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Intuit to remove fifty times its emissions by 2030 Oct 28, 2019

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Intuit has partnered with Project Drawdown to negate fifty times its emissions through carbon removal by 2030. Project Drawdown's Executive Director, Dr. Jonathan Foley, is on the show to explain Intuit's commitment, their collaboration, and whether this is the beginning of the tech industry's surge into carbon removal.

Intuit's press release

Project Drawdown website

Drawdown Learn website

Dr. Jonathan Foley's Twitter

Dr. Jonathan Foley's website

Project Drawdown on Twitter

Vote Climate U.S. PAC's 2020 voter's guide includes carbon removal Oct 09, 2019

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Vote Climate U.S. PAC published a voter's guide for 2020 presidential candidates which includes a section for ranking candidates on carbon dioxide removal. Today, the founder and president of the organization, Karyn Strickler, joins the show to tell us more. We've never seen this as a criterion for evaluating politicians and is probably a reflection of carbon removal's growing prominence.

Vote Climate U.S. PAC 2020 Presidential Candidates Voter's Guide

A Kickstarter Called Negative: carbon-negative bracelets are now for sale Oct 07, 2019

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Tito Jankowski and his team at AirMiners and beyond have created a carbon-negative bracelet called Negative with direct air captured CO2 from Climeworks and Carbon Upcycling Technologies. It's being funded and is for sale through Kickstarter.

Kickstarter for NEGATIVE: A bracelet made with captured atmospheric carbon

At the United Nations, the first annual Global Climate Restoration Forum is held Oct 04, 2019

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The Foundation for Climate Restoration (F4CR)'s CEO Rick Parnell joins us from the United Nations to tell us about theirFirst Annual Global Climate Restoration Forum, and the creation of their Global Coalition for Climate Restoration. They're raising the profile of carbon removal and trying to foster scalable climate solutions with decisionmakers.

Foundation for Climate Restoration website.

The Nori Lightning Sale is now live Oct 02, 2019

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People can now buy Carbon Removal Certificates from the Nori marketplace. This is the first time this has happened and is the first step in Nori launching its full platform. Nori CEO Paul Gambill is on the show to share the news about the Nori Lightning Sale. This episode is posted on Reversing Climate Change and Carbon Removal Newsroom.

Link to remove carbon with Nori: https://nori.com/remove-carbon.

The Green Amendment Movement, carbon removal, and Andrew Yang Sep 30, 2019

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The Green Amendment Movement is an effort to constitutionally protect the environment, and Maya van Rossum has been leading this charge. Two states have them, most do not, and others are working on it. Andrew Yang recently announced his support for such an amendment at the federal level, which had us wondering: if governments are constitutionally required to provide a clean environment and stable climate, does that obligate their support for carbon removal?

Maya's website: https://forthegenerations.org

Maya's book: http://www.mayavanrossum.green/the-green-amendment

Stripe & Shopify announce major support for carbon removal Sep 18, 2019

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Last month Stripe announced a major initiative to support carbon removal. Last week Shopify followed suit. What is going on in tech that is helping carbon removal get so much traction? Nori CEO Paul Gambill joins the show to help explain.

Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment

We need to talk about carbon (Shopify)

A Case for Separate Targets for Emissions Reduction and Negative Emissions Sep 13, 2019

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Duncan McLaren, Professor in Practice and Research Fellow at Lancaster University, comes on the show to talk about a recently published paper he cowrote called "Beyond "Net-Zero": A Case for Separate Targets for Emissions Reduction and Negative Emissions". Alexsandra Guerra hosts and digs into if and how emissions reductions and carbon removals should be treated as distinct activities.

"Beyond "Net-Zero": A Case for Separate Targets for Emissions Reduction and Negative Emissions" by Duncan P. McLaren, David P. Tyfield, Rebecca Willis, Bronislaw Szerszynski, and Nils O. Markusson

Duncan McLaren on Twitter

Democratic Primary raising the profile of carbon removal Sep 06, 2019

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Giana Amador, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Carbon180, joins the show to discuss the growing profile of carbon removal within and through the Democratic Party's 2020 Presidential Primary.

https://carbon180.org

https://twitter.com/gianaamador?lang=en

OpTIS, a new data-driven agtech tool, is now freely available Sep 04, 2019

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Pipa Elias, Director of Agriculture, North America at The Nature Conservancy, comes on the show to tell us about the progress with OpTIS, The Operational Tillage Information System, and how this intersection of data science and agtech could affect agriculture and food systems in the United States.

Pipa's article: "OpTIS: New Data Drives Conservation Solutions"

@PipaElias