Bite-Size Climate Tech

Episode 17 - Happy Sunday! Gear up for a Bonus Sunday episode where luxury meets legacy in sustainability. Discover how Porsche and H2 Green Steel are racing towards a greener future, cutting CO2 emissions by 95%. Links: Porsche plans to use CO₂-reduced steel in its sports cars from 2026 ⁠Porsche Materials of the Future - Porsche AG Sweden's H2 Green Steel raises $1.6 billion for Boden plant

Episode 16 - UNDO Carbon, a trailblazer in carbon removal. They're not just any UK company – they use basalt rock in a remarkable way, both capturing carbon and enhancing soil for farming. Can rocks be our unlikely allies against climate change? Join us to unravel how UNDO Carbon is making waves in climate tech with their innovative approach. Discover a story where geology meets sustainability...

Episode 15 - In the world of enhanced rock weathering, there're two rocks stars: Olivine and Basalt. Do you know their origin story and how they become the rock stars in their role in wrestling down CO₂ of the climate arena? Listen in! Links: Sibelco high-magnesium olivine delivers benefits across a range of applications including metallurgy, offshore wind ballasting, water filtration, thermal...

Episode 14 - we're diving deep into one of the most talked-about subjects in the climate discourse: carbon credits. The term is echoing everywhere, igniting curiosity and questions. What exactly are carbon credits? Links: Carbon Credits - what are they and how do they work? Why Puro.earth - Carbon removal standard and registry Bezero Carbon Rating Methodology.pdf

Episode 13 - Today we will unravel the mysteries of MRV—Measurement, Reporting, and Verification. It's the process ensuring quality in carbon credit generation. (why there are so many terms? 🌱✨) Links: Quantifying enhanced weathering – CarbonPlan What You Need to Know About the Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) of Carbon Credits

Episode 12 - Happy Halloween! 🎃 I trust you're all wrapped in the eerie ambiance of Halloween festivities, with pumpkins glowing and skeletons sipping ghostly coffee. Today, we're diving into something as intriguing as the mysterious shadows of Halloween night - the challenges that Enhanced Rock Weathering is facing and the innovative solutions people are conjuring up to overcome them! Li...

Episode 11 - When I first stumbled upon the concept of Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW), it felt like science fiction. Rocks, rain, and CO2 – how do they intertwine to combat climate change? Let's explore this topic today. Link: PURO.EARTH on ERW

Episode 10 - Today's bonus session is all about coffee. Do you know that there's a Seatle-based coffee company making coffee without coffee beans? Spoiler alert, you can find their coffee in New York now. Let me know how you think about their coffee by email me at lydia@lydiaclinzi.com! Link: https://www.atomocoffee.com/pages/beanless-coffee

Episode 9 - "We're really founding a new industry." Jan Wurzbacher, the CEO of Climeworks told New York Times . How did the biggest DAC company achieve this and do you know how much air we need to capture 1ton of CO2? Links: https://climeworks.com/

Episode 8 - Just like Frontier, NextGen is an industry initiative established with the goal to establish a demand for high quality CDRs. They have commited the largest advance purchase of around 200k tons in May this year. Link: cdr.fyi -> check out all the buys and sells of CDRs here!

Episode 7 - Frontier is an Advance Market Commitment founded by Stripe, Meta, McKinsey &Co. and Shopify, to address the issue in the innovative CDR field, sending a signal to the researchers and project developers that they are building a market for CDR. Links: https://frontierclimate.com/

Episode 6 - In this episode, we will unveiled the titanic strides made in the world of DAC, from regulatory advancements to global initiatives and corporate efforts stepping up to the challenge. 🌍✨

Episode 5 - Today we are going to talk about something really cool Direct Air Capture (DAC). It's the technology literally can claim as 'out of thin air', let's siscover the magic behind Solid DAC and Liquid DAC, as we unveil the challenges and fun facts of this revolutionary approach. Links: IEA - Direct Air Capture

Episode 4 - Is it truly our environmental superhero, or is it surrounded by hype? Today, we embark on a journey through the world of carbon removal. We'll unravel the controversies, explore existing methods, and go into principles for higher quality CDRs.

Episode 3 - Today we're taking a delightful detour from our usual deep dives into serious topics. Welcome to our very first bonus episode, a Sunday tradition where we pause the serious discussions and embrace a lighter perspective. In this episode, I stumbled upon a gem that brightened my day: an article and video from ⁠Heatmap.news⁠ highlighting Apple's climate efforts. Links: Apple_Envir...

Episode 2 - Today, we're diving deep into a mysterious number 59 and a bathtub metaphor. Also, do you know where we are in the 1.5 degree track? Show notes: ESRL's Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) conducts research that addresses three major challenges; greenhouse gas and carbon cycle feedbacks, changes in clouds, aerosols, an...

Episode 1 - The first episode of Bite-size Climate Tech, we are gonna we are gonna start from carbon removal. It’s almost too big of a topic to dive right in. Let's start by getting to know Mr. Greenhouse Gas and Ms. CO2e. Links: 1. Sources and Concentrations of Major 2. Greenhouse Gases

”Bite-size Climate Tech" is your go-to source for easy-to-digest content on the latest and most cutting-edge climate technology and topics of the day. With around 5min per per episode, this podcast is for non-engineers and everyday people like myself , to peak into the incredible world of climate tech.