The Carbon Removal Show

Tickets? Booked. Microphone? Packed. Passport..? This week we're off to Reykjavik to take part in Iceland Innovation Week's climate conference Ok, bye. The event's name refers to the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change, Ok-jökull and it was a chance for us to check in with some of the businesses and policymakers turning this isolated North Atlantic island into a world leader in carbon r...

It's our final episode from the UK Greenhouse Gas Removal Event in London and our very own Tom Previte was asked to host another panel. This one was called "Getting it right for people and the planet" and was the conference's public facing panel, giving non-experts and newcomers a chance to learn about and ask questions on greenhouse gas removal in the UK - a perfect fit for the podcast right? Tha...

Today we’re at the UK Greenhouse Gas Removal Event, a gathering of researchers, policy makers and businesses, to discuss the state of carbon removal in the UK today. CO2RE, the greenhouse gas removal hub led by Oxford University and the hosts of the event, were kind enough to ask us to host a pair of panels across the two day conference. We caught up with friends old and new to bring you the lates...

We're back! And we've been busy... Today, Tom visits the Science Museum in London to take a look at Our Future Planet, the museum's carbon removal exhibition. As carbon communicators ourselves, we were keen to find out what the Science Museum were doing to educate their guests on our favourite topic of discussion. Tom was taken through the exhibition by its curator, Rupert Cole. Rupert took us thr...

Good news! The Carbon Removal Show will be coming back for another season this summer. We want to make it as interesting, entertaining and educational as possible for all of you so we're asking you to let us know your thoughts about Season 1, Head to restored.cc/feedback to let us know what you think! Thanks to Cofruition for consulting on and producing the show.

Now you've discovered what carbon removal is all about, what are you going to do next? In this finale, we have brought together a mix of carbon removal-related inspiration: An interactive game to help us all understand the road to gigaton-scale carbon removal A reflection on how COP26 left the carbon removal space (spoiler - we really do need it and we really do need it now) An array of stories fr...

What we do about climate change may be one of the biggest questions of our generation. Everyone should be able to have their say. This means we need to start having conversations in earnest to understand how we really think and feel about carbon removal. But these conversations about carbon removal may feel uncomfortable, a sad reflection on where we find ourselves and a dangerous distraction from...

"It's not going to take a few dozen, or a few hundred, or a couple thousand people working on this. We're going to need many more people working on this." (Marcius Extavour) These days, we talk about carbon removal at the scale of tonnes - hundreds...even thousands of them. Over the coming decades, we will likely need to be talking at the scale of billions . So how do we get there? And how can a y...

For carbon removal to thrive under capitalism, we need thriving carbon removal businesses. And thriving carbon removal businesses need an income - but who's paying? Can a service like this, operating for the good of humanity, really work in a world that revolves around money? That's the crux of this week's episode. Carbon marketplaces offer one model: buy and sell carbon on the open market in the...

We're taking a short mid-season break this week but don't worry, we'll be back next week. In this short bonus episode to tide you over, Tom and Emily discuss what we've learned so far and where we'll be going next. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To learn more about The Carbon Removal Show, including further reading, sources from the episode, and our free newsletter head to:  https://restored.cc/ Than...

Measurable, instant, continuous carbon capture and safe, reliable, permanent storage. Sound too good to be true? Actually, this is exactly what engineered solutions like DAC (Direct Air Capture) and geological sequestration claim to bring to our carbon removal toolkit. The former promises technological innovation that does a tree's job better than a tree. The latter offers one of our surest bets t...

At first, the idea of harvesting, harnessing, even burning our beloved biomass may seem counterintuitive, at least from a carbon removal perspective. Why not just leave biomass be? Well, as we've heard so far this season, the carbon cycle is out of kilter. Even with our best efforts of restoration and enhancement, relying on forests and soils alone for the carbon removal we need may be too slow, t...

" We can sequester with regenerative agriculture between 5% of all emissions and 100% of all emissions. That's a big difference" Whenever we used to find ourselves around farmland, we never paid much attention to the soil beneath our feet. Making this episode will make us think twice next time... Why? Because, when you dig a little deeper, soil is far more important for carbon storage than you mig...

"The jingle which everyone quotes is the right tree in the right place" (Harriet Rix) At first, the clear need for carbon removal begs the question - isn't that what trees do? And they do - amongst a whole host of other benefits that they bring to our lives (tree-huggers exist for good reason). Yet human activity certainly does not always display our gratitude for the value that trees bring us. Wi...

" The need is irrefutable. It's scientific fact. We need carbon removal" (Sophie Purdom) If you're reading this, you've probably considered a certain question at some point in your life. It's the same question that puzzles the mind of many others, from activists to artists, businesses to busy parents: how do we heal the damage we've caused - and are still causing - in our planet's climate? Step on...

The facts are clear - the planet is heating up because of emissions humans are putting into the atmosphere. Even if we are able to cut out all our carbon emissions as fast as possible, we would still need to remove carbon we've already put in the atmosphere to hit global temperature targets. Join Emily Swaddle and Tom Previte as they explore the world of carbon removal. What is it? Why is it neces...