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🚨🇩🇪 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 18


💚 Think Negative! 💚
🇩🇪 Germany is about to approve €100,000,000,000 (yes, you counted those zeros right) to be spent on climate and energy over 12 years....
Mar 17


😶🌫️ New CDR Policy Rulebook: Don’t make it the star of the show 😶🌫️
🌲 In January, the bipartisan Fix Our Forests Act (H.R.471) was introduced by Representative Bruce Westerman into the new Congress. The...
Mar 3


I owe you all an apology.
Yesterday’s post about current developments in the U.S. Department of Energy added the wrong kind of fuel to the fire. I stated that it...
Feb 27


👋 Goodbye CDR in the U.S. Department of Energy?
🇺🇸 No government department in the world has done more for the growth of the carbon removal industry than the U.S. DoE. Unfortunately,...
Feb 26


🇩🇪 Germany is going to the polls: what does this mean for CDR? 🇩🇪
😳 Coming Sunday, 23rd of February, will see Europe’s largest economy head to the polls for a snap election. Much has been said and...
Feb 17


⚠️ What is happening at the US DoE? ⚠️
😡 Over the last few days, the US Department of Energy (DoE) has fallen victim to Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government of...
Feb 13


😍 Finally: a database with ALL EU funding opportunities for CDR 😍
💥 Carbon Gap strikes again: this time, they have developed an open-source, searchable database of all 620 funding opportunities for CDR...
Feb 11


📊 Only 1.3% of CDR roles are in policy. That’s a problem.
🧐 Policy is central to scaling CDR, yet policy roles remain critically underrepresented. Let's take a look. 💼 Out of 2,865 jobs...
Feb 6


🇪🇺 77% of you believe that Europe is where CDR policy action is going to happen in 2025 - time to get your hands dirty 🇪🇺
☑️ Last week, over 200 of you participated in a poll of mine and the results were stunning (for me): without a doubt, the sentiment among...
Jan 31


🌟 The most important slide show of the year is out 🌟
📊 Nat Bullard just released his annual decarbonisation deck. 200 carefully curated graphs that provide you with a full overview of how...
Jan 31


🎯 The EU’s 2040 climate target(s): hope in difficult times or empty promises? 🎯
🇪🇺 In 2025, the European Union will attempt to formalise a binding target for emission reduction in 2040. This would complement the...
Dec 13, 2024


🧰 Is this one of the least-well known policy tools to scale carbon dioxide removal (hashtag#CDR)? 🧰
🏆 Integrating CDR into the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (hashtag#CBAM) is increasingly looking like a win-win-win to me. It...
Dec 6, 2024


⏰ Why carbon dioxide removal (hashtag#CDR) cannot wait - episode 5,347… ⏰
🚿 One of the biggest misconceptions I encounter in my daily work is this idea that we should focus on emission reductions only, and then...
Dec 4, 2024


😮 Maybe the best CDR policy were ever seen? 😮
🇺🇸 Yesterday, the Carbon Dioxide Removal Investment Act (hashtag#CDRIA) was introduced to the U.S. Senate by Senator Michael Bennet...
Nov 20, 2024


📊 Which market for carbon dioxide removal (hashtag#CDR) are you most bullyish about? 📊
🌎 COP29 has delivered real progress on carbon markets. We now have a stadnard for CDR under Article 6.4, a name for it (Paris Agreement...
Nov 18, 2024


🇺🇲 Time for U.S. state governments to put CDR on the map 🇺🇲
😧 Let’s face it: a Trump presidency creates a lot of uncertainty about what the next four years will mean for the world, for climate,...
Nov 12, 2024


🇩🇪 Interested in carbon dioxide removal (hashtag#CDR) in Germany?
👉 Momentum is building for CDR in hashtag#Germany ahead of the upcoming election in 2025. Thankfully, two excellent new resources have...
Nov 1, 2024


🇸🇪 Sweden’s €3.1 billion commitment to BECCS explained 🇸🇪
😱 At the end of the summer, Sweden announced a €3.1b carbon dioxide removal (hashtag#CDR) subsidy. You may have been still in vacation...
Nov 1, 2024


💶📈 What could soaring EU ETS prices mean for carbon dioxide removal (hashtag#CDR)? 📈💶
😲 The European Emission Trading System (hashtag#EUETS) is the largest carbon market in the world. Its market value is around €750b, it...
Oct 24, 2024
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