The Carbon Curve

Episode 16 of The Carbon Curve is with Mike Kelland, CEO and Co-Founder of Planetary . This episode is sponsored by Carbonfuture . Carbonfuture  is an end-to-end platform for companies that want to participate in removing carbon from the atmosphere. Unlike conventional marketplaces, Carbonfuture’s monitoring, reporting, and verification platform solves carbon credit uncertainty for buyers like Mic...

Episode 15 of The Carbon Curve is with Natalia Dorfman, CEO and Co-Founder of Kita This episode is sponsored by Carbonfuture . Carbonfuture  is an end-to-end platform for companies who want to participate in removing carbon from the atmosphere. Unlike conventional marketplaces, Carbonfuture’s monitoring, reporting, and verification platform solves carbon credit uncertainty for buyers like Microsof...

Episode 14 of The Carbon Curve is with Peter Minor, Director of Science and Innovation at Carbon180 This episode is sponsored by Carbonfuture . Carbonfuture  is an end-to-end platform for companies who want to participate in removing carbon from the atmosphere. Unlike conventional marketplaces, Carbonfuture’s monitoring, reporting, and verification platform solves carbon credit uncertainty for buy...

Episode 13 of The Carbon Curve is with Dr. Cara Maesano, Geochemical Lead at RMI’s CDR Initiative This episode is sponsored by Carbonfuture . Carbonfuture  is an end-to-end platform for companies who want to participate in removing carbon from the atmosphere. Unlike conventional marketplaces, Carbonfuture’s monitoring, reporting, and verification platform solves carbon credit uncertainty for buyer...

Episode 12 of The Carbon Curve is with Adrian Corless, CEO and CTO of CarbonCapture Inc. This episode is sponsored by Carbonfuture . Carbonfuture  is an end-to-end platform for companies who want to participate in removing carbon from the atmosphere. Unlike conventional marketplaces, Carbonfuture’s monitoring, reporting, and verification platform solves carbon credit uncertainty for buyers like Mi...

Episode 11 of The Carbon Curve is with Celina Scott-Buechler, Senior Resident Fellow of Climate Innovation at Data for Progress (DFP). This episode is sponsored by Carbonfuture . Carbonfuture  is an end-to-end platform for companies who want to participate in removing carbon from the atmosphere. Unlike conventional marketplaces, Carbonfuture’s monitoring, reporting, and verification platform solve...

Episode 10 of The Carbon Curve is with Stacy Kauk, Head of Sustainability at Shopify. After a few weeks off, I’m excited to bring you a new series of interviews with policy experts, market shapers, and entrepreneurs who are working tirelessly to responsibly and effectively scale up the carbon removal (or CDR) innovations needed to draw down CO2 from the atmosphere. Over the next 8 weeks I’ll be sp...

Episode 9 of The Carbon Curve is with Robert Höglund and Dr. Natalya Jarlebring from Milkywire’s Climate Transformation Fund. Over the last year or so, interest in carbon removal (CDR) has taken off. From the formation of new corporate buying coalitions, like Frontier , to large venture rounds, and ambitious new policies like Direct Air Capture Hubs , CDR is starting to hit an inflection point. Al...

Last month, the Department of Energy hosted a virtual summit convening innovators, environmental organizations, government leaders, and other stakeholders about The Carbon Negative Shot . The DOE launched this bold initiative last year to stimulate innovation in carbon removal (CDR) pathways that remove and durably store CO2 from the atmosphere at gigaton scale for less than $100/net metric ton of...

In Episode 7 of The Carbon Curve , Na’im speaks to Dr. Meron Tesfaye and Dr. Danny Broberg from the Bipartisan Policy Center. This week, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, which has been called the most consequential climate bill in history. Among other things, it makes a $369 billion investment in reducing carbon emissions and lowering energy costs, putting America closer to reac...

Episode 6 of The Carbon Curve is with Robert Niven, Chair and CEO of CarbonCure Technologies . Carbon removal (or CDR) is often represented as a process that involves pumping captured CO2 back underground where it belongs. But we can actually use CO2 removed from the atmosphere in every day products like plastics, fuels, and building materials. This is a burgeoning industry known as “carbontech” -...

Episode 5 of The Carbon Curve is with Ben Rubin, Executive Director of the Carbon Business Council. Over the past two years, the carbon removal (CDR) sector has flourished according to a Climate Tech VC report. Carbon removal, carbon utilization and CCS companies, as well as carbon marketplaces raised a combined $1.5 billion in the first half of this year. That's an eightfold increase over the sam...

Our 4th episode of The Carbon Curve is with Peter Reinhardt, CEO and co-Founder of Charm Industrial, where they're developing novel carbon removal and renewable industrial syngas technology. Prior to charm, Peter was CEO and co-founder at Segment a software as a service customer data platform, which grew to 600 people before it was acquired by Twilio in 2020 for 3.2 billion. He previously studied...

The third episode of The Carbon Curve podcast is with Dai Ellis. Today’s discussion is about sketching out a vision for the carbon removal market. Creating that market is going to be really tricky. Unlike other climate technologies carbon removal, for the most part, doesn’t deliver a product or service besides its climate benefit. But the market for carbon removal can’t exist without large purchas...

The second episode of The Carbon Curve Podcast is with Chris Neidl ( Twitter , LinkedIn ), Co-Founder of the OpenAir Collective . OpenAir is a volunteer-led, global network accelerating carbon removal advancement and evolution through member initiated missions. OpenAir has completely re-imagined climate activism by mobilizing people to not just support, but co-create policies at the local, state,...

Introducing The Carbon Curve Podcast with Na’im Merchant Na’im is an advisor and thought partner to start-ups, policy groups, and research organizations on scaling up the climate technologies to meet the monumental challenge removing billions of tons of CO2 from the atmosphere. According to the IPCC, large scale carbon dioxide removal is “essential” to meeting our climate goals - but few people kn...