🚀 Yesterday, hundreds of carbon removers gathered in Brussels and online for the launch of the EU Buyers Club. Let’s start with the big, positive news: the Club has launched! 🧨 In typical European understatement, there was no big bang, even some people in the room missed this important detail: there is now an open group of buyers, working together with the European Commission, selecting eligible European projects. The first offtakes are expected this year. The day itself -

🌎 No surprises here: I believe the Global South will play a huge role in scaling carbon removal to climate relevance. 📈 It’s for this reason that we founded the Global South CDR Coalition in early 2025. From its humble beginnings, it has now grown into a powerful coalition of the world’s leading GS CDR companies. 🇪🇺 In light of the recent policy developments in Europe - first and foremost the central importance of international credits these days - we are levelling up an

🇪🇺 Eve Tamme and I are on the ground today to participate in the first ever CRCF days. But not just that: we are recording a CDR Policy Scoop episode so you can learn all about the latest developments alongside our analysis of it. ✅ From the EU Buyers Club to the implementation of the CRCF, we got you covered. 👀 Our episode will air tomorrow. Make sure to subscribe to the Scoop wherever you get your podcasts: https://lnkd.in/eZNaA9pX 😍 Exciting times ahead!

☀️ 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

🇪🇺 Tomorrow, I will be travelling to Brussels for the highly anticipated CRCF Days: the first open CDR conference organised by the European Commission! 👂 What is the future of the EU Buyers Club? Is CRCF operationalisation on track? I look forward to getting answers to these questions and will be recording a CDR Policy Scoop episode with Eve Tamme on the ground to share our learnings. 🥂 I will also be attending the Carbon Management Europe and Negative Emissions Platform

🇪🇺 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