The Carbon Removal Show

Tickets? Booked. Microphone? Packed. Passport..?

This week we're off to Reykjavik to take part in Iceland Innovation Week's climate conference Ok, bye.

The event's name refers to the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change, Ok-jökull and it was a chance for us to check in with some of the businesses and policymakers turning this isolated North Atlantic island into a world leader in carbon removal projects.

Thanks to this week's guests:

• Edda Konráðsdóttir, Co-Founder at Iceland Innovation Week
• Melkorka Sigríður Magnúsdóttir, Co-founder and director of Iceland Innovation Week
• Jarþrúður Ásmundsdóttir, Head of Innovation & Technology at Business Iceland
• Dirk Nuber, Managing Director at Climeworks
• Marty Odlin, CEO at Running Tide
• Seth Bannon, Founding Partner at Fifty Years
• Salka Sigurðardóttir, Negotiator for Cop26 Presidency
• Tinna Hallgrímsdóttir, Chairperson at Icelandic Youth Environmentalist Association

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Thanks to Patch for sponsoring the podcast.

And thanks to Cofruition for consulting on and producing the show.

The world’s coastal areas are some of the most at risk places on earth when it comes to climate change, but could they potentially be some of the most valuable places for creating solutions too?

It’s time for part two in our mini-series on Oceans and... it's the Season two finale!

As we established in last week’s episode, oceans are now becoming a much bigger part of the climate conversation and are a huge site of interest for carbon removal innovation. In this episode Tom and Emily will be taking a deeper look at some of the most exciting coastal-based solutions that are popping up.

They’ll be putting another biomass-based solution into focus – mangroves; they’ll be discussing The Blue Carbon Challenge, a program launched by Friends of Ocean Action to find viable solutions in blue carbon; and they’ll be looking at an interesting ocean-based take on rock weathering - an entirely different context to what we’ve looked at in previous episodes!

A note from our fact-checking corner: midway through this episode we discuss the relative rates of carbon sequestration of mangrove forests vs. the tropical forests you may be more familiar with. For the sake of clarity, we wanted to say here that mangroves store more carbon per year than the forests we mention on a per hectare basis. Forests still come out on top in absolute terms – not to take anything away from the magnificent role of mangroves

A huge thanks to our guests:

Ronald Tardiff, Pillar Lead at Friends of Ocean Action

Kelly Erhart, President & Co-Founder at Vesta

To learn more about The Carbon Removal Show, including further reading and all our sources, head to restored.cc.

Thanks to Patch for sponsoring the podcast.

And thanks to Cofruition for consulting on and producing the show.

Today we’re at the UK Greenhouse Gas Removal Event, a gathering of researchers, policy makers and businesses, to discuss the state of carbon removal in the UK today.

CO2RE, the greenhouse gas removal hub led by Oxford University and the hosts of the event, were kind enough to ask us to host a pair of panels across the two day conference.

We caught up with friends old and new to bring you the latest expert insight on the current state of carbon removal in the country we call home.

Thanks to this episode's guests:

• Philippa Westbury, Stakeholder Manager at CO2RE
• George Hope, Communications Manager at CO2RE
• Steve Smith, Director of CO2RE
• Emily Cox, Research Associate at Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
• Navraj Singh Ghaleigh, Senior Lecturer in Climate Law at University of Edinburgh
• Emma Keller, Head of Sustainability at Nestle UK&Ireland
• Sanna O'Connor-Morberg, Former Carbon Dioxide Removal Lead at Energy Transitions Commission
• Laith Whitwham, Senior Policy Officer, Industrial Decarbonisation at Aldersgate Group
• Ruth Herbert, CEO Carbon Capture and Storage Association
• Judith Thornton, Aberystwyth University
• Liz Bowles, OFC Director and Associate Director of Farming and Land Use at The Soil Association

Thanks to CO2RE for inviting us along. You can find them at co2re.org.

You can find the full Green Shoots panel, excerpts of which are included in this episode, here.

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Thanks to Patch for sponsoring the podcast.

And thanks to Cofruition for consulting on and producing the show.

We're back! And we've been busy...

Today, Tom visits the Science Museum in London to take a look at Our Future Planet, the museum's carbon removal exhibition. As carbon communicators ourselves, we were keen to find out what the Science Museum were doing to educate their guests on our favourite topic of discussion.

Tom was taken through the exhibition by its curator, Rupert Cole. Rupert took us through the items on display, the way guests experience the exhibition, and the language they use to communicate carbon removal.

The exhibition is not without controversy. Our Future Planet is sponosored by Shell and Extinction Rebellion have accused the Science Museum of assisting in the oil giant's attempts to greenwash their reputation. The Science Museum has defended the sponsorship, saying that energy companies have a significant role to play in finding solutions to the climate crisis, and that the Science Museum retains editorial control over the exhibition.

You can read the full statements of both Extinction Rebellion and the Science Museum here. and the Science Museum's sustainability policy here.

Our thanks to Rupert and the Science Museum for showing us round. Our Future Planet runs until September 11th.

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Thanks to Patch for sponsoring the podcast.

And thanks to Cofruition for consulting on and producing the show.

In the second of our three-part deep dive, we plunge into the murky, acronym-rich depths of carbon removal policy across the UN, the EU, the US and beyond - and we promise to come up for air, eventually.

In this episode:

🧠 Acronyms and Initialisms Aplenty: Consider yourselves warned. This episode contains more letters than a game of Scrabble. Don't worry, it'll be quacking... sorry, cracking.

🌐 The UN – Going Global: We finally (finally!) get to grips with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement - the big hope for creating a global, compliance-grade carbon market. So, does it deserve its place as the darling of the CDR community?

🧱 The EU – Slow and Steady Wins The Race: We dissect Europe’s tripartite climate framework, learn what the CRCF stands for, and ponder the possibility of removals entering the ETS by 2031 (yes, we said 2031... pace yourselves.)

💵 The US – Land of the Free... Tax Credits: While the EU leans into regulation, the US has chosen financial incentives to scale engineered CDR... for now. (Content advisory: information likely to be outdated within minutes.)

🌏 Zooming Out: Switzerland is quietly blazing a trail. Japan is scaling up a national carbon market. India is laying the foundations. There’s a lot going on out there, if you’re willing to look.

🧩 Policy vs Reality: We explore how the right policy for the right place might be the secret to scaling CDR globally - and why no single blueprint might work for everyone.

👥 Featuring:

Guest insights from

• Sebastian Manhart (Carbonfuture)
• Eve Tamme (Climate Principles)
• Elisabeth Harding (Negative Emissions Platform)
• Varsha Ramesh Walsh (Offstream)
• Shilpika Gautam (Opna)
• Sylvain Delerce (Carbon Gap)
• Hosts Emily Swaddle and Tom Previte
• Producer Ben Weaver-Hincks