WEEKLY SUMMARY (21 AUGUST-27 AUGUST 2023)-WEEK#27
Links to recent scientific papers, web posts, upcoming events, job opportunities, podcasts, and event recordings, etc. on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technology.
💸COMMERCIAL NEWS
Carbon Removal Startup Hits $100M Fund to Save Amazon Forest (Carbon Credits)
A $150M Boost: Allowing Small Forest Owners to Profit from Carbon Credits (Carbon Credits)
Rubicon Carbon, Freepoint Commodities, and Imperative Global Forge Strategic Relationship to Scale High-Quality Carbon Projects- $500M funds (BusinessWire)
📝RESEARCH PAPERS
Counting (on) blue carbon—Challenges and ways forward for carbon accounting of ecosystem-based carbon removal in marine environments
Ocean-based negative emissions technologies: a governance framework review
Carbon storage in river and floodplain systems: A review of evidence to update and inform policy development for riverine nature-based solutions
Continuous direct air capture and methanation using combined system of membrane-based CO2 capture and Ni-Ca based dual functional materials
Insights into the Oxidative Degradation Mechanism of Solid Amine Sorbents for CO2 Capture from Air: Roles of Atmospheric Water
Towards carbon-neutral cities: an assessment of urban CO2 removal and albedo management
Rethinking urban riparian ecosystems as frontline strategy to contrast climate change: Mapping 60 years of carbon sequestration evolution in Padua (Italy)
Lessons for Direct Air Capture from the History of Nitrogen Synthesis: High Rates of Deployment are Possible, with Strong Support
Kinetic research on ion exchange regeneration of quaternary ammonium-based CO2 sorbent for direct air capture
The Deep Soil Organic Carbon Response to Global Change
Cost and deployment consequences of advanced planning for negative emissions with direct air capture in the U.S. Eastern Interconnection
Investigating biochar as a net-negative emissions strategy in Colombia: Potentials, costs, and barriers
A comprehensive evaluation of amine-impregnated silica materials for direct air capture of carbon dioxide
Evaluating degradation of CO2 adsorbents in flue gas from bioenergy with carbon capture and storage
What If Country Commitments for CO2 Removal Were Based on Responsibility for Historical Emissions?
Phytoplankton Response to Increased Nickel in the Context of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement
Carbon dioxide reduction by photosynthesis undetectable even during phytoplankton blooms in two lakes
Improved net carbon budgets in the US Midwest through direct measured impacts of enhanced weathering
Seaweed biogeochemistry: Global assessment of C:N and C:P ratios and implications for ocean afforestation
Adjusting 1.5 degree C climate change mitigation pathways in light of adverse new information
Biological impact of ocean alkalinity enhancement of magnesium hydroxide on marine microalgae using bioassays simulating ship-based dispersion
Action needed to make carbon offsets from forest conservation work for climate change mitigation
📰WEB POSTS
What Does “As Passive as Possible” Direct Air CO2 Capture Look Like? (Circular Carbon Innovations)
Bringing risk-adjusted returns to carbon (Illuminem Voices)
Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Treaty and Marine-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal (Illuminem Voices)
Full steam ahead: Ebb’s ocean carbon removal solution is up and running at PNNL-Sequim (Ebbcarbon)
CRC Inks 5th Sequestration Deal (LA business journal)
Puro.earth partners with first #biochar producer in Bolivia, Exomad Green (puro earth)
Carbon Negative Clean Energy, Biochar - Nano-carbons Partnership Inked (Benzinga)
Puro.earth To Take Off Expiry Date From Its Carbon Removals (Carbon Herald)
Why Carbon Engineering’s $1 Billion Acquisition is the Best & the Worst for Climate Tech (Climate Drift, Substack)
Avoiding the Peak: Regenerative Strategies for Stabilizing Tipping Elements (Nori)
Oil industry sees a vibe shift on climate tech (Politico)
Occidental Seeks ‘60, 70, 80 Years’ of Oil Extraction with Carbon Engineering Buyout (The Energy Mix)
America is becoming a DAC powerhouse (Terraform Now, Substack)
Neighbors Don’t Want to be ‘Test Dummies’ For Biden’s Carbon Removal Hubs (Bloomberg)
‘Worthless’ forest carbon offsets risk exacerbating climate change (The Conversation)
📑REPORTS
Vintage Based Ratings - Mind the Gap (BeZero)
📖BOOK
Biogeotherapy: nature-based climate solutions
🗣️DISCUSSIONS
Carbon storage in river and floodplain systems: A review of evidence to update and inform policy development for riverine nature-based solutions
Carbon Engineering and 'the moral hazard'
Numbers on Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement inputs & effectiveness?
🧰CDR FIRMS
Kulshan Carbon Trust
ReCarbn
Arbor
CAC.H2
📆UPCOMING EVENTS
CREW Carbon: Containerized Enhanced Weathering for Directly Verifiable CDR by OpenAir | 29 August 2023
CDM Transition to Article 6.4 mechanism: Procedures and key milestones by UN Climate Change Regional Collaboration Centres | 29 August 2023
Nature or tech solutions? How to build a carbon removal strategy? by Climeworks | 30 August 2023
Deep Dive on DAC Hubs hosted by Airminers | 30 August 2023
Scaling Limestone Calcined Clay Cement (LC3): Learnings from the First Movers by RMI | 30 August 2023
2023 FECM / NETL Carbon Management Research Project Review Meeting | 28 August - 01 September 2023
[C]Worthy: Building Tools for Safe, Effective, and Verifiable Marine CDR by OpenAir | 05 September 2023
(NEW) Workshop: The Role of R&D and Policy for advancing Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) in the EU | 05 September 2023
(NEW) Africa Climate Summit - Carbon Removal Community Cocktails by Africa Climate Ventures, Direct Air Capture Coalition, Rethinking Removals | 07 September 2023
Is there a limit to Soil Organic Carbon sequestration? by STC -Webinar | 07 September 2023
Fall 2023 Update -- The State of European Carbon Removal by OpenAir | 07 September 2023
(NEW) Philip Moss on South Pole and NextGen by OpenAir | 12 September 2023
Workshop: Connecting the Arts and Humanities with Innovations in GGR by CO2RE | 13 September 2023
Carbfix Mineralization Summit 2023 by Carbfix | 14 September 2023 - 15 September 2023
6th International Workshop on Offshore Geologic Storage | 13 September 2023 – 15 September 2023
Meet Climeworks at Climate Week NYC 2023 | 17-24 September 2023
(NEW) NewYork Climate Week: List of Carbon Removal Events | 18-22 September 2023
Pathfinders Innovation ‘Sandpit’: Help shape the GGR research & innovation agenda by CO2RE | 22 September 2023
Third Annual Carbon Dioxide Removal Law & Policy Conference, Carbon Removal Deployment: Law and Policy from Planning to Project by the Institute for Carbon Removal Law & Policy | 26 September 2023
Workshop: ERW23 by University of Edinburgh - Edinburgh Climate Change Institute | 26 September 2023
(NEW) How Buyers Can Scale High-Quality Carbon Dioxide Removal for Climate Impact by Carbon Direct | 26 September 2023
The Carbon Removal Business Summit Comes to London by Carbon Unbound London | 03 & 04 October 2023
First educational conference on CO₂ removal by CDRterra | 10-11 October 2023
Onshore CO2 storage in the UK: What's the state of knowledge? by Oxford Net Zero | 11 October 2023
Global Direct Air Capture Conference | 16-17 October 2023
CCUS 2023 Springboard to Net Zero | 17-18 October 2023
(NEW) Beyond Net Zero: The Role of the Ocean in Climate Repair by Institute of Physics London and Remote Participation Worldwide | 18 October 2023
(NEW) The Role of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) in UK Net Zero by CO₂RE - The Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub | 07 November 2023
(NEW) International Biochar Initiative's Annual Symposium | 7-9 November 2023
(NEW) Direct Air Capture Panel Discussion by the University of California, Davis, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas | 15 November 2023
Negative CO₂ Emissions hosted at the University of Oxford by CO₂RE - The Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub, with financial support from UKRI | 18-21 June 2024
💼JOB OPPORTUNITIES
PhD in Environmental Research - Enhanced rock weathering: quantifying co-benefits for agricultural productivity and the environment of crushed basalt rock application at University of Glasgow, College of Science and Engineering | Deadline: 31 August 2023
“UNDO is an ambitious company at the forefront of technological innovation specialising in enhanced weathering removal of CO2. This project, in collaboration with UNDO will bring together expertise in SUERC and the School of Geographical & Earth Sciences to investigate the change in soil chemistry, with and without ERW, to quantify the effects this process may have on soil, plant health and the environment in the longer term. Negative impacts such as potentially toxic element (PTE) contamination will also be assessed focusing on ecological and human health impact.”
Staff Scientist — Oceanographic Observing at [C]WORTHY | HONOLULU
“[C]Worthy is a non-profit research organization building the first open-source software and analytics tools designed to enable trustworthy, transparent, science-based quantification of ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). We are working to help the growing marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) industry make safe and effective long-term contributions to climate change mitigation. The [C]Worthy research and development team blends exceptional software engineering with deep expertise in oceanographic observations, modeling, and data assimilation. [C]Worthy is on the path to becoming a Focused Research Organization hosted by Convergent Research.”
Head of People at Heirloom | Brisbane, CA
“At Heirloom, we are turning that into reality. We use the natural carbon capture properties of abundant minerals to pull CO2 from the air, and store it permanently underground. We come to work every day to slow climate change, and are united behind a single, common goal - to remove 1 billion tons of CO2 from the sky by 2035, and to not stop before we get there.”
Science Manager at Isometric | New York City
“Isometric is a carbon removal registry and science platform. Our mission is to avert climate disaster by ensuring the transition to carbon removal happens responsibly and fast.”
Senior Process Engineer at ReCarbn | Utrecht, Netherlands
“ReCarbn aims to capture CO2 at a gigaton scale, thereby helping to limit global warming to 1.5 °C. We aim to filter CO2 out of the air in an affordable and easily scalable way.”
Various Job Openings at Silicate:
“Silicate is an enhanced weathering company headquartered in Ireland, with operations in the US and Ireland. We remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere via the acceleration of a natural geological process – the weathering of silicate, carbonate and hydroxide minerals.”
Founder, CEO, Direct Air Capture at Marble
“Marble is a climate tech venture studio. Our north star is to erase billions of tons from annual greenhouse gas emissions and create a thriving future.”
Executive in Minerals Processing & Waste-to-Energy at MEIA
“MEIA is looking for two Energy Executive in Residences (EEIRs) to assist with commercializing Uplift Geosystems, which has developed a process to store CO2 and co-produce value add metals for clean technology supply chains. Uplift Geosystems has adapted methods demonstrated to work in metallurgical and water treatment industries to store CO2 as solid magnesium carbonate, which can be used as a construction material. Uplift Geosystems is looking for an EEIR with experience in the finance of grants and fundraising and operational experience in minerals processing, waste-to-energy, or water treatment.”
Associate Director of Carbon Capture at Project Management Office SES | Golden CO, Pittsburgh PA, Morgantown WV, or Washington DC
“This role will work with a budget approaching $1B to combat the climate crisis & reinforce America’s global competitiveness in the zero-carbon economy of the future.”
Various Job Openings at Arbor:
“Arbour's technology converts organic waste into clean energy and fresh water, while permanently removing CO2 from the atmosphere - a process known as Biomass Carbon Removal and Storage (BiCRS).”
🎙️PODCASTS
Sublime's CEO and Co-Founder Leah Ellis on WMBR's Entrepreneurs of the World, United
“Listen here for a dynamic conversation about the journey of building Sublime to make a swift and massive impact, interspersed with a great cement-and-entrepreneurship-themed playlist.”
Navigating Net Zero with Co-founder of BeZero Carbon, Tommy Ricketts | The Tech Leaders Podcast
“With climate change being the *hottest* topic of discussion at the moment, this week we’re delving into its effects on the business world, as Tommy Ricketts, Co-founder of BeZero Carbon, joins Gareth to give us the low-down on environmental economics.
Tommy’s passion for both economy and ecology has shaped his entrepreneurial journey, ultimately leading to his creation of a service that transforms how businesses utilise carbon credits. BeZero Carbon offers an innovative solution to the lack of transparency in the current carbon credit system by rating and assessing the true emissions of corporations.
From an alternate career dream of creating a screenplay about football referees, to advice on maintaining cultural cohesion in the workplace, this candid yet captivating conversation covers all bases of Tommy’s journey so far.
The challenge to combat the carbon crisis is no small feat, so with companies like BeZero Carbon, businesses can hold themselves and each other accountable and turn intention into action to help stop climate change.”
As the debate over carbon removal swirls, America steps up funding | The Carbon Copy
“As the carbon dioxide removal industry grows, engineered solutions such as direct air capture are getting more attention.
According to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, novel methods for carbon dioxide removal are now necessary to meet the Paris climate targets.
But another U.N. body, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, recently sparked controversy by concluding in draft language that “engineering-based removal activities…pose unknown environmental and social risks.” That language could have ramifications for how carbon removal gets considered in upcoming international climate negotiations.
Amid the debate over the role of carbon removal, the U.S. government is stepping up with some large investments in direct air capture hubs and research and development support for novel technologies, creating a positive signal for the market.
This week, Savvy Bowman, a program manager at ClearPath, joins us to explain what this all means for the future of carbon removal technologies and policies.”
📺YOUTUBE VIDEOS
Zero Emissions Cement is Closer Than You Think | Engineering with Rosie
“Concrete is the second-most-used substance in the world after water, and it's responsible for 8% of global CO2 emissions.
But, what makes concrete so indispensable and strong? The secret ingredient is cement. Cement is what binds everything together and gives concrete its strength – and also where most of the emissions come from. In 202, more than two and a half billion tons of CO2 were released from cement production. While cement in concrete can be recycled, the demand far outstrips the amount recycled each year, which means we have to produce a lot of fresh cement.
There are things we can do to limit how much we use, but because developing countries are using increasing amounts of cement to build housing and infrastructure to improve living standards of their booming populations we’re going to need more and more each year for a while yet. That means we need to find a way of producing it without the emissions, and unfortunately cement-making is likely to be one of the most difficult sectors to decarbonize.
But though it’s difficult, it’s by no means impossible. In this video we’re going to take a look at how traditional cement production works, where the CO2 comes from in that process, why it’s so hard to get rid of, and how we can make cement without CO2 emissions. I’m going to try and make the abstract concepts a bit more… concrete."
Carbon Removal - Bioenergy Applied | Bioenergy Europe
“This video explains how we can limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius – including by removing old carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere through technologies such as Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage.
Bioenergy Europe is the voice of European bioenergy. It aims to develop a sustainable bioenergy market based on fair business conditions. For more information visit:https://bioenergyeurope.org/”
Puro Standard: Terrestrial Storage of Biomass Public Consultation | purp_earth
Erin Burns on MRV & Basic Science | The Global CO2 Initiative
“Measuring, reporting, and verification (MRV) is a process used to assess the benefits of carbon removal while accounting for the emissions, energy use, and environmental and community impacts associated with an individual project. It tells us if the work was done safely and effectively, and provides receipts. MRV is key to scaling carbon removal while building accountability across the field.
In order to root policy in the best available science, Carbon180 has set out to understand the current gaps in research and the necessary scientific investments needed to scale carbon removal.
Erin Burns is executive director of Carbon180: a climate NGO dedicated to designing and championing equitable, science-based policies that bring carbon removal solutions to a gigaton scale.”
This Is CDR Ep. 79: Octavia Carbon's DAC x Geothermal in Kenya - Martin Freimüller & Duncan Kariuki | OpenAir
“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!”
Carbon Crowd: Epiphyte Build 1 Ep.1 - Hello World! | OpenAir
“In this webinar OpenAir's first Carbon Crowd build kicks off with Epiphyte, an OpenAir member developed and designed open source direct air capture (DAC) machine that was inspired by the Octavia Carbon team's "Thursday" prototype in Kenya. Every other Wednesday our global community is invited to tune in for updates and ideas, as we track the progress and completion of our very first Epiphyte "Hello World!" Build from our construction site at the University of Pennsylvania Chemical Engineering Department in Philadelphia, PA!”
New Technology Stores Carbon in the Ocean—Without Adding Acid | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
“In the fight to slow climate change, the ocean might be humanity’s biggest ally. From studying seaweed's potential to become biofuel to increasing seawater's ability to sequester carbon, scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are studying the many ways the ocean could help us stave off the worst effects of a warming world.
In a new effort, PNNL-Sequim researchers have teamed up with carbon sequestration technology company Ebb Carbon to test their technology that removes acid from seawater, allowing that seawater to absorb carbon dioxide without further acidifying the ocean.
This work is currently being supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office, Climate Works and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Ocean Acidification Program.”