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This week’s episode focuses on a new community engagement strategy for direct air capture projects in Kenya, why a community takeback obligation in the United Kingdom might potentially play an important role in scaling carbon removal, and equity and justice considerations in carbon dioxide removal geological storage capacity in the Global North and Global South.

Helpful links:

• Can We Talk? Octavia Carbon’s New Community Engagement Strategy
• Take That Back!: A Carbon Takeback Obligation for the United Kingdom?
• Where Does It All Get Stored?

In this episode, the panelists discuss the Allied Offsets’ VCM 2024 Review and the current state of play of the voluntary carbon market in the context of carbon dioxide removal, recent developments in wedding renewable energy and direct air capture projects, and Boston Consulting Group’s recent large CDR purchase from an array of producers.
Helpful links:

• Where's the VCM Going, and What Does it Mean for CDR?
• Solar and DACCS: A Virtuous Circle Ahead?
• Boston Consulting Group Steps Up

In this episode, Radhika Moolgavkar, Holly Buck and Wil Burns discuss resistance to carbon dioxide pipelines in South Dakota; new tools for monitoring, reporting and verification of carbon removal; and the potential role of government procurement to help scale carbon removal.
Helpful links:

• Pipeline Dust Up on the Plains
• The MRV Saga Continues
• Carbon Removal Canada Weighs In

In this week's episode, our panelists focus on whether CDR poses an unjustified opportunity cost in the realm of climate policymaking, Canada’s latest initiative to stand up direct air capture, and whether direct air capture may let the good times roll for the fossil fuel industry.

Helpful links:

• Does a Commitment to CDR Incur an Unacceptable Opportunity Cost in Climate Policymaking?
• Canada’s Proposed Direct Air Capture And Storage (DACCS) Offset Protocol
• Will Direct Air Capture Actually Help Extend the Life of the Fossil Fuel Industry?

This episode of CRN is focused on contemporaneous CDR policy topics. It include discussion of the key aspects of two recently released reports: the U.S. Fast Track Committee on Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal’s National Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Research Strategy, and the Bezo Earth Fund 2050 CDR Roadmap. The panel also discusses the latest activities of the London Convention/Protocol in the context of marine carbon removal approaches.
Helpful links:

• Can I Get a Strategy?: The National Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Research Strategy
• Priming the CDR Pump: The Bezos Earth Fund 2050 CDR Roadmap
• London Calling: The Latest Actions of the LC/LP in the Context of Carbon Removal