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Carbon Removal Newsroom Nori
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A panel show by Nori where guests discuss current events from the world of carbon removal. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
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The Carbon Dioxide Removal Gap
Lots of news in carbon removal this past week! Frontier made their largest-ever purchase of $58 million from relatively new BiCRS company Vaulted Deep, Climeworks unveiled their Mammoth facility in Iceland, and Microsoft purchased 3.3 million tons of CO2 from BECCs in Sweden.
These deals represent significant private market volume in CDR. But a new report in Nature called The carbon dioxide removal gap” highlights some of the policy needs that remain to get carbon removal where it should be to keep us on track for our climate goals.
Listen in today to learn about VCM and policy updates from the world of carbon removal, and understand some of the biggest deals this space has yet seen.
On This Episode
Wil Burns
Holly Jean Buck
Radhika Moolgavkar
Resources
Nature report, "The carbon dioxide removal gap”
Connect with Nori
Nori
Nori’s X account
Nori’s other podcast Reversing Climate Change
Nori’s CDR meme X account
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Carboneers: Biochar in India and Ghana
Biochar is an increasingly global carbon removal pathway. What does it look like to do business in Ghana and India? What does it mean for biochar to be decentralized?
Mart de Bruijn is the Co-Founder and Director of Carboneers, a Dutch biochar company working to implement carbon removal solutions in India and Ghana.
The conversation covers the challenges of securing enthusiastic participation from local farmers, navigating cultural and regulatory landscapes, and the technical aspects of biochar production. Additionally, the episode sheds light on the crucial role of monitoring, reporting, and verification in ensuring the efficacy of carbon credits, alongside the future expansion plans and potential bottlenecks faced by distributed/decentralized carbon removal systems.
This episode is hosted by Radhika Moolgavkar, Nori's VP of Supply and Methodology.
On This Episode
Radhika Moolgavkar
Mart de Bruijn
Resources
Carboneers
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Carbon Gap and CDR Policy in Europe
Europe has a lot happening for carbon removal, and on several different levels. What is the state of CDR policy and industry?
Today's episode has Nori's VP of Supply and Methodology, Radhika Moolgavkar, on hosting duties, and Sylvain Delerce, the Associate Research Direct of Carbon Gap, joining the show to catch listeners up on Carbon Gap and the latest on European carbon removal news.
Sylvain highlights the European Union's efforts to structure and fund the industry amidst broader regulatory efforts, and how Carbon Gap fits into the ecosystem.
The conversation also covers the importance of distinguishing carbon removal from carbon capture and storage (CCS) in policy texts, the need for a clear EU vision on CDR, and the potential impact of the Net-Zero Industry Act and the Carbon Removal Certification Framework on the industry. Sylvain also discusses the role of individual European countries in advancing CDR and the potential for France to deploy significant carbon removal solutions by 2050.
On This Episode
Radhika Moolgavkar
Resources
"Decoding the Net-Zero Industry Act – Implications for carbon removal" by Carbon Gap
"Envisioning a carbon removal strategy for Europe" by Carbon Gap
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SBTi, Scope 3, and Carbon Removal
The Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) recently came out and announced they would be issuing guidance for how some carbon offsets may be used to address Scope 3 emissions (activities beyond direct business operations and energy). This set off a firestorm of protest within and outside of SBTi, as well as some calls of support.
It was essentially a tabula rasa one could project one's carbon hopes and fears onto: would this lead to increased financing of sustainability efforts, or result in a race to the bottom of low-quality credits finding a new market? Something in-between, or just too early to tell?
In today's episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom, host Radhika Moolgavkar, Nori's VP of Supply and Methodology, is joined by her business panelists Susan Su, a venture capitalist at Toba Capital, and Na'im Merchant, the Co-founder and Executive Director of Carbon Removal Canada, to make sense of this news.
They also cover other CDR industry headlines from April, including sustainable aviation fuel, biochar in the global south, and significant subsidy announcements from Denmark and Canada for carbon removal projects.
On This Episode
Radhika Moolgavkar
Susan Su
Na'im Merchant
Resources
"Inside the Controversy That's Divided the Carbon Offsets Market" at Bloomberg
"SBTi is committed to robust governance and will not shy away from debate" by Luiz Amaral, CEO, Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)
"Carbon Offset Market Faces Chaos as African Mega-Project Collapses" at Bloomberg
"Removals are better than some reductions - The case of electrofuels for aviation" by Robert Höglund
2023 Global Biochar Market Report
Captura's fundraising news
Mission Zero's fundraising news
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How Far Behind Is the World on CDR Policy?
Carbon removal is sometimes thought to be enjoying policy tailwinds. But is it anywhere close to what we need to avoid the worst of climate change?
A new report from the Rhodium Group suggests the CDR industry is receiving about 1% of what it would need to reach a one CO2 gigatonne/year capacity! Our regular panelists, Drs. Holly Jean Buck & Wil Burns discuss the challenges of government budgeting, politics, eminent domain, profit-sharing Community Benefits Agreements, and so much else as this industry tries to scale.
On This Episode
Wil Burns
Holly Jean Buck
Asa Kamer
Resources
Rhodium Group's "The Landscape of Carbon Dioxide Removal and US Policies to Scale Solutions" report
Connect with Nori
Nori
Nori’s X account
Nori’s other podcast Reversing Climate Change
Nori’s CDR meme X account
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How InPlanet is Growing ERW
InPlanet is an enhanced weathering company spreading rock dust on agricultural fields to draw down CO2. In November, it announced a new investment of $4.6 million from a group of investors. Based in Germany, InPlanet collaborates with farmers in Brazil, aiming to remove 1 million tons of CO2 by 2026.
As they work to scale their operations, they face a similar challenge all ERW operations are dealing with right now. While the basic science of rock weathering is well understood, accurately measuring CO2 removal in real-world conditions remains a significant hurdle.
Ensuring trust in the process will require improved measurement and verification from what exists today- a problem InPlanet is working to solve.
On this episode we’re joined by InPlanet’s Head of Carbon Matthew Clarkson who recently released pre-print research evaluating the different methods of measuring CO2 removal from rock weathering and made recommendations for areas of improvement.
ERW is technologically ready, has co-benefits, and has already attracted significant investment. It is ready to grow to climate relevant scale- but only if it can be properly measured.
On this episode we’ll talk with Matthew about his MRV research, working on the ground with Brazilian farmers, and what hurdles he sees to InPlanet’s goal of megaton removal in the next three years.
On This Episode
Radhika Moolgavkar
Mathew Clarkson
Resources
InPlanet
Fundraising News
Matthew’s Pre-print paper
Enhanced Weathering Alliance
Bloomberg article on ERW funding
Connect with Nori
Nori
Nori’s Twitter
Nori’s other podcast Reversing Climate Change
Nori’s CDR meme twitter account
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Customer Reviews
Liking the new format
I’m a regular listener to the podcast and also to Reversing Climate Change. I’m finding the larger number of topics surveyed in the News room podcast to be more efficient as a radar of what’s happening and covering breadth of topics. I like the new format with themes as it lets me quickly survey the science topics separately from the policy ones. Keep up the good work!
Turf the Chris guy
These are really important discussions and are listened to by subject matter experts in carbon removal. What distracts from this discussion is Chris Bernard, who is compelled to throw in conservative talking points. Of course conservatives are going to defend corporate interests and carbon reparations bare down on those interests. This useless false balance (need to feel “both sides” need to be represented) hurts the podcast.
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This podcast deals with the news more directly and gets into the issues more deeply than the infrequent reports in more “mainstream media”.