How Far Can the EU’s Market-Shaping Purchasing Programme Go? - with Hugh McDonald
Achieving the EU’s aspirational 2030 target of 5 MtCO₂-e in permanent removals per year requires an €2.4–6.7 billion in investment. Fast forward to 2040, we’ll need to reach 75 Mt – or even as high a...
16 Sep 202527min
The UK means business: Examining the GGR Business Model - with Laura Hurley
At the end of August, the UK government released over 500 pages of documentation on how it plans to finance the scale-up of removals.There is a lot to talk about: the UK has committed over £22B to CCU...
12 Sep 202529min
Carbon Credit Ratings: What really matters right now? - with Bojana Bajzelj
Carbon rating agencies have increasingly become an indispensable pillar of carbon market infrastructure. While originally created to solve deep-seated quality and integrity concerns in the voluntary c...
10 Sep 202526min
Scoop School Lesson 2: Carbon Removal Leaders & Laggards
Scoop School is back in session.The second lesson: Who’s leading and who’s lagging in carbon removal (CDR) policy?Who’s getting it right, and who’s falling behind?What works in CDR policy design?Is it...
20 Aug 202529min
Scoop School Lesson 1: Carbon Removal Accounting
It may still be summer, but the new series, “Scoop School”, is now in session. First lesson: Carbon Removal Accounting. Which is not the same as MRV, and the lesson will get to that.Countries are faci...
13 Aug 202527min
The LULUCF Squeeze: Can policy save the EU's fading carbon sink? - with Asger Strange Olesen
Europe’s forests and soils have been acting as an indispensable cushion for our climate targets, currently offsetting around 6% of the EU’s GHG emissions. But the LULUCF sink - the EU’s natural carbon...
7 Aug 202527min
CDR and Credibility: Unpacking reversal rules under Article 6.4 - with Danny Cullenward
The Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM, also known as the Article 6.4 mechanism) is going through another round of public consultations. One key document on the table is the draft standard on n...
31 Jul 202530min
Is the UK quietly leading the CDR charge? - with Ted Christie-Miller
We’ve covered a lot of CDR policy developments in Europe and across the pond in the United States. But, truth be told, the UK is a bit of a blind spot for us.The UK’s Net-Zero Strategy was one of the ...
29 Jul 202528min
