talk about them. One exception is Harry Smith PhD , who actually wrote a full PhD about it. Here are a few things I learnt in our CDR Policy Scoop with Harry: 🎯 Residual emissions in government plans are double what the CDR community assumes. We often talk about 5-15%. In LTSs, they are often more than double this. An even bigger issue: only 26 countries actually quantified their res

🧭 Navigating Net Zero with Alexia Kelly recently did an episode with Tisha Schuller on on Real Climate Progress and the Messy Middle. She’s an environmental activist turned strategic advisor to the oil and gas industry. 🫣 Sounds uncomfortable right? This is exactly the type of conversations we need to be having. Like it or not. 🌎 Her argument, roughly: the climate community's refusal to engage constructively with oil and gas isn't principled. It's counterproductive.

🎙️ And this clip is not some fringe outlet: The Diary Of A CEO is one of the world’s leading podcasts, with over a billion downloads/views to date. 🌍 I was fairly shocked by this episode with Konstantin Kisin . His discussion with host Steven Bartlett on global warming is yet another example of how we have moved from outright denying climate change to reframing it in misguided, binary outcomes: ❌ Net-zero means destroying our economy. ❌ Net-zero means killing pensioner

🤔 Clearly the current system is not working. But what needs fixing? And how exactly do we go about it? 👀 Check out our latest CDR Policy Scoop episode with Robert Höglund to find out more about his proposal for conditional net-zero targets: ▶️ Watch on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eh_fJQy5 🎧 Listen here: https://lnkd.in/eDWU7xG5

🌟 For too long, I have ignored you. Yet there you are: reliably removing 2 gigatons of CO2 year on year, while providing countless co-benefits to forests, animals, farmers, and us humans. 💪 Yes, we need to figure out how to compensate our emissions for the long-term. But this will take us years, yeah decades to scale up. In the meantime, you can help us lower warming at this crucial moment in time. ✅ I don’t need to tell you how to do your job: it comes natural to you. You

⛽ I used to have a pretty clear opinion on the role of oil and gas on the way to net zero: boycott and phase out basically. 🫣 This is a very commonly held stance in the climate bubble. It is also one that is not particularly helpful. 📉 Of course, we need to phase out fossil fuels as quickly as possible. ⚠️ However, given the massive dependence of humanity on fossil fuels, there can be no net zero without decarbonising this sector. ⚖️ And not all actors are the same: some ar

😳 There, I said it. A statement that will lead to a lot of nodding for some, and fury for others… 👀 It is also the takeaway from a fascinating paper just released by Carbon Gap and authored by Sylvain Delerce . 🤓 Quick recap: What is the Like-for-Like (LfL) principle? From the paper: “Like-for-Like neutralisation requires balancing anthropogenic GHG sources with removals by sinks of similar or greater permanence than the carbon pool the emissions originate from and / o