on frontierclimate.com, Dec 15
„In its largest round to date, Frontier has facilitated $11M of carbon removal purchases—from Arbor, Captura, Carbin Minerals, Carbon To Stone, Cella, CREW and Inplanet—on behalf of Stripe and Shopify. In addition, Stripe has provided $500K in R&D grants to Kodama Systems and Nitricity.“
Tuesday, December 20th, 2022; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
This webinar will bring together several members of NOAA’s (U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Carbon Dioxide Removal Task Team to summarize the agency’s new white paper on carbon dioxide removal, which outlines the federal government’s motivation for CDR work; NOAA’s related mandates; and NOAA’s key assets for supporting CDR research in multiple sectors. The panelists will also discuss NOAA strategies to ensure that notions of equity and justice are incorporated into all of its programs in this context.
by Susanna Twidale on reuters.com, Dec 15
„Online payments firm Stripe and e-commerce group Shopify have committed to spend $11 million supporting projects to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and oceans in the latest round of the Frontier fund set up to develop the technology.“
Dec 13, on energy.gov
„The Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), announced the launch of four programs that will help build a commercially viable, just, and responsible carbon dioxide removal industry in the United States. The programs, funded with $3.7 billion from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will help accelerate private-sector investment, spur advancements in monitoring and reporting practices for carbon management technologies, and provide grants to state and local governments to procure and use products developed from captured carbon emissions.“
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) celebrated its second annual Carbon Management Day on December 1. If you couldn’t attend the webinar and want a quick recap of what they covered, read the recap blog.
Pathfinders Call 2 (Winter 2023) – open: CO2RE is now inviting applications for new funding to research ocean or methane Greenhouse Gas Removal. Projects which strategically address part of a removal method (such as capture, purification, or novel approaches to storage or conversion) will be considered, as well as full-chain methods.
The demonstrator projects are investigating:
This Pathfinders invitation for applications is an open call seeking to fund UK projects of up to one-year’s duration at a cost of up to £50,000 each.
on carbon-drawdown.de/blog
„The Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) pilot project with 1217 tons of basalt demonstrates the full value chain for ERW at € 230 per ton of CO₂ (with € 100-150 in sight). In Part 1 of this blog post series Carbon Drawdown Initiative describe the concepts, in-field work and financials all the way until the certification. Part 2, coming soon, will be about the sale process for the certificates that they have created.“
Hongyan Nan, Ondřej Mašek, Fan Yang, Xiaoyun Xu, Hao Qiu, Xinde Cao, Ling Zhao IN: Earth-Science Reviews 234, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104215.
This review focuses on roles of minerals in regulating carbon retention and stability, taking both processes of biochar formation and soil carbon sink into consideration. Carbon retention in biochar can be dramatically increased by adding exogenous minerals prior to pyrolysis, especially P, Si, Ca, Mg, and K containing materials, due to the chemical bonding (P-O-C, C-P, C-Si-C, etc.), the physical encapsulation, and the absorption of CO2 and CH4 by CaO or MgO.
Feedback period: 01 December 2022 – 07 February 2023
The EU commission initiative will propose EU rules on certifying carbon removals. It will develop the necessary rules to monitor, report and verify the authenticity of these removals. The aim is to expand sustainable carbon removals and encourage the use of innovative solutions to capture, recycle and store CO2 by farmers, foresters and industries. This represents a necessary and significant step towards integrating carbon removals into EU climate policies.
This adopted act is open for feedback for a minimum period of 8 weeks. All feedback received will be summarised by the European Commission and presented to the European Parliament and Council with the aim of feeding into the legislative debate.
von Axel Ockenfels, background.tagesspiegel.de, 13.12.2022
„Kaum noch Vertrauen in die Weltklima-Konferenzen und das Abkommen von Paris: Axel Ockenfels von der Uni Köln und Guntram Wolff von der DGAP schlagen ihrem Standpunkt eine neue globale Klimaschutz-Strategie vor. Wechselseitige Verpflichtungen, zum Beispiel im Rahmen eines Klimaclubs, sollten in den Vordergrund treten, ebenso wie Investitionen und Innovationen.[…]Selbst Forschung an Technologien, die im Geoengineering genutzt würden und die in fast allen Klimaszenarien eine Rolle spielen, sind unterfinanziert.“
