CDR Policy Scoop

📈 CBAM: The Carbon Removal Catalyst? ❓How can the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism #CBAM help scale #CarbonRemoval?  🤔 Designed to put a price on imported carbon and prevent leakage, but could it also act as a catalyst for scaling #CDR? ✨ The upcoming #CDRscoop cuts through the noise to explore this critical link. We're digging deep to uncover the potential synergies and challenges. 🎓 To ensure we cover all angles, we're thrilled to welcome leading CBAM expert Dan Maleski from Redshaw Advisors. Get ready for unparalleled insights from someone truly in the know! 💡 Join co-hosts Sebastian Manhart and Eve Tamme for another insightful and punchy 30-minute session. Let's unpack this complex topic together. 🗓️ Monday, 14 April 🕔 6 PM CEST 👉 Leave your pointers and questions in the comments, we are keen to hear from you.

𝗕𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗦 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 🎧✨ If you are like me, you struggle to keep up on all the news in climate policy, carbon markets, #Article6 and CORSIA. If you are like me – you are a proper climate nerd and want to take every opportunity, on the plane, in the car, on the tube – to learn from the best about how we can transform our societies for a better future. If you are like me, you may enjoy my curated favorite list of carbon podcasts in 2025! 1. SmarterMarkets™ – bite-sized conversations with key market experts in the intersection of carbon, energy and technology by @Abaxx. Check out episodes with Belinda Ellington, Peter Zaman, Alasdair Were, Renat Heuberger and many more. 2. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 – the “go-to” for longer deep-dives in #carbonmarkets with Rene Velasquez and great guests. Most recently a splendid episode with Alvin Lim, CFA, CMT about making carbon projects bankable – highly recommend it! 3. 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘁 by Steve Zwick - mainly focused on the role of restoring nature #NbS in reversing climate change. Is a great podcast to address critical system issues, such as the “Limits to Growth”, the Untold Story of the #VCM with Mark Kenber and false dichotomy between reductions vs removals with Eli Mitchell-Larson. 4. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗗𝗥 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗽 – by Eve Tamme and Sebastian Manhart. Weekly, punchy, unfiltered discussions on all hot developments regarding carbon markets and removals, such as #SBTi, #CORSIA and #Article6! 5. This Week In Carbon (TWIC) – quick and light updates with excellent guests hosted by Edward Smith and Réne. Can highly recommend recent episode with Rich Gilmore and Chris Halliwell! Whilst these are all great, sometimes it’s useful to get out of the carbon bubble and listen to broader discussions around climate, politics and systems transformation. My key recommendations: ➡️ Outrage and Optimism by fmr UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres and friends. Can especially recommend recent episode with Al Gore about US climate situation, Trump & tariffs. ➡️ Inevitable – by @Cody Simmons – previously known as “My Climate Journey” is a great podcast for those of us interested in new technologies and more niche innovations such as fusion, AI and energy storage to help address the #climatecrisis. ➡️Bloomberg’s “Zero: The Climate Race” with Akshat Rathi – weekly episodes on wider #climate policy developments, economics and current trends. Following all these is a full-time job in itself..! But I am always delighted to get new recommendations and insights. Which ones am I missing? 🤔 Drop a comment below! 🌎

🥊 CDR Policy Scoop is proud to present this special edition SHOWDOWN: Biochar vs Direct Air Capture 🥊 💚 While we all know that we need all CDR methods to reach gigaton scale and fight climate change, we all have our favorites. So be sure to join for a fun, interactive, first of a kind debate. 🌟 And we picked two real heavyweights: DAC, the poster-child of CDR, with over 200 DAC companies founded to date. On the other hand, biochar, responsible for a whopping 84% of all durable CDR deliveries to date. 🌬️ In the DAC corner: Martin Freimüller is the Co-Founder and CEO of Octavia Carbon – the first DAC company in the Global South and fifth largest in the world. He moved his life to Kenya in 2021 on realising it's the world's best place for DAC. 🪨 In the Biochar corner: Sebastian Manhart is Senior Policy Advisor at Carbonfuture and a Board Member of the International Biochar Initiative. Few post as much about biochar as Sebastian.  ⚖️ The wonderful and impartial Eve Tamme will moderate to make sure we keep it punchy (not literally), informative, and entertaining. 🫵 WE NEED YOU. Join us, ask questions, and importantly VOTE on the livestream as we declare the WINNER. ❗Disclaimer: Sebastian loves DAC, and Martin loves Biochar. Yes, they each have strong conviction behind their respective pathways, and think that more funding, demand & attention should go towards it, and they will be arguing hard for this. However, the primary objective of this debate is to inform & entertain, not to create division. They are both convinced that it takes ALL CDR methods to reach gigaton scale.

🔴 UPDATE: unfortunately, LinkedIn let us down and we could not make the Live work today. The podcast will be available tomorrow morning CEST. Sorry folks. 🔴 🎯 Rethinking Net-Zero: Do International Credits Help or Harm? 🇪🇺 Yesterday, 31st of March, EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra floated various ideas for how Europe’s expected 90% emission reduction target for 2040 could be achieved. 🌍 One of them: letting EU countries purchase United Nations Article 6 credits to meet EU's 2040 climate target. Similar suggestions are currently being proposed by the upcoming German government. 📜 This would require undoing a core principle of Europe’s Climate Law: only European reductions and removals shall count towards climate neutrality. 🤬 The backlash has been significant, especially in civil society and environmental groups. 🤔 But could this - with some modifications, actually provide a smart path for Europe? 📅 Tune in this Thursday 3rd of April at 6pm CET to hear Eve Tamme and Sebastian Manhart discuss this hot topic on the latest CDR Policy Scoop. ⁉️ What is your take? Share you perspectives and questions with us upfront. #CDRscoop

Let's make sure to add a fourth option for CDR when responding to the SBTi consultation. The core part of setting the interim CDR target is really easy. Estimate your total need of CDR at net zero, and start to scale up towards it. Since your net zero target includes all scopes, your CDR needs does too. See a snappy 30-second snippet from the CDR Policy Scoop discussion on that last week with Eve Tamme and Sebastian Manhart.

🎯 SBTi: Step Forward or Missed Opportunity for CDR? 🏢 8,000 companies have emission reduction targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative. Only around 50 of them have so far purchased durable carbon removal. 🤯 Imagine if all of them purchased CDR? The impact could be >50Mt of demand. Per year. Starting from 2030. Today's release of SBTi's draft net-zero standard 2.0 marks a potential inflection point. Will it: •⁠ ⁠Drive companies to begin CDR purchases immediately? •⁠ ⁠Keep CDR voluntary until the 2040s? •⁠ ⁠Inadvertently push companies away from SBTi due to concerns about mandatory CDR costs? 🔎 To make sense of this wide spectrum of possibilities, the CDR Policy Scoop is delighted to have Robert Höglund back on the show. He has been a member of the external SBTi Technical Advisory Group and understands the process and its implications on CDR like no other. 🗓️ Make sure to attend our special session on SBTi Thursday, March 20th at 8.30am EST / 11.30am CET here on LinkedIn Live. 👇 Let us know what questions you have on the latest draft and what you would like us to discuss. #CDRscoop

🎯 SBTi: Step Forward or Missed Opportunity for CDR? 🏢 8,000 companies have emission reduction targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative. Only around 50 of them have so far purchased durable carbon removal. 🤯 Imagine if all of them purchased CDR? The impact could be >50Mt of demand. Per year. Starting from 2030. Today's release of SBTi's draft net-zero standard 2.0 marks a potential inflection point. Will it: •⁠ ⁠Drive companies to begin CDR purchases immediately? •⁠ ⁠Keep CDR voluntary until the 2040s? •⁠ ⁠Inadvertently push companies away from SBTi due to concerns about mandatory CDR costs? 🔎 To make sense of this wide spectrum of possibilities, the CDR Policy Scoop is delighted to have Robert Höglund back on the show. He has been a member of the external SBTi Technical Advisory Group and understands the process and its implications on CDR like no other. 🗓️ Make sure to attend our special session on SBTi Thursday, March 20th at 8.30am EST / 11.30am CET here on LinkedIn Live. 👇 Let us know what questions you have on the latest draft and what you would like us to discuss. #CDRscoop

🛩️ CORSIA vs ETS - what will actually clean up aviation? 🛩️ 🌫️ Aviation is responsible for almost 1Gt of CO2 emissions, or 2.5% of global emissions. Up to 4% when accounting for non-CO2 climate warming effects. And demand is only going up: 3-4% year on year. 💚 Aviation is also notoriously hard to decarbonise: most hope is placed into sustainable aviation fuels (SAF). Given there will always be considerable residual emissions (ICAO: 200Mt-950Mt in 2050), carbon removal is central to aviation’s net-zero aspiration for 2050. 🤯 From a policy perspective, it is incredibly challenging to regulate, as 61% of aviation emissions are emitted on international flights and only 39% within a single country’s boundaries. 🌍 A promising solution is emission trading systems for domestic/regional emissions (think EU ETS) and CORSIA for international emissions. 🔎 Sounds easy? The reality is incredibly complex, messy, and potentially worrying. 📆 Join us for this CDR Policy Scoop on Thursday 13th of March at 6pm CET to hear Eve Tamme and Sebastian Manhart unpack this thorny issue - as always, in 30 minutes or less. ⁉️ What would you like to learn in this session? And, if you have unique insights, feel free to share them in the comments too to help us prepare for the session. #CDRscoop

🇺🇸 What is happening to DAC Hubs in the United States? 🇺🇸 💡 Here is what Noah Deich believes, who is one of the key brains behind DAC Hubs and formerly drove CDR in the U.S. Department of Energy. 💚 And he had a lot more to say. Make sure to check out the full CDR Policy Scoop podcast Eve Tamme and I did with Noah - it’s pure gold: 🎙️ Spotify: https://lnkd.in/dzwgz_4B 🎙️Apple: https://lnkd.in/dV2Cpv7G ⁉️ What do you think? Will we see the funding for DAC Hubs unfrozen soon as a result of bottom up pressure as Noah envisions? 🤣 Also, do you not love the incidental matching outfits of us three?

🌍 Does the EU need 2x as much CDR? 🌍 😍 The highly anticipated 333-page milestone report on #CarbonRemoval by Europe's Scientific Advisory Board (ESABCC) has landed, promising to be the most comprehensive analysis of #CDR to date. 🎯 With the EU's pivotal 2040 climate target legislation on the horizon, we're at a crossroads that will define the future of carbon removal in Europe. 🤓 But does this heavyweight report deliver the strategic guidance needed to shape effective EU #CDR policy? For one, it suggests DOUBLE the amount of durable CDR needed for the EU to hit its net-zero target in 2050. What other  crucial insights does it offer – and more importantly, what might it have missed? 🗣️ Join us for an candid discussion with leading experts Eve Tamme and Sebastian Manhart as they dissect this game-changing report. 📅 Tuesday, March 4th at 6 PM CET 🎧 As always, you can catch up with previous episodes on the CDR Policy Scoop podcast – available in your favourite Podcast app: https://lnkd.in/dsXv4kxa #CDRscoop