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Join us for a conversation with award-winning producer-director Leila Conners about her latest feature documentary Legion 44, which chronicles dozens of visionary innovators worldwide advancing groundbreaking carbon removal technologies. From the vulnerable islands of Tuvalu to the Hajar mountains in Oman, the film showcases human ingenuity and collaboration in the face of our unfolding climate emergency.
Leila will share the story and goal of Legion 44's conception and production, and information on how you can help spread the word and bring the film to your local cinema. -
This Is CDR is pleased to welcome Dr. Brendan Hermalyn, Founder and CEO of Thalo Labs, to share the NYC-based CDR startup's innovative direct air capture technology for urban environments. Thalo Labs is pioneering scalable DAC systems designed to remove CO₂ and other pollutants from indoor spaces and city air, turning captured carbon into valuable products while generating revenue through carbon credits. With a background that includes leadership roles at NASA and Waymo, Dr. Hermalyn brings a wealth of knowledge to the conversation about the future of carbon removal technology in our cities.
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This week, This Is CDR is excited to welcome Helen Lundebye, Co-Founder of CDRjobs, a comprehensive platform launched earlier this year dedicated to careers in carbon dioxide removal (CDR). It offers an extensive job board featuring hundreds of active listings from more than 685 companies, catering to both seasoned professionals and newcomers in the CDR sector. Beyond job postings, CDRjobs provides valuable industry data and insights, including salary reports and hiring trends, to assist users in making informed career decisions.
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This week on This is CDR, we're joined by the organizing team behind the Carbon Removal Challenge: Matt Parker, Sue Dorward, and Duncan McDowall. The OpenAir Carbon Removal Challenge provides students from colleges and universities around the world an opportunity to design and build new carbon removal solutions and build connections that will bring the next generation of talented engineers, thinkers, and designers into the carbon removal world. There are educational webinars throughout the Challenge and 5 lucky finalist groups are invited to an in-person showcase in New York City in May 2025.
This will be the 3rd annual CRC, so please join us to learn about the success of past Challenges and details about participating and supporting this years CRC. -
This Is CDR welcomes Dr. Luke Shors, President of Capture6, a pioneering Direct Air Capture company headquartered in California and New Zealand. Capture6 is at the forefront of DAC innovation, offering a unique, water-positive direct air capture (DAC) technology that not only removes CO₂ from the atmosphere but also enhances freshwater availability. By integrating their systems with existing water treatment facilities, Capture6 transforms waste brine into valuable resources, addressing both carbon removal and water scarcity challenges.
Dr. Shors is the Co-Founder and President of Capture6. He holds a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education where he also was a fellow at the Harvard Center on Energy and the Environment. Dr. Shors professional interests span health, energy, education and technology, and he has worked in over twenty countries with a range of bilateral and mulitlateral clients including the World Bank, OECD, UNICER and USAID. -
OpenAir is excited to present This Is CDR, an online event series that explores the wide range of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions currently being researched, developed, and deployed, and discusses them in the context of policies OpenAir seeks to form and advance at every level of government in the U.S., as well as in national and subnational jurisdictions globally.
This week we are excited to welcome Stacy Kauk and Neil Hacker of Isometric. https://isometric.com/
Neil Hacker leads Research and Partnerships at Isometric, the leading carbon removal registry. His work involves working with suppliers and building out a suite of high quality protocols for crediting in pathways like Enhanced Weathering, BiCRS and DAC. In his role, he spends a lot of time thinking about how Isometric can leverage high quality monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) to build trust and demand in the voluntary and compliance carbon markets.
Stacy Kauk is Isometric's Head of Science. This includes ensuring that rigorous science underpins all of Isometric’s carbon crediting decisions and that the Protocols and Modules are in line with the Isometric Standard. Stacy was previously Head Of Sustainability at Shopify where she was responsible for building Shopify’s $55M+ CDR portfolio and was a founding member of Frontier. She also serves on the advisory boards of Carbon Removal Canada and Collaborative Fund, a venture capital firm. She has a background in environmental engineering and public policy, with 20 years of experience working at the intersection of science and regulation in both the private and public sectors.
Join us for a discussion of what Isometric does, how Isometric is different from other registries with their focus on scientific rigor, transparency, aligned incentives, and speed, what quality means when it comes to carbon credits, and Isometric's modular approach to protocol development and what protocols have launched recently. -
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OpenAir is excited to present This Is CDR, an online event series that explores the wide range of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions currently being researched, developed, and deployed, and discusses them in the context of policies OpenAir seeks to formulate and advance at every level of government in the U.S., as well as in national and subnational jurisdictions globally.
This week we are pleased to welcome Anu Khan of the Carbon Removal Standards Initiative.
Link: https://www.carbonremovalstandards.org/
In the fall of 2022, Carbon180 published its guide to high accountability MRV, CDR industry stakeholders met in San Francisco to discuss the state of standardization, and scientists convened in Rhode Island to consider the technical and social underpinnings of MRV in open systems like the ocean. Since then, interest in MRV has exploded, with events, panels and workshops all over the world. And Anu Khan (former Deputy Director of Science & Innovation at Carbon180) has been going around to those events asking: What are standards? Where do standards come from? And whose job is this anyway?
18 months of research on the carbon removal ecosystem, extensive industry interviews, and case studies from other emerging industries has led to the launch of the Carbon Removal Standards Initiative (CRSI). CRSI is a new nonprofit initiative focused on bringing rigor and accountability to the CDR sector through the uniquely powerful mechanism of regulatory standards. In today's episode of This Is CDR, Anu explains what CRSI does, why they focus on policy, and how they work with partners across the CDR ecosystem.
Anu founded CRSI in early 2024 while an Entrepreneur in Residence at Carbon180. She previously led the Science & Innovation team at Carbon180. Prior to Carbon180, Anu worked in climate philanthropy at Founders Pledge. Her academic background is in electrochemistry and materials science. -
In this episode This Is CDR is pleased to welcome Deep Sky Chief Carbon Scientist and Head of Engineering Dr. Phil De Luna to discuss how the company is building large-scale infrastructure in Canada to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at an unprecedented rate.
Deep Sky: https://www.deepskyclimate.com/
About Dr. Phil De Luna:
Dr. Phil De Luna is renowned scientist and carbontech innovator, responsible for building Deep Sky Labs. Previously, Phil was a Sustainability Expert at McKinsey & Company. With a PhD in Materials Science & Engineering and a Masters in Chemistry, he has published 50+ papers in high impact science journals. A Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient in 2019, Phil was also a finalist in the $20M Carbon XPRIZE.
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In this episode we are pleased to welcome Graphyte's CEO Barclay Rogers and CTO Dr. Hannah Murnen to discuss how the company's Carbon Casting process offers carbon dioxide removal that is permanent, affordable, and immediately scalable.
Graphyte: https://www.graphyte.com/
About Barclay:
Barclay Rogers is a seasoned executive with extensive carbon experience, including leading business development efforts for Indigo Agriculture (agricultural soil carbon removals) and overall development activities for C12 Energy (geologic carbon sequestration). Barclay holds an MBA from the University of Cambridge, an LLM from the University of Arkansas, a JD from Lewis & Clark college, and a B.S in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arkansas.
About Hannah:
Dr. Hannah Murnen is a proven leader in developing and scaling industrial technologies. She served as Managing Director of Activate Anywhere and Chief Technical Officer at Compact Membrane Systems. Hannah also spent several years with McKinsey and Company, advising industrial companies on growth strategy and operations. Hannah holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of California Berkeley and a Bachelor of Engineering from Dartmouth College. -
This week we are pleased to welcome Dr. David Hughes of Penn State University to present his work with PlantVillage and discuss how we can advance biochar carbon removal to gigatonne scale.
PlantVillage: https://plantvillage.psu.edu/
About David:
David Hughes is the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Global Food Security at Penn State University and Director of USAID Innovation Lab on Current and Emerging Threats to Crops. David is additionally founder of PlantVillage; the for-profit enterprises Carbon4Good and PlantVillage+; and the Village Youth Fund. PlantVillage is a public good research enterprise at Penn State that leverages AI to help smallholder farmers adapt to climate change and leverage their farms to mitigate climate change via AI. PlantVillage is one of the fifteen teams to have won an XPRIZE Carbon Removal Milestone Award and is now competing for the Grand Prize. PlantVillage has developed a digital monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) system which is available to co-development partners including Biochar Life, Carboneers, and others via PlantVillage+ and the company's Biochar App. -
In this episode This Is CDR is pleased to welcome Teresa Hartmann and Ted Christie-Miller from BeZero Carbon to present and discuss the company's work as a carbon ratings agency, and how independent, risk-based, project-level ratings can help build the market trust necessary to scale high-quality CDR.
About Teresa:
Teresa Hartmann is the Chief Ratings Officer at BeZero Carbon. Teresa has extensive experience in scaling carbon market development, transparency, and integrity. Before joining BeZero, Teresa led market formation for the ICVCM and helped develop the Core Carbon Principles. Teresa also held roles at WEF, UNEP, and a national park in Africa, as well as authored key reports on nature and climate finance such as WEF’s Nature and Net Zero report.
About Ted:
Ted Christie-Miller is Director of Carbon Removal at BeZero Carbon, a global carbon ratings agency. Ted joined BeZero in October 2021. Prior to BeZero, he founded and led the bipartisan Getting to Zero climate policy programme at the thinktank Onward. Ted regularly writes in the national media on the topics of climate and carbon markets and is a regular speaker at carbon events around the world.
About BeZero Carbon - https://bezerocarbon.com/
BeZero is a carbon ratings agency. Its ratings and risk products equip world-leading organisations with the knowledge, tools and confidence to make better climate decisions. Its aim is to scale investment in environmental markets that deliver a sustainable future. -
In this Episode we welcome Holocene Co-Founder and CEO Anca Timofte to present and discuss the company's novel low-temperature DAC process which leverages organic chemistry for scalable and affordable CDR.
Holocene: https://theholocene.co
ABOUT ANCA:
Anca Timofte serves as Holocene’s CEO, having started Holocene from her Stanford GSB dorm room after 8 years of experience designing & developing DAC facilities at Climeworks. Originally from Romania, Anca holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Environmental Engineering from Washington University. She earned a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering from ETH Zurich and completed her research thesis at Stanford University. She completed a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University focused on climate technology deployment and climate finance with an emphasis on carbon dioxide removal. -
In this Episode This Is CDR welcomes Robert Höglund back to the program to present and discuss CDR.fyi's recently released 2023 Year in Review and other key CDR market developments.
CDR.fyi: https://www.cdr.fyi/
About Robert:
Robert Höglund is an advisor in carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and climate impact. He manages the charitable Milkywire Climate Transformation Fund, co-founded the CDR market overview CDR.fyi, works with the NGO Carbon Gap, and writes reports and articles on carbon removal and corporate climate contributions. He is also a member of the EU Expert Group on Carbon Removals (observer status), and of the Science-based Target Initiative's (SBTi) Technical Advisory Group. -
This week Toby and Megha welcome Dan Maxbauer and Sean McCauley from Alkali Earth to present and discuss the company's novel process which delivers high-quality, permanent, and verifiable CDR through optimized application of alkaline industrial minerals in gravel roads.
Alkali Earth: https://www.alkali.earth/
About Dan:
Dan Maxbauer is Alkali Earth's Co-Founder and Science Lead. Dan is an Assistant Professor of Geology at Carleton College and has expertise in mineral weathering and carbon cycling along with past experience consulting on carbon removal methodologies and project review with Verra, Frontier Climate, and XPRIZE.
About Sean:
Sean McCauley is Alkali Earth's Co-Founder and Business Lead. Sean is a Carleton College geology alumnus, PhD geochemist from Cal Berkeley, and has spent a long career working in consulting and private equity with large corporations such as McKinsey, TPG Capital, Target, and Charles Schwab. -
In this episode Toby and Megha welcome Rory Brown and Jasper Wong from Airhive to present and discuss the company's novel DAC process which employs fluidisation to dramatically accelerate the mineralization of atmospheric CO2.
Airhive: https://airhive.earth/
About Rory:
Rory Brown is Co-Founder and CEO of Airhive. Rory is an experienced manager and strategist who has delivered over £200M in overseas programmes for the UK government. Rory brings leadership and delivery expertise to rapidly scale Airhive’s technology.
About Jasper:
Jasper Wong is Co-Founder and CTO of Airhive. Jasper is a PhD research engineer from Imperial College London with a background in decarbonisation. He holds a BA and MEng from the University of Cambridge. Jasper brings scientific and engineering expertise to Airhive’s technology. -
This week we are pleased to welcome Alex Gagnon and Julian Sachs from Banyu Carbon to present and discuss the company's novel photochemical CDR process to capture carbon dioxide from seawater.https://www.banyucarbon.com/About Alex:Dr. Alex Gagnon (PhD Chemistry, Caltech; BS, UC-Berkeley) is an expert in marine carbon who was recognized with a National Science Foundation CAREER award. He has shared his work with President Obama and as an invited panelist for the National Academies. He is deeply involved in marine carbon removal research in both his academic and now his business roles. As a member of a mountain rescue team during graduate school, Alex learned the value of leadership, resilience, and community, lesson that he brings to his role as an entrepreneur. The next 20 years will determine if we can manage atmospheric CO2 and keep global temperatures below dangerous levels. Alex can think of no higher calling than developing climate technology to meet this challenge. Alex is on leave from his faculty duties at the University of Washington to advance the carbon-dioxide-removal technology developed with co-founder Julian Sachs. Alex loves to run, hike, and garden with his family.About Julian:Dr. Julian Sachs (PhD, MIT; BS, MIT) is a marine organic chemist and climate scientist. His 120 scientific publications have been cited more than 8,000 times. He’s been obsessed with weather and climate since childhood when his family evacuated Martha’s Vineyard in advance of a hurricane and a blizzard closed his New Jersey school for a week. Majoring in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science in college, earning a PhD in Chemical Oceanography with a dissertation on past climate, then researching and teaching climate science for the last 20+ years fueled his passion to understand the earth system. No longer satisfied with studying the global warming threat, Julian is motivated to help avert it. Toward that end Julian is on leave from his faculty position at the University of Washington to advance Banyu Carbon’s carbon removal technology. Outside Banyu, Julian loves to do anything on a bike (inclines & obstacles preferred), snowboard, toss frisbees to his dog, and spend time with his wife and two teenagers.
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In this episode of This Is CDR week we are pleased to welcome Rudy Kahsar and Gloria See to present and discuss RMI's November 2023 Applied Innovation Roadmap (AIR) for CDR that a provides comprehensive, objective, and action-oriented perspective on how to best advance the technical readiness of 32 carbon dioxide removal (CDR) approaches this decade.
Roadmap Link https://rmi.org/insight/the-applied-innovation-roadmap-for-cdr/
About Rudy:
Dr. Rudy Kahsar is a Manager on RMI’s Climate-Aligned Industries CDR team. Prior to joining RMI, Rudy led the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Track in the Masters of Environment program at CU Boulder where he taught classes in energy policy, energy systems and technologies, data science and visualization in energy, the energy water nexus, and international energy and sustainability. Before that, he served as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Policy Fellow in the US Department of Energy in Washington, D.C., first in the Office of International Climate and Clean Energy and then in the Advanced Manufacturing Office on the Strategic Analysis Team. He has also worked in energy consulting, focusing on measurement and verification, energy efficiency, and renewables integration for the oil and gas and electricity sectors.
Rudy’s Ph.D. focused on heterogenous catalysis with applications in bio based fuels and chemicals.
About Gloria:
Dr. Gloria See is a Senior Associate on RMI's Climate-Aligned Industries Team, working on CDR pathways with a focus on biogenic approaches. Gloria is an electrical engineer and has worked on hardware and model development for precision agriculture, photovoltaic devices, environmental monitoring in museums, and wearable sensors. She also has experience in business development, academic research, entrepreneurship, and sustainable product development, including field research in India and Tanzania. Gloria earned a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.' -
In this episode Toby and Megha welcome Dr. Antonius Gagern and Irene Polyni from Carbon to Sea, the leading initiative to evaluate whether ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) can safely remove and store billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide.
https://carbontosea.org/
About Antonius:
Dr. Antonius Gagern is the Executive Director at the Carbon to Sea, a non-profit initiative to systematically evaluate the viability of ocean-based CDR pathways. Prior to this, Antonius spent five years building philanthropic strategies to advance ocean CDR, first at CEA Consulting and later as a Director at Additional Ventures, which spun out Carbon to Sea. Before entering the CDR universe, Antonius was a natural resource economist focused on fisheries and marine conservation in the tropics, as well as on climate smart agriculture. Antonius holds degrees in Biology (BSc.), Marine Ecology (MSc.) and Natural Resource Economics (PhD).
About Irene:
Irene Polnyi leads the development of Carbon to Sea’s global field research network. Before joining Carbon to Sea Initiative, Irene served as Executive Director of the Institute for Abundant Oceans, where she led the strategic direction and scientific mandates with Professor Carlos Duarte to unlock new methods to fund and develop blue natural capital. Prior to her work in oceans, Irene co-led a nonprofit accelerator focused on human rights and democracy-building in Southeast Asia and was a management consultant for over 10 years. Irene holds a BS in Economics and Marketing from NYU’s Stern School of Business and lives in Brooklyn, NY. -
https://www.rewind.earth/
https://openaircollective.com/
This week This Is CDR welcomes Rewind Co-Founders Ram Amar and Professor Dror Angel who will discuss the company's approach to CDR via terrestrial biomass sinking in anoxic zones of the Black Sea.
About Ram:
Ram Amar is the CEO of Rewind.earth. Ram's background is in physics, computer science and entrepreneurship. Since selling his previous startup, Alooma, to Google, Ram has turned to work on mitigating the climate crisis. He co-founded a think tank and advocacy project for a Net Zero Israel, started a community of entrepreneurs transitioning to climate-tech, and after 3 years of research, co-founded Rewind.
About Professor Angel:
Prof. Dror Angel leads the Applied Marine Biology & Ecology Research group at the Department of Maritime Civilizations, University of Haifa. He studies a variety of environmental issues that affect and are affected by human activities, such as aquaculture and microplastic pollution. Dror’s group explores ecological and socio-economic consequences of invasive species and jellyfish blooms, employs citizen science in the study of jellyfish and has developed a public website and application for this purpose. The group also studies carbon sequestration as a means to combat climate change and the key scientific processes involved. -
This week we are pleased to welcome Dai Ellis and Dr. Jennifer Mills from the founding team of Cascade Climate, a newly launched field-building organization for open-system climate interventions, starting with enhanced weathering (EW).
Cascade Climate: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cascade-climate/
About Dai:
Dai Ellis is an entrepreneur with experience founding and scaling high-performing nonprofit and for-profit ventures across climate, health, and education. He is a thought leader on field building and market shaping for social impact. Earlier in his career, Dai led the Clinton Health Access Initiative’s pioneering work on market shaping for drugs, vaccines, and other health products in the Global South. More recently, he has been at the forefront of efforts to import learning and tools from global health market shaping into climate tech. Between his time in global health and climate, Dai spent the better part of a decade building education ventures, including a VC-backed pan-African network of K-12 schools called Nova Pioneer offering world-class education at affordable tuition levels.
About Jennifer:
Dr. Jennifer Mills is a geochemist by training working at the frontier of climate solutions and carbon removal. She was most recently a Senior Scientist at Heirloom Carbon, where she helped develop and scale a pioneering direct air capture process underpinned by carbon mineralization. She is a carbon cycle specialist with expertise spanning terrestrial to marine ecosystems, and fundamental geochemistry to environmental economics. Jenny holds a PhD in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from UC Berkeley. She earned an MPhil in Earth Science from Cambridge and MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London where she was a Marshall Scholar, and received her BA from Northwestern University. Hailing originally from the Midwest United States, Jenny is an avid urban gardener and former president of the Churchill College vegetable growers society. - Показать больше
