This is CDR

- In this episode of This Is CDR Toby and Irene welcome Shopify Head of Sustainability Stacy Kauk who presents the company's recently published CDR buying guide, and discuss the company's pioneering CDR procurement program and how we can scale demand for long-duration CDR.

EPISODE LINKS:

- https://www.shopify.com/climate/sustainability-fund

https://cdn.shopify.com/static/sustainability/Shopify-Carbon-Removal-Buying-Guide.pdf

- https://twitter.com/stacykauk

ABOUT STACY:

Stacy Kauk joined Shopify in January 2020 where she is the Head of Sustainability and oversees and leads the company's sustainability initiatives. She also serves on the advisory board of the Carbon Management Research Initiative (CaMRI) at Columbia University. Prior to joining Shopify, Stacy was Head of the Ozone Layer Protection Program at Environment and Climate Change Canada. Stacy has worked on several chemicals management regulatory initiatives and represented Canada as a member of delegations for the Stockholm Convention and Montreal Protocol.

In this episode of This Is CDR Toby and Megha welcome CarbonCapture CEO Adrian Corless who overs an overview of Project Bison, the company's ambitious 5Mt planned deployment in Wyoming, and discusses the company's plans to scale beyond that in the U.S. and globally.

SESSION LINKS:

https://openaircollective.cc/join/

https://www.carboncapture.com/

https://www.carboncapture.com/who-we-are

https://twitter.com/CarbonCaptureUS

https://twitter.com/adrian_corless

https://www.carboncapture.com/project-bison

ABOUT OUR QUEST:

Adrian Corless has spent more than 25 years developing and commercializing products in the cleantech industry. From 2013 to 2018, he was the CEO of Carbon Engineering, where he successfully developed the company into a recognized global leader in CO2 direct air capture, piloting industrial scale systems in under two years. In addition, Adrian has spent 15+ years commercializing industrial hydrogen, fuel cell, and pump technologies, serving as CEO of Rotoliptic Technologies, CTO of Plug Power, and CTO of Cellex Power Products. He holds a Master's of Science degree from the University of Victoria, BC Canada with specialization in Energy Systems, Cryogenics, and LNG.

In this episode Toby and Megha welcome Running Tide CEO Marty Odlin back to This Is CDR to tell us what's new at the company since he was last with us in November 2021, and what we can expect to see from Running Tide in 2023 and beyond.

About Marty: https://www.runningtide.com/

Marty Odlin is the Founder and CEO of Running Tide, a global ocean health company. A systems engineer and member of a 4th generation fishing family, Marty founded the company in 2017 after seeing the devastating implications of climate change on his own community. Running Tide designs and deploys cutting-edge diagnostics and comprehensive interventions that rebalance the carbon cycle, decarbonize global supply chains, restore marine ecosystems, and revitalize coastal communities. Proudly headquartered in Portland, Maine, Running Tide is scaling worldwide in partnership with leading investors, companies, scientific institutions, and governments.

In this episode of This Is CDR Toby and Megha welcome Carbo Culture Co-Founder and CEO Henrietta Moon who presents the company's plan to scale biochar production via its patented Carbolysis™ process that converts residual biomass into biochar and heat.

Explore Carbo Culture: https://carboculture.com/

Explore OpenAir: https://openaircollective.cc/resources/

About Henrietta:

Henrietta Moon has wide management experience, having founded an education startup and launched and scaled several high profile global initiatives in technology. She was the youngest person in Finland to be a Board member in a publicly traded company (YLEPS: OMXH NASDAQ). She is recognized as a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, and a member of the Stanford-StartX founder community.

In this episode OpenAir is pleased to welcome Brilliant Planet Founder and Chief Scientist Dr. Raffael Jovine who discusses how the company unlocks the power of algae as an affordable method of durably and quantifiably sequestering carbon at gigatonne scale. The company’s innovative process enables vast quantities of microalgae to grow in open-air pond-based systems on coastal desert land. This is achieved without using fresh water, by harnessing a natural process that contributes to the health of oceans and air.

About Brilliant Planet - https://www.brilliantplanet.com

About Raffael:

Dr. Raffael Jovine trained in molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale, did his PhD in marine sciences at UC Santa Barbara, and completed research at MIT. In 2013, he founded and is now chief scientist of Brilliant Planet, a company that uses seawater, sunlight, and wind to grow food in coastal deserts, replicating algal blooms. He is married with five children and lives in London.

Find out more about OpenAir's global carbon removal advocacy community - https://openaircollective.cc/

This week OpenAir is pleased to welcome Paebbl Co-Founders Andreas Saari and Pol Knops who will tell us about their new company's innovative method that employs mineralization to combine CO2 with abundant minerals to create carbon-negative industrial raw materials.

Learn more about Paebble - https://paebbl.com/

About Andreas:

Andreas Saari is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Paebbl, a CO2 repurposing company. Paebbl converts CO2 into long-lasting essential industrial raw materials, permanently sequestering the CO2. Formerly, Andreas co-founded The 280 Company which developed conversion processes for CO2 and methane into carbon nanomaterials. Before that, he was CEO of Slush (www.slush.org) and Co-Founder & CEO of Wave Ventures (www.wave.ventures). Andreas studied industrial engineering and management at Aalto University in Finland.

About Pol:

Pol Knops is Co-Founder and CTO of Paebbl, a CO2 repurposing company. Paebbl converts CO2 into long-lasting essential industrial raw materials, permanently sequestering the CO2. He has been working on mineralization for about 15 years, first as an academic interest. And slowly realized that besides the CO2 sequestration there is value to be generated from the beneficial use of the end-products. And in order to create an influential impact this needs to be scaled up to industrial scale, which requires founding a company, a bigger team, more funding, business cases etc. etc. besides the chemistry of CO2 sequestration. Pol has a MSc degree in physics from the University of Twente.

In this episode of This Is CDR we are pleased to welcome Neustark Co-Founder and Co-CEO Johannes Tiefenthaler who tells us about his company's innovative method of durably sequestering biogenic CO2 in recycled concrete aggregate.

Company Link: https://www.neustark.com/

About Johannes:

Johannes Tiefenthaler holds a PhD from ETH Zurich, where he developed the next generation of technology for the mineralization of carbon dioxide. Having co-founded neustark, he manages the company together with his co-founder Valentin Gutknecht, and is responsible for technology and scientific affairs.

In this special episode of This Is CDR, OpenAir is excited to welcome Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Dr. Jennifer Wilcox of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) to tell us about her work leading FECM, and what's next for the advancement, deployment, and scaling of CDR in the U.S.

Hosted by Toby Bryce and Megha Raghavan.

About Dr. Wilcox:

- https://www.energy.gov/fecm/person/dr-jennifer-wilcox

Jennifer Wilcox is the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management at DOE and is on leave as the Presidential Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, as a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute (WRI), she led WRI’s Carbon Removal Program.

Having grown up in rural Maine, Dr. Wilcox has a profound respect and appreciation of nature. That appreciation permeates her work; she focuses on minimizing climate and environmental impacts of our dependence on fossil fuels.

Dr. Wilcox holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and an M.A. in Chemistry from the University of Arizona and B.A. in Mathematics from Wellesley College. Dr. Wilcox's research takes aim at the nexus of energy and the environment, developing both mitigation and adaptation strategies to minimize negative climate impacts associated with society's dependence on fossil fuels. She has served on committees of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society to assess carbon capture methods and impacts on climate. She is the author of the first textbook on carbon capture, Carbon Capture, published in March 2012. She co-edited the CDR Primer on carbon dioxide removal in 2021.

Brought to you by OpenAir

- https://www.openaircollective.cc/

This week on This Is CDR, we are pleased to welcome Celina Scott-Buechler from Data for Progress and Dr. Simone H. Stewart from the National Wildlife Federation to present their important recent work on Charting a Path to Just DAC Hubs.

LINKS

- https://www.nwf.org/Our-Work/Environmental-Threats/Climate-Change

- https://www.dataforprogress.org/

- https://www.dataforprogress.org/memos/charting-a-path-to-just-direct-air-capture-hubs

- https://www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/2022/4/dfp-nys-cdrla-toplines.pdf

- https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2022/5/18/voters-want-state-and-federal-lawmakers-to-lead-on-carbon-dioxide-removal-new-york

- https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/10/24/carbon_removal_could_clean_up_our_planet__if_we_get_it_right_860891.html

- https://carboncurve.substack.com/p/cdr-equitable-deployment

ABOUT OUR GUESTS

Celina Scott-Buechler ( https://twitter.com/cescobu )is the Senior Resident Fellow for Climate Innovation at Data for Progress (DFP), where she leads DFP’s growing work on progressive carbon removal solutions—removing gigatons of past greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere by developing equitable, community-beneficial, and environmental justice-centered strategies. Celina has worked as a legislative staffer for Senator Cory Booker, policy director for the Center for Environmental Peacebuilding, and consultant to the UN. She is currently co-chair of the research consortium Ocean Visions' marine circular bioeconomy taskforce and serves on the board of directors of the Telluride Association, an education-democracy non-profit. Celina is also pursuing a PhD in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program for Environment and Resources at the Stanford School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences. She graduated summa cum laude from the honors College Scholars program at Cornell University, where she also earned her master's in atmospheric science.

Dr. Simone H. Stewart ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-stewart )currently works as the industrial policy specialist on NWF's Climate and Energy Policy program team, with a portfolio focused on carbon capture, utilization, and storage, carbon dioxide removal technologies, and other strategies to aid in a just green transition for difficult to decarbonize sectors such as energy and industry. She is a published researcher in the field of fluid mechanics and earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. At UCSB her research focused on investigating the fluid mechanics of fluxes over rough surfaces, with applications in large-scale direct air carbon capture and clean energy architecture. During that time, she also worked as the graduate assistant for the Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy, where she led a variety of programming, created detailed info campaigns centered around justice and community enfranchisement, and helped develop a comprehensive People’s Guide to the Green New Deal rooted in the tenants of environmental and economic justice..

In this episode of This Is CDR, we are pleased to welcome Boulder County's Susie Strife, the City of Flagstaff's Ramon Alatorre and OpenAir's Chris Neidl to discuss locally -ed CDR and introduce the 4 Corners Carbon Coalition.

Hosted by Toby Bryce and Megha Raghavan.

Guest link: https://4cornerscarbon.org/

About Susie Strife:

Susie leads Boulder County’s Office of Sustainability, Climate Action & Resilience, providing direction on policies and program implementation for internal and external sustainability activities while managing planning efforts and budgets. She also serves as the key liaison to other county agencies to support existing projects and guide the county towards a more sustainable future. Susie received her PhD from the University of Colorado in 2009, and often teaches courses on sustainability, green design, and environmental sociology.

About Ramon DC Alatorre:

Ramón is the Climate Analyst for the City of Flagstaff. He joined the City in January of 2020, and on his second day on the job, he watched as the Flagstaff community completely updated his job description as they gave hours of testimony late into the night demanding that Council adopt a Resolution declaring a Climate Emergency. Things haven't slowed down since! In addition to helping to advance the development and adoption of the Carbon Neutrality Plan, Ramón is also responsible for overseeing many of the programs and initiatives related to Clean Energy, Electrification, and Carbon Removal. Ramón earned a B.S. in Chemistry and an M.S. in Environmental Science and Engineering. In a prior life, he led climbing and backpacking leadership expeditions, and though it's no longer his job, he can still be found on the rocks and trails in and around Flagstaff.

About Chris Neidl:

Chris is co-founder of OpenAir, a global volunteer collective launched in 2019 to advance carbon dioxide removal (CDR) through member-driven advocacy. In this role Chris has helped lead advocacy efforts at the state level related to low carbon concrete procurement policy, including the Low Embodied Carbon Concrete Leadership Act (LECCLA), as well as carbon removal procurement and incentives, including the New York Carbon Dioxide Removal Leadership Act, the NY Carbon City Property Tax Abatement Act, and the Luxembourg Negative Emissions Tariff. Chris came to CDR and low carbon concrete from a fifteen year career in solar energy, which spanned diverse research, activist and project management roles in North America, South Asia, Afghanistan and East Africa. Chris is an upstate New York native and long-time Brooklyn resident currently based in Austin, TX.