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Nov 21, 2023
Is There a Role for Mandates to Drive CDR?
This week, we’re bringing you a panel discussion from the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy’s annual CDR conference. Our policy panelist, Wil Burns, hosted the conference and led this panel discussion on the role of mandates in growing CDR in the US.
The US government has stepped forward into the role of subsidizing and encouraging CDR in recent years, offering a ‘carrot’ to promote the new industry, in the form of large grants and tax incentives. But what could the government do to present a ‘stick’- requiring CDR using existing regulations?
That’s the topic of this policy panel featuring Dan Galpern, the Executive Director of the Climate Protection and Restoration Initiative, and Stephanie Arcusa, a researcher at the Arizona State University Center for Negative Carbon Emissions.
Dan spoke about using the Toxic Substances Control Act to regulate carbon emissions, including the possibility of mandating carbon dioxide removal as a condition for allowing ongoing emissions. He argues that the TSCA provides clear authority for such regulation, citing past precedents and legal interpretations.
Stephanie discusses the concept of a Carbon Take Back Obligation, which would require fossil fuel producers to sequester a ton of carbon for every ton they extract. This policy aims to gradually transition to net-zero emissions by creating a demand for carbon removal and applying the policy upstream in the fossil fuel supply chain.
Both approaches aim to address the challenges of scaling up carbon removal and mitigating climate change, but they also raise questions about political feasibility, environmental justice, and the impact on consumers, particularly those in lower-income households.
We hope you enjoy this high-level look at the policy levers that may one day lead to the scaling up of CDR.
On This Episode
Wil Burns
Dan Galpern
Stephanie Arcusa
Resources
Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy
UN Production Gap Report
Toxic Substances Control Act
EU Industrial Net-Zero Act
CA’s CDR Market Development Act
CBTO in the news
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Nov 7, 2023
Carbon Removal India Alliance
In recent months, we’ve covered CDR developments in the EU, followed CDR’s role in international climate agreements, and interviewed startups working to bring DAC to Kenya. There’s so much happening with CDR around the globe that it’s a challenge to cover all the news of carbon removal’s rise.
That’s why on this episode we’re fortunate to have Tom Mills and Shantanu Agarwal join us today to share their work scaling up CDR in India with a new consortium called Carbon Removal Alliance India (CRIA).
Tom is a co-founder of the organization, and Shantanu is a founder of Mati, an enhanced rock weathering startup in India that is a member of CRIA.
India has existing climate policies, immense amounts of working lands, a rising working-age population, and a wealth of business and science resources. Can these assets allow it to become a CDR powerhouse?
Our guests today will tell us about their work, what they think of India’s CDR potential, and what needs to happen within India to unlock carbon removal there.
On This Episode
Tom Mills
Shantanu Agarwal
Radhika Moolgavkar
Resources
Our Episodes on the EU & Kenya
Susteon & Sustaera- Shantanu’s previous companies
Carbon Removal Alliance India
Mati
Carbon Removal Partners
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Oct 31, 2023
CDR Industry Responds to Scrutiny
As CDR’s notoriety increases, so too does the scrutiny upon it. Carbon removal companies are beginning to deploy in communities, and are facing local concerns about the effect their projects will have communities. As these companies work to communicate the benefits of their projects, a CDR trade group is announcing a new program to help companies responsibly deploy carbon removal.
Scrutiny of CDR continues in the press as well.
An article from Reuters tracked the growing effort to standardize and legitimize CDR as startups and marketplaces try to attract large corporate buyers, showing that the industry is now front and center on business pages worldwide.
And the year’s biggest climate event is around the corner. A group of CDR organizations, including one led by today’s guest, are working to ensure the industry is ready as the global climate spotlight prepares to turn on them. The debates over CDR at COP28 will surely be contentious, and we’ll hear about a new effort to make the carbon removal community ready for when that happens.
Locally, and globally, from communities to newsrooms to international bodies, CDR is under scrutiny like never before. In this episode, we’re discussing what the industry can do to respond and continue to grow.
On this episode we’re joined today by Ben Rubin, the Carbon Business Council’s Executive Director, a trade organization representing over 100 CDR businesses. Welcome, Ben.
We’re also joined by our regular policy panelist, Susan Su, a partner focused on climate investing at TOBA Capital. She also serves as a board member of the Carbon Business Council and a board advisor to the Environmental Voter Project.
On This Episode
Ben Rubin
Susan Su
Asa Kamer
Resources
Carbon Business Council
CDR RDT
Confidence Ebbs in Carbon Markets- article
Study: 13% of Renewable Projects that Face Opposition are Completed
Reuter’s ‘Wild West’ article
“Three Big Letters in CDR are MRV”
CDR.fyi
NextGen CDR Facility
Carbon Removals at COP
Our Episode with Sebastian Manhart
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Oct 24, 2023
New Science Says Biochar is Very Permanent
In our guest’s corner of the geoscience field, inertinites are well-known to be stable forms of carbon. So Hamed Sanei was surprised to learn that there was significant debate over the stability of CO2 storage in biochar, which is an inertinite. In his view, the science of that question has been settled for a long time, and the answer is clear: biochar is durable carbon removal.
Biochar represented 92% of permanent carbon removal sales in the first part of 2023.
It is technologically ready and accessible by a larger share of businesses and populations than other ‘permanent methods’ due to its relatively low-tech production. A recent report found it could one day deliver three gigatons of CDR annually. More investment money is flowing to companies doing biochar, and it has become a staple of CDR portfolios among buyers who are diversifying.
Not only that, but it is thousands of years old and works as a soil amendment that helps crop productivity. It can be made from various biomass types, and the potential uses are just as numerous.
However, a major question has hovered over the reputation of biochar: Is the carbon removed from the atmosphere by biochar stored permanently, or will it quickly seep back into the air?
However, recent research has drawn some optimistic conclusions.
Hamed walks us through why there has been debate, what his research has found, and why he thinks the debate over carbon storage permanence needs to be closed so that the biochar community can focus on improving and scaling the use of biochar.
On This Episode
Radhika Moolgavkar
Hamed Sanei
Resources
CDR.fyi- How Much of CDR Sales are Biochar
Report on Global Potential of Biochar
Recent Biochar Purchase from Microsoft
Biochar is 1000’s of Year Old!
Hamed’s Research
The Lithospheric Organic Carbon Lab
European Biochar Industry Consortium
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Oct 17, 2023
U.S. Government Becomes a CDR Buyer
A few weeks ago, the US government announced it would directly purchase carbon removal. The Department of Energy released news of a $35 million fund to procure CDR credits. The prize fund will take the form of offtake agreements and cover four pathways.
More and more governments are funding CDR pilots, supporting research, and adding CDR targets to their climate plans. CDR has quickly entered an era of widespread support throughout North America and Europe.
But while the support is wide, it is also shallow; most policies take the form of modest grants or targets, with a few more ambitious countries leading the way.
Many CDR commentators have come to the conclusion that without a compliance market, carbon removal won’t ever scale up.
On this episode we asked our policy panel about recent government actions on CDR: will they work, are they enough, and what more needs to be done? Are today’s policies sufficient to get us where we need to go?
Radhika is joined by Wil Burns, Co-Executive Director of the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy at American University, and Holly Jean Buck, Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo.
On This Episode
Radhika Moolgavkar
Wil Burns
Holly Jean Buck
Resources
DOE Announces CDR Procurement
National Academy Report on CDR Research
DOE RFP for Responsible Carbon Management
Congress Members Letter on CO2 Pipelines
Heirloom commitment to DOE principles
Boston Consulting Group Report
Reykjavik Protocol
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Oct 10, 2023
CDR Policy is 'Hot' in the EU
Not long ago it was difficult to find any information about the carbon removal ecosystem in Europe. Beyond academic papers, and a researcher or two at larger environmental non-profits, CDR policy was not an area with a mature ecosystem.
The situation is much different today. Not only is the EU considering ways to incorporate removals into their existing cap-and-trade scheme, but there are non-profits, carbon marketplaces, startups, and a new trade group offering sophisticated information and analysis of the rapidly developing CDR policy landscape in Europe.
One of them is Carbon Gap they describe themselves as “a science-based and philanthropy-funded expert non-profit" NGO working to bring just and equitable carbon removal policies to Europe through informed scientific research. Launched two years ago, the organisation keeps the carbon removal ecosystem informed through its Policy Tracker and regularly publishes articles.” Their most recent piece released last week approaches the thorny topic of avoiding emissions deterrence.
Their senior researcher is Kayla Cohen, whose work focuses on the developing soil carbon policies in Europe and climate justice issues.
Another organization that continues to provide high-level insight in Europe is Carbonfuture, a marketplace for ‘durable’ carbon credits. They claim over 40% of the market for durable carbon removal this year. And luckily for the public they also continue to publish information on the CDR market, including work on the topic of creating a trusted and inclusive MRV system, which we delved into on this show just a few weeks ago. The author of much of this work is their Senior Policy Advisor Sebastian Manhart.
The EU is poised to be a world leader in CDR, as it has been with climate policy. It features ambitious climate targets, robust academic research in the field, a talented labor pool, and a sophisticated non-profit sector taking on the challenge. But it also faces many of the headwinds found elsewhere against CDR such as high-costs, ambivalence from some of the public and existing environmental sector, fear of moral hazard, and broader macro-economic challenges threatening investment into newer climate tech.
On this episode Kayla and Sebastian join to talk about the current situation in Europe, the developments they’d like to see, and where they predict policy will be in 2030 and beyond.
On This Episode
Sebastian Manhart
Kayla Cohen
Asa Kamer
Resources
Carbonfuture
Carbon Gap
Carbon Gap article on ‘solutions to mitigation deterrence’
Our show on Carbonfuture’s work on Trust + MRV
EU Soil Monitoring Law
Sebastian’s Article on Incorporating CDR in the ETS
Kayla’s Article on the EU Soil Monitoring Law
Carbonfuture report on CDR law in 31 EU States
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Oct 3, 2023
Lots Happening in CDR Business
It’s been a few months since our business panel has gathered to break down the many headlines coming from the world of CDR.
On this episode we’ll talk about some of the biggest news from September: new funds, new deployments, new corporate purchases, and a gathering of the who’s who in carbon removal in New York City. You’ll hear news about
Amazon + Occidental
Microsoft + Heirloom
DOE’s DAC Hubs
Microsoft + Carbon Streaming
Climeworks
The Reykjavik Protocol
Climate Weeks NYC
& more…
Joining us on this episode is our business panel: Susan Su, a partner focused on climate investing at TOBA capital, a board member at the Carbon Business Council, and a board advisor to the Environmental Voter Project and Na'im Merchant the Executive Director of Carbon Removal Canada, an Elemental Excelerator policy fellow and the author of the The Carbon Curve, a newsletter about the policies and technologies needed to grow the carbon removal market.
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Radhika Moolgavkar
Susan Su
Na'im Merchant
Resources
Amazon’s deal with Occidental
Microsoft’s deal with Heirloom
Heirloom DAC Hub
Microsoft’s deal with Carbon Streaming
Climeworks in Kenya
Our interviews with Octavia’s CEO
The Reykavik Protocol
Web Summit Climate Track
Carbon Removal Canada’s launch event
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Sep 26, 2023
Building the MRV Tech of the Future
Carbon removal credits need to be much more trustworthy than carbon offsets are today in order to scale-up CDR.
On last week’s show, we covered the news that the voluntary carbon markets have shrunk this year. After many carbon offset projects have come under scrutiny, corporate buyers have grown more hesitant.
To prove that carbon removal is worth investing in and better than the status quo, project developers and sellers of credits will need to be able to prove that a credit sold actually means CO2 was removed from the air.
It’s one thing to do that in a lab when the technique is being developed in a lab. It’s another to do it at scale, in the field, in real-world conditions.
The tools available today won’t be enough to create market-wide trust. What software, MRV, and accounting technologies are being built today, that will manage the carbon markets of the future?
Dr. Anna Lehner at Carbonfuture is one of the people trying to answer this question. Today, we’re talking to Anna about how a wide range of CDR methodologies can be measured, quantified, certified, and sold to make it easy for buyers, all while creating more trust in the market.
On This Episode
Radhika Moolgavkar
Dr. Anna Lehner
Resources
Carbonfuture
Carbonfuture’s Trust Framework
SBTi Standards
cdr.fyi
Robert Höglund’s post on which companies are buying carbon removal
CCS+ Initiative
European CRCF
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Sep 19, 2023
Tipping Point for Carbon Markets?
The voluntary carbon market (VCM) has a total value of over $2 billion, and some predictions show it growing to $10 billion in just a few years.
But the integrity of the carbon offsets available has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years, causing demand to slow and prices to go down.
According to a new report from Morgan Stanley the market is approaching a ‘tipping point’, as more and more companies hesitate to stake their environmental claims on offsets that may be debunked in the newspaper the next day.
If the market does hit a tipping point, what’s next? And what does it mean for the companies and governments hoping that “carbon removal” can fill the gap with a more reliable type of offset?
Our panel will take a look at implications of the oil company Oxy purchasing Carbon Engineering. Is big oil good for DAC?
Whether or not oil and gas should be involved in carbon removal is healthy debate within the CDR community, and this announcement made headlines in the broader environmental media too.
Listen to hear what our policy panel, Holly Buck and Wil Burns, think about this news and its aftermath.
On This Episode
Radhika Moolgavkar
Wil Burns
Holly Jean Buck
Resources
Size of VCMs
Article on “Tipping Point” report
West et al. Paper on Carbon Offsets
Liberia + Dubai Offset Deal
Oxy buys Carbon Engineering
NOAA Awards
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Aug 1, 2023
10 CDR Headlines from July
This month, there’s been a flurry of business news in the CDR world. We’re taking August off from the show, but before we go we’re going to dive into 10 stories that broke in the last few weeks, that have big implications for the carbon removal industry.
On this episode hear about companies putting CO2 into concrete, plastics, and fuel, new investment funds, announcements of new engineered carbon removal facilities, and analysis of the macroeconomic conditions the industry is facing.
To explain what’s behind these headlines, we’re by our regular business panel, Susan Su and Na’im Merchant.
They tell us all about news from…
· CarbonCure
· Airminer’s Kiloton Fund
· Twelve
· EU Climate VC funding
· Prime Coalition
· Avnos
· Brimstone
· Deep Sky + Captura
· Octavia
· “500 Climate Unicorns in 20 Years?”
On This Episode
Susan Su
Na’im Merchant
Asa Kamer
Resources
CarbonCure announcement
Airminer’s Kiloton Fund
Twelve’s new plant
Sifted article on EU climate funding
Prime Coalition fund
Avnos
Brimstone announcement
Deep Sky hub in Canada
Octavia
Our Episode w/ Octavia’s CEO
Sean O’Sullivan Interview
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Jul 25, 2023
Southern Hemisphere's First DAC w/ Octavia
Last week Octavia Carbon announced they are planning to build a DAC plant in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, the first such plant in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Valley formed as a result of three tectonic plates meeting in one place. This phenomenon has created unique geology, which the entrepreneurs at Octavia feel could be an ideal place to capture and store CO2 underground.
An hour away in Nairobi, they are building commercial-scale DAC machines and planning to deploy their technology with plans to begin storing CO2 underground in 2024.
They want to leverage advantageous local renewable energy, geology, and personnel to attract global customers.
Today we’ll be talking with Octavia’s CEO, Martin Freimüller, about why Kenya is right for DAC, what they are working on now, and why the price of a DAC credit in Kenya will differ from one from the U.S.
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Radhika Moolgavkar
Martin Freimüller
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Octavia Carbon
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Jul 18, 2023
Global Policy Roundup
We’ve been covering a lot of US state and federal CDR policy in the last few episodes. Today we’re taking a much-needed international trip and discussing some critical stories happening across the globe.
Zimbabwe’s government has announced new regulations on voluntary carbon offset trading to prevent greenwashing and ensure that local communities benefit. Carbon credit schemes in Zimbabwe have been unregulated. The new policy mandates that all carbon projects register with the program, ensuring that a percentage of the revenue goes directly to local communities.
Deforestation rates in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest have fallen by 33.6% during the first six months of 2023 under the new administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. This contrasts sharply with the record-breaking deforestation rates in 2022 under former president Jair Bolsonaro, who promoted mining and farming in protected areas.
The UK government has announced comprehensive changes to its Emissions Tradi…
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Jul 11, 2023
Carbon180 and Xprize on Environmental Justice
The Xprize’s Carbon Removal prize has been one of the most exciting stories in CDR. As it seeks to pump $100 million towards carbon removal projects, the organization is also taking steps to ensure that funding supports companies that benefit, rather than harm, the communities they work in.
This is no small detail, but in fact a main question about the future of carbon removal: can it become embraced by local communities who will host projects? We’ve been focusing on that very question on this show because we feel it is just as important as funding news and scientific advancements.
In order to help build an environmentally just industry, Xprize has partnered with Carbon180 to write a comprehensive report on environmental justice in the context of carbon removal projects.
This report discusses the importance of environmental justice for carbon removal companies, the concept of climate justice, and the need for fair distribution of project benefits.
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Jul 4, 2023
Ambitious CDR Activism in California
If you’ve been following the development of CDR policy, you’ve probably heard of the volunteer advocacy group OpenAir Collective. Just a few weeks ago our guest Sebastian Manhart said on this show “There’s no state that has policy movement that OpenAir collective didn’t have their fingers all over. I’m really impressed by the results of this kind of grassroots activism."
Now, OpenAir is working to pass SB308 in the U.S.’s largest economy: California. This proposed bill mandates that high-emitting facilities purchase "negative emissions credits" to offset their climate impact. It would be the first state-level legislation to create a compliance mechanism carbon removal.
This legislation makes polluters pay to remove CO2, a statewide public-sector source of funds that would have a catalytic effect on the CDR industry.
On this episode we’re joined by one of the founders of OpenAir, a leader of the advocacy effort in California, and the Director of Initiatives at Rethink…
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Jun 30, 2023
[Bonus Ep- Rebroadcast] Time to Think Small w/ Todd Myers
This conversation is a re-run of a segment from an episode we released earlier this month.
On this episode we welcome a thought leader in free-market environmental policy - Todd Myers, the Director of the Center for the Environment at the Washington Policy Center. His 2022 book, “Time to Think Small: How nimble environmental technologies can solve the planet’s biggest problems,” sheds light on how compact, innovative technologies are giving individuals the power to safeguard endangered wildlife, cut back on CO2 emissions, and combat the issue of ocean plastic.
With his extensive background in environmental policy and public relations, Todd offers a unique perspective on the interplay between the marketplace and environmental action. "Todd's insights are set to provide a clear understanding of the political and social dynamics facing advocates of carbon removal in the environmental landscape."
Just last month, a landmark decision in Washington State made headlines as it became…
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Jun 27, 2023
3 CDR Startups Making Moves
CDR startups are under pressure from numerous sources including current economic downturns, criticisms from the United Nations about carbon removal methods, and problems within the carbon offset market. Despite these challenges, significant investments continue to flow into the industry. This is largely due to the perception among investors that CDR plays a crucial role in reaching the goal of net-zero emissions.
In this episode our business panel analyze the impacts of three recent significant announcements from CDR startups.
* Charm Industrial has secured a $100 million Series B funding round to further their bio-oil pyrolysis approach.
* Carbon to Sea has successfully obtained $50 million in philanthropic funding to progress their work on ocean alkalinity enhancement.
* Newcomer DAC startup, Holocene, has formed a partnership with the Department of Energy to accelerate their next-generation technology from lab to market.
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Jun 20, 2023
Tracking the CDR Policy Explosion w/ Sebastian Manhart
On this episode we’re joined by Sebastian Manhart, a tech entrepreneur and policy expert who is serving as the Senior Policy Advisor at Carbonfuture, a purveyor of high-quality CDR credits based in Germany.
He is analyzing the growth of CDR policy worldwide and has recently published “CDR Policy Maturity” across all 50 U.S. states. This comprehensive report maps each state’s progress based on factors like specific CDR targets, funding incentives, and legal frameworks.
We’ll hear about what states are leading the way, the role of federal policy in pushing things forward, and the challenges of public acceptability.
Sebastian also fills us in on a new CDR trade organization in Germany, which will work to focus the world’s fourth biggest economy on drawing down co2 and his gives insights on some recent industry gatherings he’s attended.
Join Radhika and Sebastian as they talk about the explosive growth of CDR policy throughout the U.S. and Europe.
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Jun 13, 2023
Could This Law Supercharge U.S. CDR?
Since last year’s landmark climate legislation, members of congress are looking for niche areas of climate progress. Enter the Carbon Removal and Emissions Storage Technologies (CREST) Act, a bipartisan piece of legislation aimed at accelerating carbon removal and storage solutions.
It was introduced by U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Maria Cantwell and also has a bipartisan version in the House, the CREST Act tasks the Departments of Energy with initiating research programs and exploring the feasibility of a number of carbon removal pathways.
The legislation focuses on several carbon removal techniques, such as biomass-based removal, ocean CDR, and DAC and geologic storage. A wide swath of organizations, including many familiar to the CDR industry like Clearpath, Stripe, and Vesta, have signed a letter of support.
In this episode, we going to delve into the details of the CREST Act, its potential impact on our climate, and the implications of its bipartisan support. Will it help…
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Jun 6, 2023
What's Happening at the UNFCCC? w/ Wil Burns
An important climate body at the U.N. is causing controversy as they seek to define use of CDR, and many supporters of carbon removal are not happy.
The UNFCCC is in the process of figuring out how carbon removal fits into emissions reduction plans. A recent draft statement caused a stir among advocates of CDR and climate experts, as it described CDR as 'unproven' and ‘not contributing to sustainable development’.
Many CDR advocates have contested these claims, especially given the crucial role attributed to CDR in last year's report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
In response, the Carbon Business Council is drafted a letter, with support from over 100 CDR experts, in an attempt to persuade the UNFCCC to provide a clearer definition of CDR.
In today's discussion, we'll speak with Wil Burns, Co-Executive Director of the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy at American University. We'll explore the purpose of this new definition, what's been prop…
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May 30, 2023
Robert Höglund's Cautious Optimism on Carbon Removal
Robert Höglund refers to himself as a "chronicler of CDR" or Carbon Dioxide Removal. He has established himself as an authority in this area, providing enlightening insights through his popular blog, Marginal Carbon. His significant contributions to Milywire, a CDR fund, coupled with his extensive involvement in various roles as a Climate Advisor, have further solidified his status as a thought leader.
Recently, Robert attended Carbon Unbound, the world's first conference solely focused on carbon removal businesses. His reflections from this groundbreaking event, which he shared under the intriguing title "Cautiously Optimistic Removers," shed light on the current state and future direction of the CDR sector.
Radhika and Robert delve into his eight key insights from the event, uncovering the crucial issues facing the CDR sector - from the challenges of scale and certification standards to the essential role of public engagement.
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May 12, 2023
Differentiating Emissions Cuts and CDR
Following 2015’s UN Paris Agreement, each signatory country submitted a strategy indicating how they intend to decarbonize their economy. While much of the work comes from cutting emissions, plans can also include a ‘residual emissions’ category- that’s where carbon removal comes in.
But recent research from our panelist Holly Buck and her colleagues found no standard definition of residual emissions.
Residual emissions are significant; most come from agriculture, industry, and mobility. Crucially, land-use sinks won’t offset all residual emissions by 2050- meaning many countries hope new CDR technologies are reliable.
For the world to meet climate goals, countries must achieve the ambitions set out in their plans. If those plans are not well-defined, it is unlikely they will achieve success.
Also on this episode, the panel discusses Climeworks’ call to differentiate CDR from emissions cuts, as well as Stanford’s new CDR program and some controversy surrounding it.
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May 5, 2023
Inside Planetary's Public Outreach
Last year Planetary Technologies won the Carbon Xprize Milestone award for their ocean-based CDR method. That same year they started testing their ocean alkalinity enhancement process in a small trial in England, partnering with the local water company. The test showed improved alkalinity and reduced CO2 in local waters. Now the company plans to do a longer, 120-day test this summer, hoping to remove 200 net tons of CO2 from the water.
Planetary has conducted public outreach about their plan, and published a public code of conduct laying out how they intend to make the experiments safe.
But last month protesters gathered at Gwithian beach in North Cornwall, expressing concerns about the potential impact on the bay's marine ecosystem.
In a Guardian article about the project Mike Kelland CEO of Planetary Technologies said “People often say to me: ‘You wouldn’t want to swim in this stuff, would you?’ But the answer is that we already do because it’s already widely used in was…
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Apr 28, 2023
The Business of Enhanced Rock Weathering
In December 2022, the carbon credit platform Puro added a methodology for enhanced rock weathering (ERW) credits. This announcement opens the door for the ERW to be sold into the billion-dollar voluntary carbon marks.
ERW is one of the oldest known forms of carbon removal, long studied by geologists. But it is only recently that a growing number of startups are applying the science of this technique on a larger scale.
Other businesses are taking note. Microsoft is expanding its carbon removal portfolio to include ERW credits purchased from UNDO. They will pay the Scottish company to spread basaltic rock onto farmland, hoping to sequester 5000 tons of CO2 over the next few decades.
ERW can potentially deliver massive amounts of CDR if scaled up. Nearly every country has the necessary basaltic rock to spread on its farmland and it doesn’t require any new technological innovations. But an industry large enough to affect global temperatures will need to build lots of new infrastructur…
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Apr 7, 2023
State-Level CDR Policy Advocacy with Toby Bryce
About one year ago we were joined on this show by Toby Bryce, who works with the volunteer-advocacy group the OpenAir Collective on a variety of projects that support the growth of carbon removal. Toby told us about the groups work advocating for state-level legislation called the Carbon Dioxide Removal Leadership Act in New York State.
Since then, the legislation has been proposed in several more states, and the group’s network of policy advocates has grown along with it.
Today we’ll talk to Toby about what’s going on with CDRLA, and what kind of political dynamics he’s found as OpenAir wades into state-level policymaking.
Radhika and Toby will also delve into some of the bigger questions about the public acceptability challenges of growing carbon removal. What should advocates and CDR companies be doing to communicate with the public, and what are the stakes?
On This Episode
Toby Bryce
Radhika Moolgavkar
Resources
OpenAir Collective
Carbon Dioxide Removal Leadership…
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Mar 24, 2023
SVB + CDR
The ramifications of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse two weeks ago are still rippling across the global economy. SVB was a major lender to VCs, and served silicon valley: two factors that meant its rapid demise will affect the climate tech industry.
SVB worked with 1550 climate tech companies, and gave the industry billions in loans.
Other banks may fill the void to support this lucrative sector, but many carbon removal companies are now spending time figuring out their financial stability, rather than developing their CDR products.
Peter Reinhardt, Founder and CEO of Charm Industrial, told Semafor that “…the SVB collapse will cause a one to two-quarter delay on a lot of things in climate tech. That doesn’t sound like a lot, but when you look at how much needs to get deployed in the next decade, losing half a year is really not good.”
The business panel also discusses some other recent CDR business news:
* South Korea’s announced carbon exchange
* a new alliance of…
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Mar 3, 2023
Innovations in Remote Sensing for Blue Carbon
Blue carbon has emerged as a popular climate solution, with offset marketplaces like Verra and Gold Standard eyeing blue carbon methodologies and Salesforce and the World Economic Forum teaming up to announce their own blue carbon credit framework at COP27 last year.
Crediting for blue carbon usually means protecting ecosystems like mangrove forests, seagrass beds, and salt marshes. It can also include restoring these ecosystems when they’ve been degraded or destroyed.
A recent paper published in the journal “Earth Science Reviews” titled “Remote Sensing for Effective Blue Carbon Accounting” reviewed the potential for new technology to improve the remote sensing of blue carbon ecosystems.
Carbon markets continue to grow, and billions of dollars will likely flow toward blue carbon projects. So how well can scientists even tell when ecosystems are sequestering CO2? And what is the promise of new technologies to improve those estimates?
Joining Radhika on this episode are Ho…
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Feb 24, 2023
EU Carbon Price Hits All-Time High & New CO2 Legislation in Alaska
The Emission Trading Systems is the cap-and-trade carbon market that Europe has been using since 2005 to decarbonize its economy. Companies have to pay to pollute, and this week that price hit an all-time high as it traded for over 100 euros/ton. In the first segment of today’s show Na’im Merchant and Asa Kamer discuss the significance of that milestone, what it might mean for the CDR industry, and news that Lanzatech became the first carbon capture company ever to go public.
On the other side of the planet a different government made steps towards capitalizing on the money flowing towards carbon markets. Earlier this month, Alaska’s GOP Governor proposed a package of bills that would expand the state’s ability to store carbon via both forestry projects and underground storage of CO2 if passed. Will these ambitions contribute to actually increasing carbon sequestration?
On the second segment of today’s show we explored this topic with one of the people behind Alaska’s pus…
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Feb 10, 2023
CDR Axed from Climate Plans
Should carbon removal be included in institutional climate plans? It’s a debate that’s taken place across business, government, and science in recent years.
The rise of the net-zero framework has sharpened the focus on how and when organizations should decarbonize. And how carbon removal fits in.
Last week two influential organizations weighed in on how they plan to use carbon removal in the coming years.
The Net-Zero Owner Alliance, a UN-convened group of 84 large investors, declared that their members will not be able to invest in carbon removal to reach their climate goals until at least 2030.
And the European Commission released its draft Green Deal Industrial Plan, a new set of policy objectives to build out their climate infrastructure. It includes support for many decarbonization technologies, but at least one CDR NGO says it doesn’t do enough for carbon removal.
We’re pleased to announce the return of long-time friend of the show Holly Jean Buck. Welcome back, Holl…
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Feb 3, 2023
The State of CDR report
In January, a team of researchers led by the University of Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment released a report titled “The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal.”
The authors called it the first global assessment of the field and what gaps need to be closed to scale carbon removal.
The 101-page report covered how much CDR currently exists, the research landscape, existing policy support, and the gap between current plans and what will be needed to reach climate goals.
It contained some good news: CDR is scaling fast, and managed forests are doing a lot of drawdown already- and some bad: we’re not on track to have enough.
Today we’ll review this comprehensive snapshot with our science panel: Dr. Jane Zelikova and CRN producer Asa Kamer.
On This Episode
Dr. Jane Zelikova
Asa Kamer
Radhika Moolgavkar
Resources
State of CDR Report
CarbonBrief article about the report- w/ charts
Guardian article on Verra
Bloomberg article on potential of voluntary carb…
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Jan 20, 2023
Where Are the Buyers?
Where are the buyers? That’s the question CDR-observer and climate advisor Robert Höglund asked in a much-discussed recent post.
Höglund points out that while significant growth occurred for CDR through voluntary markets in 2022, the number of large buyers is low and growing slowly.
He called the market “upside down”: lots of marketplaces, fewer companies doing removal, even fewer buyers.
Today we’ll look at his post and use it as a jumping-off point to discuss some recent headlines in the business of carbon removal. Including-
· CDR startups announcing new funding from oil and gas companies
· The Guardian’s recent reporting claiming the climate benefit of Verra’s carbon offsets is overstated
· Patch’s new offtake agreement format
· Climeworks’ third-party verification of their DAC process
· Should CO2 credits also include co-benefits?
On This Episode
Susan Su
Na’im Merchant
Radhika Moolgavkar
Resources
Höglund blog post
Captura & 44.01 new fund…
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Jan 13, 2023
DAC Hubs w/ Jason Hochman of the DAC Coalition
In 2021 the U.S. congress passed the bipartisan Infrastructure bill, which alongside funding for roads and bridges, included $3.5 billion for 4 DAC demonstration hubs. Each will be a large-scale DAC facility, and they may be the first engineered CDR built at scale in the U.S.
Since the bill was passed, DAC-watchers and interested entrepreneurs have been waiting for more information on what the funding would be spent on and who would be eligible to receive it.
In the meantime, the DOE under the Biden administration has been filling out its DAC expertise with industry experts such as Jen Wilcox, Noah Deich, and Rory Jacobson, among others joining the department. This has led to anticipation and expectations that the DOE’s planning for the DAC hubs projects would be sophisticated and well thought-out.
DOE gave the most in-depth look yet at the DAC hubs program last month with the release of a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA).
On this show we speak with Jason Hochman, Co-founde…
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Jan 6, 2023
Advancing ERW Measurement
Last month, the non-profit Carbon Drawdown Initiative published a blog post featuring pictures of 11 projects across the world where researchers were spreading basaltic rock dust onto farm fields. This technique is known as enhanced weathering, and the post shows an upward trend in popularity.
According to the post, the projects photographed cumulatively spread 50,000 tons of rock dust onto farm fields last year, with another 500,000 planned for this year.
These pilot programs are conducted by a growing number of organizations that believe vast amounts of co2 can be sequestered from the atmosphere by applying basaltic rock dust to working croplands while also improving agricultural yields.
If that’s true, it will represent an affordable carbon removal method with significant co-benefits.
But how can scientists tell that co2 drawdown occurs after the rock dust is applied to the fields? What techniques and experiments will confirm that this process is ready to be scaled up?
On thi…
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Dec 16, 2022
December's CDR Headlines w/ Ben Rubin
It's our last business episode of 2022. It's been a newsworthy year for startups, corporate commitments, and investing in carbon removal, and December has been no different.
This week we'll talk about a grab-bag of headlines:
* Prince William came to the U.S. to give a promising carbon storage startup $1 million (among other things).
* A major investor doubled down on their climate fund at a time when general VC funding is drying up.
* An on-the-ground look at one DAC company's foray into bringing CDR to Wyoming's oil and gas country.
Ben Rubin joins Radhika and Susan as a guest business panelist. Ben is the Executive Director of the Carbon Business Council, a trade group for CDR companies.
On This Episode
Susan Su
Radhika Moolgavkar
Ben Rubin
Resources
Carbon Business Council
Earthshot Prize
4401
DOE new CDR funding
Union Square Ventures announcement
Frontier Announcement
Inside Climate News article on CarbonCapture in Wyoming
Vox coverage of nuclear fusion annou…
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Dec 2, 2022
Carbon Removal Knowledge Gaps
Back in April of this year, Stripe, Alphabet, Shopify, Meta, and McKinsey announced a joint project to invest $925 million into carbon removal by 2030.
Using an Advanced Market Commitment structure, the group aims to provide a source of stable demand and revenue to potential CDR companies to help the industry grow.
In November, Frontier offered a new resource to the CDR industry- a database of “Carbon Removal Knowledge Gaps.”
In a blog post announcing the release of the work, the authors said, “we’ve noticed a few areas that are underexplored relative to their potential. So, here we’re experimenting with a supply “push.” Our hypothesis is that we can more quickly shake the proverbial tree for the most promising ideas in CDR.”
To discuss the report this week and talk about what they see as big knowledge gaps for CDR are our regular science panel Shannon Valley and Jane Zelikova.
On This Episode
Jane Zelikova
Shannon Valley
Radhika Moolgavkar
Resources
Frontier…
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Nov 18, 2022
What We're Thankful for in CDR
The U.S. elections provided a boost to a President who has overseen climate action, world leaders are gathering in Egypt for COP27 to discuss our climate future, and what could be the next Enron has crashed crypto.
What does it all mean for the business of carbon removal?? Join us this week to learn more-
Susan thinks this election was a big win for climate voters, and provides some data about the unexpected impact that bloc has begun to have.
Na’im reflects on the lesson’s of the FTX collapse and what carbon removal and climate tech communities should learn from it.
The panelists also talk about the people, organizations, and trends they’re thankful for this year in the world of CDR.
Our regular business panel Susan Su and Na’im Merchant join host Radhika Moolgavkar.
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Susan Su
Na’im Merchant
Radhika Moolgavkar
Resources
Environmental Voter Project
EVP Seminar on Georgia runoff
This Election’s ‘Green Wave’
NY Voters pass Environmental Bond i…
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Nov 11, 2022
CDR in the Next Congress
We planned an episode this week about carbon removal policy in the next Congress. At the time of recording we still don’t know which party will control either chamber. Since it looks most likely that the GOP will win at least the House of Representatives, we focused this episode on the prospect for bipartisan CDR policy opportunities.
While Joe Biden and the Democrats retain control of the White House, they likely can’t pass legislation without Republican votes like they’ve been able to do for the last two years. All legislation, including the annual budget, must be agreed upon by both parties.
The U.S. invested a lot in CDR during the last congress…
-Some of that the Democrats passed alone, like increases to the 45Q tax credit included in the Inflation Reduction Act,
-but some were done on a bipartisan basis, like the direct investments in CDR found in the Infrastructure bill and CHIPS Act.
What can we expect from Federal Government in the next two years? Will divided gov…
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Nov 4, 2022
Foresting Dryland Regions
If you’ve read about carbon removal online, you’ve seen the refrain, “just plant trees”! It’s true that a living tree draws down co2 as it grows, but can mass forestation slow climate change? That math of forest carbon sequestration is complicated.
But a lot of government climate plans, ESG investing rules, and most of the carbon offset markets are relying on forest projects to deliver CO2 removals.
A new study from Israeli researchers sheds some light on the forestation carbon math. Specifically, this study evaluated whether afforestation in arid environments or in geographies that currently do not support trees would lead to carbon removal, if we take into account albedo.
This, combined with new data that shows that deforestation did not slow down enough this year to meet international climate agreements, puts the potential for forests to deliver additional climate mitigation into question.
With me to discuss the news in forestry is our science panel: Jane Zelikova and…
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Oct 28, 2022
New CDR Funding Streams Emerge
Just a few years ago, DAC technology existed exclusively on a lab bench. This year the industry raised over $1 billion in VC funding, with over 50 funded startups in existence.
While there are still technological hurdles to overcome to bring CDR to scale, funding also needs to be diversified and innovated, something we’ve discussed before on this show.
Tech money continues to pour into CDR. Just this week, two large new funding mechanisms for CDR companies have been announced.
Terraset is a new philanthropy that aims to fill CDR’s ‘funding gap.’ They aim to pool $1 billion by 2030 to fund startups directly. Early announced funders are Tim Ferriss and Segment co-founder Calvin French-Owen.
Propellor is a new VC fund that announced its first seed round of $100 million to invest in ocean-based climate tech.
We’ll discuss both announcements with our regular business panel, Susan Su and Na’im Merchant.
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Susan Su
Na’im Merchant
Radhika Moolgavkar
Resour…
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Oct 14, 2022
The Carbon Business Council
In July, over 40 carbon removal startups announced the launch of a new industry group: The Carbon Business Council. Since then, the list of members has grown past 70 companies.
The group’s goal is to serve as a “resource for our members, lawmakers, the energy industry, and the environmental community to advocate for the responsible growth of the carbon management industry.”
They recently published an Ethical Oath to Restore the Earth, which many members have signed.
This pledge states that signed member companies will adhere to a set of ethical guidelines, such as a commitment to ensuring that the industry grows to benefit communities and that companies will support emissions reduction efforts. CO2BC Executive Director Ben Rubin likened it to a Hippocratic Oath for CDR.
Ben joins this episode alongside regular policy panelist Chris Barnard.
On This Episode
Chris Barnard
Ben Rubin
Radhika Moolgavkar
Resources
Carbon Business Council
CBC’s Ethical Oath to Restore the E…
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Oct 7, 2022
Can 'Rewilding' Draw Down CO2?
Can restoring animal populations in the ocean sequester CO2? This question has generated a lot of conversation and was explored in depth in the 2022 in the National Academy of Sciences report on Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal.
Chapter 6 of that report covered ecosystem restoration and how much CO2 it can potentially sequester. The report found the fully restoring ocean ecosystems would draw down CO2 equivalent to 5% of annual human emissions.
In 2019 Alex Trembath and Seaver Wang at the Breakthrough Institute wrote an article about the concept of “Negative Emission Whales” in response to a that large whale populations would drawdown significant amounts of CO2.
Trembath and Wang balked at this report and cited other, less ambitious figures assessed by other research. They also focus on the limited ability of existing methods to quantify the CDR ability of this approach.
Today we’re joined for the first time as a regular co-host by Shannon Valley. We’re happy to welcome her as…
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Sep 22, 2022
Two XPRIZE Winning Teams
On April 22nd, XPRIZE announced the 15 winners of the second round of their competition for carbon removal solutions. Each of these teams has been awarded $1 million to help them compete for the grand prize of $50 million, or 3 $30 million runner-up slots, awarded three years from now.
The grand prize winner may not be one of the 15 Milestone awardees, but these teams are a step ahead of the competition and have already demonstrated an ability to impress the Xprize judges.
This episode features two segments with interviews of Milestone-winning teams.
First, Radhika and Na’im spoke with Carbin Minerals CTO Peter Scheuermann. Carbin’s work with mine waste streams is based on the pioneering research of Dr. Greg Dipple. Peter joined us to discuss how they plan to make mining carbon negative, their testing so far, and how their MRV approach will be “modular.”
In the second segment, CRN producer Asa Kamer fills in as guest host to talk with the two companies who make up the XPRIZ…
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Sep 9, 2022
What Polling Says About CDR
Earlier this year, the think tank and polling organization Data for Progress released polling that showed that voters all across the political spectrum support federal procurement of carbon removal.
Researchers conducted two polls, one of New York voters on statewide legislation there and another of voters nationwide on pending Federal legislation. These two similar bills would compel the government to directly purchase carbon removals. In a February episode, we discussed the specifics of these bills with policy advocate and co-author of this report Toby Bryce.
Data for Progress also released polling last year, which also found support, though low recognition, for CDR and government investment into it.
This week Radhika and Chris talk with Celina Scott-Buechler of DFP about how this research was conducted, what the researchers found, and what she makes of the prospects for CDR procurement legislation.
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Celina Scott-Buechler
Chris Barnard
Resources
-Data for Progr…
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Aug 9, 2022
Summer Schedule Announcement
Hi listeners, we won’t have a new episode this month and will return the first week of September. Due to Covid disruptions our summer break has been a bit longer than anticipated, but we’re looking forward to bringing you our regular schedule next month. Thanks for listening --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
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Jul 15, 2022
CDR Update from UK and EU
This week we're joined by two experts in the evolving world of CDR policy in Europe. Eli Mitchell-Larson from Carbon Gap and Lee Beck from the Clean Air Task Force.
The E.U. is working on a certification standard for CDR to complement its existing climate plan. When completed, it will likely represent the largest jurisdiction with a comprehensive policy plan to scale up carbon removal.
Last week the U.K. government sought public input on its own CDR effort. This particular policy effort aims to find business models that will help CDR scale by the end of this decade.
The text of the release finds that a significant barrier to scaling up CDR is “the absence of a predictable revenue stream for negative emissions.” Notably, it also says that “the cost of deploying these techs is borne by polluting sectors to compensate for their remaining emissions.”
Radhika, Eli, and Lee talk about how important these policies could turn out to be, what timeline they are on, and what their or…
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Jul 8, 2022
Carbon Accounting and Climate Justice
This week Radhika is joined by Dr. Jane Zelikova and Dr. Sarah Myhre, Program Director, Climate Advocacy & Democracy Reform, at the Glaser Progress Foundation.
For decades, the climate science community has examined the problems with climate pledges and carbon markets. But the ascendancy of carbon removal has prompted researchers to take a fresh look at the topic.
Recently Carton, Lund, and Dooley’s commentary piece looked at assumptions often made in climate pledges and net-zero plans. They highlighted three ways government and corporate climate plans gloss over important nuances when planning their path to decarbonization.
The hosts also discuss a recent article in which David Wallace-Wells examined the confusing and competing narratives about our climate future. This piece warns against looking for a convenient climate story as both the best- and worst-case scenarios imagined in the past now appear unlikely.
The excitement, investment, and research into carbon removal have p…
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Jun 17, 2022
CDR in New Economic Conditions
This week we recorded our business episode live in front of a Zoom audience. The audience was invited to pose questions to our hosts Radhika, Susan, and Na’im. They discussed-
-Which type of CDR will be the first to achieve 1 gigaton of removal
-The effect of global economic turbulence on CDR’s prospects
-The First Movers Coalition
-Occidental’s plan for 70 DAC plants
-& more! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
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Jun 10, 2022
Growth of CDR Policy w/ Greg Nemet
This week we talk about recent developments in local, state, federal, and international policymaking that aim to help scale up CDR.
Joining the conversation is Greg Nemet. His 2019 book “How Solar Energy Became Cheap” traced the history of PV technology and the government policies that helped it become the cheapest form of electricity in history.
At the book’s conclusion Greg examined how the lessons from solar’s rise could inform the effort to scale up DAC and other newer climate technologies. Greg was also an author of the IPCC’s AR6 mitigation report, released in April.
Radhika, Chris, and Greg discuss-
LOCAL: Last month Boulder, Colorado, and Flagstaff, Arizona, announced a partnership to pool $300,000 to purchase carbon removals to help them meet their climate commitments.
STATE: California’s Governor Newsom proposed that the state spend $100 million in this year’s budget to match funding for CDR projects that have received federal grants, specifically mentionin…
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Jun 3, 2022
Recent Science in Ocean CDR
Ocean CDR is attracting attention from many corners of the climate community. In recent episodes, we’ve covered global policy developments in Ocean CDR regulation and research with Wil Burns and the business challenges in the space with two startups working to develop commercial methods to remove CO2 from the ocean.
On this episode we complete the trilogy with a look at some recent science on the topic, focusing on the outstanding scientific questions that we’ll need to be answered before Ocean CDR can be deployed safely and effectively.
First, we look at a 2021 paper from D A Siegel et al., which assesses how long CO2 stored in seawater will remain sequestered in the ocean based on the given location and depth of the process.
Then we’ll discuss a Perspective piece from Nature: Ecology and Evolution from Boyd, Bach, and Hurd et al. Researchers suggested some possible unintended ecological consequences of proposed large-scale kelp planting, such as widespread drift of kelp into…
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May 27, 2022
1000 CDR Companies
“Inflection Point,” “New Frontier,” “Finally Getting Serious”- are some of the ways the carbon removal field has been described in headlines over the past few weeks. With Frontier Climate, Lowercarbon capital, and Climeworks all announcing big new infusions of money into the wicked problem of pulling CO2 from the air, it’s fair to say the field has entered a new stage.
At a recent panel at Columbia University, Carbon Direct Vice-Chair Nili Gilbert said that she believes there are currently over 1000 companies working on carbon removal. She also noted that of those that are vetted, only 5% will be invested in.
The online newsletter Climate Tech VC found that after the IPCC mitigation report identified a major need for carbon removal in April, over $2.2 billion has been invested into CDR.
Forty-five companies received funding, with $1,100 million flowing to climate tech, $920 million to carbon accounting and marketplaces, and $65 million to MRV (with the other $1b commit…
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May 14, 2022
4 Xprize Winning Teams
This week, we’re joined by four of the teams that won the Carbon Removal Xprize Milestone award.
On April 22nd, Xprize announced the 15 winners of the second round of their competition for carbon removal solutions. Each of these teams was been awarded $1 million to help them compete for the grand prize of $50 million, or 3 $30 million runner-up slots, which will be awarded three years from now.
The grand prize winner may not be one of the 15 Milestone awardees, but these teams are a step ahead of the competition and have already demonstrated an ability to impress the Xprize judges.
Of the 15 teams, six are building DAC solutions, three are sequestering CO2 from seawater, three are producing biochar, one is growing algae (stay tuned for more on that), one is utilizing enhanced weathering, and one encourages tree-planting.
In the first segment, we spoke with:
Steve Oldham, CEO of Captura, which is building plants that will extract co2 from ocean water and…
Hans de Neve, CEO of…
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May 6, 2022
CRN on "Reversing Climate Change"
Special behind-the-scenes episode!
This week we're rebroadcasting a show from the other Nori podcast, "Reversing Climate Change" hosted by Ross Kenyon.
From the RCC Feed- "Carbon Removal Newsroom, the sister podcast to Reversing Climate Change, was born out of a desire to explore current events in the carbon removal space from a policy perspective.
But since the show debuted in early 2019, its production team has evolved and so has our approach to discussing the latest in climate news. Radhika Moolgavkar is Head of Supply and Methodology at Nori and Host of Carbon Removal Newsroom, and Asa Kamer serves as Producer of CRN.
On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Radhika and Asa join Ross to explain how CRN evolved to focus on the business, policy, and science of carbon removal news and share their favorite episodes from the recent past.
Radhika and Asa explore how podcasting facilitates thoughtful public conversations around meaningful issues and describe h…
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Apr 29, 2022
A New Era of Carbon Removal Funding w/ Noya's Josh Santos
It’s been a big month in carbon removal funding news.
Climeworks announced $650 million in new fundraising from an extensive group of private equity and investment management firms.
Then, Stripe made public a nearly $1 billion plan to take their CDR purchasing program to a new level by partnering with Alphabet, Meta, McKinsey, Shopify, and more to pool their carbon credit dollars and buy removals from companies and facilities that don’t even exist yet. This plan was inspired by programs that have developed vaccines with Advanced Market Commitments.
Rounding out the month’s big funding news was an announcement from climate-focused VC firm Lowercarbon Capital that they’ve raised $350 million to invest in carbon removal companies.
Add that to the 15 $1 million milestone grants given in the first round of the carbon Xprize and the extensive public conversation around carbon removal that’s taken place since early April’s IPCC mitigation report. There’s…
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Apr 22, 2022
The Three Demons of CDR w/ Roger Aines
This week our guest is Roger Aines the Energy Program Chief Scientist in E Program at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Roger leads the Carbon Initiative at LLNL, which “aims to understand, develop, and implement technologies for the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.”
Several months ago, Roger wrote about the “Three Demons of Carbon Removal” in a submission to the journal Chem about “Misconceptions and Myths Surrounding Carbon Removal.”
In that piece, he said that three big issues stand between us and our goal of reaching our climate goals-
-The Timing Demon- resources are required to stop emissions today but building a carbon removal industry will take decades and needs to begin now.
-The ‘Me-Too’ Demon- will the reality of carbon removal mean that emitting industries do not pursue decarbonization aggressively?
-The Demon of Injustice- carbon removal must demonstrate it can exist to benefit, not burden, communities who have previously been burdened by…
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Apr 8, 2022
IPCC Report and Carbon Removal
Earlier this week the IPCC released its report on climate mitigation. It recommended enormous funding levels to deploy renewable energy to reduce carbon emissions from power generation while suggesting more funding still to research and invent the technologies needed to decarbonize other emitting sectors.
Under any future scenario, carbon removal is necessary to limit warming. Any pathway that leads to 1.5 degrees of warming, and nearly all that lead to 2 degrees of warming, include large-scale use of forestry, BECCS, and DAC.
The report finds that a wide range of stakeholders will need to move fast to deploy high levels of many different types of negative emissions approaches.
Joining Radhika on this episode to discuss this 3000-page report is Simon Nicholson, the Co-Director of the American University Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy.
Simon and Radhika take a look at the recommendations mean, how the report finds CDR scale-up might be achieved, and what are some of the…
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Apr 1, 2022
Ocean Visions Launchpad Teams
Back in January of 2021, Elon Musk tweeted that he'd be "donating $100 million towards a prize for best carbon capture technology." If you're following carbon removal, you probably know he has partnered with the XPrizeorganization to launch a multi-stage, multi-year prize program attracting not only attention but applications from a considerable range of serious science and business minds.
Ocean Visions is a non-profit that supports ocean CDR's research and deployment. Now, it is seeking to help some of the most promising ideas in that space get the attention and support that comes with such a visible prize.
Ocean Visions has selected six teams that will receive support to apply for the prize in the form of technical expertise and physical resources like labs and vessels to develop their technique.
On this episode Radhika and Susan are joined by a panel of representatives from the Launchpad: program manager Nikhil Neelakantan and representatives from two of the teams: Dr. Franziska…
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Mar 25, 2022
CRN Live!
In this Bonus episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom, Radhika is joined by Susan Su and Chris Barnard, plus special guest Erin Burns, Executive Director of Carbon180, for a wide-ranging discussion about carbon removal in 2022. The group touched on some of the most pressing news announced this year: Microsoft’s 2022 purchases, Oxy Petroleum’s big foray into DAC, Carbon180’s Soil Carbon Moonshot proposal, and much more in front of a live Zoom audience.
Did you miss the live recording? Catch up with the conversation here and follow us on social media for to get alerted next time we host a live show. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
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Mar 11, 2022
Ocean Carbon Removal w/ Wil Burns
In this week’s policy-focused episode of CRN, Radhika, and Chris are joined by one of the foremost authorities on the laws and policies which govern carbon removal: Wil Burns, Visiting Professor, Environmental Policy & Culture Program, Northwestern University & Emeritus Co-Executive Director of the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy at American University.
Wil joins our hosts to discuss recent developments around ocean based CDR.
In December of 2021, the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine released its _much-anticipated report_, which outlined a research agenda for ocean-based carbon removal. Ocean-based approaches have the theoretical potential to remove significant amounts of co2 from the atmosphere, and thus help fight climate change.
The authors outlined six carbon removal categories they found worthy of further research: Ocean Nutrient Fertilization, Artificial Upwelling, Seaweed Cultivation, Ecosystem Recovery, Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement, and El…
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Mar 4, 2022
Ton-year accounting w/ Carbon Direct
Do short-term carbon offsets have value? How should their value be calculated for buyers?
Last month, the research non-profit _CarbonPlan_ released an _analysis_ of ton-year accounting of carbon offsets. The report examined how ton year accounting works, its limitations, and how it might be improved.
The CarbonPlan authors also released a _critique_ of the method used by NCX, an offset seller. NCX issued a _response_ post, and the back-and-forth was a visible surfacing of some of the main issues within offset markets.
On March 2nd, NCX _announced_ a $50 million fundraising round from investors including JP Morgan and Marc Benioff, indicating that the uncertainty about offset calculations isn’t dampening the enthusiastic corporate interest in voluntary markets.
As net-zero plans have proliferated in the last year, the demand for voluntary offsets has grown, as has _predicted future demand_. However, while corporations and governments pledge to remove CO2 to fulfill their climate c…
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Feb 25, 2022
Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative invests $44 million in carbon removal
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg and Pricilla Chan _announced_ their second large set of charitable gifts into the carbon removal field in the last six months. Specifically, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative announced $44 million in grants towards CDR. Combined with the $23 million they gave in October of 2021, the couple has given $67 million to support carbon removal in the last five months.
They join other billionaires like _Jeremy Grantham_ and _Elon Musk_, whose giving has shown they also see CDR as an important part of the climate fight.
While a few foundations, such as CZI, have the resources to look deeply at supporting the carbon removal industry, many corporations rely on net-zero plans that lack full detail about carbon accounting and emissions reductions plans. A _report_ released earlier this month by the New Climate Institute and Carbon Market Watch found that the net-zero plans of 25 of the world’s most valuable companies are not specific and don’t explain how they’ll red…
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Feb 11, 2022
The Carbon Dioxide Removal Leadership Act
In January of 2022, New York Assemblymember Patricia Fahy and State Senator Michelle Hinchey introduced the _Carbon Dioxide Removal Leadership Act_. The proposed legislation aims to use public procurement of carbon removal to help meet the state’s emissions reductions goals by purchasing enough removals to cover the state’s “hard-to-abate” sector’s by 2050- 15% of the state’s 1990 emissions.
Under this law, the state will use reverse auctions to purchase measurable and verifiable removals. The legislation also mandates that community benefits and job creation factor into the auction.
CDRLA was developed by a grassroots, online, volunteer climate advocacy community called the _OpenAir_ Collective. Last year, OpenAir advocates successfully wrote and championed a bill in New York State that aims to decarbonize the concrete sector there. Members of the group are also working on other projects, such as building several open-source direct air capture prototypes.
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Feb 4, 2022
Scaling DAC with Heirloom’s Noah McQueen
In this week’s episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom, hosts Radhika Moolgavkar and Dr. Jane Zelikova are joined by Heirloom’s Head of Research and Process Engineering, Noah Mcqueen. Heirloom is a Direct Air Capture company that launched in April 2021.
Noah and our hosts discuss the science of Heirloom’s approach, the techno-economic challenges to scaling DAC, and the kind of continuous research and materials development necessary to grow the industry.
In 2021, Noah and several co-authors published a _review_ of existing DAC technologies in the journal Process in Energy. The paper provided a techno-economic assessment of the two most researched and developed DAC methods- liquid solvent and solid sorbent. The researchers used their findings to examine what will be needed to scale up these technologies quickly. They also made recommendations for how research can be directed to support the widespread deployment of DAC.
Heirloom received investment from Breakthrough Energy Ventures an…
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Jan 28, 2022
Eight DAC companies to watch in 2022
Panelists _Susan Su_ of TOBA Capital and _Na’im Merchant_, author of the _Carbon Curve_, join host Radhika Moolgavkar of Nori for this business-focused episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom.
Na’im recently published a piece titled “8 Unique Direct Air Capture Companies to Watch in 2022” where he wrote, “2030 is a critical decade for DAC in which companies, researchers, and policymakers working on DAC to figure out how to do three things— 1. improve DAC’s performance, 2. bring down costs, and 3. responsibly deploy the technology.”
Three well-known ‘incumbents’ have been working on DAC since 2009, and they all had big developments in 2021: Climeworks, Carbon Engineering, and Global Thermostat. However, the scale of the problem will require many more companies to capture billions of tons of CO2 annually, globally.
There are many new entrants into the DAC space, but there is limited public information on many of them. Most of these startups are attempting novel technolo…
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Jan 14, 2022
Climate reparations and carbon removal
Panelists Dr. Holly Jean Buck of the University at Buffalo and Chris Barnard of the American Conservation Coalition join host Radhika Moolgavkar of Nori for this policy-focused episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom.
In April of 2021, Raj Kumar Singh, an Indian energy Minister, _said_ at a UN conference that rich countries need to be net-negative and remove atmospheric co2 to account for historical emissions. While decades of climate diplomacy focused on emissions to come, Singh worked to shift the conversation towards pollution already emitted.
Later last year, journalist and author of popular climate book The Uninhabitable Earth David Wallace-Wells penned _Climate Reparations_ in New York Magazine.
The long-form piece connected the inequitable effects of climate change, more drastically and quickly hitting tropical and global south countries, with the political outcomes made possible by carbon removal technology.
He points out that half of emissions come from 10% of the world’s pop…
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Jan 7, 2022
Soil carbon and cover crops
In this week’s science-focused episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom, hosts _Radhika Moolgavkar_ of Nori and _Holly Jean Buck_ of the University at Buffalo are joined once again by co-host _Dr. Jane Zelikova_, executive director of the _Soil Carbon Solutions Center_ and joint faculty in crop and soil science at Colorado State University.
We’re looking at two recently published studies which explore the challenges and opportunities around managing croplands and rangelands to draw down and store atmospheric carbon while making agriculture more sustainable.
We start by answering the questions, what is soil organic matter? How is it related to carbon? Then we look at how the results of the first study link to the broader fields of conservation agriculture, soil health, and soil carbon sequestration.
Next we look at the second study, which examines how management of cover crops in temperate climates influences soil organic carbon stocks.
Last, we discuss the upcoming USDA policies that…
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Dec 10, 2021
2021 Carbon Removal Recap
This week on Carbon Removal Newsroom, we’re recapping a year of carbon removal— what went right, what went wrong, and what we’re expecting in 2022.
In 2021, terms like Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs) entered mainstream climate discourse, corporate plans, and government agendas.
The IPCC’s 6th Assessment _Report_ was released in August and underscored the need for carbon removal by highlighting the likelihood of global overshooting of the Paris goals. The United States supported DAC and carbon storage like never before with the Bipartisan Infrastructure _bill_ passed in November.
Climeworks launched its _Orca_ facility in Iceland, which is making rocks underground out of our atmospheric carbon pollution as we speak. Nasdaq _purchased_ a carbon removal marketplace. A growing share of the world’s economy was covered by ambitious net-zero commitments, which imply that maybe, at some point, corporations…
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Dec 3, 2021
Mapping rock weathering across the U.S.
In this week’s science-focused episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom, hosts _Radhika Moolgavkar_ of Nori and _Holly Jean Buck_ of the University at Buffalo are joined by co-host _Dr. Jane Zelikova_, executive director of the _Soil Carbon Solutions Center_ and joint faculty in crop and soil science at Colorado State University.
This week we’re discussing _new research_ which explores the relationship between geology, climate, and weathering rates across the continental United States, as well as an _opinion piece_ in the journal Global Change Biology, arguing that biological processes will also affect the carbon removal potential of enhanced weathering. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
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Nov 12, 2021
Carbon removal at COP26 & the US commits billions towards DAC
This week on Carbon Removal Newsroom, we’re bringing you the most significant Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) policy updates from COP26.
At the time of this episode’s release, COP26 is coming to a close. Many countries are pledging to bring their emissions to net-zero in the next few decades. What are the specifics of these new pledges, how does CDR fit into all of this, and what needs to happen to push the CDR industry forward in a timely manner?
Plus, last Friday night, House Democrats along with 13 Republican Representatives voted to pass the _Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal_ that their Senate colleagues had approved 87 days earlier. Included in the bill is $3.5b to build four direct air capture hubs— an amount that dwarfs all other federal support of DAC to date. The bill also provides $2.5b to build geologic storage sites for storing the gas underground and $2.1b to transport it via pipelines. Will this all be enough to create significant progress towards U.S. climate goals?…
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Nov 5, 2021
A new global offsetting scheme in the works
This science-focused episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom features hosts _Radhika Moolgavkar_ of Nori, _Holly Jean Buck_ of the University at Buffalo, and _Dr. Jane Zelikova_, executive director of the _Soil Carbon Solutions Center_ and joint faculty in crop and soil science at Colorado State University.
This week, world leaders continue climate discussions at COP26 in Glasgow, with one of the recurring conversations focusing on protecting the world’s forests. A _new forest initiative called LEAF_, or Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest Finance, was supported by the US and UK governments as well as some large multinational corporations like Amazon and Unilever. LEAF would allow developing nations to sell forest carbon offsets in the voluntary carbon markets— but should these count as carbon credits? Is additional carbon being stored?
We also look at _forest carbon over-crediting in California_, where research teams from several US Universities found that the state had over-co…
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Oct 29, 2021
Will COP26 supercharge carbon markets?
We’re back with another business-focused episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom, hosted by Radhika Moolgavkar, Nori’s Head of Supply and Methodology, along with _Holly Jean Buck_, Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo (P.S.— look out for Holly’s new book, Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net-Zero Is Not Enough, coming out on November 16th!). Plus, we’re joined by our co-host for business-focused episodes: _Susan Su_, partner focused on climate investing at _Toba Capital_ and course creator for _Climate Change for VCs_, a course and community through terra.do.
This week, we are taking a look at the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), the summit in Glasgow which begins Sunday, October 31st and lasts for two weeks. Specifically, we dive into the _UK’s announcement calling for a global net-zero commitment by 2050__,_ and what the implications of this goal might be for the carbon removal industry.
Next, we discuss some of the V…
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Oct 15, 2021
Geoengineering vs. carbon removal, and California's Cement Decarbonization legislation
This week on Carbon Removal Newsroom, we’re back with a policy-focused episode with panelists Dr. Holly Jean Buck of the University at Buffalo, Chris Barnard of the American Conservation Coalition and host Radhika Moolgavkar of Nori.
First up, we’re discussing _an essay from Harvard professor David Keith in the New York Times titled, “What’s the Least Bad Way to Cool the Planet?_” Keith compares Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and geoengineering, pointing out that the two approaches operate on different timescales— CDR will take decades to build up, and longer still to have a significant impact due to the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. Solar Radiation Management, a type of geoengineering, could be done with today's technology and theoretically has an immediate cooling effect. There is a lot we don't know but his ‘hunch’ is that geoengineering would work more quickly, be cheaper, and benefit the world’s hotter regions more immediately. He calls for governments to fund…
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Oct 8, 2021
New research checks the math of large-scale tree planting
In our first science-focused episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom, hosts _Radhika Moolgavkar_ of Nori and _Holly Jean Buck_ of the University at Buffalo are joined by our new science co-host, _Dr. Jane Zelikova_, executive director of the _Soil Carbon Solutions Center_ and joint faculty in crop and soil science at Colorado State University.
First this week, we’re looking at new research showing, “_Limited effects of tree planting on forest canopy cover and rural livelihoods in Northern India_,” and understanding why one researcher _referred to the large-scale tree planting program in Northern India as a failure_. We explain the significance of these research findings and the potential improvements necessary to ensure that tree planting achieves its stated goals of sequestering carbon dioxide, increasing biodiversity, and improving the livelihoods of local communities.
Plus, a _recent Twitter thread from German journalist Tin Fischer_ tells the story of a “Trillion Trees,” a f…
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Oct 1, 2021
September’s big carbontech funding announcements
In this business-focused episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom, we’re discussing the major carbontech funding announcements that occurred throughout September, along with the news from Norway’s $1.4 trillion sovereign wealth fund that they’ll be requiring their portfolio holdings to go net-zero.
This episode is hosted by Radhika Moolgavkar, Nori’s Head of Supply and Methodology, along with _Holly Jean Buck_, Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo. Plus, give a warm welcome to our new co-host for business-focused episodes: _Susan Su_, partner focused on climate investing at _Toba Capital_ and course creator for _Climate Change for VCs_, a course and community through terra.do.
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We start the episode by discussing the news from Norway’s sovereign fund: with _$1.4 trillion of assets_, this fund is the world’s largest single holder of stocks, and is the latest pool of investment money using its influence to decarbonize the economy.…
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Sep 24, 2021
Climate Week NYC: a market for carbon removal, as told by buyers and sellers
In this special bonus episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom, we’re bringing you a panel from this week at Climate Week NYC that covers the state of the carbon removal market, as told by today’s buyers and sellers.
The panel is hosted by CarbonCure technologies and is moderated by Peter Minor, Director of Science and Innovation at Carbon180.
Panelists include:
Robert Niven, CarbonCure Technologies Chair & CEO
Stacy Kauk, Shopify Sustainability Fund Director
Mischa Repmann, Swiss Re Senior Environmental Management Specialist
& Marcius Extavour, XPRIZE Vice President of Energy & Climate
Listen in for a comprehensive assessment of the current state of the carbon removal market, and to hear goals and predictions for the future of the industry. The panelists discuss the pace of innovation, market making, carbon removal as a de-risking mechanism, and the role that government should play in scaling up the market. Then, the panelists answer an assortment of audience questions during the…
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Sep 10, 2021
Biochar, carbon dioxide removal in the US, and geoengineering
This week on Carbon Removal Newsroom, we’re starting off with an overview of biochar and discussing the main questions and concerns around this technology, including:
How does biochar compare to other Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) methods?
There is a lot of interest in making biochar, but does the market exist to use it?
What can governments do to help scale up the use of biochar as a carbon removal technique? Are any governments taking action yet?
Next, we transition to the CDR policy agenda in the United States. We look at the California Climate Crisis Act (AB 1395), which would Codify California’s commitment to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible and no later than 2045. If passed, this bill will set California on course to design a more comprehensive policy framework for CDR than exists in any state so far. The bill language is explicit in planning for technological as well as natural CDR methods and calls for measurable, durable CO2 removal.
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Aug 27, 2021
Carbon pricing bills, forest carbon offsets, & a progressive platform for carbon removal
This week on Carbon Removal Newsroom, we’re discussing carbon’s value in various forms. We start by answering the question, ‘What is carbon pricing?’ and look at proposed bills in Congress that are attaching a price to carbon. We look at the value of forest carbon offsets in a world with unprecedented wildfires. We explore A Progressive Platform For Carbon Removal, then we close out the episode with a positive story of the week.
Panelists Dr. Holly Jean Buck of the University at Buffalo and Chris Barnard of the American Conservation Coalition join host Radhika Moolgavkar of Nori for this episode.
Resources
The energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act
America’s Clean Future Fund Act
The Climate Action Rebate Act
The Market Choice Act
A policy framework for achieving negative emissions (VoxEU)
Operationalizing The Net Negative Carbon Economy (Nature)
Wildfires are ravaging forests set aside to soak up greenhouse gases (The New York Times)
2021 North American…
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Aug 13, 2021
IPCC Report, Infrastructure Bill, and pressure for companies to reach net-zero
This week on Carbon Removal Newsroom, we’re discussing the latest IPCC Report, the $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill, and pressure for companies to reach net-zero.
Returning panelists Dr. Holly Jean Buck of the University at Buffalo and Chris Barnard of the American Conservation Coalition join host Radhika Moolgavkar of Nori for this episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
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Jul 30, 2021
Energy Sector Innovation Credit Act & Chevron's troubled carbon capture & storage scheme
Guest panelist Peter Minor, Director of Science and Innovation at Carbon180, joins us in this episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom to weigh in on the Energy Sector Innovation Credit Act (ESIC), and panelist Dr. Holly Jean Buck of the University at Buffalo returns to discuss the latest carbon removal news with host Radhika Moolgavkar of Nori. Plus, stay calm during the unexpected tornado warning on Holly’s side near the end of the episode— a coincidental and eerie emphasis of what the daily workday might look like in the era of climate change…
(Holly is safe, not to worry!)
Also covered in this episode:
CarbonCure, a company that is reducing emissions in concrete manufacturing, announced it was carbon neutral in 2020 through carbon removal purchases from Running Tide, greenSand, Charm industrials, and Husk (P.S: To learn more about CarbonCure, check out an episode of Reversing Climate Change we did with Rob Niven of CarbonCure!).
Black & Veatch, a global engineering company, w…
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Jul 16, 2021
Carbon removal hype, ‘Fit for 55’ climate proposals, and environmental voters
This week, we’re discussing whether or not carbon removal hype distracts from the need to reduce emissions and looking at the EU’s ‘Fit for 55’ climate proposals. Panelist Chris Barnard describes the conservative climate rally put on by the American Conservation Coalition, and panelist Dr. Holly Jean Buck explains that our media ecology often rewards climate fear and doom over climate optimism. Our panelists discuss a recent article by Matthew Yglesias, 'What is the climate left doing?' and Holly Buck explains how her sociological research leads her to agree with Yglesias’s perspective in the article.
Other carbon removal news discussed in this episode: Carbon transformation startup Twelve (formerly Opus 12) raised $57 million in Series A funding. Twelve is pioneering a new market category called carbon transformation with its proprietary catalyst technology that transforms CO2 into critical chemicals, materials and fuels that are conventionally made from fossil fuels.
Carb…
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Jul 2, 2021
Growing Climate Solutions Act, soil carbon sequestration, & carbon taxes
The U.S. Senate passed the Growing Climate Solutions Act with a strong bipartisan vote. But what does the bill aim to do? And why were more Democrats against this climate bill than Republicans? Plus, a look at soil carbon sequestration’s potential and other carbon removal technologies. Finally, carbon tax proposals are moving forward in Europe— what does this mean for the U.S. and the rest of the world?
This episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom is hosted by Nori's Head of Supply and Methodology, Radhika Moolgavkar, and features panelists Dr. Holly Jean Buck of the University at Buffalo and Chris Barnard of the American Conservation Coalition. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
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Jun 25, 2021
The new Conservative Climate Caucus, a Nature Climate Change article, & 'ecocide'
House Republicans launched the Conservative Climate Caucus on Wednesday and it’s already the third-largest caucus in the House with around 60 members. Maine becomes the first state to order public fossil fuel divestment. A new paper in Nature Climate Change looks at the difference between avoidances and removals of CO2 (a more accessible summary of the paper was written for Carbon Brief). There is a proposal at the International Criminal Court to define a new global crime called 'ecocide.' All of this and more, discussed in this week’s episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom.
Host Radhika Moolgavkar of Nori is joined by panelists Dr. Holly Jean Buck of the University at Buffalo and Chris Barnard of the American Conservation Coalition for this episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
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Jun 18, 2021
G7 Summit & the US Federal Budget, w/ Holly Buck & Chris Barnard
Dr. Holly Jean Buck of the University at Buffalo and Chris Barnard of the American Conservation Coalition are back with host Radhika Moolgavkar of Nori for another episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom!
This week, our panelists examine the federal budget’s climate change and carbon removal proposals and connect the dots between the budget and the infrastructure bill. We also address the G7 Summit, discussing concerns around whether G7 leaders are doing enough, and pondering why there is no end date for coal. Our panelists look at clean energy standards and President Biden’s suspension of new oil and gas drilling leases on federal lands, then discuss the early heatwave and strained grid in Texas. As always, we conclude the episode with an uplifting environmental win— restored protections to the Tongass National Park in Alaska. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/…
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Jun 11, 2021
Nuclear power benefits and risks; and drought season
In this episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom, our panelists look at the benefits and risks of nuclear power, attempting to find where the balance should lie between necessary safety precautions and overburdensome regulations. We address the grim accomplishment of the highest recorded levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere— 419 parts per million— and the real-world impacts of changes in the climate. With much of the west in drought, farmers and fish are competing for limited resources, and water rights along the Colorado River are under debate. We discuss the emergence of rare climate bipartisanship on carbon storage bills, and round out the episode with a positive story of the week.
Panelists Dr. Holly Jean Buck of the University at Buffalo and Chris Barnard of the American Conservation Coalition join host Radhika Moolgavkar of Nori for this episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: http…
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Jun 4, 2021
Day of reckoning for big oil & gas; and nature-based solutions
This episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom addresses the recent news in oil and gas including a court order for Royal Dutch Shell to sharply cut greenhouse gas emissions from all of its global operations, and a vote from Chevron’s shareholders telling the company to reduce its own emissions and the emissions produced by customers who burn its oil and gasoline. Our panelists also discuss how nature-based solutions can help bridge the gap between political parties, and reflect on the film Kiss the Ground while looking at how soil can heal the earth and mend political divisions.
We are joined by special guest panelist Quill Robinson, Vice President of Government Affairs at the American Conservation Coalition, alongside returning panelist Holly Jean Buck of the University at Buffalo and host Radhika Moolgavkar, Nori’s Head of Supply and Methodology.
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May 28, 2021
Carbon180's new report: "Zero, Then Negative: The Congressional Blueprint for Scaling Carbon Removal"
Carbon180 released a new report, "Zero, Then Negative: The Congressional Blueprint for Scaling Carbon Removal," and this week on Carbon Removal Newsroom, our panelists dive into some of the report's details! Nori's Head of Methodology, Radhika Moolgavkar, hosts guest panelists Ugbaad Kosar, Deputy Director of Policy at Carbon180, and Lucia Simonelli, Senior Policy Fellow specializing in Direct Air Capture at Carbon 180. Returning panelists Dr. Holly Jean Buck of the University at Buffalo and Chris Barnard of the American Conservation Coalition also join in with questions and thoughts on the report.
The discussion covers how direct air capture facilities might scale up, how a federal land link program could solve succession problems in farming, the role that prizes have played in human history and how they can be advantageous in the climate space, and why not every climate solution is appropriate in every place. Our guest panelists also describe their ideal three-course meal of carb…
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May 21, 2021
The Colonial Pipeline hack and fossil fuel dependency
This week on the Carbon Removal Newsroom podcast, Nori's Head of Methodology Radhika Moolgavkar hosts Dr. Holly Jean Buck of the University of Buffalo, and the Director of Sustainability at Bushel, Allison Nepveux. They discuss the Colonial Pipeline hack, how we can extract ourselves from our fossil fuel dependency, the impact of agricultural financing and crop insurance, and we hear some pushback on the Growing Climate Solutions Act. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
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May 17, 2021
Washington state's new cap and trade bill and other environmental policy
Today's bonus episode of the Carbon Removal Newsroom podcast has host and Nori's head of supply and methodology, Radhika Moolgavkar, chat with her old friend and sustainability advocate, Shasta Smith, about climate and environmental policy in Washington state. They discuss the new cap and trade bill that recently passed and former state climate and carbon bills, and some of the general ideas and concerns that relate to this legislation.
Some of the bills mentioned:
* Affordable housing bill - HB 1220
* GMA that did not pass - HB 1099
* Cap and Trade - SB 5126
* Carbon Tax - SB 5372 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
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May 14, 2021
A government carbon removal market & the Growing Climate Solutions Act
This week, Dr. Holly Jean Buck of the University of Buffalo, Chris Barnard of the American Conservation Coalition, and Radhika Moolgavkar of Nori discuss in detail the Growing Climate Solutions Act, the relationship of unions to the The American Jobs Act, how a government-run carbon removal marketplace might work at least for agriculture, and Chris shares some optimistic musings to close us out. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
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May 7, 2021
Trouble with some Californian forestry offsets, and reflections on the Texas electrical grid
There was a lot to watch in the offset world this week! CarbonPlan, ProPublica, The Guardian and others reported on major issues with some California forestry credits allegedly being overestimated by a substantial amount. This episode also shares some reflections on the Texas electrical grid, and some hopeful thoughts on new national parks buoy us up!
Carbon Removal Newsroom is hosted by Nori's Supply and Methodology Program Manager, Radhika Moolgavkar. This week's panelists are Dr. Holly Jean Buck, Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Buffalo; and Christopher Barnard, Policy Director of the American Conservation Coalition.
Articles referenced:
"Systematic over-crediting of forest offsets" in CarbonPlan
"The Climate Solution Actually Adding Millions of Tons of CO2 Into the Atmosphere" by Lisa Song of ProPublica & James Temple of MIT Technology Review
"Carbon offsets used by major airlines based on flawed system, warn experts" by Patrick Gree…
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May 6, 2021
A recap of AirMiners 2021: Carbon Removal Taking Flight!
To kick off our season three premiere(!), yesterday was the big AirMiners conference, which the host platform shows 637 people attended! To discuss their takeaways from the event's diverse discussions are panelists: Dr. Holly Jean Buck, Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Buffalo; Christopher Barnard, Policy Director of the American Conservation Coalition; Ross Kenyon, Creative Editor at Nori; and the show's new anchor and Nori's Supply and Methodology Program Manager, Radhika Moolgavkar. We discuss the buckshot vs. silver bullet paradigms within carbon removal, the latest takes on policy and environmental justice, and why we need carbon removal memes and await the arrival of a coming carbon removal TikTok superstar. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
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Jan 27, 2021
Elon Musk's $100M prize for "best carbon capture technology"
Carbon removal is in the news as Elon Musk has teased a one-hundred million dollar prize for the best carbon capture technology. What does it mean for the sector, and what is likely to happen next? Tito Jankowski of AirMiners is on the show to discuss. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
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Oct 16, 2020
What's happening in the UK? An update from Patricia Silva of the Carbon Removal Centre
A lot has been happening in the United Kingdom with regard to carbon removal. Patricia Silva, Co-founder and Non-Executive Director of the Carbon Removal Centre, comes on the show to explain The Oxford Offsetting Principles, the UK's general climate policies and Boris Johnson's recent statements on the matter, a collaboration between Carbon Engineering and Pale Blue Dot Energy, and some news about BrewDog.
Here is the piece Patricia mentions writing for CRC. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
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Oct 2, 2020
Carbon removal's biggest bill to date? The Clean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act passes the House
The Clean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act involves billions of dollars being allocated across the carbon removal ecosystem. It just passed the US House of Representatives, and President Trump has stated his intent to veto it if it reaches his desk, but right now the focus is on its way through the Senate. Our panelist this week is Dr. Shuchi Talati, senior policy advisor at Carbon180. You can also read her recap of the bill here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
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Sep 18, 2020
Shopify's Sustainability Fund is supporting carbon removal companies
Nori's Director of Corporate Development Alexsandra Guerra, and AirMiners and Negative's Tito Jankowski, join the show to talk about Shopify's big announcement of the companies included in their new Sustainability Fund. It features two separate portfolios: Frontier & Evergreen, with the former focusing more on industrial tech, and the latter on biological/ecological sequestration. We dig into nuance around the permanence discussion, a succession theory for carbon removal, and celebrate so many cool companies trying to scale carbon removal. Congrats to all of them, and to Shopify!
Shopify's announcement: "Fighting for the Future: Shopify Invests $5M in Breakthrough Sustainability Technologies"
Fast Company article about Running Tide
Amazon Climate Pledge's first companies announced
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Sep 11, 2020
DoE's Office of Fossil Energy funding many carbon removal projects
In March, the Department of Energy (DoE) announced they were going to putting $22M into research for capturing carbon dioxide from the air. They just announced the fundees! Join panelist Tito Jankowski of AirMiners and Negative and follow along on this page with us as he walks us through the groups and some of the science behind these processes. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
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Aug 28, 2020
Bridging the physical and social sciences gap in carbon removal
This episode features Dr. Jane Zelikova, Chief Scientist at Carbon180, and Dr. Trisha Shrum, behavorial and environmental economist at the University of Vermont.
Jane organized The Royal Society's new Interface Focus issue on carbon dioxide removal called, "Going negative: An interdisciplinary, holistic approach to carbon dioxide removal". She additionally wrote an article in it, "The future of carbon dioxide removal must be transdisciplinary". Trisha also wrote an article in this issue, "Behavioural frameworks to understand public perceptions of and risk response to carbon dioxide removal". We walk through what this issue covers and then discuss in greater detail Trisha's research and the basics of behavioral economics & science and what that has to say about carbon removal. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
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Jul 31, 2020
Microsoft's carbon removal RFP, Apple's carbon neutrality, DAC hearing in Congress, the CREATE Act, REPLANT Act, & FARM Act
This week's guests are Nori's Director of Corporate Development, Alexsandra Guerra; and Carbon180's Senior Policy Advisor Ugbaad Kosar, and Policy Advisor Vanessa Suarez.
Here are the topics and articles we discussed:
* Microsoft's RFP for their carbon negativity commitments, and Apple's carbon neutrality commitment.
* Full Committee Hearing to Examine Development and Deployment of Large-Scale Carbon Dioxide Management Technologies
* CREATE Act
* REPLANT Act
* FARM Act (& its biochar provisions)
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Jul 17, 2020
Appropriations & carbon removal, the Biden-Sanders climate plan, & enhanced rock weathering in croplands
This week's panelists are Dr. Jane Zelikova, Chief Scientist at Carbon180; Vanessa Suarez, Policy Advisor at Carbon180; and Aldyen Donnelly, Director of Carbon Economics at Nori.
Here are the articles we discussed this week:
* Carbon removal represented in the Appropriations process in both Energy & Water and Agriculture.
* The Biden-Sanders climate plan: "Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force Recommendations: Combating the Climate Crisis and Pursuing Environmental Justice" [PDF].
* "Potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands" in Nature. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
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Jul 3, 2020
Rhodium Group's report on direct air capture & jobs, Growing Climate Solutions Act updates, & the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis report
This week's panelists are Ugbaad Kosar, Senior Policy Advisor at Carbon180; Tito Jankowski, cofounder of Negative, a startup making jewelry from captured carbon dioxide, and host of the AirMiners community; and Aldyen Donnelly, Director of Carbon Economics at the Nori carbon removal marketplace.
This week's stories are:
* Rhodium Group's new report: "Capturing New Jobs and New Business: Growth Opportunities from Direct Air Capture Scale-Up" details how direct air capture might create jobs, be supported by policy, etc. Ugbaad wrote up a short summary of it here.
* The Growing Climate Solutions Act had a full committee hearing, and we learn more about what happens moving forward.
* The House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis released a new report, "Solving the Climate Crisis: The Congressional Action Plan for a Clean Energy Economy and a Healthy, Just, and Resilient America" that has implications for carbon removal. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.…
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Jun 26, 2020
Unilever putting carbon labels on products, plant-based protein + regenerative ag, & WRI's soil carbon webinar
This week's panelists are Aldyen Donnelly, Nori's Director of Carbon Economics, and Tito Jankowksi, cofounder of Negative (a startup making products out of captured atmospheric carbon dioxide) and host of the AirMiners community.
Here are the articles discussed:
* "Unilever’s New Climate Plan Puts Carbon Labels on 70,000 Products" by Akshat Rathi in Bloomberg Green.
* "Impossible Foods CEO says the meat industry will be obsolete in 15 years — ‘That’s our mission’" by Tyler Clifford on CNBC.
* WRI's webinar on soil carbon: "Why Regenerative Agriculture Is Good for Soil Health, but Has Limited Potential to Mitigate Climate Change".
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Jun 12, 2020
The survival of mangroves, the Growing Climate Solutions Act, Swiss Re eyes carbon capture, & a Microsoft update
This week's panelists are Nori's Director of Corporate Development Alexsandra Guerra, Director of Carbon Economics Aldyen Donnelly, and Carbon180's Chief Scientist Dr. Jane Zelikova.
Here are the articles we discussed:
* "Rising sea levels could wipe out mangroves by 2050" by Justine Calma in The Verge
* "The Energy 202: Two GOP senators join with Democrats to back bill to help cut emissions from farms" by Dino Grandoni in The Washington Post
* "Inside Microsoft's Mission to Go Carbon Negative" by Dina Bass in Bloomberg Green
* "Swiss Re Sees Opportunities for Insurers in Carbon-Capture Push" by Alastair Marsh & Marion Halftermeyer in Bloomberg Green --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
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Jun 5, 2020
BLM, Climeworks fundraising, Savory Institute & Timberland's regenerative leather, & 45Q updates
This week's panelists are all Norinauts! We had on Nori's Director of Corporate Development Alexsandra Guerra, Director of Carbon Economics Aldyen Donnelly, and "moonlighting marketer" Mellina White.
We discussed four topics:
* Climate justice: Mellina and Ross recorded a bonus episode of Reversing Climate Change earlier this week as a brief introduction to Black Lives Matter, climate justice, and carbon removal. Mellina is back to follow up and also share about the reform efforts of Campaign Zero.
* Climeworks closed a 73M CHF financing round.
* Savory Institute and Timberland have a new partnership around regenerative leather for a new line of boots.
* New rules for the 45Q tax credit.
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May 29, 2020
Stripe’s first negative emissions purchases and what it means for carbon removal
An entirely new format! Carbon Removal Newsroom is now a panel show. We are finding our cadence now, and new episodes should come out weekly, biweekly, monthly—we will see—with panelists from the world of carbon removal to give listeners the latest in carbon removal news.
This week's news: Stripe has announced its first negative emissions purchases! Climeworks, Project Vesta, CarbonCure, and Charm Industrial were selected after a rather interesting and open-source vetting process. The panelists discuss issues of permanence, the tradeoffs between various industrial, ecological, and hybrid approaches to carbon removal, and what this means for the sector as a whole.
This week's panelists:
* Noah Deich, Founder and Executive Director of Carbon180
* Tito Jankowski, Cofounder of Negative and the AirMiners virtual community
* Aldyen Donnelly, Cofounder and Director of Carbon Economics at Nori
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May 28, 2020
Which policy levers does one need to pull for carbon farming?
Dr. Jane Zelikova is Carbon180's Chief Scientist, and she is one of the contributors of their latest report, "Leading with Soil: Scaling Soil Carbon Storage in Agriculture". Which sorts of policy changes may be necessary to make carbon farming the dominant paradigm of agriculture? Jane shares her expertise on the topic.
"Leading with Soil: Scaling Soil Carbon Storage in Agriculture", a report by Cabron180
"Why is soil carbon measurement so tricky?—w/ Dr. Jane Zelikova of Carbon180", Jane's appearance on Reversing Climate Change
Jane's Twitter
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Apr 13, 2020
The latest on managed mine tailings & enhanced weathering—w/ Dr. Greg Dipple of UBC
Dr. Greg Dipple is a Professor of Geology in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of British Columbia—Vancouver,and a Nori podcast alumnus! On this bonus episode of Reversing Climate Change, Greg joins Ross to give us an update on his research around carbon mineralization in mine tailings, reminding us how the process works and explaining why it’s not already common practice.
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Apr 3, 2020
Can mangrove conservation pay for itself in flood protection?
Dr. Michael W. Beck, professor at the University of California Santa Cruz, coauthored a new paper in Scientific Reports entitled, "The Global Flood Protection Benefits of Mangroves". Today we dig into how mangroves work against flooding, their carbon sequestration potential, how to quantify their financial benefit, and how that helps make them legible to financial systems.
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Mar 9, 2020
California's Getting to Neutral report from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
The State of California has set a goal of becoming net-zero by 2045. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's researchers have produced a report called Getting to Neutral: Options for Negative Carbon Emissions in California, detailing the various pathways available to California using actually-existing carbon removal technologies needed to do so. Carbon180's Managing Director, Giana Amador, is on the show to explain how this process works, the report's contents, and what happens now.
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Mar 4, 2020
The boom in carbon removal legislation and funding
Erin Burns is the Director of Policy and Ugbaad Kosar is the Senior Policy Advisor at Carbon180, a climate-focused NGO that partners with policymakers, scientists and businesses to advance solutions that transform carbon from a liability to an asset. On this episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom, Erin and Ugbaad join Ross to discuss the policy proposals involving carbon removal currently making their way through Congress.
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Jan 27, 2020
Microsoft commits to being carbon negative by 2030
Microsoft has joined the ranks of prominent tech companies pledging to remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than they emit. Elizabeth Willmott, Microsoft's Carbon Program Manager, comes on the show to tell us more.
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Dec 20, 2019
Boulder, Colorado is striving for carbon removal leadership
Boulder, Colorado is making moves to support carbon removal as a city. Brett KenCairn, the City of Boulder's senior policy advisor for climate & resilience, and director of the Urban Drawdown Initiative, comes on the show to explain what is happening on the front range.
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Nov 20, 2019
The state of blue carbon: are whales carbon-negative?
Steven Lutz from GRID-Arendal comes on the show to discuss whether whales are or can be carbon-negative, and if and how this could be monetized in carbon markets.
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Nov 8, 2019
American Farmland Trust's primary focus now on climate change and agriculture
American Farmland Trust is treating climate change as their "primary thrust" in their advocacy work. This is a major commitment by AFT to make strides in agricultural work to reverse climate change.
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Oct 28, 2019
Intuit to remove fifty times its emissions by 2030
Intuit has partnered with Project Drawdown to negate fifty times its emissions through carbon removal by 2030. Project Drawdown's Executive Director, Dr. Jonathan Foley, is on the show to explain Intuit's commitment, their collaboration, and whether this is the beginning of the tech industry's surge into carbon removal.
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Oct 9, 2019
Vote Climate U.S. PAC's 2020 voter's guide includes carbon removal
Vote Climate U.S. PAC published a voter's guide for 2020 presidential candidates which includes a section for ranking candidates on carbon dioxide removal. Today, the founder and president of the organization, Karyn Strickler, joins the show to tell us more. We've never seen this as a criterion for evaluating politicians and is probably a reflection of carbon removal's growing prominence.
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Oct 7, 2019
A Kickstarter Called Negative: carbon-negative bracelets are now for sale
Tito Jankowski and his team at AirMiners and beyond have created a carbon-negative bracelet called Negative with direct air captured CO2 from ClimeWorks and Carbon Upcycling Technologies. It's being funded and is for sale through Kickstarter.
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Oct 4, 2019
At the United Nations, the first annual Global Climate Restoration Forum is held
The Foundation for Climate Restoration (F4CR)'s CEO Rick Parnell joins us from the United Nations to tell us about their First Annual Global Climate Restoration Forum, and the creation of their Global Coalition for Climate Restoration. They're raising the profile of carbon removal and trying to foster scalable climate solutions with decisionmakers.
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Oct 2, 2019
The Nori Lightning Sale is now live
People can now buy Carbon Removal Certificates from the Nori marketplace. This is the first time this has happened and is the first step in Nori launching its full platform. Nori CEO Paul Gambill is on the show to share the news. This episode is posted on Reversing Climate Change and Carbon Removal Newsroom.
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Sep 30, 2019
The Green Amendment Movement, carbon removal, and Andrew Yang
The Green Amendment Movement is an effort to constitutionally protect the environment, and Maya van Rossum has been leading this charge. Two states have them, most do not, and others are working on it. Andrew Yang recently announced his support for such an amendment at the federal level, which had us wondering: if governments are constitutionally required to provide a clean environment and stable climate, does that obligate their support for carbon removal?
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Sep 18, 2019
Stripe & Shopify announce major support for carbon removal
Last month Stripe announced a major initiative to support carbon removal. Last week Shopify followed suit. What is going on in tech that is helping carbon removal get so much traction? Nori CEO Paul Gambill joins the show to help explain.
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Sep 13, 2019
A Case for Separate Targets for Emissions Reduction and Negative Emissions
Duncan McLaren, Professor in Practice and Research Fellow at Lancaster University, comes on the show to talk about a paper he cowrote called "Beyond “Net-Zero”: A Case for Separate Targets for Emissions Reduction and Negative Emissions". Alexsandra Guerra hosts and digs into if and how emissions reductions and carbon removals should be treated as distinct activities.
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Sep 6, 2019
Democratic Primary raising the profile of carbon removal
Giana Amador, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Carbon180, joins the show to discuss the growing profile of carbon removal within and through the Democratic Party's 2020 Presidential Primary.
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Sep 4, 2019
OpTIS, a new data-driven agtech tool, is now freely available
Pipa Elias, Director of Agriculture, North America at The Nature Conservancy, comes on the show to tell us about the progress with OpTIS, The Operational Tillage Information System, and how this intersection of data science and agtech could affect agriculture and food systems in the United States.
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Aug 26, 2019
Anthony Myint wins the Basque Culinary World Prize
Anthony Myint has been one of the leading restauranteurs using regenerative agricultural products in their food. He recently won the Basque Culinary World Prize for his efforts, and his activism—now more on the policy front—hasn't slowed down.
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Aug 21, 2019
VERGE 19 announces the Carbon Removal Startup Showcase
GreenBiz is hosting VERGE 19 from October 22nd-24th in Oakland, California. They have a special Carbon track of the conference, featuring quite a lot on carbon removal. There is a special exhibition that entrepreneurs can apply for called the Carbon Removal Startup Showcase. The deadline is August 30th, 2019.
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Aug 19, 2019
OpenTEAM launches its open-source tech ecosystem for farm data
Dr. Dorn Cox comes on the show to tell us about the work of OpenTEAM (Open Technology Ecosystem for Agricultural Management), and their efforts to foster the interoperability of farm data platforms by using an open-source ethos and scaling by collaboration.
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Jul 5, 2019
Reintroducing the Fossil Energy Research and Development Act
Erin Burns, Director of Policy at Carbon180, testified in front of the House Science Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy regarding the Fossil Energy Research and Development Act. Erin explains what it is and how it might play out. We also get a brief update on the USE IT Act, which Erin told us about last time she was on Carbon Removal Newsroom.
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Jun 27, 2019
Indigo Ag announces The Terraton Initiative for soil carbon sequestration
Ed Smith, VP of Indigo Ag and head of Indigo Carbon, joins the show to talk about The Terraton Initiative: Indigo Ag's new effort to sequester one trillion tons of carbon dioxide through regenerative agriculture.
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Jun 12, 2019
Future Coalition holds 100+ press conferences for Juliana v. United States
On June 1st, 2019, the Future Coalition held over one hundred press conferences around the country to raise awareness of the potential landmark case, Juliana v. United States, in which Our Children's Trust is suing the United States federal government on constitutional grounds to provide a stable climate on behalf of youth plaintiffs. Katie Eder, the Executive Director of Future Coalition, joins the show to weigh in on the youth movement, Future Coalition, and gives us the latest on the case.
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Jun 7, 2019
Will direct air capture be centralized or distributed?
Wired's article "What if Air Conditioners Could Help Save the Planet Instead of Destroying It?" piqued Nori's interest. Prof. Roland Dittmeyer, whose work is cited in the article, comes on the show to discuss the possibility of a distributed direct air capture future via air conditioning units and "crowd oil", and how that may play out against a more centralized economy-of-scale refinery-style DAC approach.
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Jun 5, 2019
VERGE Carbon gearing up for major carbon removal conference
VERGE Carbon conference chair Jim Giles joins the show to tell us all about the event, October 22nd-24th in Oakland, California. Alexsandra Guerra will be speaking, and a fair number of Norinauts will probably be there too.
You can register with our 10% discount code V19NORI here: https://www.greenbiz.com/events/verge-conference/oakland/2019/verge-carbon.
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Jun 3, 2019
Puro's carbon removal marketplace holds its first auction
Puro's carbon removal marketplace in Finland has launched with its first auctions taking place. Antti Vihavainen, Business Development at Puro, comes on the show to discuss their progress, how biochar and the other methodologies within their marketplace work, and what they're looking to do moving forward.
https://puro.earth
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May 13, 2019
Keeling Curve Prize announces 2019 finalists
The Keeling Curve Prize just announced its twenty finalists across five categories for its second year run. Jacquelyn Francis, Director of the Board of the Keeling Curve Prize, joins the show to discuss the prize and the 2019 finalists in the Carbon Capture & Utilization category.
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May 6, 2019
Andrew Yang talks carbon removal and geoengineering
2020 Democratic presidential primary contender Andrew Yang discusses his plans for carbon removal and geoengineering if elected United States president.
https://www.yang2020.com/policies/climate-change/
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May 1, 2019
Project Vesta for olivine drawdown leaves stealth mode
Olivine is a mineral that can sequester carbon dioxide through weathering. It's also one of the most common minerals in the Earth's upper mantle. A lot of it is just sitting around as waste rock from other mining operations. Project Vesta is working to turn olivine from waste into value, reverse climate change, and deacidify the world's oceans. Project Vesta cofounder Eric Matzner comes on the show to tell us how that works and what they're up to.
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Apr 26, 2019
Canada's carbon tax analysis and carbon removal
Nori's Director of Carbon Economics Aldyen Donnelly shares her thoughts on what's happening with Canada's carbon tax and federal backstop.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6517432688209727488
https://nori.com/podcasts/reversing-climate-change/31-aldyen-donnelly-on-why-carbon-pricing-hasnt-worked-so-far
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Apr 24, 2019
Ramez Naam on "The Third Phase of Clean Energy Will Be the Most Disruptive Yet"
Ramez Naam discusses his recent article "The Third Phase of Clean Energy Will Be the Most Disruptive Yet" with guest host, Nori Head of Product, Michael Leggett. We dig into the economics of clean energy, and how that could be a boon to carbon removal.
http://rameznaam.com/2019/04/02/the-third-phase-of-clean-energy-will-be-the-most-disruptive-yet/
https://twitter.com/ramez
https://www.carbontracker.org
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Apr 22, 2019
Ramez Naam on the Green New Deal and carbon removal
Nori advisor and cleantech evangelist Ramez Naam came by the office to fill us in on his great analysis of how the Green New Deal could be successful, and the role of carbon removal within such a plan.
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Apr 19, 2019
School Strike for Climate and murmurs of ecological carbon removal
Dr. Heather Price of North Seattle College stops by the office to share her and her family's experience of School Strike for Climate (#fridaysforfuture) at Seattle's City Hall and beyond, and to what degree she's heard talk of carbon removal in these circles.
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Apr 17, 2019
General Mills issues grant for regenerative agriculture training
General Mills recently issued a $650k grant to Kiss the Ground and Soil Health Academy to train farmers in regenerative agricultural practices.
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Apr 12, 2019
Disagreement about how to govern geoengineering at the UN
Last month, the UN Environment Assembly failed to come to an agreement about governing geoeningeering. But this is a topic that will be brought up more and more as climate change continues.
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Apr 8, 2019
Carbontech Labs announces $10M public-private partnership
Carbon180 just launched the first and only startup accelerator for carbontech, hoping to link entrepreneurs to the resources they need, derisk early-stage technologies, and transition them towards their first double-bottom-line investment.
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Mar 29, 2019
Carbon Engineering is commercializing direct air capture technology with a new investment round
Direct air capture company Carbon Engineering recently closed an investment round having raised $68 million, including investments from the oil and gas industry.
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Mar 15, 2019
The market says climate change is happening
Weather futures contracts show that traders are already building expectations of climate change into the way they invest their money.
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Mar 4, 2019
Congress considers the carbon removal USE IT Act
Erin Burns of Carbon180 discusses the USE IT Act which has been introduced in both houses of Congress with bipartisan sponsorship. The bill would provide resources for growing carbon removal now, and pave the way for future infrastructure that captures and uses carbon dioxide.
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Mar 1, 2019
Y Combinator is looking for carbon removal startups
Y Combinator is a renowned startup accelerator in Silicon Valley whose alumni include Airbnb, Dropbox, and Coinbase. They recently put out a call for startups focused exclusively on carbon removal.
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Feb 22, 2019
Amazon sets goal of net zero carbon for 50% of shipments by 2030
Paul stopped by CRN today to talk about Amazon's new goal of getting to net zero carbon on 50% of their shipments by 2030.
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Feb 20, 2019
The role of carbon removal in a Green New Deal
Noah Deich of Carbon180 stopped by to talk about his perspective on the Green New Deal outline.
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Feb 19, 2019
Major food producers want to store carbon in soil
Alexsandra is on to talk about the 2019 State of Green Business Report from GreenBiz. She talks about sustainability efforts undertaken by companies with food in their supply chains like General Mills, Land O'Lakes, Walmart, Monsanto (Bayer), Danone, and more to get more carbon dioxide removed and sequestered in soils.
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Feb 14, 2019
Climeworks is building direct air capture machines
Christophe was at the launch for Climeworks's facility in Switzerland in 2017. Now there's a new article in the New York Times about how Climeworks can help push the direct air capture industry forward.
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Feb 12, 2019
Oil and gas investments in direct air capture
Aldyen and Paul are back in episode 3 to discuss the moves large oil and gas companies are making when it comes to investing in the future of direct air capture technology.
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Feb 12, 2019
The Green New Deal outline
Paul and Aldyen discuss the outline for the Green New Deal released by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on February 7th, 2019. They talk about the small references made to carbon removal, and share their opinions on whether this is a good plan for the future of carbon removal.
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Feb 12, 2019
COP24 and carbon removal
In this first episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom, Alexsandra and Aldyen discuss what happened at the United Nations COP24 in Katowice, Poland in December 2018, and what it means for market-based mechanisms for trading carbon dioxide certificates.
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