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Rethinking Infrastructure: Decarbonization Through Durability
Host: Alex Cameron, Founder & CEO, Decarb Connect
Guest: Eric Van Genderen, Director of Environment, Health & Sustainability, International Zinc Association
Industrial co2 efforts tend to focus on fuels, technologies, and process change, yet a major source of avoidable emissions sits in plain sight: premature infrastructure failure. Roads, bridges, and wastewater systems that corrode decades earlier than planned lock in repeated cycles of repairs that are both carbon and capital-intensive. In this episode, we explore why durability is emerging as a critical lever in reducing lifetime emissions, and how smarter material choices can reshape the economics and carbon profile of long-life assets.
Eric Van Genderen from the International Zinc Association makes the case that we're systematically miscounting the carbon cost of infrastructure by ignoring what happens when it fails early. The fix isn't new technology. Galvanised steel has been a proven solution for nearly a century. What's broken is the decision-making model where federal governments fund construction and municipalities inherit the replacement bill decades later, with no mechanism connecting upfront material choices to long-term carbon or cost outcomes.
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Learn more about Decarb Connect
Our global membership platform, events and facilitated introductions support leaders driving industrial and energy innovation. Our clients include the most energy-intensive industrials from cement, metals and mining, glass, ceramics, chemicals, O&G and many more along with technology disruptors, investors and advisors. We have summits coming up in Houston, London, Hamburg, Boston and Toronto and the opportunity to find the biggest brains in energy and carbon management - your future collaborators. For year-round introductions and meaningful insights, get in touch about your membership of the Decarbonization Leaders Network – so many benefits, hundreds of people equally focused on decarbonization – find out more and talk with Jack Figg, Community Director.
Cemvision: Building Climate Solutions Without Subsidy Dependence
Host: Alex Cameron, Founder & CEO Decarb Connect
Guest: Oscar Hållén, CEO of CemVision
Oscar Hållén talks with Alex about how his Cemvision is disrupting one of the world's highest-emitting industries without relying on green premiums or subsidies. Cemvision reuses alternative chemical processes plus existing production infrastructure and circular feedstocks from steel and iron production to create a one-to-one replacement for Portland cement. This eliminates the calcination process, the primary cost and emissions driver in traditional cement production, while maintaining cost parity with incumbents from day one.
Hållén argues that effective decarb requires industrial solutions that can survive policy shifts and stand on their own economic merits. He traces Cemvision's commercial partnerships with Vattenfall and Storex, explaining how trust-building, technical iteration and alignment on long-term vision enabled these collaborations. The conversation examines the current market moment, where industrial commitments to transition often outpace the politics, and explores the mental model of "creative destruction" as a forcing function for climate action rather than perpetual subsidisation of incumbent carbon-intensive processes.
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Learn more about Decarb Connect:
Our global membership platform, events and facilitated introductions support leaders driving industrial and energy innovation.
Our clients include the most energy-intensive industrials from cement, metals and mining, glass, ceramics, chemicals, O&G and many more along with technology disruptors, investors and advisors.
We have webinars monthly and in-person summits coming up in Houston, London, Hamburg, Boston and Toronto and the opportunity to find the biggest brains in energy and carbon management - your future collaborators.
For year-round introductions and meaningful insights, get in touch about your membership of the Decarbonization Leaders Network – so many benefits, hundreds of people equally focused on creating a resilient and profitable future for industry – find out more and talk with Jack Figg, Community Director.
What to Watch in Carbon Markets and CCUS in 2026
Host: Alex Cameron, Founder & CEO, Decarb Connect
Guests:
- Peter Albin, Senior Research Analyst, Carbon Markets – Wood Mackenzie
- Stephanie Chiang, Senior Research Analyst, CCUS – Wood Mackenzie
After a turbulent year for climate policy, carbon markets and CCUS, what actually changed and what matters going into 2026?
In this episode, Alex Cameron is joined by Wood Mackenzie experts Peter Albin and Stephanie Chiang to unpack the real state of carbon markets and carbon capture after a year dominated by political shifts, policy delays and mixed signals. Moving beyond headlines, the discussion focuses on where momentum is holding, where it is stalling, and how companies should think about business models, pricing, and investment risk across regions.
From compliance carbon pricing and offsets to CCUS hubs, cross-border projects and removals, this conversation is about separating signal from noise and understanding what is commercially viable now, not just theoretically possible.
Key takeaways:
· Why 2025 looked like backsliding, but still delivered structural progress
· Where compliance carbon pricing is expanding and where political limits are showing
· How CCUS business models are evolving, and why hubs matter more than ever
· The growing role of cross-border carbon transport and storage
· What is changing in carbon offset markets as quality and governance tighten
· Why removals will matter, but not yet at scale without further support
· How corporates are shifting from transition narratives to balance-sheet reality
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Listen in as Alex Cameron joins Bart de Groot, Sustainability Lead at Siemens Industry Software, to explore how process industries are navigating the complex landscape of decarbonization in 2025. Against a backdrop of volatile energy prices, shifting regulations, and supply chain disruptions, Bart reveals highly practical strategies companies are using to reduce emissions while maintaining profitability.
From cement manufacturers exploring carbon capture to chemical companies revolutionizing how they calculate and share product carbon footprints, this conversation offers a clear-eyed view of what's actually working in industrial low carbon strategy. Bart breaks down his three-tier framework for decarb - from operational efficiency wins that pay for themselves in months, to established complementary technologies, to breakthrough process innovations that could reshape entire industries. Whether you're leading sustainability initiatives or simply curious about how heavy industry is tackling climate change, this episode delivers actionable insights and real-world examples that cut through the hype.
Key Benefits for Listeners
• Dig into the three-tier framework for prioritizing decarbonization investments, from quick wins to long-term transformation
• Discover real examples of companies achieving 5% additional energy savings even at already-optimized facilities, with projects paying for themselves in months
• Understand how AI and digital tools are enabling demand-side management and short-term energy price forecasting to reduce both costs and emissions
• Gain insight into emerging collaboration models like Together for Sustainability, where 50+ major chemical companies are creating standardized approaches to Scope 3 emissions
• Explore cutting-edge innovations in cement production, direct air capture, and bio-based feedstocks that could reshape carbon-intensive industries
• Get practical perspective on navigating uncertainty in 2025, including how to build business cases when market conditions are volatile
• Hear why combining fundamental process knowledge with modern digital tools outperforms purely data-driven approaches for continuous operations
Useful Links
· Follow Alex Cameron on LinkedIn and find how to get involved with the membership and work of Decarb Connect
· Follow Decarb Connect on LinkedIn to stay up to date with news and events
· Interested in accessing more insights? We also run a webinar series produced in collaboration with leaders in industry - Watch past and upcoming webinars here
· Join Alex and 150+ industrial leaders, innovators, investors, and policymakers in Toronto for Decarb Connect Canada (October 28-29 2025)
Want to learn more about Decarb Connect?
We provide insights and introductions that derisk decision-making and support industrial leaders in deploying decarbonization and low carbon product strategy. Our global membership platform, events and facilitated introductions support commercial decarb planning and business models around the world. Our clients include the most energy-intensive industrials from cement, metals and mining, glass, ceramics, chemicals, O&G and many more along with technology disruptors, investors and advisors.
If you enjoyed this conversation, find out about our portfolio of events in US, Canada, UK and Europe – or explore our Decarbonisation Leaders Network (DLN), and learn why more than 200 members from the energy-intensive sectors have joined to share insights, meet partners who can accelerate their net zero plans and why it’s the fastest growing network of its kind.
In this episode, Simon Smith from Frazer-Nash Consultancy joins the Podbite series to discuss the realities of industrial decarbonization. The conversation explores the role of small modular reactors (SMRs), the opportunities and limits of existing carbon technologies, and the commercial hurdles facing heavy industry as it moves toward net zero.
Simon shares both technical insights and industry perspectives from their roundtable discussion held at Decarb Connect UK in Manchester.
Why Tune In
Recorded live at Decarb Connect UK Summit, March 2025.
Show links:
- Connect with Simon Smith and the team at Frazer-Nash Consultancy
- Follow Melissa Chew on LinkedIn and find how to get involved with the membership and work of Decarb Connect
Want to learn more about Decarb Connect?
We provide insights and introductions that derisk decision-making and support industrial leaders in deploying decarbonization and low carbon product strategy. Our global membership platform, events and facilitated introductions support commercial decarb planning and business models around the world. Our clients include the most energy-intensive industrials from cement, metals and mining, glass, ceramics, chemicals, O&G and many more along with technology disruptors, investors and advisors.
If you enjoyed this conversation, find out about our portfolio of events in US, Canada, UK and Europe – or explore our Decarbonisation Leaders Network (DLN), and learn why more than 200 members from the energy-intensive sectors have joined to share insights, meet partners who can accelerate their net zero plans and why it’s the fastest growing network of its kind.
Recorded live at the Decarb Connect UK Summit in March, this episode features guest host Tom Angus, Senior Conference Producer at Decarb Connect in conversation with Eoin Bailey, Innovation and Circular Economy Manager at 7 Steel UK. Eoin shares his journey from automotive design engineer to steel industry innovator, and unpacks how 7 Steel is embedding circular economy principles to deliver more sustainable steel solutions for the UK construction sector.
*Please note: At the time of recording, 7 Steel UK was operating as Celsa Steel. Throughout the episode, you’ll hear it referred to by its former name.
Highlights from the conversation:
Please note: this podcast was recorded at Decarb Connect UK in March 2025
Show links:
- Connect with Eoin Bailey and the team at 7 Steel UK (formerly Celsa Steel)
- Follow Tom Angus on LinkedIn and find how to get involved with the membership and work of Decarb Connect
- Join the Decarb Connect Team and a network of hardtech investors and series B+ tech disruptors at Decarb TechInvest in Boston (September 2025)
Want to learn more about Decarb Connect?
We provide insights and introductions that derisk decision-making and support industrial leaders in deploying decarbonization and low carbon product strategy. Our global membership platform, events and facilitated introductions support commercial decarb planning and business models around the world. Our clients include the most energy-intensive industrials from cement, metals and mining, glass, ceramics, chemicals, O&G and many more along with technology disruptors, investors and advisors.
If you enjoyed this conversation, find out about our portfolio of events in US, Canada, UK and Europe – or explore our Decarbonisation Leaders Network (DLN), and learn why more than 200 members from the energy-intensive sectors have joined to share insights, meet partners who can accelerate their net zero plans and why it’s the fastest growing network of its kind.
Welcome to Podbites - short, sharp episodes designed to give you digestible insights on industrial decarbonisation.
In this episode, Tim Atkinson (Director, Sales & Trading at CFP Energy) joins guest host Melissa Chew (VP, Product at Decarb Connect) to explore why UK industrials must act now to build a resilient carbon strategy.
Recorded live at Decarb Connect UK in Manchester in March, the conversation unpacks the changes underway in carbon markets and why the firefighting of the 2022 energy crisis has shifted into an era of forward-looking strategy.
What You’ll Hear
Please note: this podcast was recorded at Decarb Connect UK in March 2025*
Show links:
- Connect with Tim Atkinson and the team at CFP Energy
- Follow Melissa Chew on LinkedIn and find how to get involved with the membership and work of Decarb Connect
- Join Mel and a network of hardtech investors and series B+ tech disruptors at Decarb TechInvest in Boston (September 2025)
Want to learn more about Decarb Connect?
We provide insights and introductions that derisk decision-making and support industrial leaders in deploying decarbonization and low carbon product strategy. Our global membership platform, events and facilitated introductions support commercial decarb planning and business models around the world. Our clients include the most energy-intensive industrials from cement, metals and mining, glass, ceramics, chemicals, O&G and many more along with technology disruptors, investors and advisors.
If you enjoyed this conversation, find out about our portfolio of events in US, Canada, UK and Europe – or explore our Decarbonisation Leaders Network (DLN), and learn why more than 200 members from the energy-intensive sectors have joined to share insights, meet partners who can accelerate their net zero plans and why it’s the fastest growing network of its kind.
In this episode of the Decarb Connect podcast, Alex Cameron speaks with ClimeCo’s Emily Damon (Chief Growth Officer) and David Prieto (VP of Sustainability Advisory) to explore the rise of insetting as a tool for accelerating corporate decarbonization—especially across complex value chains. Unlike carbon offsets, which involve emission reductions outside a company’s operations, insetting delivers reductions within a company’s value chain, enabling both Scope 1 and Scope 3 progress.
You’ll hear how insetting fits into existing GHG accounting frameworks, why market-based accounting is gaining traction, and how buyers and sellers are structuring deals today—from bundled agreements to complex multilateral transactions. With rising consumer willingness to pay and emerging buyer alliances, insetting is positioned to become a core pillar of corporate climate strategies—if companies can navigate risk, tracking, and stakeholder scrutiny effectively.
Top 5 Takeaways from the Episode
Useful Links
Want to learn more about Decarb Connect?
We provide insights and introductions that derisk decision-making and support industrial leaders in deploying decarbonization and low carbon product strategy. Our global membership platform, events and facilitated introductions support commercial decarb planning and business models around the world. Our clients include the most energy-intensive industrials from cement, metals and mining, glass, ceramics, chemicals, O&G and many more along with technology disruptors, investors and advisors.
If you enjoyed this conversation, find out about our portfolio of events in US, Canada, UK and Europe – or explore our Decarbonisation Leaders Network (DLN), and learn why more than 200 members from the energy-intensive sectors have joined to share insights, meet partners who can accelerate their net zero plans and why it’s the fastest growing network of its kind.
In this episode of the Decarb Connect Podcast, Alexandra Cameron is joined by Garrett Boudinot, climate scientist and CEO of VyCarb, a Brooklyn-based startup pioneering a novel approach to carbon dioxide removal (CDR). VyCarb’s technology harnesses the natural carbon cycle of water to convert CO₂ into stable bicarbonate, offering a verifiable and permanent storage pathway that bypasses the geographic and infrastructure limitations of conventional geologic storage.
Garrett shares how his background in ocean carbon chemistry led to the development of a modular, sensor-integrated system that operates at low CO₂ concentrations and near industrial emitters. The conversation explores how VyCarb's solution is being piloted with major industrial players like Rio Tinto and BlueScope Steel, and how the technology could support both voluntary carbon markets and direct decarbonization across sectors.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
· How VyCarb mimics ocean chemistry to convert CO₂ into stably stored bicarbonate
· Why low-purity CO₂ streams—common across industry—are a key focus for deployment
· The limitations of geologic CO₂ storage and how VyCarb overcomes them
· How integrated sensing enables real-time verification and control of the carbon conversion process
· Practical implications for cement, steel, aluminum, and oil & gas emitters
· How existing wastewater discharge permitting can support project rollout
· Insights into VyCarb’s current pilot in Brooklyn and its industrial integration roadmap
· What scale-up looks like and why the economics could reach below $100/ton
Show links:
- Connect with Garrett Boudinot and the team at VyCarb
- Follow Alex Cameron on LinkedIn and find how to get involved with the membership and work of Decarb Connect
- Join Alex and a network of hardtech investors and series B+ tech disruptors at Decarb TechInvest in Boston (September 2025)
Want to learn more about Decarb Connect?
We provide insights and introductions that derisk decision-making and support industrial leaders in deploying decarbonization and low carbon product strategy. Our global membership platform, events and facilitated introductions support commercial decarb planning and business models around the world. Our clients include the most energy-intensive industrials from cement, metals and mining, glass, ceramics, chemicals, O&G and many more along with technology disruptors, investors and advisors.
If you enjoyed this conversation, find out about our portfolio of events in US, Canada, UK and Europe – or explore our Decarbonisation Leaders Network (DLN), and learn why more than 200 members from the energy-intensive sectors have joined to share insights, meet partners who can accelerate their net zero plans and why it’s the fastest growing network of its kind.
First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) projects are critical to scaling breakthrough decarbonization technologies, yet they don’t fit neatly into traditional funding models. Investors, developers, and strategic partners need to navigate a complex ecosystem to make these projects bankable and viable. In this episode, I talk with David Yeh, a veteran climate tech investor and one of the key voices from our TechInvest event last autumn. He’s been at the forefront of FOAK investing and is here to share what he’s learned over the past year about getting these projects off the ground.
David was previously featured on the Catalyst podcast discussing the challenges of funding and scaling FOAK projects. This episode builds on that conversation, covering the rapid changes in the sector and how investors and innovators can ensure their projects get the financing, partners, and expertise they need to succeed.
Key Takeaways
• FOAK’s Core Goal: Developing bankable projects from pilot to scale, ensuring they attract investors, customers, and suppliers.
• Bankability Defined: Investors need stable returns, customers need reliability, and suppliers need to be paid on time. Strong teams and risk mitigation are non-negotiable.
• How to Build Bankable FOAK Projects: Expertise is more critical than capital
• The Role of EPCs & Strategic Partners: Success depends on having the right engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) teams and industry partners—not just big brands, but the right people.
• Coachable Founders Matter: FOAK success isn’t just about having great tech; founders must understand commercialization, risk, and capital strategy.
• Proven Models for FOAK Success: Companies like Fervo, Infinium, and Heirloom are demonstrating that FOAK projects can attract significant investment—if structured correctly.
• Why Now is the Time to Build: Economic downturns can be an opportunity for resilient companies to thrive, as seen in past recessions with companies like Uber and Airbnb.
Top 3 Reasons to Listen to This Episode
· Get Inside the Mind of a FOAK Investor: David Yeh shares firsthand insights into what makes a FOAK project investable, based on real-world deals.
· Learn What’s Working Now in Climate Tech: Discover how companies are securing billion-dollar funding rounds and making first-of-a-kind projects viable.
· Understand the Key to Bankability: Whether you're a startup, investor, or policymaker, this episode breaks down how to de-risk projects and bring them to market successfully.
Show links:
- Connect with David Yeh, Founder, Precursor
- Connect with Alex Cameron, Decarb Connect (and maybe even suggest a podcast discussion theme)
- If this conversation resonated, join us at Decarb TechInvest in London in June 2025 – find out more here.
- If you enjoyed this conversation, find out about our portfolio of events in US, Canada, UK and Europe – or explore our Decarbonisation Leaders Network (DLN), and learn why hundreds of members from the energy-intensive sectors have joined to find their peers, identify the right solutions and to create high value collaborations that will deliver co2 reductions in our most critical industries. It’s the fastest growing network of its kind, so come and find out why
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Learn more about Decarb Connect
Our global membership platform, events and facilitated introductions support the acceleration of industrial decarbonization around the world. Our clients include the most energy-intensive industrials from cement, metals and mining, glass, ceramics, chemicals, O&G and many more along with technology disruptors, investors and advisors. We have events coming up in London, Amsterdam, Boston, Toronto and Dallas and the opportunity to find the biggest brains in carbon management and your future collaborators. For year-round introductions and meanginful insights, get in touch about your membership of the Decarbonization Leaders Network – so many benefits, hundreds of people equally focused on decarbonization – find out more and talk with Jack Figg, Community Director.
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