The CDR Policy Scoop

• SHOWDOWN: Biochar vs Direct Air Capture

  A fun, interactive, first-of-a-kind live debate with over 1000 attendees signed up.We picked two real heavyweights: DAC, the poster-child of CDR, with over 200 DAC companies founded to date. On the other hand, biochar, responsible for a whopping 84% of all durable CDR deliveries to date.In the DAC corner: Martin Freimüller is the Co-Founder and CEO of Octavia Carbon – the first DAC company in the Global South and fifth largest in the world. He moved his life to Kenya in 2021, upon realising it's the world's best place for DAC.In the Biochar corner: Sebastian Manhart is Senior Policy Advisor at Carbonfuture and a Board Member of the International Biochar Initiative. Few post as much about biochar as Sebastian. Moderated by the CDR Policy Scoop co-host Eve Tamme to keep it punchy (not literally), informative, and entertaining. Disclaimer: The primary objective of this debate is to inform & entertain, not to create division. It takes ALL CDR methods to reach the gigaton scale.Links:Eve Tamme: LinkedIn and WebsiteSebastian Manhart: LinkedIn and WebsiteMartin Freimüller: LinkedIn and Octavia Carbon website Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Rethinking Net-Zero - Do International Credits Help or Harm?

  On March 31st, EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra floated various ideas for how Europe’s expected 90% emission reduction target for 2040 could be achieved.One of them: letting EU countries purchase United Nations Article 6 credits to meet EU's 2040 climate target. Similar suggestions are currently being proposed by the upcoming German government.This would require undoing a core principle of Europe’s Climate Law: only European reductions and removals shall count towards climate neutrality.The backlash has been significant, especially in civil society and environmental groups.But could this - with some modifications - actually provide a smart path for Europe?Links:Eve Tamme: LinkedIn and WebsiteSebastian Manhart: LinkedIn and WebsitePolitico article on Commissioner Hoekstra’s comments Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• SBTi - Step Forward or Missed Opportunity for CDR?

  8,000 companies have emission reduction targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative. Only around 50 of them have so far purchased durable carbon removal.Imagine if all of them purchased CDR? The impact could be >50Mt of demand. Per year. Starting from 2030.On March 18th, the SBTi released the draft net-zero standard 2.0 which marks a potential inflection point. Will it:Drive companies to begin CDR purchases immediately?Keep CDR voluntary until the 2040s?⁠Inadvertently push companies away from SBTi due to concerns about mandatory CDR costs?To make sense of this wide spectrum of possibilities, the CDR Policy Scoop is delighted to have Robert Höglund back on the show. He has been a member of the external SBTi Technical Advisory Group and understands the process and its implications for CDR like no other.Links:Eve Tamme: LinkedIn and WebsiteSebastian Manhart: LinkedIn and WebsiteRobert Höglund: LinkedIn, Website, and SBTi draft CNZS AnalysisSBTi’s draft Corporate Net Zero Standard ConsultationCarbon Direct Analysis on draft SBTi CNZSLukas May analysis on potential CDR demand of draft SBTi’s CNZS Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• CORSIA vs ETS - what will actually clean up aviation?

  Aviation is responsible for almost 1Gt of CO2 emissions, or 2.5% of global emissions. Up to 4% when accounting for non-CO2 climate warming effects. And demand is only going up: 3-4% year-on-year.Aviation is also notoriously hard to decarbonise: most hope is placed on sustainable aviation fuels (SAF). Given there will always be considerable residual emissions (ICAO: 200Mt-950Mt in 2050), carbon removal is central to aviation’s net-zero aspiration for 2050.From a policy perspective, it is incredibly challenging to regulate, as 61% of aviation emissions are emitted on international flights and only 39% within a single country’s boundaries.A promising solution is emission trading systems for domestic/regional emissions (think EU ETS) and CORSIA for international emissions.Sounds easy? The reality is incredibly complex, messy, and potentially worrying.Listen in to hear Eve Tamme and Sebastian Manhart unpack this topic and provide clear solutions for what could be done in future.Links:Eve Tamme: LinkedIn and WebsiteSebastian Manhart: LinkedIn and WebsitePeople love flying, and that is not going to changeThe complex CORSIA vs EU ETS nexusE-fuels or storage – how to make the most of clean electricity and captured CO2ReFuelEU AviationCORSIA Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Will the EU need twice as much CDR as expected?

  Will the EU need 2x as much CDR?The highly anticipated 333-page milestone report on carbon removal by Europe's Scientific Advisory Board has landed, promising to be the most comprehensive analysis of CDR to date. Does this heavyweight report deliver the strategic guidance needed to shape effective EU CDR policy? What other crucial insights does it offer – and more importantly, what might it have missed?Eve and Sebastian delve into the report and share their take.Tune in to find out more.Links:Eve Tamme: LinkedIn and WebsiteSebastian Manhart: LinkedIn and WebsiteReport: ‘Scaling up carbon dioxide removals – Recommendations for navigating opportunities and risks in the EU’ by the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate ChangeEve’s findings on the 333-page CDR reportWill the EU need twice as much CDR as expected?Supercharging carbon removal from the EU’s land sector Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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