Carbon Removal Newsroom
169 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 81 ratingsA panel show by Nori where guests discuss current events from the world of carbon removal. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
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Project Vesta for olivine drawdown leaves stealth mode
May 01, 2019 13:00 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBOlivine is a mineral that can sequester carbon dioxide through weathering. It's also one of the most common minerals in the Earth's upper mantle. A lot of it is just sitting around as waste rock from other mining operations. Project Vesta is working to turn olivine from waste into value, reverse climate change, and deacidify the world's oceans. Project Vesta cofounder Eric Matzner comes on the show to tell us how that works and what they're up to. --- Send in a voice message: https://podca...
Canada's carbon tax analysis and carbon removal
April 26, 2019 12:00 - 8 minutes - 7.61 MBNori's Director of Carbon Economics Aldyen Donnelly shares her thoughts on what's happening with Canada's carbon tax and federal backstop. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6517432688209727488 https://nori.com/podcasts/reversing-climate-change/31-aldyen-donnelly-on-why-carbon-pricing-hasnt-worked-so-far --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonr...
Ramez Naam on "The Third Phase of Clean Energy Will Be the Most Disruptive Yet"
April 24, 2019 12:00 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBRamez Naam discusses his recent article "The Third Phase of Clean Energy Will Be the Most Disruptive Yet" with guest host, Nori Head of Product, Michael Leggett. We dig into the economics of clean energy, and how that could be a boon to carbon removal. http://rameznaam.com/2019/04/02/the-third-phase-of-clean-energy-will-be-the-most-disruptive-yet/ https://twitter.com/ramez https://www.carbontracker.org --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnew...
Ramez Naam on the Green New Deal and carbon removal
April 22, 2019 12:00 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBNori advisor and cleantech evangelist Ramez Naam came by the office to fill us in on his great analysis of how the Green New Deal could be successful, and the role of carbon removal within such a plan. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
School Strike for Climate and murmurs of ecological carbon removal
April 19, 2019 12:00 - 6 minutes - 6.04 MBDr. Heather Price of North Seattle College stops by the office to share her and her family's experience of School Strike for Climate (#fridaysforfuture) at Seattle's City Hall and beyond, and to what degree she's heard talk of carbon removal in these circles. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
General Mills issues grant for regenerative agriculture training
April 17, 2019 12:00 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBGeneral Mills recently issued a $650k grant to Kiss the Ground and Soil Health Academy to train farmers in regenerative agricultural practices. https://www.generalmills.com/en/News/NewsReleases/Library/2019/March/Regen-Ag https://soilhealthacademy.org https://kisstheground.com https://www.facebook.com/kissthegroundCA/ https://www.youtube.com/kisstheground https://www.instagram.com/kisstheground/ https://twitter.com/finianmakepeace --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spot...
Disagreement about how to govern geoengineering at the UN
April 12, 2019 20:08 - 10 minutes - 9.99 MBLast month, the UN Environment Assembly failed to come to an agreement about governing geoeningeering. But this is a topic that will be brought up more and more as climate change continues. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
Carbontech Labs announces $10M public-private partnership
April 08, 2019 12:00 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MBCarbon180 just launched the first and only startup accelerator for carbontech, hoping to link entrepreneurs to the resources they need, derisk early-stage technologies, and transition them towards their first double-bottom-line investment. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
Carbon Engineering is commercializing direct air capture technology with a new investment round
March 29, 2019 12:00 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBDirect air capture company Carbon Engineering recently closed an investment round having raised $68 million, including investments from the oil and gas industry. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
The market says climate change is happening
March 15, 2019 12:30 - 7 minutes - 6.56 MBWeather futures contracts show that traders are already building expectations of climate change into the way they invest their money. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
Congress considers the carbon removal USE IT Act
March 04, 2019 13:30 - 10 minutes - 9.9 MBErin Burns of Carbon180 discusses the USE IT Act which has been introduced in both houses of Congress with bipartisan sponsorship. The bill would provide resources for growing carbon removal now, and pave the way for future infrastructure that captures and uses carbon dioxide. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
Y Combinator is looking for carbon removal startups
March 01, 2019 13:00 - 8 minutes - 7.6 MBY Combinator is a renowned startup accelerator in Silicon Valley whose alumni include Airbnb, Dropbox, and Coinbase. They recently put out a call for startups focused exclusively on carbon removal. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
Amazon sets goal of net zero carbon for 50% of shipments by 2030
February 22, 2019 19:00 - 9 minutes - 8.55 MBPaul stopped by CRN today to talk about Amazon's new goal of getting to net zero carbon on 50% of their shipments by 2030. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
The role of carbon removal in a Green New Deal
February 20, 2019 16:30 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBNoah Deich of Carbon180 stopped by to talk about his perspective on the Green New Deal outline. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
Major food producers want to store carbon in soil
February 19, 2019 13:30 - 7 minutes - 7.02 MBAlexsandra is on to talk about the 2019 State of Green Business Report from GreenBiz. She talks about sustainability efforts undertaken by companies with food in their supply chains like General Mills, Land O'Lakes, Walmart, Monsanto (Bayer), Danone, and more to get more carbon dioxide removed and sequestered in soils. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremova...
Climeworks is building direct air capture machines
February 15, 2019 00:43 - 7 minutes - 6.42 MBChristophe was at the launch for Climeworks's facility in Switzerland in 2017. Now there's a new article in the New York Times about how Climeworks can help push the direct air capture industry forward. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
Oil and gas investments in direct air capture
February 13, 2019 00:49 - 6 minutes - 5.98 MBAldyen and Paul are back in episode 3 to discuss the moves large oil and gas companies are making when it comes to investing in the future of direct air capture technology. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
The Green New Deal outline
February 13, 2019 00:43 - 11 minutes - 11 MBPaul and Aldyen discuss the outline for the Green New Deal released by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on February 7th, 2019. They talk about the small references made to carbon removal, and share their opinions on whether this is a good plan for the future of carbon removal. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support
COP24 and carbon removal
February 13, 2019 00:36 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MBIn this first episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom, Alexsandra and Aldyen discuss what happened at the United Nations COP24 in Katowice, Poland in December 2018, and what it means for market-based mechanisms for trading carbon dioxide certificates. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support