Carbon Removal Newsroom

This week on Carbon Removal Newsroom , we’re discussing the latest IPCC Report, the $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill, and pressure for companies to reach net-zero. Returning panelists  Dr. Holly Jean Buck  of the University at Buffalo and  Chris Barnard  of the  American Conservation Coalition  join host Radhika Moolgavkar of  Nori  for this episode. Get full access to Climate Workers Anonymous at...

Guest panelist Peter Minor , Director of Science and Innovation at Carbon180 , joins us in this episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom to weigh in on the Energy Sector Innovation Credit Act (ESIC), and panelist Dr. Holly Jean Buck of the University at Buffalo returns to discuss the latest carbon removal news with host Radhika Moolgavkar of Nori . Plus, stay calm during the unexpected tornado warning o...

This week, we’re discussing whether or not carbon removal hype distracts from the need to reduce emissions and looking at the EU’s ‘Fit for 55’ climate proposals . Panelist Chris Barnard describes the conservative climate rally put on by the American Conservation Coalition , and panelist Dr. Holly Jean Buck explains that our media ecology often rewards climate fear and doom over climate optimism....

The U.S. Senate passed the Growing Climate Solutions Act with a strong bipartisan vote. But what does the bill aim to do? And why were more Democrats against this climate bill than Republicans? Plus, a look at soil carbon sequestration’s potential and other carbon removal technologies. Finally, carbon tax proposals are moving forward in Europe— what does this mean for the U.S. and the rest of the...

House Republicans launched the Conservative Climate Caucus on Wednesday and it’s already the third-largest caucus in the House with around 60 members. Maine becomes the first state to order public fossil fuel divestment . A new paper in Nature Climate Change looks at the difference between avoidances and removals of CO2 (a more accessible summary of the paper was written for Carbon Brief ). There...

Dr. Holly Jean Buck  of the University at Buffalo and  Chris Barnard  of the  American Conservation Coalition are back with host Radhika Moolgavkar of  Nori  for another episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom! This week, our panelists examine the federal budget’s climate change and carbon removal proposals and connect the dots between the budget and the infrastructure bill. We also address the G7 Summ...

In this episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom , our panelists look at the benefits and risks of nuclear power, attempting to find where the balance should lie between necessary safety precautions and overburdensome regulations. We address the grim accomplishment of the highest recorded levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere— 419 parts per million— and the real-world impacts of changes in the clim...

This episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom addresses the recent news in oil and gas including a court order for Royal Dutch Shell to sharply cut greenhouse gas emissions from all of its global operations, and a vote from Chevron’s shareholders telling the company to reduce its own emissions and the emissions produced by customers who burn its oil and gasoline. Our panelists also discuss how nature-ba...

Carbon180 released a new report, "Zero, Then Negative: The Congressional Blueprint for Scaling Carbon Removal," and this week on Carbon Removal Newsroom , our panelists dive into some of the report's details! Nori 's Head of Methodology, Radhika Moolgavkar, hosts guest panelists Ugbaad Kosar , Deputy Director of Policy at Carbon180, and Lucia Simonelli , Senior Policy Fellow specializing in Direct...

This week on the Carbon Removal Newsroom podcast, Nori 's Head of Methodology Radhika Moolgavkar hosts Dr. Holly Jean Buck of the University of Buffalo, and the Director of Sustainability at Bushel , Allison Nepveux . They discuss the Colonial Pipeline hack, how we can extract ourselves from our fossil fuel dependency, the impact of agricultural financing and crop insurance, and we hear some pushb...

Today's bonus episode of the Carbon Removal Newsroom podcast has host and Nori's head of supply and methodology, Radhika Moolgavkar, chat with her old friend and sustainability advocate, Shasta Smith, about climate and environmental policy in Washington state. They discuss the new cap and trade bill that recently passed and former state climate and carbon bills, and some of the general ideas and c...

This week, Dr. Holly Jean Buck of the University of Buffalo, Chris Barnard of the American Conservation Coalition , and Radhika Moolgavkar of Nori discuss in detail the Growing Climate Solutions Act , the relationship of unions to the The American Jobs Act , how a government-run carbon removal marketplace might work at least for agriculture, and Chris shares some optimistic musings to close us out...

There was a lot to watch in the offset world this week! CarbonPlan, ProPublica , The Guardian and others reported on major issues with some California forestry credits allegedly being overestimated by a substantial amount. This episode also shares some reflections on the Texas electrical grid, and some hopeful thoughts on new national parks buoy us up! Carbon Removal Newsroom is hosted by Nori 's...

To kick off our season three premiere(!), yesterday was the big AirMiners conference , which the host platform shows 637 people attended! To discuss their takeaways from the event's diverse discussions are panelists: Dr. Holly Jean Buck , Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Buffalo; Christopher Barnard , Policy Director of the American Conservation Coalition...

Carbon removal is in the news as Elon Musk has teased a one-hundred million dollar prize for the best carbon capture technology . What does it mean for the sector, and what is likely to happen next? Tito Jankowski of AirMiners is on the show to discuss. Get full access to Climate Workers Anonymous at climateworkersanonymous.substack.com/subscribe

A lot has been happening in the United Kingdom with regard to carbon removal. Patricia Silva , Co-founder and Non-Executive Director of the Carbon Removal Centre , comes on the show to explain The Oxford Offsetting Principles , the UK's general climate policies and Boris Johnson's recent statements on the matter , a collaboration between Carbon Engineering and Pale Blue Dot Energy , and some news...

The Clean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act involves billions of dollars being allocated across the carbon removal ecosystem. It just passed the US House of Representatives, and President Trump has stated his intent to veto it if it reaches his desk, but right now the focus is on its way through the Senate. Our panelist this week is Dr. Shuchi Talati , senior policy advisor at Carbon180 . You can al...

Nori 's Director of Corporate Development Alexsandra Guerra , and AirMiners and Negative 's Tito Jankowski , join the show to talk about Shopify's big announcement of the companies included in their new Sustainability Fund. It features two separate portfolios: Frontier & Evergreen, with the former focusing more on industrial tech, and the latter on biological/ecological sequestration. We dig i...

In March, the Department of Energy (DoE) announced they were going to putting $22M into research for capturing carbon dioxide from the air . They just announced the fundees! Join panelist Tito Jankowski of AirMiners and Negative and follow along on this page with us as he walks us through the groups and some of the science behind these processes. Get full access to Climate Workers Anonymous at cli...

This episode features Dr. Jane Zelikova , Chief Scientist at Carbon180 , and Dr. Trisha Shrum , behavorial and environmental economist at the University of Vermont. Jane organized The Royal Society's new Interface Focus issue on carbon dioxide removal called, "Going negative: An interdisciplinary, holistic approach to carbon dioxide removal" . She additionally wrote an article in it, " The future...

This week's guests are Nori 's Director of Corporate Development, Alexsandra Guerra ; and Carbon180 's Senior Policy Advisor Ugbaad Kosar , and Policy Advisor Vanessa Suarez . Here are the topics and articles we discussed: Microsoft's RFP for their carbon negativity commitments , and Apple's carbon neutrality commitment . Full Committee Hearing to Examine Development and Deployment of Large-Scale...

This week's panelists are Dr. Jane Zelikova , Chief Scientist at Carbon180 ; Vanessa Suarez , Policy Advisor at Carbon180 ; and Aldyen Donnelly , Director of Carbon Economics at Nori . Here are the articles we discussed this week: Carbon removal represented in the Appropriations process in both Energy & Water and Agriculture . The Biden-Sanders climate plan: " Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force Re...

This week's panelists are Ugbaad Kosar , Senior Policy Advisor at Carbon180 ; Tito Jankowski , cofounder of Negative , a startup making jewelry from captured carbon dioxide, and host of the AirMiners community ; and Aldyen Donnelly , Director of Carbon Economics at the Nori carbon removal marketplace .  This week's stories are: Rhodium Group's new report: "Capturing New Jobs and New Business: Grow...

This week's panelists are Aldyen Donnelly , Nori 's Director of Carbon Economics, and Tito Jankowksi , cofounder of Negative (a startup making products out of captured atmospheric carbon dioxide) and host of the AirMiners community . Here are the articles discussed: " Unilever’s New Climate Plan Puts Carbon Labels on 70,000 Products " by Akshat Rathi in Bloomberg Green . " Impossible Foods CEO say...

This week's panelists are Nori 's Director of Corporate Development Alexsandra Guerra , Director of Carbon Economics Aldyen Donnelly , and Carbon180 's Chief Scientist Dr. Jane Zelikova . Here are the articles we discussed: " Rising sea levels could wipe out mangroves by 2050 " by Justine Calma in The Verge " The Energy 202: Two GOP senators join with Democrats to back bill to help cut emissions f...