This is CDR

In this episode we are pleased to welcome South Pole Global Director of Tech Removals, and NextGen Chairman Philip Moss to discuss South Pole's work on CDR and the NextGen CDR Facility, a joint venture of South Pole and Mitsubishi. Session Links: https://www.nextgencdr.com/ https://www.southpole.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipmoss/ https://twitter.com/ManaPhilip https://twitter.com/southpo...

The European policy landscape surrounding CDR continues to shift rapidly, with developments at both the EU and national levels. OpenAir is excited to welcome back Sebastian Manhart of Carbonfuture to discuss his updated analysis of: The latest developments in European climate policy and their impact on CDR Carbon removal targets and policies at the national level across Europe including a discussi...

In this episode of This Is CDR OpenAir welcomes [C]Worthy Co-Founder and Executive Director Matthew Long to discuss the new organization's vital mission to build software that supports multi-scale oceanographic modeling and data integration for quantifying the efficacy and ecological impacts of marine CDR. ABOUT OUR GUEST Matthew Long co-founded [C]Worthy in 2022 with Alicia Karspeck and David Ho....

This week we welcome CREW Carbon Founder and CEO Joachim Katchinoff and Processing Engineering Lead Kevin Vu to discuss how the company is moving carbon from the fast to slow cycle using enhanced weathering in engineered systems for permanent, low-cost, and measurable carbon dioxide removal. CREW has been selected as one of Frontier Climate's early carbon removal pre-purchase companies and has re...

In this episode of This Is CDR we welcome Octavia Carbon Founder and CEO Martin Freimüller and Product Lead Duncan Kariuki to discuss the company's plan for deploying direct air capture (DAC) in Kenya -- and why they believe Kenya is the best place in the world to scale DAC! About Martin: Martin Freimüller is the Founder & CEO of Octavia Carbon, where he leads on strategy, sales and fundraising. H...

This week we welcome Equatic Principal Advisor Dr. Lorenzo Corsini to This Is CDR to update us on the company's evolution and progress since SeaChange was on the program in December 2021, and discuss the electrochemical mCDR company's recent offtake purchase agreement with Boeing, the road ahead, and path to scale. About Lorenzo: Dr. Lorenzo Corsini is an entrepreneur and scientist. Prior to join...

This week we are pleased to welcome Carba founders CEO Dr. Andrew Jones and Senior Advisor Prof. Paul Dauenhauer to This Is CDR to discuss the company's method of long-duration CDR via biomass torrefaction and burial (BTB). About Andrew: Dr. Andrew Jones is an entrepreneur, scientist, inventor, and energy enthusiast. Before founding Carba, Andrew started and built Activated Research Company (ARC)...

This week we are pleased to welcome Dr. Holly Jean Buck back to This Is CDR to discuss her recent paper (with colleagues) "Why Residual Emissions Matter Right Now," and the implications of this work on the climate role of CDR. About Holly: Dr. Holly Jean Buck is a geographer and environmental social scientist studying rural futures, the politics of platforms, and how emerging technologies can add...

In The Carbon Removal Blended Tonne White Paper, Nori proposes combining temporary and long-term carbon storage to create a credible pathway to net zero. Tune in to this discussion with Radhika Moolgavkar and Rick Berg from Nori’s Supply team to learn how the blended tonne can contribute to the funding of future, more durable carbon removal solutions while enabling ecosystem restoration and tempor...

In this episode of This Is CDR we welcome back Mati Founder Shantanu to discuss how his new non-profit seeks to scale long duration carbon removal via enhanced weathering (EW) in partnership with smallholder farmers in India and other regions of the Global South. ABOUT SHANTANU: Shantanu Agarwal is a climate tech entrepreneur with more than 20 year of energy industry experience. Prior to founding...

This week on This Is CDR we are pleased to welcome Holy Grail CEO Nuno Pereira and CTO Sophie Griggs to present and discuss the company's modular electrochemical DAC process with mineral storage. Presentation Links: - https://www.holygrailcarbon.com/ - Linked In Nuno: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nunohg/ - Linked In Sophie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophie-griggs-2ab014a5/ About Nuno: Nuno Pere...

Carbon accounting approaches for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) are a patchwork. A combination of project-specific protocols, project-level due diligence and bespoke verification is the dominant approach. This characterizes a market that is still nascent with a limited variety of both buyers and suppliers of carbon removal credits. In this webinar OpenAir hosts Christiaan Gevers Deynoot of South Pol...

In this episode of This Is CDR we are pleased to welcome Arbor CEO Brad Hartwig and CTO Andrés García-Clark to present and discuss the company's novel, compact, and modular BiCRS process. Presentation Links: - https://arbor.co/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-hartwig/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/andres-garcia-clark-5793443/ - (winning!) Frontier proposal – https://github.com/frontierclimate/c...

This week on This Is CDR we are pleased to welcome Hannah Bebbington and Scott Litzelman from Stripe Climate to discuss the initial round of Frontier's offtake purchases. About Frontier: Frontier is an advance market commitment to buy an initial $925M of permanent carbon removal between 2022 and 2030. It was founded by Stripe, Alphabet, Shopify, Meta, McKinsey and tens of thousands of businesses...

In this episode of This Is CDR Toby and Megha welcome Andes Bio Co-Founder and CEO Gonzalo Fuenzalida-Meriz to present the company's innovative approach that leverages microorganisms to accelerate the sequestration of inorganic carbon in soils. Andes Bio: https://www.andes.bio/ About Gonzalo: Gonzalo Fuenzalida-Meriz Andes in 2018 along with Tania Timmermann. He is a serial entrepreneur with more...

In this episode of This Is CDR we are pleased to welcome Eion Carbon Co-Founders CEO Adam Wolf and CTO Elliot Chang to discuss how the company seeks to drive innovation in the science, measurement, and operations of enhanced weathering (EW) in agriculture. About Eion: https://eioncarbon.com/ Eion is a leader in enhanced rock weathering and patented the first direct measurement methodology to unloc...

In this episode of This Is CDR we welcome Noya CEO Josh Santos back to the program to update us on the company's evolved approach to direct air capture (DAC), their recent funding round, and plans to deploy and scale in 2023 and beyond. Links: Noya - https://www.noya.co/ Josh's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshisantos/ About Josh: Josh Santos is the co-founder and CEO of Noya, a company...

On this episode of This Is CDR we are pleased to welcome ecoLocked Co-Founder and CEO Dr. Mario Schmitt who will present and discuss the company's innovative solution for climate positive concrete via the incorporation of biochar. Company - https://www.ecolocked.com/ About Mario: Mario is a co-founder of ecoLocked, a German startup working to turn biochar into a functional concrete additive to ena...

This week on This Is CDR we are pleased to welcome XPRIZE Carbon Removal Executive Director Nikki Batchelor who will provide an update on the contest's current status and next phase; give an overview of the recently released Circular Carbon Network 2022 Market Report; and discuss XPRIZE's excellent recent collaboration with Carbon180 "From the Ground Up." About Nikki: Nikki Batchelor leads the $1...

The European policy landscape surrounding CDR is shifting rapidly, with developments at both the EU and national levels. OpenAir is excited to host Sebastian Manhart of Carbonfuture to discuss his analysis of: - Carbon removal targets and policies at the national level across Europe including a discussion of best practices and opportunities. - Developments and key open questions for the European C...

In this episode Toby and Megha welcome Kita Co-Founder and CEO Natalia Dorfman to discuss how insurance can help facilitate and accelerate the scaling of CDR. Kita - https://www.kita.earth/ About Natalia: Natalia Dorfman is the CEO and co-founder of Kita, the carbon insurance specialist. Kita’s purpose is accelerating investment in high quality carbon removal projects with insurance products that...

On this episode of This Is CDR Toby and Megha catch up with Carbonplan's Freya Chay and Frontier's Dr. Zeke Hausfather who present and discuss recent updates to the organizations' excellent CDR Verification Framework. Presenter Links: Frontier - https://frontierclimate.com/ Carbon Plan - https://carbonplan.org/ CDR Verification Framework - https://carbonplan.org/research/cdr-verification About Fre...

In this episode of This Is CDR Toby and welcome Kodama Systems' Head of Biomass Utilization and Policy Jimmy Voorhis and Yale Carbon Containment Lab's Associate Director of Science Dr. Sinéad Crotty who will discuss their research collaboration on biomass burial of unmerchantable residues from fire thinning. LInks: - https://kodama.ai/ - https://carboncontainmentlab.yale.edu/who-we-are About Jimmy...

In this episode of This Is CDR Toby and Megha welcome Carbon To Stone Founder Dr. Greeshma Gadikota of Cornell Engineering who will present the startup's novel DAC approach that replaces conventional solvent regeneration using heat or pressure changes with direct mineralization of low-cost alkaline wastes such as steel slag, significantly reducing the energy, and thus the cost, required. The captu...

In this episode of This Is CDR Toby and Megha welcome Robert Höglund who will present the excellent and insightful cdr.fyi 2022 Year in Review report what we can hope and expect in 2023 and beyond to get the long-duration CDR market on track for gigatonne scale by mid-century. ABOUT CDR.FYI: cdr.fyi is a community driven effort to bring transparency and accountability to the carbon removal market...