WEEKLY SUMMARY 6 FEBRUARY 2023 - 12 FEBRUARY 2023
Geoengineering News
WEEKLY SUMMARY 6 FEBRUARY 2023 - 12 FEBRUARY 2023
CONTENTS OF SUMMARY
1) Consultations
2) Deadlines
3) Funding Opportunities
4) Upcoming Events
5) Commercial News
6) Scientific Papers
7) Thesis
8) Reports
9) Job Opportunities
10) Posts
11) Podcasts
12) YouTube Videos
13) Extra Stories
1) CONSULTATIONS
Reviewer Solicitation: 2023 marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR) National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdQUKapwHmF0npOCYTFQab2RDRtolFEMoQATdHr0cOwaBtZiQ/viewform
Industry call for CDR Standards Initiative
2) DEADLINES
(NEW) Experiment Challenges Related to Negative Emission Technology (Request for Experiments) | 26 February 2023
https://experiment.com/grants/NET
Competition: Carbon to Value Initiative (Year-3) | March 31st 2023
Technology areas include, but are not limited to:
- Carbon Capture, such as atmospheric (e.g. DAC) or point source from flue gas (esp. from hard-to-decarbonize sectors.
- Carbon Conversion to Added-Value Products, such as CO2 mineralization into building materials, CO2 conversion to fuels (e.g. SAF), and chemicals (and related feedstocks like syngas)
- Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), such as ocean alkalinity enhancement, enhanced rock weathering, etc.
- Enabling Technologies, such as Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) systems for carbontech (software and/or hardware), financing and insurance, carbon markets
https://www.c2vinitiative.com/year-3
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
3) FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
AgMission Request for Applications: Regenerative Agriculture for Climate Resilient Farms and Value Chains | 22 February 2023
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
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344632
Opportunity: BIL Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs| Due Date: 13 March 2023
https://www.fedconnect.net/FedConnect/PublicPages/PublicSearch/Public_Opportunities.aspx
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
RFP for Innovative Carbon Dioxide Removal Projects by Climate Vault | Due Date: 29 March 2023
4) UPCOMING EVENTS
(NEW) The role of carbon dioxide in fighting climate change | 13 February 2023
https://today.wisc.edu/events/view/178621
Biomass Harvesting Week by Canadian Biomass and Canadian Forest Industries | 13-17 February 2023
https://www.canadianbiomassmagazine.ca/events/biomass-harvesting-week/
Carbon To Stone with Founder Dr. Greeshma Gadikota by OpenAir | 14 February 2023
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/carbon-to-stone-with-founder-dr-greeshma-gadikota-tickets-516798216377
https://www.oceanologyinternationalamericas.com/en-gb/conference.html#/sessions
(NEW) Carbon Removal Contracting with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati by AirMiners| 16 February 2023
https://lu.ma/contracting-in-cdr
(NEW) Centering justice from the start: new insights for carbon removal companies by XPRIZE Foundation | 17 February 2023
Building soil carbon in cropping
systems by Loam| 20
February 2023
https://events.humanitix.com/grower-workshop-building-soil-carbon-in-cropping-systems
Webinar: Mind the Gap! National climate pledges overstep on available land by Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy | 21 February 2023
https://www.iatp.org/event/mind-gap-national-climate-pledges-overstep-available-land
Science and Engineering of Negative Emissions Technologies | 21 February 2023
https://energy.utexas.edu/events/science-and-engineering-negative-emissions-technologies
(NEW) Scrubbing the Skies: "Kenya: Africa's Great Carbon Valley" by Institute for Carbon Removal and Policy | 21 February 2023
Research seminar series: The sociotechnical dynamics of negative emissions, carbon removal, and solar geoengineering by Monash Sustaibale Development Institute | 23 February 2023
(NEW) Ocean-based carbon dioxide removal: Landscape of approaches and governance considerations by OCTO | 28 February 2023
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7-LlspyDTJGKceZPfOhAww?t=1675715191325
Solution Series: Ocean Based Carbon Removal by Foundation for Climate Restoration | 28 February 2023
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/solution-series-ocean-based-carbon-removal-tickets-437740412357
Funding novel research towards atmospheric CO2 removal by Carbon Technology Research Foundation | 28 February 2023
(NEW) The business case for carbon removal by Climeworks | 3 March 2023
https://web-eur.cvent.com/event/08840f40-46a9-49a6-a4ff-b5291b80b9ab/summary
(NEW) AirMiners Buyer Demo Day by AirMiners | 3 March 2023
Ocean-Based Contributions to Carbon Dioxide Removal by AGU| 4-5 April 2023
https://www.agu.org/Ocean-Visions-Summit/Pages/Schedule
TEA/LCA Workshop on Harmonizing CCUS Assessments by The Global CO2 Initiative | 17-18 May 2023
5) COMMERCIAL NEWS
AIRCELA (DAC-to-Fuels) RECEIVES INVESTMENT FROM MAERSK GROWTH TO PILOT GREEN METHANOL SERVER FARMS
UW Receives DOE Funding for Carbon Project in Pacific Northwest
6) SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
A review of in situ/Operando studies of heterogeneous catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0920586123000391
Hydrophobic Nanoconfinement Enhances CO2 Conversion to H2CO3
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00124
Invasive Wetland Weeds Derived Biochar Properties Affecting Soil Carbon Dynamics of South Indian Tropical Ultisol
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00267-023-01791-3
Carbon storage capacity of shale formations: Mineral control on CO2 adsorption
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1750583623000038
Mangrove reforestation provides greater blue carbon benefit than afforestation for mitigating global climate change
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36477-1
Alkalinity biases in CMIP6 Earth System Models and implications for simulated CO2 drawdown via artificial alkalinity enhancement (Preprint)
https://bg.copernicus.org/preprints/bg-2023-26/
Cost-effective carbon-based amine adsorbents for carbon capture: Equilibrium, kinetics and selectivity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212982023000331
NetZeroCO2, an AI framework for accelerated nature-based carbon sequestration
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10020359/keywords
The potential of direct air capture using adsorbents in cold climates
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004222018363
Afforesting arid land with renewable electricity and desalination to mitigate climate change
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-01056-7
Carbon Sequestration and Subsidence Reversal in the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta and Suisun Bay: Management Opportunities for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/97n052p9
Frontier science and challenges on offshore carbon storage
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11783-023-1680-6
Long-term organic fertilizer-induced carbonate neoformation increases carbon sequestration in soil
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10311-023-01568-4
Energy-efficient and water-saving sorbent regeneration at near room temperature for direct air capture
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2589234723000076
Geospatial analysis of regional climate impacts to accelerate cost-efficient direct air capture deployment
https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(22)00481-X
Toward the effective and fair funding of CO2 removal technologies
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36199-4
This really does change everything: attaining 1.5C needs all available mitigation levers
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acb6ab/meta
Potential Role of Biochar on Capturing Soil Nutrients, Carbon Sequestration and Managing Environmental Challenges: A Review
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/3/2527
Numerical Scheme for the Large-scale Geomechanical Simulations of CO2-storage
https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/299738
Ocean dynamics and biological feedbacks limit the potential of macroalgae carbon dioxide removal
7) THESIS
Nature based solutions and their success in Climate Tech
https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/43510
Addressing climate change with carbon dioxide removal : Insights from industrial economics and cooperative games
https://www.theses.fr/2022UPAST134
8) REPORTS
McKinsey, CO2 Solutions: A Buyer’s Perspective
Quantifying and Deploying Responsible Negative Emissions in Climate Resilient Pathways - (Case study on impacts of large-scale re/afforestation on ecosystem services in Nordic regions)
https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/99155/2/Vogt%2Bet%2Bal%2B2022%2BNEGEM%2Breport.pdf
Solution Series: Ocean-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal Practices | White Paper
From the Ground Up: Recommendations for Building an Environmentally Just Carbon Removal Industry
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230207005431/en/
Roadmap for Mt CDR/yr via Biochar
9) POSTS
Are temporary and permanent carbon stores interchangeable?
https://marginalcarbon.substack.com/p/are-temporary-and-permanent-carbon
Carbon capture and storage solution to reach net zero emissions
https://illuminem.com/illuminemvoices/397d0073-8a48-48ce-b9ee-db259101c23a
Carbon Negative Building Materials
https://carboncredits.com/carbon-negative-building-materials/
Accelerating global commercialisation of ERW for atmospheric carbon removal
Lower levels of combustion led to increased atmospheric methane?
Natural carbon sinks could play a small but significant role in Canada's climate strategy
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-natural-carbon-play-small-significant.html
The Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities grants Denmark’s first full-scale CO2 storage permits in the Danish North Sea
Let’s make this the year we stop conflating carbon removal with carbon capture
https://carboncurve.substack.com/p/conflating-cdr
Concrete traps CO2 soaked from air in climate-friendly test
10) JOBS
Technical Associate (Carbon Removal) | Lower Carbon
Lowercarbon Capital backs companies that make real money slashing CO2 emissions, sucking carbon out of the sky, and buying us time to save the planet. We invest in early-stage companies that combine hard science with some bonkers ambitions to decarbonize all sectors of the economy, remove billions of tons of CO2 straight out of the atmosphere, and buy more time for people and ecosystems getting hit first and worst by rising temperatures.
https://lowercarboncapital.com/cdr_associate/
Postdoctoral researcher in geochemical modeling | University of Antwerp
BAM! is our ambitious European Commission Horizon 2020 Future Emerging Technology (FET Open) project that aims to develop a novel bioreactor technology for negative CO2 emissions. Negative emission technologies actively sequester CO2 from the atmosphere, thus counterbalancing climate change. To achieve this, BAM! brings the most critical natural CO2 sequestering process on geological timescales, silicate weathering, to a controlled reactor environment. This bioreactor will harness the power of biota to massively increase CO2 sequestration rates. Geochemical modelling is essential for understanding and quantifying CO2 removal through enhanced weathering.
Senior Accountant (80-100%) | Climeworks | Zürich
Leader in Direct Air Capture. Climeworks captures CO₂ from the air to fight global warming and protect future generations to come. We develop, build and operate direct air capture (DAC) machines, which capture CO₂ directly from the air. The air-captured carbon dioxide can either be recycled and reused as a raw material or completely removed from the air by safely storing it underground, permanently.
https://www.carbonremovaljobs.com/job/senior-accountant-80-100-3zy5h
Research Analyst, Carbon Removal | BeZero | London
BeZero Carbon is a global ratings agency for the Voluntary Carbon Market. Our ratings allow all market participants to price and manage risk. BeZero’s ratings and research tools support buyers, intermediaries, investors, and carbon project developers.
https://www.carbonremovaljobs.com/job/research-analyst-carbon-removal-evmsy
Open Call - Robotics Development | AIGEN | Kirkland, WA
At Aigen, we are automating land regeneration and conservation agriculture with small edge based robots. Our platform eliminates the need for unnecessary infrastructure, improves soil health, and reduces costs for farmers.
https://www.carbonremovaljobs.com/job/open-call---robotics-development-jxduv
Senior Accountant | AirCapture | San Francisco | CA
AirCapture is disrupting the commercial CO2 supply chain with on-site direct air capture (DAC) systems that pull CO2 from the atmosphere and make it immediately available for industrial and commercial processes. Our onsite DAC systems provide a cleaner, more cost-effective and reliable feedstock to our customers and further catalyze making atmospheric carbon dioxide removal at gigaton-scale economically viable on a greatly accelerated time frame.
https://www.carbonremovaljobs.com/job/senior-accountant-gfhbd
Job Openings | Carbon180
Working closely with policymakers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and our peer organizations, Carbon180 design and champion policies that will bring carbon removal solutions to gigaton scale and establish the US as an international leader in an emerging industry. We're commited to doing so in a way that's good for communities and the environment.
· Director of Finance and Administration
Post Doctoral Research Scientist, Gs-11 | U.S. Department Of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station
The FIA program is responsible for compiling estimates of the land base along with estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals for the forest land category, woodlands, and harvested wood products in the U.S. each year as part of the National Inventory Report submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The incumbents primary responsibilities will be to formulate and conduct research to estimate the land base and carbon stocks and stock changes – using national forest inventory and auxiliary information (e.g., remotely sensed products, climate data, trait data) – for forest ecosystems in the U.S. The post-doctoral scientist positions will serve within a team of scientists and support staff tasked with developing annual GHG inventories based on extensive forest inventories, models, and remotely-sensed information.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dC762a5xLvaImUGsbji-i9gcH4-Uf-zd/view
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 | Minnesota, Saint Paul
· Corporate IP Paralegal Professional | USA
· Australia Country Manager, Carbon Markets | New South Wales, Sydney
· Fermentation Scientist | New South Wales, Orange
· Development Consultant - Carbon Markets | Alberta, Calgary
· Modeling Specialist | 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
11) PODCASTS
Building soil carbon
can create another income stream with Jada Dormaier | Secrets of the Soil
Podcast with Regen Ray
Digging deep into all parts of the soil and carbon and soil. So we
started talking about carbon farming and carbon sequestration, a lot of people
like. The company is focusing on those vintage ones. And its play in the
markets all across the world.
Innovative Ways to
Approach CO2 Storage | Capture, Store, Repeat
What constitutes a CO2 storage site? And are there innovative ways to approach CO2 storage development, particularly as interest around carbon capture and storage technology grows? We’re joined by Dr. Alex Bump, a research science associate with the University of Texas’ Gulf Coast Carbon Center to unpack where CO2 storage development is at now, and how it can continue to evolve in the future.
CCS and Decarbonising the Cement and Concrete Industry | Capture, Store, Repeat
CCS is scaling up across a wide range of industries, and cement and concrete is no exception. In this episode, we speak with Claude Lorea, Director of Cement, Innovation and ESG of the Global Cement and Concrete Association, about the value of CCS as a climate solution, the challenges of scaling up the innovative technology, and ambitious plans for the cement and concrete industry to reach net-zero by 2050.
Carbon Capture & Carbon Removal: Friends or Foes?—w/ Gagan Porrwal of GE Gas Power's Carbon Solutions | Reversing Climate Change
Carbon capture and storage, or CCS, involves sequestering carbon dioxide emissions from a point source, whereas carbon removal takes existing emissions out of ambient air. And there are a lot of people in the climate community who are for carbon removal and against CCS, arguing that we should shut down these point sources and focus on renewable energy. But is choosing sides the right thing to do? Gagan Porrwal is Global Head of Partnerships for GE Gas Power's Carbon Solutions, where he is building an ecosystem of partners that enable, accelerate, and drive the adoption of CCS applications in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and the Asian Pacific. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change’s Happy Hour show, Gagan joins Ross and Siobhan to explain why we need CCS to meet our 2030 climate targets and how he thinks about capturing carbon in the flue versus ambient air. Gagan discusses how much power is currently generated by coal or natural gas and describes the reality of how long it will take to transition to wind and solar. Listen in to understand the four key problems facing CCS—social acceptance, economics, infrastructure, and permitting—and find out why we can’t transition to renewables tomorrow, but we can take the next rational step toward clean energy in any given geography.
CDR Axed from Climate Plans | Nori
https://nori.com/podcasts/carbon-removal-newsroom/CDR-Axed-from-Climate-Plans-e1unsb6
Should carbon removal be included in institutional climate plans? It’s a debate that’s taken place across business, government, and science in recent years. The rise of the net-zero framework has sharpened the focus on how and when organizations should decarbonize. And how carbon removal fits in. Last week two influential organizations weighed in on how they plan to use carbon removal in the coming years. The Net-Zero Owner Alliance, a UN-convened group of 84 large investors, declared that their members will not be able to invest in carbon removal to reach their climate goals until at least 2030. And the European Commission released its draft Green Deal Industrial Plan, a new set of policy objectives to build out their climate infrastructure. It includes support for many decarbonization technologies, but at least one CDR NGO says it doesn’t do enough for carbon removal.
How well does soil actually store carbon? | Catalyst with Shayle Kann
https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/catalyst-with-shayle-kann/id1593204897?i=1000581777015
Don’t miss our live episode of Climavores in New York City on October 20! Sign up here for a night of live audio and networking with top voices in climate journalism. There’s a buzz right now about paying farmers to trap and store emissions. Soil is a carbon sink, and certain farming practices accelerate carbon capture while others hurt it.Enter soil carbon credits to incentivize sequestration through methods like cover cropping, no-till farming and agroforestry. These are practices often included under the umbrella of regenerative agriculture. So what does science say about how well these methods actually lock away carbon? In this episode, Shayle talks to Eric Slessarev, staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he studies soil carbon.
Local cooling, SAI, & CDR – Baiman | Reviewer 2 does geoengineering
Some of the topics talked about in the podcast:
1) US Climate policy,
2) Radical or heterodox economics, Neoclassical or orthodox economics, and the DICE model,
3) The need for urgent direct climate cooling to have any impact on reducing climate harm in the short-run (at least) the next few decades,
4) Discussions of local versus global, high leverage versus low leverage, with economic costs or benefits, direct climate cooling methods,
5) Discussion of net-zero warming plateau even as ocean uptake of carbon continues, to the disconnect between climate scientists and activists like us who are “screaming hair on fire” that only direct climate cooling can reduce climate harm now and the earlier “marching orders” that politicians and general public received that doing something about climate means “checking the box” on emissions cuts or net-zero,
6) How the long-run GHG reduction and removal coupled with natural regeneration is not going to happen (at least not expeditiously at scale) without massive transfers of funding and technology from rich to poor countries of well above $4 T per year,
7) How this expeditious transfer will not occur without a mandatory global cap and trade regime like Kyoto that transferred $303 B in mandatory CDM offset funding mostly to China, compared to the purely voluntary Paris Accord GCF voluntary donation efforts that have raised only $ 18 B,
8) How the EU that continued the Kyoto mandatory regime is only major region in the world to actually reduce GHG emissions since 1990,
9) Why focusing on and debating SAI as a single binary yes or no choice on climate cooling is ill informed and counterproductive to the cause of urgently focusing on and prioritizing direct climate cooling now,
10) As we work on GHG removal and natural regeneration so that we can emerge from our current energy and material “hunter gatherer” industrial civilization “Sinai” to the sustainable and potentially much more equitable renewable energy and materials “farmer cultivator” industrial civilization “promised land” in the long-run.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/local-cooling-sai-cdr-baiman/id1529459393?i=1000598002442
12) YOUTUBE VIDEOS
There's a playlist with more videos on the topic, you can check it out here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF8369A27273314D8
Loam partnering with farmers - Steve Nicholson | Loam
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=rm&ogbl#inbox/KtbxLxGSqZSLGpxJwRXtxFmwxXDbjlRDqV
Carbon projects are true partnerships between Loam and farmers, designed to integrate into existing farm operations and take a 'whole-of-farm' approach to land management strategies. Loam is partnering with Steve Nicholson from 'Eniver' Wirrinya NSW, to apply the Loam CarbonBuilder microbial products in Steve's crops to increase the stable soil carbon stored in the soil. With farmer-focused carbon project options, Loam looks to remove as much risk as possible in entering a carbon project and deliver maximum benefits back to the farm business.
Selling Carbon Removal Credits: Befriend your buyers (AirMiners) | IT'S GO TIME. ACTIONS ON CARBON REMOVAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlk-vHXCiPM
How To Sell A Carbon Removal Credit Insights from Launchpad Teams! | Airminers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7hhNfrP23w
Our AirMiners Launchpad teams have gained tons of experience selling tons of carbon credits - and we want to share their insights with you! If you are an early stage entrepreneur in carbon removal, keen to learn approaches that have worked, this event is for you!
This Is CDR Ep. 62: cdr.fyi -- 2023 CDR Market Snapshot with Robert Höglund | OpenAir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKi6ApkpgQI
In this episode of This Is CDR Toby and Megha welcome Robert Höglund who will present the excellent and insightful cdr.fyi 2022 Year in Review report what we can hope and expect in 2023 and beyond to get the long-duration CDR market on track for gigatonne scale by mid-century.
13) EXTRA STORIES
Climate benefits of sustainably-sourced woody biomass strengthened by new research
Spirit Energy To Convert Depleted Gas Fields Into A Carbon Storage Cluster
https://carbonherald.com/spirit-energy-to-convert-depleted-gas-fields-into-carbon-storage-cluster/
2023 — the Year of Shaping EU’s 2040 Climate Target
https://evetamme.com/2023/01/31/2023-the-year-of-shaping-eus-2040-climate-target/
Climeworks And Mammut Sign New Carbon Removal Agreement