by Nori – Carbon Removal Newsroom on spotify (1 h 33 min)
This week in the series, four of the teams were introduced 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.
by Energy Policy Now on spotify (40 min)
Shuchi Talati, former chief of staff of the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy & Carbon Management, discusses the need for strong governance to balance the potential benefits of carbon dioxide removal technologies with environmental and social risks.
by Climate Crisis Adivsory on spotify (1h 15 min)
Ade Adepitan hosts the CCAG panel with former BBC science editor David Shukman, New Scientist journalist and podcast host Rowan Hooper, the Brazilian climate journalist Meghie Rodrigues and Jon Burke, UK decarbonisation expert. There are also contributions from Daffa Praditya, activist from Fridays for Future and postdoctoral research associate Jooeun Yoon.
28 June 2022, Bergen, Norway
The Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) organises a workshop on Carbon Dioxide Removal, organised by the CSLF, IEAGHG, and CEM CCUS. The workshop will be held on June 28th , 2022, in Bergen, Norway, and will coincide with the next CSLF Technical Group meeting being held the day before. It is an in-person meeting with remote access as well.
Wed, June 8, 2022; 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
Meet the Carbon to Value Initiative’s second cohort of carbontech startups: The Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative is a multi-year collaboration between The Urban Future Lab (UFL), Greentown Labs, and the Fraunhofer USA TechBridge Program. This partnership is driving the creation of a thriving innovation ecosystem for the commercialization of carbontech — technologies that capture, convert and store carbon dioxide (CO₂) into valuable end products or services.
Bloomberg opinion editorial
„In a field long plagued by hype and high costs, new startups are showing real promise. The question is whether they can scale up in time. […] Philanthropists and government agencies have long offered prizes for various carbon-removal benchmarks. And inchoate efforts are underway to turn stored carbon dioxide into something economically useful. Yet none of these efforts amounts to a sustainable business. […] In time, companies may devise cleverer ways to commercialize removed carbon, rendering advance commitments moot. Perhaps the $12 billion Congress pledged to the technology in last year’s infrastructure bill will lead to a breakthrough. Maybe green-energy investment will yield much faster emissions reductions than expected. But for now, an all-of-the-above approach makes sense — and harnessing the magic of competition can only help.“
by Celina Scott-Buechler and Toby Bryce on dataforprogress.org
„The New York Carbon Dioxide Removal Leadership Act (CDRLA) marks the first of its kind: a state-level bill aimed at advancing CDR deployment in the immediate term to ensure it’s ready to be scaled up when we most need it and done so in a sustainable and progressive way. The act authorizes the creation of a state-run advance market commitment for durable carbon removal, starting with a very small amount (10,000 tons in 2024) that doubles each year through 2029.[…] And the New York CDRLA is popular: recent Data for Progress polling in New York state finds that 72 percent of voters approve of the state legislature passing a bill to accelerate the development of carbon removal approaches and technologies. This includes 85 percent of Democrats, 66 percent of Independents, and 57 percent of Republicans.“
by Ella Nilsen, CNN May 19, 2022
The US Department of Energy is announcing a massive investment in direct air carbon removal projects, in hopes of kickstarting an industry. On Thursday the DOE relesead a notice of intent for developers for four direct air capture hubs – each capable of removing over a million tons of CO2 per year — using $3.5 billion from the bipartisan infrastructure law.
Sean Low, Chad M. Baum, Benjamin K. Sovacool IN: Global Environmental Change 75, 102530, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102530
The authors build on Amory Lovins’ “hard” and “soft” alternatives for energy pathways to illuminate how foundational experts, technologists, and policy entrepreneurs think about different modes of resource inputs, infrastructure and livelihoods, and decision-making, regarding ten nature-based and engineered carbon removal approaches.
on carbonbrief.org
A mix of scientists, economists and government advisers met in London last week to discuss how removing greenhouse gases from air could help the UK hit net-zero emissions by 2050. Over two days, researchers and policy experts debated the scalability of CDR techniques, as well as the potential benefits and drawbacks for UK communities and the country’s ailing wildlife. Carbon Brief was there to take in the scientific presentations, panel discussions and lunchtime chatter and has produced an in-depth summary of the event.
