🐻 Since 2021, Senator Becker has been pushing CDR one bill at a time in California. 💚 At the  CDR Policy Scoop , we had the honour of hosting him for a fascinating conversation. 🎧 Listen here: https://lnkd.in/dbfPQgKH ▶️ Watch on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dyMCsC79 Enjoy!

👀 Did you watch U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s address at the Munich Security Conference?  🤷‍♂️ So apparently we are all part of a cult - I had no idea. 🔦 As a reminder, a cult is a social group organized around a particular leader, belief system, or ideology that is often considered unconventional, highly controlling, or outside mainstream norms. 🤦‍♀️ Really? Climate?  😂 Anyway, I’ve been a member since 2022 - and you?

💚 The European Emission Trading System (EU ETS) might well be the most effective decarbonisation policy humanity has ever created: it has lowered emissions of industrial facilities in the EU by around 50% in 20 years and saving an estimated 2Gt already! 🇪🇺 And we are just getting started! But the whole premise of the ETS is that the cost of emitting a ton of CO2 will keep increasing, as free allowances and the so-called cap decrease. 💶 The ETS is also currently generating

🏠 Like many of you, I work from home. I love being able to live in different countries (Italy, Portugal, and Brazil) and being there to see my daughter grow up.  💻 It does, however, come with clear downsides: I only get to see my colleagues on a tiled screen and there is rarely time for non-work chatter. 🌲 That is why I am always super excited about the yearly (now biyearly) Carbonfuture Team Days hosted in the picturesque and beautiful Freiburg in the Black Forest. 🏃 Thi

🌟 For too long, I have ignored you. Yet there you are: reliably removing 2 gigatons of CO2 year on year, while providing countless co-benefits to forests, animals, farmers, and us humans. 💪 Yes, we need to figure out how to compensate our emissions for the long-term. But this will take us years, yeah decades to scale up. In the meantime, you can help us lower warming at this crucial moment in time. ✅ I don’t need to tell you how to do your job: it comes natural to you. You

🏛️ Today is one of those days where it is hard to find the motivation to keep going: the Trump Administration - expectedly - moved to eliminate the EPA’s 2009 "Endangerment Finding” which de facto created the legal basis for a lot of climate policy in the U.S. 🪓 Under the guise of “deregulation”, this is the largest and likely most impactful attack on climate science by this U.S. administration to date. ❌ The EPA will no longer be able to effectively regulate the six major

📊 [POLL] EU CRCF: what’s next? How will CRCF units be used? 📊 🇪🇺 Last week, my feed filled up with news of the EU adopting the first three methodologies to certify permanent removals (DACCS, BECCS, BCR). 👏 This is a huge milestone which should be celebrated. 🤔 However, the biggest question of all still remains: what will CRCF units actually be used for first/primarily? 🤷‍♂️ The central critique of the CRCF from day 1 has always been the lack of clear use cases. Without

🇺🇸 I was shocked when I learnt this. My understanding was that the Department of Energy had gutted its CDR team and put everything on hold. 💵 Yet here were $45m for its purchase programme and $71.5m for R&D across CDR pathways.  🤯 Honestly, a humble European cannot aspire to understand what this all means these days. 👩‍🏫 If someone can, however, it is Professor  Jennifer Wilcox , who headed up the Carbon Management Department at the DoE from 2021-2024. 💚 Really thrille

🛑 The tender has now closed. 🤨 There are now two bids on the table after all, with one more coming in at the last minute. Still far from the competitive, landmark programme it was meant to be. 🏛️ But the REAL story is why most projects walked away, and what that says about how we design public funding for CCS and CDR. 🎙️ So  Eve Tamme  and I recorded a quick  CDR Policy Scoop  to get the inside scoop with  Jannick Buhl  from  Danish District Heating Association . We unpac

🏠 Exactly 70 years ago, Cortina d’Ampezzo hosted the Winter Olympics. My grandparents - Argia and Piero - seized the opportunity, borrowed money from friends and family, and built Villa Belvedere. 🗺️ Nowadays, I run this family business together with my mother (yes, I have a life beyond CDR), and three generations live in this house. The Olympics put the beautiful Dolomites on the global map, and until today we all benefit from the boom that it brought. Today, the Olympics

🤩 Later today, policymakers, researchers, founders, industry leaders, and NGOs are gathering to unpack what it will really take to scale carbon removal in Germany at the launch of  Carbon Gap ’s Germany's Carbon Removal Readiness Assessment Report.  🎙️ At the  CDR Policy Scoop , we are excited to release our very first country special on Germany to answer the big question: Will Germany turn ambition into deployment fast enough? 🔐 Tune in for a clear look at Germany’s progr