by Mark Peplow on News Feature, Nature 603, 780-783 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00807-y
„Companies are scrambling to turn the greenhouse gas into useful products — but will that slow climate change?“ A brief review of CDR technologies.
Wed, April 6, 2022; 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM CEST
The ecosystem meeting will present a snapshot of the current situation in long-term offtake agreements for carbon capture project adoption, the positive signs, the financing challenges, and Puro.earth’s offerings that will help to address them. The program will feature speakers from Zurich Insurance Group, Carbon Direct, Invert and Valence Solutions.
XPRIZE and Carbon180 are seeking to hire a writer and researcher to lead the analysis and writing of a qualitative study of environmental justice considerations among a community of early stage carbon removal solution developers. This is a contract position with a duration of 4 to 6 months. Location: Remote (XPRIZE is based in Los Angeles; Carbon180 is based in Washington, DC).
Noya is a company with a team of engineers and scientists (San Fransisco, CA) working on reversing climate change by removing CO2 from the atmosphere. They’ve developed a new process that will use existing industrial equipment to pull CO2 out of air, „with lower capital and operating expenses than other carbon capture approaches.“
In the context of two new large-scale collaborative European Research projects on coastal nature-based solutions (REST-COAST) and the economics of climate change and biodiversity (DECIPHER), ASL is seeking a PhD student to work on a global economic assessment of coastal nature-based solutions (NBS) such as maintaining and restoring coastal wetlands (e.g., salt marshes and mangrove forest). The PhD would be obtained from the Division of Resource Economics at the Thaer Institute of Humboldt University in Berlin.
by Sascha Nick and Philippe Thalmann (Enterprise for Society Center)
The authors propose setting up a fund to finance the removal of all Swiss territorial GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions from 2030. The fund will accelerate decarbonization and help reach annual net zero emissions around 2040, and then progressively remove all past emissions emitted from 2030. The fund will be entirely funded by emitters, based on the “polluter pays” principle, with no taxpayer money involved.
by Climeworks on Youtube
Climeworks‘ head of climate policy Christoph Beuttler and Carbon180’s executive director Erin Burns discuss the latest carbon dioxide removal policy develpoments in the US and Europe. In the second part, Bergur Sigfússon from Carbfix and Alma Stefánsdóttir from the Icelandic Youth Environmentalist Association join the policy experts to talk about the social dimension of building direct air capture facilities through stakeholder engagement.
by Ocean Visions on Youtube
The Economist Briefings Editor Oliver Morton interviews Ocean Visions Executive Director Brad Ack for The Economist’s 9th Annual World Ocean Summit.
Hong, Wan Yun IN: Carbon Capture Science & Technology, 2022, 100044, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccst.2022.100044
This article aims to provide a general techno-economic review of CCUS systems. The technology readiness, technical performance, energy requirement and cost associated with CO2 capture, separation, transport, utilisation and storage technologies were discussed and compared.
Solid Carbon is an project to permanently and safely sequester carbon dioxide (CO2) as rock. The vision is to extract CO2 directly from the air or ocean. Then, using deep ocean technology powered by ocean-based wind and solar energy, inject the CO2 into the subseafloor basalt, where it mineralizes into solid carbonate rock. A PICS (Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions) Theme Partnership – Project; began October 1, 2019 with project Duration of four years. Lead PI: Dr. David S. Goldberg; a new explainer video is relased.
