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What is the role of philanthropy in carbon removal in Europe
Philanthropic funds have history catalysing ambitious climate policies and advancing vital new technologies. The same needs to be the case for carbon…
Jun 17, 2021
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What is the role of philanthropy in carbon removal in Europe
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May 2021
Part 4: Resource efficiency aligned policy (REAP) rewards to developing a foundation to facilitate the production of millions of modular…
Creating a brand new industry is inherently difficult. We need to instill a supply-side infrastructure to make this task as easy as possible in order to…
May 10, 2021
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Part 4: Resource efficiency aligned policy (REAP) rewards to developing a foundation to facilitate the production of millions of modular direct air capture units by mid-century
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Part 3: 🐣+🥚...⁉️ (The chicken and egg conundrum). In absence of demand for modular direct air capture at current costs, how does it become…
Demand-side certainty with carbon purchase agreements, alongside the power of early customers, will serve as gateways for modular DAC to open up the…
May 3, 2021
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Part 3: 🐣+🥚...⁉️ (The chicken and egg conundrum). In absence of demand for modular direct air capture at current costs, how does it become a viable carbon removal solution?
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April 2021
Part 2: Lessons from the laws. What learning we can apply to the development of modular direct air capture from recent history of energy…
Modular direct air capture shares some potentially important characteristics with the likes of solar PV and lithium-ion batteries and we could well see…
Apr 26, 2021
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Part 2: Lessons from the laws. What learning we can apply to the development of modular direct air capture from recent history of energy technology innovation
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Part 1: Tackling the trillion tonnes. Deep dive on 'what will it take to scale-up modular direct air capture technology to a gigatonne…
Carbon purchase agreements, dactories, and supply-chain innovation. Direct air capture has a long way to go but the path to scale has been partially…
Apr 19, 2021
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Part 1: Tackling the trillion tonnes. Deep dive on 'what will it take to scale-up modular direct air capture technology to a gigatonne scale' research article
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Dear sustainability officers: without considering the permanence of carbon removal, the 'net' in your headline net zero goal is probably not…
Considerations around permanence of carbon removal to offset emissions should be front and centre if 'net zero' claims are to be scientifically credible…
Apr 12, 2021
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Dear sustainability officers: without considering the permanence of carbon removal, the 'net' in your headline net zero goal is probably not net zero
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The takeover of carbon markets by Wall Street is dangerous for the planet
Maximising the scale of the carbon market to balance emissions with questionable carbon credits risks doing more harm than good and eventual climate…
Apr 5, 2021
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The takeover of carbon markets by Wall Street is dangerous for the planet
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March 2021
We need to become comfortable making uncomfortable decisions if we don't want to rely on carbon removal to prevent climate catastrophe
We've grown accustomed to limitless consumption but will likely need to rekindle some wartime spirit of personal and national sacrifice to get a handle…
Mar 29, 2021
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We need to become comfortable making uncomfortable decisions if we don't want to rely on carbon removal to prevent climate catastrophe
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We need to find better ways to communicate the necessity of carbon removal
What air pollution, garbage and climate disasters teach us about how people respond to things they can tangibly see affecting them. Not so much the case…
Mar 23, 2021
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We need to find better ways to communicate the necessity of carbon removal
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Why when it comes to carbon removal, trees just aren't enough: it's all in the carbon cycle
We need to start framing discussions of carbon removal around putting the CO2 back where it came from i.e. deep underground
Mar 15, 2021
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Why when it comes to carbon removal, trees just aren't enough: it's all in the carbon cycle
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What really matters is not when we get to 'net-zero', but the path we take to get there
1.5°C: science says no. The amount of emissions from now until 'net-zero' will determine exactly how f*cked we are and the magnitude of the mess we need…
Mar 8, 2021
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What really matters is not when we get to 'net-zero', but the path we take to get there
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February 2021
Start with why: My direct air capture origin story
The convergence of political reality, scientific necessity and the ticking time-bomb that is atmospheric cancer (aka climate change)
Feb 28, 2021
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Start with why: My direct air capture origin story
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