"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
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. 🧵
#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
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
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
"NASA scientist says complete collapse of ice shelf as big as Rome during unusually high temperatures is ‘sign of what might be coming’"
#ClimateCrisis
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
"Offshore wind farms could help capture carbon from air and store it long-term – using energy that would otherwise go to waste."
#RenewableEnergy
#CarbonRemoval
New
#CarbonRemoval
OpEd by
@SusieStrife
: "Cities, counties and states can scale carbon dioxide removal responsibly and provide a blueprint for federal action." Read more in
@TheHillOpinion
:
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
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
:
"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
Bloomberg
@business
reports on the future of what counts as a carbon credit. Thanks so much to
@HiMichelleMa
for your reporting and for reaching out to discuss how
#CarbonRemoval
fits into the mix:
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
:
"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
"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."
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
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.
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:
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:
Great to see the Frontier Fund announce it's first round of funding: "Stripe’s Carbon-Removal Effort Announces First Funding Recipients."
#CarbonRemoval
🚨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: !
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
Exciting news for
#CarbonRemoval
&
#CarbonUtilization
! Thank you to
@FECMgov
for your climate leadership: "U.S. Department of Energy Announces $30 Million to Remove Carbon Dioxide from the Air and Oceans and Convert it to Valuable Products."
It's been a big week of
#CarbonRemoval
announcements & investments: "Elon Musk, Alphabet, & Joe Biden (USA) Just A Few Investing Billions Into Carbon Removal"
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:
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 🧵
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
.
"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."
"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
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
📌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:
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
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: