WEEKLY SUMMARY (28 AUGUST - 03 SEPTEMBER 2023)-WEEK#28
Links to recent scientific papers, web posts, upcoming events, job opportunities, podcasts, and event recordings, etc. on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technology.
🗣️CONSULTATIONS REQUIRED
Biochar Carbon Credit Class, Open for Public Comment | August 22, 2023 - September 5, 2023
Call for input: Industrial Removal Certification Methodologies-EU Survey | Deadline: 15 September 2023
Comments Required: Draft report of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge & Technology (COMEST) on the ethics of climate engineering by UNESCO | 15 September 2023
BLM Seeks Public Input on Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Proposal in Laramine County | 30 September 2023
💸COMMERCIAL NEWS
DOE Announces $1.3 Million Toward Innovations in Carbon Dioxide Removal (Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management)
Scottish earth scientists awarded £1 million of UK Government funding to track CO2 Storage in volcanic rock (The University of Edinburgh)
EUR 80,000 in funds for biochar research at the University of Hamburg (Hamburg News)
Shell Scraps Its $100M Carbon Offset Plan (Carbon Credits)
📑RESEARCH PAPERS
From a carbon site to a carbon farm: potential and ways of developing the carbon sequestration industry in the Leningrad region and St. Petersburg
Макарова, М. В., Абакумов, Е. В., Шевченко, Е. В., Парамонова, Н. Н., Пахомова, Н. В., Львова, Н. А., ... & Титов, В. О. (2023). From carbon polygon to carbon farm: The potential and ways of developing the sequestration carbon industry in the Leningrad Region and St Petersburg. Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Науки о Земле, 68(1).
Laboratory experiments in ocean alkalinity enhancement research
Iglesias-Rodríguez, M. D., Rickaby, R. E., Singh, A., & Gately, J. A. (2023). Laboratory experiments in ocean alkalinity enhancement research. State of the Planet Discussions, 2023, 1-19.
Pathways, roundabouts, roadblocks, and shortcuts to safe and sustainable deployment of enhanced rock weathering in agriculture
Santos, R. M., Araujo, F., Jariwala, H., Khalidy, R., Haque, F., & Chiang, Y. W. (2023). Pathways, roundabouts, roadblocks and shortcuts to safe and sustainable deployment of enhanced rock weathering in agriculture. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11, 1215930.
Key uncertainties behind global projections of direct air capture deployment
Motlaghzadeh, K., Schweizer, V., Craik, N., & Moreno-Cruz, J. (2023). Key uncertainties behind global projections of direct air capture deployment. Applied Energy, 348, 121485.
Forests: A passive CO2 sink or an active CO2 pump?
Köhl, M., & Martes, L. M. (2023). Forests: A passive CO2 sink or an active CO2 pump?. Forest Policy and Economics, 155, 103040.
Nature to the rescue: past drivers and future potential of the Australian land-based carbon offsets market
Barber, G., Edwards, A., & Zander, K. K. (2023). Nature to the rescue: past drivers and future potential of the Australian land-based carbon offsets market. Climate Policy, 1-16.
Microwave Regeneration and Thermal and Oxidative Stability of Imidazolium Cyanopyrrolide Ionic Liquid for Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide
Lee, Y. Y., Cagli, E., Klemm, A., Park, Y., Dikki, R., Kidder, M. K., & Gurkan, B. (2023). Microwave regeneration and thermal and oxidative stability of imidazolium cyanopyrrolide ionic liquid for direct air capture of carbon dioxide. ChemSusChem, e202300118.
Reducing sectoral hard-to-abate emissions to limit reliance of Carbon Dioxide Removal in 1.5°C scenarios
Edelenbosch, O., van den Berg, M., de Boer, H. S., Chen, H., Daioglou, V., Dekker, M., ... & van Vuuren, D. (2023). Reducing sectoral hard to abate emissions to limit reliance of Carbon Dioxide Removal in 1.5° C scenarios (Preprint).
Developing Versatile Contactors for Direct Air Capture of CO2 through Amine Grafting onto Alumina Pellets and Alumina Wash-Coated Monoliths
Grossmann, Q., Stampi-Bombelli, V., Yakimov, A., Docherty, S., Copéret, C., & Mazzotti, M. (2023). Developing Versatile Contactors for Direct Air Capture of CO2 through Amine Grafting onto Alumina Pellets and Alumina Wash-Coated Monoliths. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
Sodium Hydroxide-Based CO2 Direct Air Capture for Soda Ash Production─Fundamentals for Process Engineering
Ghaffari, S., Gutierrez, M. F., Seidel-Morgenstern, A., Lorenz, H., & Schulze, P. (2023). Sodium Hydroxide-Based CO2 Direct Air Capture for Soda Ash Production─ Fundamentals for Process Engineering. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
Biochar Aged for Five Years Altered Carbon Fractions and Enzyme Activities of Sandy Soil
Zhang, Y., Ma, W., Sun, X., Jiang, J., Li, D., Tang, G., ... & Jia, H. (2023). Biochar Aged for Five Years Altered Carbon Fractions and Enzyme Activities of Sandy Soil. Land, 12(8), 1645.
Enhanced clay formation key in sustaining the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum
Krause, A. J., Sluijs, A., Van der Ploeg, R., Lenton, T. M., & Pogge von Strandmann, P. A. (2023). Enhanced clay formation key in sustaining the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum. Nature Geoscience, 1-9.
Improving adsorption-based direct air capture performance through operating parameter optimization
Luukkonen, A., Elfving, J., & Inkeri, E. (2023). Improving adsorption-based direct air capture performance through operating parameter optimization. Chemical Engineering Journal, 471, 144525.
The Carbon Dioxide Removal Gap
Lamb, W., Gasser, T., Grassi, G., Gidden, M., Powis, C., Geden, O., ... & Minx, J. C. (2023). The carbon dioxide removal gap.
Carbon offsets aren’t helping the planet — four ways to fix them
Boyd, P. W., Bach, L., Holden, R., & Turney, C. (2023). Carbon offsets aren’t helping the planet—four ways to fix them. Nature, 620(7976), 947-949.
Do all roads lead to Paris? Comparing pathways to net-zero by BP, Shell, Chevron and ExxonMobil
Trencher, G., Blondeel, M., & Asuka, J. (2023). Do all roads lead to Paris? Comparing pathways to net-zero by BP, Shell, Chevron and ExxonMobil. Climatic Change, 176(7), 83.
Geological Carbon Storage in NI Basalts Geological Carbon Storage in Northern Irish Basalts: Prospectivity and Potential
Andrews, G. (2022). Geological Carbon Storage in Northern Irish Basalts: Prospectivity and Potential. Available at SSRN 4157443.
Global carbon uptake of cement carbonation accounts 1930–2021
Huang, Z., Wang, J., Bing, L., Qiu, Y., Guo, R., Yu, Y., ... & Liu, Z. (2023). Global carbon uptake of cement carbonation accounts 1930–2021. Earth System Science Data Discussions, 2023, 1-28.
Algal-bacterial consortium promotes carbon sink formation in saline environment
Gu, W., Wu, S., Liu, X., Wang, L., Wang, X., Qiu, Q., & Wang, G. (2023). Algal-bacterial consortium promotes carbon sink formation in saline environment. Journal of Advanced Research.
Chen, X., Di, Q., & Liang, C. (2023). Heading towards carbon neutrality: How marine carbon sinks become an important handle for promoting marine ecological civilization construction? Literature review and research prospect based on the CiteSpace
Chen, X., Di, Q., & Liang, C. (2023). Heading towards carbon neutrality: How marine carbon sinks become an important handle for promoting marine ecological civilization construction? Literature review and research prospect based on the CiteSpace.
Understandings on design and application for direct air capture: From advanced sorbents to thermal cycles
Shi, W. K., Ji, Y., Zhang, X. J., Fang, M. X., Wang, T., & Jiang, L. (2023). Understandings on design and application for direct air capture: From advanced sorbents to thermal cycles. Carbon Capture Science & Technology, 7, 100114.
📰WEB POSTS
Enhanced chemical weathering: A solution to the climate crisis?
Sylvera Wins UK Grant To Research Peatlands CO2 Removal (Carbon Herald)
Department of Natural Resource collaborate with Myno Carbon to create a climate resilience partnership (KHQ)
NEG8 Carbon Successfully Captures 1.2T Of CO2 Yearly (Carbon Herald)
Drax Joins World Economic Forum’s First Movers Coalition (Carbon Herald)
Carbonfuture and Puro.earth Partner to Accelerate Scaling of Durable Carbon Removal (Carbonfuture)
EU climate target for 2040 (European Commission)
Falling fast
Carbon Centric And Fidelis New Energy Enter Into Letter Of Intent For Onshore CO2 Storage (Carbon Herald)
Occidental’s Big Buy May Change Course of $150 Billion Market (Bloomberg NEF)
Planting millions of trees — Geoengineering, Nature-based Solution, Mitigation, or Adaptation? (Medium)
The strategy behind Oxy's acquisition of Carbon Engineering (Terraform Now)
Eight million tonnes of carbon to be obtained, says Santos (The National)
📃REPORTS
Developing a Carbon Removals Strategy
Draft report of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge & Technology (COMEST) on the ethics of climate engineering
Do all roads lead to Paris? Climate change mitigation policies in the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters
EU climate target for 2040, Summary report
International Governance of Technological Carbon Removal: Surfacing Questions, Exploring Solutions (World Resources Institute)
Industrial Carbon Management Strategy Position Paper -NEP
📕THESIS
Assessing Credibility in the Voluntary Carbon Market? Developing, testing, and evaluating a credibility assessment framework using the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market as a case study
🧰CDR FIRMS
TerraFixing
📆UPCOMING EVENTS
[C]Worthy: Building Tools for Safe, Effective, and Verifiable Marine CDR by OpenAir | 05 September 2023
Workshop: The Role of R&D and Policy for advancing Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) in the EU | 05 September 2023
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
(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
(NEW) Taming the Wild West of Climate: Bringing Standards and Quality to the VCM by Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy | 14 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
(NEW) A tour of newly funded marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) projects | 15 September 2023 - 16 September 2023
Meet Climeworks at Climate Week NYC 2023 | 17-24 September 2023
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
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
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
International Biochar Initiative's Annual Symposium | 7-9 November 2023
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
Job Openings at ZS2Technologies:
“ZS2’s proprietary magnesium oxysulfate reduces carbon output by during production by a whopping 65%. What’s more, our scientists are working on advanced carbon capture and sequestration technologies that will actually turn our magnesium cement products into carbon sinks. In addition, every vehicle that has to bring materials to a construction site adds to the overall carbon footprint of a building. Building with TechPanels reduces transportation requirements by 85% when compared to tilt-up concrete!”
Data Engineer at Nori | Seattle, WA
“Nori is a venture-backed and values focused company, caring deeply about people and our planet. Their team is made of a diverse set of people with complementing skill-sets, all unified on the mission to address the climate crisis by enabling global CO2 removal."
Various Job Openings at Brimstone:
“The Brimstone Process™ is a breakthrough in cement production, making carbon-negative portland cement with carbon-free calcium silicate rock instead of limestone.”
Various Job Openings at TerraFixing:
“TerraFixing have developed the only solution for capturing CO2 in cold climates. Our breakthroughs have unlocked the most abundant renewable power opportunities in the world while allowing us to tap into vast reservoirs that can store all of humanity's legacy CO2 emissions. It is time to turn back the clock on climate change.”
Biochar Education Manager at the International Biochar Initiative | Remote
“The International Biochar Initiative (IBI) is a global platform for fostering stakeholder collaboration, good industry practices, and environmental and ethical standards to support biochar systems that are safe and economically viable. With over 600 members based in 63 countries, IBI members include carbon markets, biochar producers, biochar users, technology innovators, researchers, and other non-profit organizations.”
🎙️PODCASTS
Rose Sharifian of SeaO2 on Electrochemical Ocean Carbon Capture and the European Marine CDR Community | Plan Sea: Ocean Interventions to Address Climate Change
“Rose Sharifian, CTO of the Dutch startup SeaO2, joins Plan Sea to talk about their electrochemical ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) approach. Rose, Anna and Wil discuss SeaO2's technical roadmap, electrochemical membrane technology as well as challenges and opportunties they are facing in the European CDR market. Rose also shares how SeaO2 fits into the global picture of OAE startups and why she believes they are amongst the furthest in their development. Learn more about SeaO2 on https://www.seao2.nl/.”
Carbon Negative Cement, DeepTech Development Frameworks, Hiring a Founding Team, Pointers on an IP Business, & More w/ Cody Finke (Brimstone) | CleanTechies Podcast
“In this episode, Silas Mahner (@silasmahner) and Cody Finke (@cody_finke), the Co-Founder of Brimstone discuss Cody's journey into climate and how they are revolutionizing the cement space.
They have created a cement product that has just been approved as certified Portland Cement - This is the main cement used in the construction of buildings. The best part, it's carbon neutral in many cases negative (depending on the energy source used).
This is a truly revolutionary technology and we can't wait to see it at commercial scale in the next few years.”
How carbon removal is helping make ultra-low carbon concrete a reality | The Carbon Curve
“In this episode, Na’im and Rahul discuss:
-Concrete and its carbon footprint;
-CarbonBuilt’s technology for producing ultra-low carbon concrete;
-The distinction between emissions avoidance and removal both in CarbonBuilt’s technology as well as its credit system;
-CarbonBuilt’s commercial partnership with Blair Block;
-CarbonBuilt’s participation in the Four Corners Carbon Coalition’s first project;
-Barriers to scaling low carbon concrete technology and the role of policy in addressing these barriers.”
📺YOUTUBE VIDEOS
Carbon Removal from 30,000 Feet - An Intro for Local Government Decision-Makers with Ramon Alatorre | OpenAir
“In this short webinar teach-in, Ramon Alatorre, Executive Director of the 4 Corners Carbon Coalition, presents a short overview of key carbon removal concepts during the New Mexico Carbon Removal Roundtable (June 2023).”
'Biggest' carbon capture facility captures 8 million tonnes: Resources Minister | Sky News Australia
“Resources Minister Madeleine King says 8 million tonnes of carbon have been sequestered into a former gas reservoir, which is now capable of storing another type of gas. So it is an important development, Ms King told Sky News Australia. It's not the only carbon capture and storage facility in this country, but it is the biggest, and it's in fact the biggest in the world.”
This Is CDR Ep.80: Crew Carbon with Joachim Katchinoff and Kevin Vu | OpenAir
“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 received grant support from the Carbon to Sea Initiative.”
Overview: The Massachusetts Carbon Dioxide Removal Leadership Act (S. 2096) | OpenAir
“This short presentation provides an overview of S.2096, state legislation introduced in 2023 in Massachusetts to catalyze carbon dioxide removal in the commonwealth through a state-administered procurement program.
The presentation was prepared for Massachusetts state legislators and their staff, and is meant to be delivered by OpenAir advocates within the context of citizen lobbying. It covers:
The basic concepts and rationale for carbon dioxide removal, with a focus on the commonwealth's specific climate targets and objectives, and CDR opportunities; The specific aspects of the legislation, and how they fit together.”
Bay Area biotech startup boosts tree growth to capture carbon | KPIX | CBS NEWS BAY AREA
“A Bay Area biotech startup is fighting climate change by genetically enhancing the ability of trees to capture and store carbon dioxide. Sara Donchey reports.”
Ambitious project aims to plant one million seagrass cuttings in Mediterranean Sea by 2050 | New Scientists
“A project to plant and protect up to 50 square kilometres of Posidonia oceanica seagrass in the Mediterranean Sea by 2050 is under way in Sardinia, Italy.
Seagrass is renowned for its ability to capture carbon up to 35 times faster than tropical rainforests and accounts for up to 10 per cent of the ocean’s capacity to store carbon. Owing to the impacts of pollution, disease and human disturbance, seagrass meadows are in severe decline globally.
“Our objective is to plant one million cuttings,” says Alessio Satta, president of MEDSEA Foundation, the environmental non-profit organisation behind the project. But planting is just one part of the effort. “We have to identify and put in place management solutions like eco-mooring or anti-trawling systems to avoid any kind of trawling impact on Posidonia,” says Satta. In Sardinia, the new cuttings are within the protected marine area of the Sinis peninsula, and to ensure their safe maturation the team also dropped 60 anti-trawl barriers onto the seafloor.
Seagrass also provides a habitat for marine species and plays an important role in dissipating wave energy, protecting coastlines and coastal communities. “If there was no seagrass there, then the coastal areas would get much more damaged,” says Lucy Woodall, a marine biologist at the University of Exeter, UK, and a science team member at Extreme E, an electric-vehicle racing organisation that is a partner on the project.”
DAC Hubs 101 | AirMiners
“The US Department of Energy just supercharged Direct Air Capture by releasing the names, sites, and funding amounts for the first Direct Air Capture Hubs!
AirMiners is hosting an event on August 30th unpacking what this means, and how these hubs will enable the development of DAC in the United States.”