On this week’s episode, our panelists discuss CDR.fyi’s 2024 “Year in Review,” a study assessing the economic impacts of durable CDR approaches, and three interesting new developments in CDR - including the opening of Captura’s new pilot plant in Hawaii and a huge funding round for Chestnut Carbon.

Helpful links:

• What Was the FYI on CDR in 2024?
• On the Job: The Economic Potentials of Durable CDR Approaches
• Speed Round!: 3 Interesting Developments in CDR
  • Captura Opens New Pilot Plant in Hawaii
  • Chestnut Carbon's Massive Funding Round
  • Google's Deal to Buy Carbon Credits from Indian Initiative Varaha
• Bonus Topic: LEGO Group Supports Carbon Removal Solutions

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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