Bite-Size Climate Tech

Episode 16 - UNDO Carbon, a trailblazer in carbon removal. They're not just any UK company – they use basalt rock in a remarkable way, both capturing carbon and enhancing soil for farming. Can rocks be our unlikely allies against climate change? Join us to unravel how UNDO Carbon is making waves in climate tech with their innovative approach. Discover a story where geology meets sustainability. 🪨🌍✨ #ClimateTech #Sustainability #Innovation

Links:

UNDO enhanced rock weathering UK | Puro.earth

UNDO Becomes Microsoft’s First Enhanced Rock Weathering Supplier - UNDO

Episode 15 - In the world of enhanced rock weathering, there're two rocks stars: Olivine and Basalt. Do you know their origin story and how they become the rock stars in their role in wrestling down CO₂ of the climate arena? Listen in!

Links:

Sibelco high-magnesium olivine delivers benefits across a range of applications including metallurgy, offshore wind ballasting, water filtration, thermal energy storage & carbon sequestration

Enhanced rock weathering - CO₂RE - The Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub

Peridot Gemstone | Peridot Stone – GIA

Living with volcanoes - British Geological Survey

Episode 14 - we're diving deep into one of the most talked-about subjects in the climate discourse: carbon credits. The term is echoing everywhere, igniting curiosity and questions. What exactly are carbon credits?

Links:

Carbon Credits - what are they and how do they work?

Why Puro.earth - Carbon removal standard and registry

Bezero Carbon Rating Methodology.pdf

Episode 13 - Today we will unravel the mysteries of MRV—Measurement, Reporting, and Verification. It's the process ensuring quality in carbon credit generation. (why there are so many terms? 🌱✨)

Links:

Quantifying enhanced weathering – CarbonPlan

What You Need to Know About the Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) of Carbon Credits

Episode 12 - Happy Halloween! 🎃 I trust you're all wrapped in the eerie ambiance of Halloween festivities, with pumpkins glowing and skeletons sipping ghostly coffee. Today, we're diving into something as intriguing as the mysterious shadows of Halloween night - the challenges that Enhanced Rock Weathering is facing and the innovative solutions people are conjuring up to overcome them!

Links:

Enhanced weathering in the U.S. Corn Belt delivers carbon removal with agronomic benefits
AirMiners Panel Engages the Challenge of Verifying Carbon Removal for Enhanced Weathering

https://www.reykjavik-protocol.com/

Episode 11 - When I first stumbled upon the concept of Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW), it felt like science fiction. Rocks, rain, and CO2 – how do they intertwine to combat climate change? Let's explore this topic today.

Link: PURO.EARTH on ERW

Episode 10 - Today's bonus session is all about coffee. Do you know that there's a Seatle-based coffee company making coffee without coffee beans? Spoiler alert, you can find their coffee in New York now.

Let me know how you think about their coffee by email me at [email protected]!

Link: https://www.atomocoffee.com/pages/beanless-coffee

Episode 9 - "We're really founding a new industry." Jan Wurzbacher, the CEO of Climeworks told New York Times. How did the biggest DAC company achieve this and do you know how much air we need to capture 1ton of CO2?

Links:

https://climeworks.com/

Episode 8 - Just like Frontier, NextGen is an industry initiative established with the goal to establish a demand for high quality CDRs. They have commited the largest advance purchase of around 200k tons in May this year.

Link:

cdr.fyi -> check out all the buys and sells of CDRs here!

Episode 7 - Frontier is an Advance Market Commitment founded by Stripe, Meta, McKinsey &Co. and Shopify, to address the issue in the innovative CDR field, sending a signal to the researchers and project developers that they are building a market for CDR.

Links: https://frontierclimate.com/