🇪🇺 Huge news coming out of Europe this week! The European Commission released a draft implementing act for the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) covering the use of carbon credits. 🔎 The punchline: Europe is looking to allow up to 10% of international carbon credits (Article 6) and what looks like unlimited domestic compliance carbon credits to be used to reduce CBAM levies for companies exporting to Europe. 💶 Why is this so big? Let’s do the maths: the CBAM - cur

🗣️ 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

💶 That is the billion euro question. A new study sheds light on this, and the numbers are big: 68-86Mt/year of durable CDR demand, easily >€10b/year. 🇪🇺 We are just 1-2 months away from the European Commission’s proposal on how CDR is to be integrated into the world’s largest emission trading system. I’ve seen a number of opinions on the potential impact on such an integration. 📄 However, to my knowledge, this is the first peer-reviewed paper modelling the exact demand th

🤷 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

✅ Yes, it is starting to be, finally! But some approaches more than others. 🇨🇭 That is my main takeaway from Zurich Climate Week and the Financing CDR Summit hosted by Carbonfuture, SIX, and Google. 🤔 Until now, most financing for durable CDR has come from venture capital. This works well for some approaches, especially tech heavy, high-risk, high-reward ones such as DACCS. But it has clear limitations: it cannot pay for large-scale projects and did barely touch more matur

🇨🇭 The Swiss government is undoubtedly leading - globally - on climate collaboration under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, having signed >15 bilateral agreements already. 🤝 This includes the first ever durable CDR Article 6 transaction with Norway. Today, in Climate Week Zurich, the Swiss and Norwegian governments are sharing their learnings and announcing some exciting news. 🎙️ Eve Tamme and I are on the ground in Zurich today recording a special episode of the CDR Pol

😮 Today, Exomad Green announced they passed 2Mt of biochar carbon removal (BCR) sold. That is huge. ✅ The best bit? At almost 400Kt delivered - by far the most of any CDR company in the world - they are the living proof that BCR can scale both sales AND deliveries. 🇨🇭Great catching up with Diego Justiniano and Francesco Guglielmi at Zurich Climate Week to celebrate this milestone. 👀And I hear this won’t be the last big news of the week from Exomad… watch this space.

🔎 I've long wanted to bring deep podcast conversations to CDR. Too often, we stay on the surface and keep hearing the same messages from the same people over and over again. 💚 This is why the CDR Policy Scoop launched the new "Digging Deep" format, with the one and only Gabrielle Walker as our inauguratory guest. 🌟 Gabrielle is arguably one of the MVPs of CDR. She has been at it for over 30 years, has seen the ebbs and flows, regularly speaks to the who's who of climate, a

🔥 As we head into the summer, wildfires will likely be raging throughout the Mediterranean again, causing widescale destruction and damage. 🌱 This is the powerful story of how a Portuguese company - Ibero Massa Florestal, S.A. - decided to turn this devastation into a multi-facetted solution. 🎥 Check it out this beautiful short documentary in collaboration with Carbonfuture on Youtube: https://lnkd.in/eqXUN-XP 🖤 And help us share this story: if more people knew about the

☂️ 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