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💭 Like most people, I prefer to imagine a future without fossil fuels. Yet the reality is sobering: oil & gas (O&G) is set to remain a part of the global energy system for years to come, likely even decades. ⛽ That raises an uncomfortable but unavoidable question: if we can’t get rid of O&G fast enough, should we at least decarbonise it as aggressively as possible? Or does that risk locking it in forever? 🔥 That’s exactly the conversation I’ll be having -live here on Linked

🏛️ This is my core takeaway from Harry Smith PhD’s (University of East Anglia) excellent doctoral thesis analysing 41 government Long-Term Low Emissions Development Strategies (LT-LEDS) submitted to the UNFCCC. 🌍 As a reminder: LT-LEDS represent countries’ highest-level long-term climate strategies and therefore provide a clear window into current and future national climate policy. 📄 So what did the thesis find? First, a huge over-reliance on nature based removals vis-a-v

🌡️ 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

🤩 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

😬 For years, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has been the gold standard for corporate climate targets. But SBTi has struggled: governance issues, inconsistent guidance, and growing pushback from companies frustrated by its rigidity and lack of clarity. ⭐ Into that gap now steps the ISO Net Zero standard, developed with input from over 170 countries and promising global legitimacy and harmonisation. It will officially launch with a big splash at COP30. 🏢 And, let

💡 I had never thought about this as an either / or question and always assumed we can only stop global warming IF we get rid of fossil fuels. ✈️ In the latest CDR Policy Scoop, Robert Höglund and I got to go deep on the role of carbon removal in aviation and shipping. 🤔 One of the key arguments Robert makes is that our best shot at net-zero could be to focus on whatever solution has the lowest cost, e.g. CDR + regular jet fuel vs eSAF. Loved recording this one - go check it

🏛️ Carbon removal is increasingly shifting from voluntary to government-regulated markets. In the process, concepts such as durability,...

🌎 At COP30, we have the historic chance to centre CDR in global climate policy. In order to achieve this, we need to present a unified...

💙 The ocean’s biodiversity and beauty are not the only thing that make the ocean remarkable. The ocean covers 70% of our planet and...

😱 Few things I hear regularly are less grounded in reality than this one. The facts? Carbon dioxide removals (CDR) accounted for 0.14%...

🤔 A few days ago I gave a lecture on carbon dioxide removal to students at UCLA. I was caught a bit off-guard when the presenter...

🇪🇺 A mantra in Europe so far has always been: we tidy up our own mess. In other words: Europe’s net-zero target has to be achieved with...

🏆 Just the boost of optimism and hope we needed! Passing the necessary two thirds majority (513 in favour, 207 against, no abstentions),...

✈️ Over the last 24h, the world has pounced on the CEO of Atlassian, Mike Cannon-Brookes for owning a private jet and using it to fly...

🇪🇺 The EU Commission is currently planning with around 120Mt of durable CDR in 2050. A jaw-dropping 333 page report by the th European...