WEEKLY SUMMARY (16 JANUARY 2023- 22 JANUARY 2023)
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WEEKLY SUMMARY (16 JANUARY 2023- 22 JANUARY 2023)
CONSULTATIONS
Certification of carbon removals – EU rules (Commission adoption: Feedback Open) | 01 December 2022 - 07 February 2023 (midnight Brussels time)
DEADLINES
Research Topic- Carbon dioxide removal: Perspectives from the social sciences and humanities (Call for submission of abstract and manuscript) | Abstract Submission Deadline 10 April 2023 and Manuscript Submission Deadline 28 August 2023
PAPERS
“Bigger than government”: Exploring the social construction and contestation of net-zero industrial megaprojects in England
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162523000173
Decarbonisation Strategies Implementing Biochar as a Carbon Capture Technology
https://fyi-landgewinn.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/FYI_IAEE_ConferencePaper.pdf
Integrating CO2 mineralization in industrial clusters: the benefits of material and heat integration
https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/299378
Quantifying global carbon dioxide removal deployment
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acb450/meta
Large variations in afforestation-related climate cooling and warming effects across short distances
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-00678-9
Survival and carbon stock of forest species in mixed plantation at 8 years of age
https://www.ipef.br/publicacoes/scientia/v51_2023/2318-1222-scifor-51-e3863.pdf
Reviewing the sociotechnical dynamics of carbon removal
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2542435122005669#mmc1
A review of commercialisation mechanisms for carbon dioxide removal
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fclim.2022.1101525/full
Tropical forests post-logging are a persistent net carbon source to the atmosphere
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2214462120
Benefit-cost ratios of CO2 removal strategies
https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/4902/
Reduced CO2 uptake and growing nutrient sequestration from slowing overturning circulation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01555-7
Life cycle analysis of different biochar production processes for simultaneous waste management and carbon capture credits
https://dc.engconfintl.org/lca_waste_3/27/
Carbon for soils, not soils for carbon
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.16570
Sources and sequestration rate of organic carbon in sediments of the bare tidal flat ecosystems: A model approach
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0141113623000041
Green in the City: Estimating the Ecosystem Services Provided by Urban and Peri-Urban Forests of Tbilisi Municipality, Georgia
https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/14/1/121
Potential capture and conversion of CO2 from oceanwater through mineral carbonation
REPORTS
Guest post: The state of ‘carbon dioxide removal’ in seven charts (Report Launched)
https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-the-state-of-carbon-dioxide-removal-in-seven-charts/
Final Report- Quick scan on the carbon removal potential in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area and the North Sea Canal Area
THESIS
Spatial Variability of Greenhouse Gases in Blue Carbon Mangrove Ecosystems
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hcas_etd_all/114/
Measuring the carbon dioxide trapped through carbonation after curing of concrete with biochar
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Direct Air Capture Prizes
https://americanmadechallenges.org/challenges/direct-air-capture/
· DAC Pre-Commercial EPIC Prize|Submission Deadline: 20 March 2023
https://www.herox.com/DAC-pre-commercial-EPIC/timeline
· DAC Pre-Commercial Technology Prize|Submission Deadline: 20 March 2023
https://www.herox.com/DAC-pre-commercial-tech
· DAC Commercial Prize|Submission Deadline: 20 March 2023
https://www.herox.com/DAC-commercial
Opportunity: BIL Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs| Due Date: 13 March 2023
https://www.fedconnect.net/FedConnect/PublicPages/PublicSearch/Public_Opportunities.aspx
Biochar Demonstrator Flexible Fund | Due Date: 3 February 2023
https://biochardemonstrator.ac.uk/funding-opportunities/
Apply to Pathfinders Call 2 (Winter 2023) – funding gaps in Greenhouse Gas Removal research and innovation | Due Date: 6 February 2023
https://co2re.org/funding-secondments/innovations/
Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR): Research and Development for Assessing Large Scale Carbon Removal and Local Scale Ocean Acidification Mitigation, Department of Commerce, USA | Due Date: 28 February 2023
JOBS
Various job openings at Loam:
Loam is working to put agriculture at the forefront of addressing climate change.We deliver high quality CO2 removal with environmental co-benefits, by providing growers with unique tools and connecting them to business leaders who are driving our global path to net-zero. We focus on only the most credible approaches while working to ensure maximum efficiency.
· Agronomic Statistician | New South Wales, Orange
· Australia Country Manager, Carbon Markets | New South Wales, Sydney
· Bioproduction Project Manager | New South Wales, Orange
· Liquid Bioproduction Specialist | New South Wales, Orange
· Development Consultant - Carbon Markets | Alberta, Calgary
· Geospatial Statistician | Alberta, Calgary
· Software Developer - Carbon Markets | Alberta, Calgary
· Strategy and Operations Associate - Carbon Markets | Alberta, Calgary
· Greenhouse Manager | Minnesota, Saint Paul
Open Positions at Living Carbon:
Living Carbon’s mission is to responsibly rebalance the planet’s carbon cycle using the power of plants.
· Executive Assistant
· Greenhouse Associate (II)
· Head of Carbon Project Implementation
· Head of Carbon Solutions
· Head of Methodologies & Carbon Project Development (Remote)
· Landowner Partnerships Lead (Remote)
· Plant Care Associate
· Research Associate - Molecular
· Research Associate - Plant Molecular Physiology
· Research Associate - Tissue Culture and Transformation
· Research Associate - Tissue Culture and Transformation
https://www.livingcarbon.com/about#careers
Geochemical Modeller at UNDO | London
UNDO are developing solutions that have the potential to play a meaningful role in the world’s path to gigaton-scale, permanent carbon removal.
https://undo.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=129&source=twitter
Senior Research Associate At University of East Anglia
Project: Developing a holistic assessment of the feasibility of Carbon Dioxide Removal methods.
https://myview.uea.ac.uk/webrecruitment/pages/vacancy.jsf?vacancyRef=RA2067
Research Fellow in Carbon Mineralization and Critical Metal Recovery at MONASH University | Clayton campus
The Research Fellows will work with a multi-disciplinary team of academic and industry stakeholders across Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada to conduct research that aims to sequester carbon dioxide and recover critical metals through the enhanced weathering of mine tailings
Policy Manager, EU Carbon Removal Policy at Carbon Gap | Brussels
Carbon Gap helps Europe become a world leader in developing carbon removal.
https://carbongap.org/team/careers/
Policy Analyst/Senior Policy Analyst, EU Carbon Removal Policy at Carbon Gap | Brussels
Carbon Gap helps Europe become a world leader in developing carbon removal.
https://carbongap.org/team/careers/
Chief Research Officer at Carbyon | Eindhoven, Netherlands
Carbyon is a start-up company founded in 2019 with the purpose of turning direct air capture of CO2 into an affordable and scalable technology.
Head of Policy and Strategy at AirCapture
Air Capture's mission is to use Direct Air Capture (DAC) to help achieve these goals. DAC can be sited practically anywhere.
There are no natural or technical limits to its scale, the quantity of carbon dioxide it removes is verifiable and it is cost-effective today.
Scientific researcher modeling Earth system feedbacks at LMU | Munich
The chair for Physical Geography and Land Use Systems (Prof. Julia Pongratz) at LMU’s Department of Geography investigates the interactions between natural ecosystems, land use and climate change. Our group develops and applies the latest generation of land and Earth system models and integrates them with observations. Key research questions are the fate of natural ecosystems under the pressures of land use and climate change, Earth system feedbacks via energy, water and biogeochemical cycles, and assessing the role that land-use change and land management can play for greenhouse gas emissions reduction and CO2 removals in support of the Paris Agreement. The team is strongly involved in large international collaborations such as the Global Carbon Project, CMIP and IPCC.
https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/62f1f1ab8367469215e47a2cd4410409b64699030
Various job openings at Sublime Systems
Sublime Systems is commercializing a breakthrough process to make low-carbon cement that performs like the cement you’re used to, without the environmental cost.
· Senior Research Scientist – Cement Materials
· Product Manager
· Head of Project Development and Strategic Sourcing
· Process Engineer
· Senior Research Scientist or Engineer: Chemical Process Development
UPCOMING EVENTS
(NEW) Climate Solutions Showcase: Carbon Removal by Climate Draft, Terra.do, MCJ Collective, and Work on Climate | 25 January 2023
https://lu.ma/ccw-carbon-removal
Carbon
Capture and Storage: A distraction from real climate action by Biofuelwatch | 30
January 2023
Exploring risk & uncertainty for actors in the new GGR sector by CO₂RE
- The Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub | 08
February 2023
(NEW) cdr.fyi -- 2023 CDR Market Snapshot by OpenAir | 07 February 2023
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cdrfyi-2023-cdr-market-snapshot-tickets-516765909747
(NEW) Bio360 Expo 2023 by biogas channel | 8-9 February 2023
https://groups.google.com/g/carbondioxideremoval/c/Jay7m6ktdWg/m/WtYhwKW5AwAJ
Biomass Harvesting Week by Canadian Biomass and Canadian Forest Industries | 13-17 February 2023
https://www.canadianbiomassmagazine.ca/events/biomass-harvesting-week/
(NEW) Funding novel research towards atmospheric CO2 removal by Carbon Technology Research Foundation | 28 February 2023
Ocean-Based Contributions to Carbon Dioxide Removal by AGU| 4-5 April 2023
https://www.agu.org/Ocean-Visions-Summit/Pages/Schedule
POSTS
Ocean-assisted carbon removal: A deep dive into ocean alkalinity enhancement and direct ocean capture
https://saltywater.substack.com/p/ocean-assisted-carbon-removal
America needs more Class VI wells
https://www.slowboring.com/p/america-needs-more-class-vi-wells
How Direct Air Capture Succeeds: A Framework for Effective DAC Hubs
Lake Charles carbon capture group partners with Swiss firm for carbon dioxide removal
Bogus carbon credits common for failed reforestation projects
Could carbon removal scale up to be as big as oil and gas?
https://www.wartsila.com/insights/article/could-carbon-removal-scale-up-to-be-as-big-as-oil-and-gas
44.01 Partners With Leading Companies To Expand In UAE
https://carbonherald.com/44-01-partners-with-leading-companies-to-expand-in-uae/
PURO.EARTH LISTED Carbon Lockdown: Potomac Project 1 (Wood Vault)
https://puro.earth/accelerate/carbon-lockdown-potomac-project-1-100187
Carbonfuture & MASH Makes Join Forces For 50,000t Of Carbon Removal
Black C ?
PODCASTS
How to compare CDR approaches - Chiquier by Reviewer 2 does geoengineering
How do you compare biochar to DAC, or afforestation to enhanced weathering? Plug all the details into Solene Chiquier's galaxy brain, that's how. She's like the Oracle of Delphi (but much less weird).
Fertilisers & enhanced weathering – Wood by Reviewer 2 does
geoengineering
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fertilisers-enhanced-weathering-wood/id1529459393?i=1000595872799
Cameron Wood shows experimentally how phosphate fertilizers catalyse
silicate weathering, but the lack of a techno-economic analysis (TEA) leaves
@geoengineering1 with questions.
The
Biochar Effect by Bio360 Expo
https://www.bio360expo.com/Page/1134
In this podcast Mathew explains why he has chosen films as a means to communicate broadly on subjects that matter to him and allow him to give a voice to the people who are moving history forward. As an advocate of the biotransition, he shares his enthusiasm for biochar that he describes as the “Healing substance”.
Biochar in the limelight by Bio360 Expo
https://www.bio360expo.com/Page/1187
What exactly is biochar ? What are its applications, perspectives and beneficiaries? Biochar is now clearly stepping into the limelight with a promising future on various applications. Its strength is its diversity of applications. Facing its rapid growth, what are the potential risks associated with over expectations? If you wish to know what biochar is all about and get a glimpse on its promising bright future, this is an episode not to be missed.
Aledade's carbon removal story: How can smaller companies do more in this space? By The Carbon Removal Show | Negative Emissions, Net Zero, Climate Positive
This week's episode puts a spotlight on Aledade, a US healthcare services organisation with an interesting philosophy and strategy behind their carbon removal purchases. We speak to Will Palmisano, Head of Aledade's climate committee, to learn more about their carbon removal mission, how they’re going about it and what their work can teach us about how companies of all sizes can get involved in carbon removal in a meaningful way.
Transforming the Built Environment with Biochar by My Climate Journey
Today's guest is Allison Dring, CEO and co-founder of Made of Air, which makes carbon-negative materials using biochar for the built environment and consumer goods.
Where Are the Buyers? by Nori
https://nori.com/podcasts/carbon-removal-newsroom/Where-Are-the-Buyers-e1to0rs
Where are the buyers? That’s the question CDR-observer and climate advisor Robert Hoglund asked in a much-discussed recent post. Hoglund points out that while significant growth occurred for CDR through voluntary markets in 2022, the number of large buyers is low and growing slowly. He called the market “upside down”: lots of marketplaces, fewer companies doing removal, even fewer buyers.
VIDEOS
There's a playlist with more videos on the topic, you can check it out here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF8369A27273314D8
The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal report launch by TheSmithSchool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUDZ2vSwjs0
Hear from the authors as they deliver the main findings from the flagship report, The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal, a first-of-its-kind global assessment on the development of CDR. Plus expert guest commentators’ reaction and audience Q&A.
This Is CDR Ep.40: Soletair Power's DAC x HVAC with Petri Laakso by OpenAir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBKRzqaBovo
In this episode of This Is CDR, OpenAir's Toby Bryce and Megha Raghavan are pleased to welcome Soletair CEO Petri Laakso to tell us how the company’s DAC technology turns buildings into carbon sinks – and improve building occupants’ health, perception, and productivity – by integrating with HVAC systems to capture CO2 directly from the building’s internal air flow.
Biocarbon Utilization and Sequestration Lab | Ph.D. candidate Julia Cunniffe by NC State Biological & Agricultural Engineering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtTgnw6Gof0
The Biocarbon Utilization and Sequestration Lab is located within the NC State University Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering. Ph.D. candidate Julia Cunniffe, advised by BAE assistant professor Joe Sagues, explains her research converting poplar trees into renewable fuels and examining the economic viability of this type of bioprocessing.
This Is CDR Ep. 59: Running Tide 2023 update with Marty Odlin, CEO by OpenAir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxlKXxOdPRM
In this episode Toby and Megha welcome Running Tide CEO Marty Odlin back to This Is CDR to tell us what's new at the company since he was last with us in November 2021, and what we can expect to see from Running Tide in 2023 and beyond.
From emission reductions to carbon removal processes by DLA Piper Finland
Managing the Risks of a Temporary Temperature Overshoot by C2G Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YohtRF6r9Hs
This side event discussed the risks of a temporary temperature overshoot in the African region and explored the role of Carbon Dioxide Removal in the context of a just energy transition to identify opportunities for sustainable development in Africa that can contribute to improving livelihoods while reducing carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere. The expert speakers looked at the critical role of Africa in shaping discussions around the international governance of solar radiation modification as a possible climate response option that could potentially reduce the risks of warming temperature.
Puro.earth and Biorecro partnering to build the carbon market for BECCS by puro_earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBzNA9lyhqM
Johanna Ek Wahlqvist explains how Biorecro is partnering with Puro.earth and Nasdaq to create a carbon removal market for Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS).
Reels carbon removals by European Economic and Social Committee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JLG9_HG15I
Green in Sixty Ep 1 | Direct Air Capture by Boston Consulting Group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7nUzIxrdkw
Removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is an essential step in achieving climate justice. Direct air capture (DACs) is standing out as a feasible decarbonization option, but there's one issue: the price tag. The process of moving air through chemical solutions or various structures that remove CO2 has proven itself to be a remarkably expensive practice. Introducing, Green in Sixty! A series is designed to showcase the insight of BCGers from across the globe on achieving climate stability in today's world. The 6-part series will provide unique perspectives and upcoming opportunities to get involved in the global push to net zero.
CARBON REMOVAL | Our TRILLION Dollar Horizon? by Marcus Sonoma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjb_mN95y5w
I walk you through six of the most compelling Carbon Removal methods that will help us remove CO2 out of the atmosphere.
THE GIFT OF THE RIFT: KENYA’S CARBON REMOVAL OPPORTUNITY by Giggabox
MRV for DAC to Mineralization by AirMiners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3l54YuDd0s
We're continuing our MRV series with an event on mineralization via Direct Air Capture! Our goal is to dive into challenges and opportunities offered in pursuing MRV for this method of carbon removal and storage, with an eye to how entrepreneurs can unlock the potential of the space.
This Is CDR Ep. 59: Running Tide 2023 update with Marty Odlin, CEO by OpenAir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxlKXxOdPRM
In this episode Toby and Megha welcome Running Tide CEO Marty Odlin back to This Is CDR to tell us what's new at the company since he was last with us in November 2021, and what we can expect to see from Running Tide in 2023 and beyond.
Carbon Removal Challenge 2023: Intro to CDR w/ Carbon Based Consulting Founder Grant Faber by OpenAir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqiomT6gUVo
In this webinar, Grant will discuss the drivers of climate change and the necessity of carbon dioxide removal (CDR). He will also cover the primary methods of carbon removal along with current trends, business models, unsolved problems, career opportunities, and more. There will be time for questions and open discussion. Please come to learn more about the carbon removal industry and how you can get involved.
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