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🔥 Podcast alert: Carbonfuture’s Sebastian Manhart joins Stefanie Hauer on the Planetary Business podcast to explore carbon dioxide removal (#CDR) and the innovative technologies helping us reach #netzero. 🎙️ In this episode, Sebastian breaks down various carbon removal approaches, from direct air capture to enhanced weathering, biochar carbon removal, and more. Tune in to hear about Germany's potential as a leader in this emerging industry and the groundbreaking policies shaping the future of carbon removal. The episode is in German, but it’s a must-listen for anyone interested in climate solutions!   🎧 Listen now and learn more: https://lnkd.in/dGucRKEu   #CarbonRemoval #ClimateAction #Sustainability #Decarbonization

Ready for Climate Week NYC? So are we! 🌍 Next month, the Carbonfuture team is heading to Climate Week NYC! Leila  and Dominic will be joining our U.S. team members Craig, Brian, and Michael in NYC. This isn’t just any event—it’s the largest annual climate gathering of its kind, with over 600 events across the city. It’s THE place to be if you’re working in #climate. Here are just some of the events where you can find us: 🟢 CDR Community Happy Hour 🟢 Puro.earth NYC Climate Week CDR Summit 🟢 Nasdaq’s Annual New York Climate Week Conference Will you be at Climate Week NYC, too? Let’s meet! Head over to our website to schedule a time to connect with our team: https://lnkd.in/g64xq4Bc See you in New York! #NYCW #NYCW2024 #carbonremoval #CDR #climateaction #sustainability #climateweek #netzero

Join Carbonfuture's upcoming webinar to explore the critical role of independent, digital MRV (dMRV) in the carbon removal market. #dMRV is essential for ensuring the integrity of carbon removal credits, protecting the reputations of CDR buyers, minimizing financial risks, and ensuring that their investments lead to the intended environmental benefits and contribute to their net-zero goals. This webinar will cover how dMRV impacts CDR buyer decisions, improves market access for CDR suppliers, and streamlines credit issuance. Don’t miss insights from industry experts: 🎙️Mischa Repmann (Swiss Re) 🎙️Benno Fuchs (Puro.earth) 🎙️Diego Justiniano (Exomad Green) 🎙️Duncan Kariuki (Octavia Carbon) Hosted by Leila Toplic 🔗 Register now to secure your spot: https://lnkd.in/dgBSzdTK #carbonremoval #CDR #sustainability #MRV #climateaction #netzero

💥 We’re excited to partner with Carbon Removal Partners for a must-attend event in the Nordics: CDR Copenhagen! 💥 📆 Only two weeks until Carbonfuture’s Leila Toplic and Dominic Lüdin will take the stage to share their expertise on incorporating durable carbon removal into corporate sustainability strategies. They'll dive into how a portfolio approach helps manage long-term risks in CDR purchasing and discuss the critical role of digital MRV in building confidence in CDR. Find the complete event agenda here ➡️https://lu.ma/38ckone5 🌍 About the event:  CDR Copenhagen on September 4th is a testament to the power of collaboration and the importance of making CDR a collective effort.   Set in a country leading the charge with groundbreaking carbon removal purchases and policies, the event brings together leading CDR innovators, policymakers, investors, and market-makers in the Nordics for an exclusive gathering.   Why attend: 🔎 Learn about Denmark’s journey to becoming a global leader in CDR. 💬 Engage with experts and expand your network.   Register your interest today to secure your spot and join Leila, Dominic, and Robin in Copenhagen ➡️https://lu.ma/38ckone5 The event is hosted by Carbon Removal Partners in collaboration with CEEZER, MASH Makes, Innovation Centre Denmark, Dansk Erhverv, IDA, and Carbonfuture. #CDR #sustainability #climateaction #netzero #carbonremoval

The construction industry is responsible for a staggering 37% of global CO₂ emissions, making it one of the largest contributors to climate change. But what if we could flip the script? What if the materials we use in construction could absorb more carbon than they emit — transforming buildings from carbon sources into carbon sinks? 🏗️ Carbonation in building materials – an innovative approach to carbon dioxide removal (#CDR) – utilizes carbonation reactions to incorporate CO₂ directly into durable construction materials, such as cement and concrete. Let’s dive into the details: 1️⃣ The process starts with sourcing two key components: Alkaline materials build the base for the carbonation process, just like in the enhanced weathering process. Among others, materials such as silicate mine residues, lime, alkaline solutions, or industrial by- and waste products such as demolished concrete or steel slag can be used. The second input material is CO₂, sourced from biogenic origins or direct air capture facilities to ensure the process remains carbon-negative (unlike when the CO₂ is derived from fossil fuels). 2️⃣ Through industrial processes, the CO₂ is mixed with the alkaline materials. The carbonation process then leverages the natural chemical reactivity of alkaline materials with CO₂: Carbonates are formed that chemically bind carbon in their structure and hold on to it long-term. 3️⃣ Once the carbonation process is complete, the CO₂ is permanently stored within the building material in a stable, solid state, preventing its release back into the atmosphere and establishing a permanent carbon sink. With over 30 billion tonnes of concrete produced each year, utilizing CO₂ in construction materials is recognized as one of the most promising pathways for carbon sequestration. According to the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, this is offering a $400 billion market opportunity and the potential to reduce the carbon footprint of concrete by up to 1.4 gigatonnes of CO₂. ⏭️ What’s next for scaling up carbonated building materials? Although the technology has been widely tested, the commercial utilization of CO₂ in construction materials is still in the early scale-up phase. To enable large-scale adoption, sector-wide material norms and regulations will need to adapt to accommodate these new materials. Want to learn more about durable carbon removal? Visit our website for an overview of the most relevant technologies  ➡️https://lnkd.in/eAxG_mQA Is your company working on carbonated building materials? Reach out to us today at ➡️https://lnkd.in/e-EnVPe2 To get the latest CDR market insights and news, sign up for our newsletter  ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eTcNed7F   #carbonremoval #carbonation #netzero #sustainability #climateaction #buildingmaterials #buildingsector #CDR

💥 Supplier Spotlight: Biochar Life – Empowering smallholder farmers in the Global South 💥 It’s our pleasure to introduce our supply partner Biochar Life, a Public Benefit Corporation with the mission to ensure environmental sustainability and community empowerment, providing both ecological and socio-economic benefits. Active across Kenya, Malawi, Thailand, and Indonesia, Biochar Life empowers smallholder farmers to convert their crop waste — typically burned and a major source of greenhouse gases and cause of respiratory diseases — into biochar. This approach addresses climate challenges and fosters resilient and thriving farming communities. 💰 Economic Empowerment: Biochar Life’s initiatives create local employment, foster economic growth, and ensure social inclusion. 🌱 Circularity & Soil Improvement: The production and usage of biochar from crop waste promote circular and sustainable farming practices. 🌏 Air Quality Improvement: By replacing the burning of crop waste with biochar production, air pollution from open-field burning is reduced, improving respiratory health in local communities. Since 2022, the financing through offtake agreements from Carbonfuture and its customers gives farmers across the world access to the global carbon removal market and therewith passage to a new revenue stream. It also facilitates the growing adoption of biochar production and usage by smallholder farmers. “This partnership has fostered confidence among buyers in the quality and impact of our carbon removal credits. Carbonfuture’s data-driven approach and robust third-party verification have been crucial in helping us validate and scale our carbon removal ambitions. By using the Plant Village App with Carbonfuture’s MRV, we ensure accurate monitoring of biochar production by smallholder farmers. Through the integration via API into Carbonfuture’s platform, a transparent data look-through from the removal credit to the data input will be ensured,” said Matt Rickard, COO of Biochar Life. Biochar Life’s journey has been marked by significant milestones such as training over 20,000 farmers, launching new projects in Kenya, Malawi, Thailand, and Indonesia, and sequestering over 10,000 tonnes of CO₂ over the last two years. Looking ahead, Biochar Life plans to scale operations into new regions and roll out advanced technology to reach 25,000 tonnes of CDR by 2025. These efforts will enhance both carbon removal and community resilience. Learn more about Biochar Life here:  ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e6eeMvmH If you’re a supplier working on carbon removal, reach out to us today, at  ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eeZGg4s6 Stay tuned as we continue to showcase more impactful projects and partners in our network! #carbonremoval #CDR #biochar #BCR #sustainability #climateaction

Did you know the ocean generates 50% of the oxygen we breathe, captures 90% of excess heat, and absorbs 25% of all CO2 emissions? 🌍 As the planet’s largest carbon sink, the ocean plays a key role in regulating our climate. Now, a growing number of carbon removal initiatives are looking to increase the carbon sequestration potential of the ocean even further. Here’s a look at the most common approaches (among many more): 🔹 Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) OAE involves adding an alkaline solution like sodium hydroxide to the ocean to make the water less acidic so it can absorb more CO2. This process creates carbonate minerals that eventually settle on the ocean floor, trapping carbon for thousands of years. 🔹 Biomass Sinking This method involves growing carbon-rich plants like seaweed or utilizing land-based plants and sinking them into the deep ocean, where low microbial activity ensures the carbon in the plants remains sequestered for millennia. 🔹 Microalgae Cultivation & Sequestration By fertilizing phytoplankton — tiny marine plants essential to the ocean food web — we can boost the ocean’s inherent ability to capture carbon. This can be achieved by adding nutrients to surface waters or by upwelling nutrient-rich deep waters. Ocean CDR holds enormous potential for long-term, cost-effective carbon removal and each of these methods offers unique benefits. However, they also present challenges and risks to marine ecosystems such as overnutrition leading to algal blooms and anoxic zones, or alkalinity pockets arising from OAE. A challenge concerning all methods is the accurate measurement, monitoring, reporting, and verification (#MRV) of the removal activities. Due to the vastness of the ocean and the diffuse nature of some approaches, the accurate monitoring of carbon removal processes and their potential ecosystem effects is a complex task. Pilot projects are important for exploring various pathways and learning from real-world applications. Additionally, it’s vital that these projects receive the necessary funding to conduct thorough impact assessments and ensure that we learn by doing—without causing harm. Continuous analysis and extensive research are key to fully understanding the environmental impacts and developing robust MRV systems. Continuous analyses and extensive research are key to fully assessing the environmental impacts and developing robust MRV systems. Want to dive deeper into durable carbon removal? Explore our website for an overview of the most relevant technologies ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eAxG_mQA Is your company pioneering ocean CDR? Join our Carbonfuture Catalyst program to scale your innovations ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dGyKZX7S Stay informed on the latest CDR market insights and news by signing up for our newsletter ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eTcNed7F    #carbonremoval #OceanCDR #netzero #sustainability #climateaction #CDR

💥 Supplier Spotlight: Phoenix Energy – Avoiding, removing, and sequestering carbon in California since 2010 💥 ⚡ We’re thrilled to introduce our supply partner Phoenix Energy, an independent power producer that develops, owns, and operates advanced biomass gasification plants to generate carbon-negative electricity, heat, and biochar. 🚀 With the help of early commitments and pre-purchases from CDR buyers, Phoenix Energy was able to complete their North Fork Community Plant in the Sierra National Forest and start construction on a second plant at the intersection of the Stanislaus and Eldorado National Forests. Their third project will break ground in 2025 at Napa Recycling and Waste Services to convert green waste that would typically end up in landfills into carbon-preserving biochar and carbon-negative energy. "Carbonfuture has been a great partner to work with. As a small and nimble start-up carbon removal team, we rely on them to champion our carbon credits in the voluntary carbon market and match our supply to their buyers. Carbonfuture has been extremely responsive to our needs, and to date, they have been able to secure us pre-purchase agreements for our carbon removal credits at both our plants which has been critical to financing.", says Loni Austin, VP of Product at Phoenix Energy. 🌏 Phoenix Energy’s first two energy plants use local forest biomass from wildfire fuel reduction areas in the Sierra Mountain range, helping to reduce catastrophic wildfire risk in the region. Additionally, their projects provide green jobs, supporting the development of rural areas. Their first plant in North Fork is expected to remove 4,000 tonnes of CO2 per year with plans to scale up quickly: Phoenix Energy’s ambitious goal is to build and operate 50 new plants in the next 10 years to remove and avoid a total of 2 Gigatonnes of CO₂ by 2054. These community-scale plants will be designed to leverage an operations hub, utilizing data and analytics to gain economies of scale and operational efficiencies across the network. Learn more about Phoenix Energy here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gzwycQjV Stay tuned as we continue to showcase more impactful projects and partners in our network! If you’re a supplier working on carbon removal, reach out to us today, at  ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eeZGg4s6 #carbonremoval #CDR #biochar #BCR #sustainability #climateaction

💬 "Why act now [on carbon removal]? It's not like going all-in in poker, but it's time to start playing your chips." 💬 🎙️ That was Carbonfuture‘s Chief Growth Officer Dominic on the most recent episode of the Carbon Exposure Project podcast. He sat down with host Rene Velasquez to talk about the state of the CDR industry, the importance of a trust infrastructure and ecosystem for future growth, and why corporate sustainability leaders benefit from combining carbon reductions with removals today. Here are 5️⃣ key takeaways from their discussion: 🔹 Carbon removal is one puzzle piece in a broader sustainability strategy and a necessary one to reach our net-zero goals. 🔹 Trust is the essential currency for carbon removal– especially in a voluntary market. 🔹 As we draw closer to 2030, companies with net-zero goals will be increasingly looking at durable CDR supply to help supplement their sustainability strategies. That could cause a rush on supply, an undersupplied market as recent studies predict, and drive up the price - something that can be avoided by securing long-term purchase agreements now. 🔹 Investing in carbon removal projects today helps ensure short-term supply and supports industry growth to climate-relevant levels over the coming years. 🔹 By working with partners like Carbonfuture, corporate sustainability leaders can establish the knowledge base and insights into this industry, providing a major competitive advantage in this growing market. Be sure to check out their full conversation and let us know what you think in the comments below. What stood out? Did we miss anything? 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eF-TjEqK A huge thank you to the Carbon Exposure Project for having Dominic and for the insightful discussion! More from the Carbon Exposure Project here ⬇️ Web: https://lnkd.in/eQ87-u_P Spotify: https://lnkd.in/ey4Hgc9v YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dBUR_BRj   #carbonremoval #netzero #CDR #climateaction #sustainability

What does it take to develop a trillion-Euro CDR industry❓ Bold and decisive action is urgently needed from policymakers, industry leaders, buyers, and investors to drive CDR market growth rapidly and achieve a nearly trillion-Euro CDR industry with substantial job potential by 2050. ➡️ Read more about the 15-point action plan in the recent report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Deutscher Verband für negative Emissionen e.V. (DVNE): https://lnkd.in/evSJ3yRX paign=dvne2024&utm_description=organic&utm_content=dvne #CarbonDioxideRemoval #NetZero #Sustainability #CDR #climateaction #climatepolicy #carbonremoval