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Eve Tamme  and I sat down with the one and only carbon markets MVP  Alexia Kelly , Managing Director of  High Tide Foundation  for a deep, practical conversation about the state of the market If you follow Alexia, you know she doesn’t hold back. So expect honest takes on the mess that SBTi has become, the confusing proliferation of actors in the space, and - crucially - what needs to be done to fix it.  If you care about where this space is heading, this one’s worth your time

💭 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...