Carbon Removal Newsroom

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The market says climate change is happening Mar 15, 2019

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Weather futures contracts show that traders are already building expectations of climate change into the way they invest their money.

Link in this episode:

http://reason.com/blog/2019/03/05/the-market-says-climate-change-is-happen

Guest on this episode:

Ronald Bailey, science correspondent for Reason magazine and reason.com

https://twitter.com/RonaldBailey

Congress considers the carbon removal USE IT Act Mar 04, 2019

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Erin 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.

Links in this episode:

https://carbon180.org

https://medium.com/@carbon180/a-climate-bill-that-could-help-launch-the-next-technology-revolution-6ae2b234086b

Guest on this episode:

Erin Burns, Associate Director of Policy at Carbon180

https://twitter.com/erinmburns

Y Combinator is looking for carbon removal startups Mar 01, 2019

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Y Combinator is a renowned startup program in Silicon Valley whose alumni include Airbnb, Dropbox, and Coinbase. They recently put out a call for startups focused exclusively on carbon removal.

Links in this episode:

http://carbon.ycombinator.com

Guest on this episode:

Gustaf Alstromer, Partner at Y Combinator

https://twitter.com/gustaf

Amazon sets goal of net zero carbon for 50% of shipments by 2030 Feb 22, 2019

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Paul stopped by CRN today to talk about Amazon's new goal of getting to net zero carbon on 50% of their shipments by 2030.

Links in this episode:

https://blog.aboutamazon.com/sustainability/delivering-shipment-zero-a-vision-for-net-zero-carbon-shipments

https://350seattle.org/amazon/

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/16/technology/tech-workers-company-stock-shareholder-activism.html

Guest on this episode:

Paul Gambill, CEO of Nori

https://twitter.com/paulgambill

The role of carbon removal in a Green New Deal Feb 20, 2019

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Noah Deich of Carbon180 stopped by to talk about his perspective on the Green New Deal outline.

Links in this episode:

Noah's tweetstorm https://twitter.com/thecarbonsink/status/1093553698318344193

Guests on this episode:

Noah Deich, Executive Director of Carbon180

https://twitter.com/TheCarbonSink

Major food producers want to store carbon in soil Feb 19, 2019

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Alexsandra 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.

Links in this episode:

https://www.greenbiz.com/report/2019-state-green-business-report

Guests:

Alexsandra Guerra, Nori's Director of Strategic Planning

https://twitter.com/CleanEnergyGrl

Email us with stories you want covered at podcast@nori.com.

Climeworks is building direct air capture machines Feb 15, 2019

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Christophe 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.

Links in this episode:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/magazine/climeworks-business-climate-change.html

Guest:

Christophe Jospe, Chief Development Officer at Nori

https://twitter.com/cjospe

Oil and gas investments in direct air capture Feb 13, 2019

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Aldyen 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.

Links discussed in this episode:

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/oil-and-gas-giants-chevron-and-occidental-are-backing-tech-to-combat-carbon-emissions/

https://www.chron.com/business/texas-inc/article/Heady-energy-thinker-envisions-an-atmospheric-13532169.php#item-85307-tbla-8

Guests:

Paul Gambill, Nori CEO

https://twitter.com/paulgambill

Aldyen Donnelly, Nori Director of Carbon Economics

https://twitter.com/aldyendonnelly

The Green New Deal outline Feb 13, 2019

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Paul Gambill and Aldyen Donnelly 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.

Links discussed during the episode:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5729033/Green-New-Deal-FINAL.pdf

https://theconversation.com/capturing-carbon-to-fight-climate-change-is-dividing-environmentalists-110142

Guests:

Paul Gambill, Nori CEO

https://twitter.com/paulgambill

Aldyen Donnelly, Nori Director of Carbon Economics

https://twitter.com/aldyendonnelly

COP24 and carbon removal Feb 13, 2019

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In 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.

Guests:

Alexsandra Guerra, Nori's Director of Strategic Planning

https://twitter.com/CleanEnergyGrl

Aldyen Donnelly, Nori's Director of Carbon Economics

https://twitter.com/aldyendonnelly

Email us with stories you want covered at podcast@nori.com.