🔥 Hot off the press: My University of Oxford paper on the economic potential of CDR for the Global South

🤩 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 biomass residues, >65% of geological storage, abundant low-cost renewables, and a rapidly expanding skilled labour force, the Global South is uniquely positioned to scale durable, high-integrity CDR at competitive cost and massive volume.

We ground the analysis in three real case studies already delivering economic and societal impact:

🇧🇴 Bolivia: Exomad Green, now the world’s largest durable CDR supplier

🇧🇷 Brazil: NetZero proving how global capital + local workforce can deliver jobs and CDR.

🇰🇪 Kenya: Octavia Carbon showing how DACCS can become an anchor industry for Kenya’s clean economy.

🌍 With COP now wrapping up, I hope this research helps shift the conversation toward CDR as a genuine economic development and industrialisation pathway for the Global South, alongside practical steps policy makers can take to embed CDR into their industrial policy.

🙏 A huge thank you to Amir Lebdioui, Director of the TIDE Centre, University of Oxford, for this opportunity and your guidance throughout the process.

👀 Check out the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/deAhPUUx

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