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The Carbon Curve

Insights on scaling up carbon removal to combat climate change

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Carbon removal that utilities actually want

Listen now | How dosing limestone into wastewater tanks captures CO2, cuts costs, and just landed a Microsoft offtake

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Carbon removal is not one thing

Listen now | An early-stage investor on why carbon removal has no single financing model

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Is carbon removal stronger than the headlines suggest?

Listen now | A special Toronto Climate Week wrap-up episode on carbon removal's missing middle ... and who falls through.

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Carbon removal is stuck in low earth orbit. Here's how we get out.

Listen now | A conversation with Dr. Julio Friedmann on the five pillars of CDR 2.0 and what it takes to get carbon removal to the next commercial stage

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Seven buyers in a trench coat

Listen now | After Microsoft, who pays for carbon removal? A conversation with Jack Andreasen Cavanaugh on what comes next after Microsoft's pause.

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Why carbon removal needs a new story

Listen now | A conversation with Robert Hoglund on reframing CDR as a real mitigation solution, the aviation and shipping blind spot, and what success looks like in the prove and learn era

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Policy wins and hard lessons as carbon removal finds its footing

Listen now | An inaugural Removers Roundtable episode with Erin Burns, Giana Amador, and Peter Minor

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A year of renewal: carbon removal in the climate pullback era

A special "ask me anything" episode with Na'im on life lessons at 40, organizational renewal, and the fight for carbon removal

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How will this newly launched DAC facility hold up to a Canadian winter?

A chat with Airhive's CEO on developing their technology, launching their new DAC operation in Alberta, and shooting straight on cost curves

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Reserve your spot at Carbon Removal Day 2026

Join me in Ottawa, Canada on March 5, 2026 to help build the billion-tonne blueprint for carbon removal

The carbon market's original sin

Listen now | We'll need to fix some pretty fundamental things if we want the voluntary carbon market to work well

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Philanthropy's role in shaping climate finance

Listen now | A New York Climate Week special episode with Adam Fraser, CEO of Terraset, on advancing new philanthropic models to unlock innovation and scale permanent carbon removal

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CO280 is turning pulp and paper mills into carbon removal factories

Listen now | A conversation with Jonathan Rhone and Natalie Khtikian on reviving North America's pulp and paper industry and supporting rural economies with carbon removal

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Has Avnos flipped the script on DAC?

Listen now | A conversation with CEO Will Kain on direct air capture technology that produces water and avoids the need for thermal heat

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Mati Carbon's $50M leap forward

Listen now | A carbon removal start-up benefiting smallholder farmers and the innovation prize designed to unlock its potential

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Special Episode: Canada's Carbon Edge

A panel with Ed Whittingham and Grégoire Baillargeon on embracing Canada's potential to lead on carbon removal

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Special Episode by Plan Sea and The Carbon Curve: Insights from the Carbon to Sea 2025 Annual Convening

A conversation with Anna Madlener and Lennart Bach on the state of ocean alkalinity enhancement recorded at the Carbon to Sea event in Washington, DC

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What's in store for carbon removal under America's policy pivot?

Listen now | A conversation with Carbon180's Executive Director on lessons shaping carbon removal policy and its potential amidst political headwinds

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Canada: a safe haven for carbon removal innovation in an uncertain world

Post-election, Canada is positioned for global leadership in carbon removal technology right when the world needs it most

We need to stand up for carbon removal in a turbulent 2025 to build on the gains of the past few years

Celebrating our 50th episode reflecting on 2024 carbon removal wins, building on those gains in 2025, and defending the potential of carbon removal despite existing challenges and lazy skepticism.

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