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Reversing climate change @CO2Council | Sharing news of #CarbonRemoval & #ClimateChange | Is the glass half full now that water is rising? | Climate optimist 🌍

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"In Virginia, abandoned coal mines are transformed into solar farms" #ClimateTech
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"More than 200 congressional staffers urge Pelosi and Schumer to #ActOnClimate or risk dooming younger generations."
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"Cities across the U.S. are pledging to plant trees and restore urban forests to combat climate change and cool off disadvantaged communities" @patrickcsisson reports: #NegativeEmissions
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Some personal news. I’m honored and humbled to join the Carbon Business Council as Executive Director & Co-Founder as our coalition of 40+ companies launches today. @CO2Council is an association of innovators unlocking solutions to restore our climate. 🧵
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" #HurricaneLaura and The Wildfires: This is #ClimateChange :"
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""DOE announces multibillion-dollar project to kickstart a carbon dioxide removal industry in US." #CarbonRemoval
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"Climate change has destabilized the Earth’s poles, putting the rest of the planet in peril" #ClimateCrisis
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"Carbon Removal's Role in Achieving Paris Agreement's Goals." Honored to co-author a @CarbonRemovalAU resource with @Jenn_Brown_AU . #CarbonRemoval
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"Most wildfire coverage on American TV news fails to mention link to climate crisis:"
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3 years
"Jane Goodall joins campaign to plant a trillion trees by 2030" #NegativeEmissions
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"E.P.A. Announces Tightest-Ever Auto Pollution Rules."
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"House Passes the Largest Expenditure on Climate in U.S. History"
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"Climate Change Is Harming the Planet Faster Than We Can Adapt, U.N. Warns" #IPCC #WGII
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3 years
"Recent experiments highlight potential of some rocks to lock in more carbon than previously thought." #CarbonRemoval
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4 years
#ClimateChange is increasing the frequency of the most intense hurricanes. Major storms like Katrina and Laura that used to come every 200 years are now coming closer to every 20. Read more from @ClimateSignals : #Katrina15
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3 years
The new #IPCC report affirms that #CarbonRemoval is critical to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, in tandem with deep cuts to carbon pollution.
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The momentum on #CarbonMangement continues! @FECMgov announced $4.9 billion in funding today:
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"Carbon dioxide will have to be removed from air to achieve 1.5C, says report." #CarbonRemoval #ParisAgreement
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5 years
Trump's solar tarrifs have cost an estimated 62,000 U.S. jobs. Reporting by @mirandacgreen in the @thehill :
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3 years
"Can Farming Kelp and Seaweed Help Ease the Climate Crisis?" #CarbonRemoval #OceanRestoration
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2 years
Startups are leading the way to gigaton scale #CarbonManagement by bending the technology cost curve. Some words in @TheHill about how startups can help make the #CarbonNegativeShot a reality:
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I'm honored to be speaking @unboundsummits - May 21 to 23, 2024 in NYC. The summit will focus on achieving a collective mission: one gigaton of carbon removed from Earth's atmosphere. Find out more information and sign up for the waitlist: #CarbonRemoval
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"As permafrost thaws, the ground beneath Alaska is collapsing." #ClimateCrisis
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3 years
" #DirectAirCapture is ready for its closeup." @cjclouse2021 reports on #CarbonRemoval :
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4 years
"A Biden victory positions America for a 180-degree turn on #ClimateChange "
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135 million Americans live with pollution levels that frequently make the air too dangerous to breathe, the American Lung Association says. People of color were 61% more likely than white people to live in counties with a failing grade. #ClimateJustice
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3 years
"Feds will spend $1 billion to spur farmers and ranchers to fight climate change." #CarbonRemoval #NatureBasedSolutions
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"Climate change is increasing the spread of illnesses like monkeypox."
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"NASA scientist says complete collapse of ice shelf as big as Rome during unusually high temperatures is ‘sign of what might be coming’" #ClimateCrisis
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4 years
Snowfall in NYC - always majestic and even more so today with cars off the streets! #SnowStormNYC
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3 years
Did you know that there are ways to pull climate pollution out of the skies and put it back underground? Check out a @NexusMediaNews explanatory comic by @matteofarinella on #CarbonRemoval :
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2 years
It's been an incredible opportunity to attend #COP27 , meet so many talented people from around the world advancing #CarbonRemoval & #ClimateChange , & visit Egypt. Thank you to everyone who tuned into Carbon Removals at COP for the last two weeks! #CDRatCOP
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3 years
"Offshore wind farms could help capture carbon from air and store it long-term – using energy that would otherwise go to waste." #RenewableEnergy #CarbonRemoval
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"From higher electricity bills to worsened health, more than half of Americans have felt the impacts of extreme heat." #ClimateCrisis
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3 years
"Climate: Removing CO2 from the air no longer optional." #NegativeEmissions
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4 years
Wow, ice volcanoes! The Great Lakes weather sounds like something out of Game of Thrones: "Frigid weather brings ice volcanoes to the Great Lakes"
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2 years
"Energy Dept grants incentivize construction of buildings that pull CO2 from air" #CarbonRemoval
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3 years
"This summer tied the Dust Bowl for the hottest on record in US." #ClimateEmergency
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"Floods are getting worse, and the number of people exposed is 10 times higher than previously thought, study finds" #ClimateEmergency
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4 years
"Escape plan for rising seas: Floating cities (or a barge)" @dcusickmpls reports on #sealevelrise & #resiliency :
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1 year
Achieving gigaton scale #CarbonRemoval requires unprecedented levels of community engagement to earn the social license to operate, maximize benefits & minimize risks. Meet CDR RDT from @CO2Council , an introductory online training & suite of resources about responsible deployment
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Carbon Business Council
1 year
NEW RESOURCE! Carbon Business Council unveils CDR RDT, a training course & suite of foundational resources for the responsible deployment of #CarbonRemoval . Read about it in @axios :
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3 years
Earth never ceases to amaze: "The bizarre wavelike clouds look like something from another world." Photo captured by @JamesMontanus :
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3 years
"GQ spotlights eight places whose very identities depend on a simple calculation: If we limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, these places could be saved. In a 2-degree scenario, they would be irredeemably lost" #ClimateCrisis
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3 years
"2021 brought a wave of extreme weather disasters. Scientists say worse lies ahead." #ClimateCrisis
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5 years
ICYMI: more than 20 people arrested blockading coal trains this weekend during the #NoCoalNoGas campaign. Bow N.H., where the train was heading, is the last big coal plant in #NewEngland . Reporting @BostonGlobe , photo @pragmactivist :
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"Global cropland has the potential to sequester as much as 570 million metric tons of carbon per year. New projects that pay farmers to adopt climate-friendly practices could help." #CarbonRemoval
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"This is what the world looks like if we pass the crucial 1.5-degree climate threshold." #ClimateEmergency
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"The procurement arm of the federal government is imposing new limitations on high carbon-emitting building materials for all its major projects, a move that will affect billions of dollars of federal infrastructure investments."
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4 years
"Wildfire Smoke Is Dangerous. Here’s How to Protect Yourself:"
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4 years
New study from @harvard shows air pollution from burning fossil fuels is responsible for 1/5 deaths in the world. More than 8 million people died in 2018 from fossil fuel pollution. #PollutionKills
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"The amount of Greenland ice that melted on Tuesday could cover Florida in 2 inches of water."
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"If the Paris Agreement Fails, Sea Levels Could Rise 33 Feet" #ClimateEmergency . @mollytaft reports:
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3 years
Axios reports on one of the ways that #CarbonRemoval and #Renewables can work together: "Offshore wind with CO2 removal."
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1 year
Big #CarbonRemoval news today: close to 200,000 tons of removals has been purchased! This is one of the biggest purchases of carbon removal to date! Congrats to @southpoleglobal and everyone involved in making achieving this carbon removal milestone.
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South Pole
1 year
The NextGen CDR Facility has announced the world’s largest diversified portfolio of carbon removals following one of the biggest purchases of #CDRs in the market – sized at 1/4 of all purchases made to date – in order to scale up critical climate tech:
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"Climate Change: The Technologies That Could Make All the Difference." #ClimateTech
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Cape Hatteras National Seashore
2 years
Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) has confirmed that an unoccupied house at 24265 Ocean Drive, Rodanthe, N.C. collapsed this afternoon. This is the second unoccupied house collapse of the day at the Seashore. Read more:
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New #CarbonRemoval resource: explore @ChanZuckerberg ’s blog to see why we need to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to address climate change
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"These machines scrub greenhouse gases from the air – an inventor of #DirectAirCapture technology shows how it works" #CarbonRemoval
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1 year
Excited to share some words in @FastCompany about the need to reduce AND remove greenhouse gas emissions in a new op-ed. #CarbonRemoval #TwinTargets
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Carbon Business Council
1 year
New OpEd: "A safe climate future requires two simultaneous goal posts: reducing and removing greenhouse gas emissions." Read more from our Exec. Director @BenDRubin in @FastCompany about #CarbonRemoval & #TwinTargets -->
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"Here’s what countries pledged on climate change at Biden’s global summit:"
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"Cutting Carbon Pollution Quickly Would Save About 74 Million Lives, Study Finds."
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"Here's how farmers are helping with climate change - they're putting carbon back in the soil" #NegativeEmissions
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" #ClimateChange fueled extreme rainfall during the record 2020 hurricane reason"
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"In a First, U.S. Declares Shortage on Colorado River, Forcing Water Cuts." #Drought #ClimateEmergency
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2 years
Great to see the Frontier Fund announce it's first round of funding: "Stripe’s Carbon-Removal Effort Announces First Funding Recipients." #CarbonRemoval
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5 years
NEW: A youth-led climate effort from @thisiszerohour & @the_ncc_ . Follow the bus tour at #Vote4OurFuture #GOTV
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National Children’s Campaign
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🚨WE’RE GOING ON TOUR 🚨⁣ We are going on tour with @ThisIsZeroHour to make sure the #climatecrisis is a top issue for the American people, and to drive up youth voter turnout to historically high levels!⁣ RSVP for the #Vote4OurFuture TOUR at: !⁣
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"Portuguese children sue 33 countries over #climatechange at European court," @jonathanwatts reports:
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Climate solutions are cheaper to invest in than paying for climate problems: "Weather disasters have cost the US $750 billion over past 5 years." #ClimateCrisis
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"Sea level to rise one foot along U.S. coastlines by 2050, government report finds" #ClimateCrisis
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"3D-printed houses poised to go mainstream." Some of these homes are being built with low-carbon cement:
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"The Next Level in Sustainability: Nature Restoration." #ClimateRestoration
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9 months
I'm excited to share the Carbon Business Council's newest publication, an Issue Brief that dives into marine carbon dioxide removal. We built out this resource in a working group of leading carbon removal companies, nonprofits, and additional experts:
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Carbon Business Council
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NEW RESOURCE: Dive into the Carbon Business Council’s Issue Brief on Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR)! Given its enormous scale, the ocean has an outsized potential role to play in advancing #CarbonRemoval . A 🧵
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I’m excited to share that the Carbon Business Council ( @CO2Council ) is growing our team! We’re hiring for a Communications Manager to lead on strategic communications and to tell the story of responsibly scaling #CarbonRemoval .
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2 years
Record breaking investments in #ClimateTech & #CarbonRemoval continues:
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Shanu Mathew
2 years
"Through Q3, carbon and emissions tech startups have raised $10.7 billion in VC investment across 517 deals, according to @PitchBook Carbon & Emissions Tech Report. That puts dealmaking in this vertical on track to SURPASS last year's RECORD of $13.6 billion across 656 deals."
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"A warming world is expanding the range of deadly diseases and risking an explosion of new zoonotic pathogens from the likes of bats, mosquitoes, and ticks," @jeffgoodell reports: #COVID19 #ClimateEmergency
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"Is there such a future where the #DirectAirCapture industry can operate just and equitably without perpetuating the harms of its predecessors? " @yessfun reports on #NegativeEmissions & #ClimateJustice :
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"Top medical journal warns that rising temperatures will worsen heat and respiratory illness and spread infectious disease" #ClimateEmergency
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4 years
600,000+ new environmental voters in the 2020 election!
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Emily Atkin
4 years
The Environmental Voter Project targeted 1.8 million environmentalists who never voted before to try to get them to cast ballots More than 600,000 of the targeted group voted early Many of them in key battleground states
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"A low-carbon economy is cheaper than the costs of #ClimateChange , a report says."
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7 months
📌Big day for Enhanced Weathering! ➡ Enhanced Weathering Alliance Alliance has launched to scale this #CarbonRemoval pathway: . AND ➡ 2) Carbon Business Council ( @CO2Council ) published a Enhanced Weathering Policy Primer:
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3 years
New #DirectAirCapture project proposed in Scotland to "remove up to one million tons of CO2 every year - the same amount taken up by around 40 million trees." #NegativeEmissions
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4 years
BREAKING: "New York State is the biggest pension fund — $226 billion — in the world and amongst the largest financial institutions to divest from the riskiest oil and gas companies and decarbonize by 2040." #DivestNY @AlexCKaufman reports:
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"The Rainforests of the Sea—Coral Reefs—Likely to Vanish By 2050, Claims New Research." #ClimateCrisis
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3 years
Bottoms Up: "This vodka helps fight climate change." #NegativeEmissions
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