Conversations Archive - Rethinking Removals

Spotlight

Insights

Addressing the big issues

June 17, 2023

The Article 6.4 Supervisory Body asked for more detail on how carbon removal fits into the bigger picture and how different technologies approach monitoring, reporting and verification.

Our Article 6.4 response

May 26, 2023

When an UNFCCC info note argued that durable carbon removals are not suitable for implementation in the Global South and not part of climate mitigation, the Doers Club had to respond.

Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage

May 23, 2023

Based on a Doers Club deep dive discussion, led by Angela Hepworth, Commercial Director at Drax, and Johan Börje, BECCS lead at Stockholm Exergi.

Enhanced rock weathering

February 2, 2023

An overview of enhanced rock weathering based on a Doers Club Deep Dive discussion, led by Jim Mann, CEO of UNDO, in February 2023

Events

Pioneers in the Global South

COP27, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

Watch the Futures Lab event that got everyone at COP27 talking about carbon removals in Africa - Carbon Removals: Pioneers in the Global South.

The Great Carbon Credit Debate

Gabrielle Walker features among many other high level speakers in this TED Countdown film that asks the question, 'Is there a role for carbon credits in the transition to a fair, net-zero future?'

Carbon Removals at COP

Introducing Carbon Removals at COP, the online platform dedicated to carbon dioxide removal that has been launched ahead of COP27 Egypt. #CDRatCOP27

August 30, 2022

12:00 pm
1:00 pm

Africa Climate Week

Gabon / Virtual

African Climate Week starts today and the Rethinking Removals team are on the ground delivering an event on scaling carbon removals.

July 20, 2022

How carbon credits could actually help fight climate change

TIME

Carbon credits should be one of our best tools to fight climate change - if we use them right

June 16, 2022

Carbon removals: How to distinguish the good, the bad and the very ugly

TED Countdown New York

In June, TED Countdown hosted a Dilemma Session in New York focusing on the role of carbon credits in climate action. Gabrielle Walker and Delia Meth-Cohn of Rethinking Removals joined forces with Julio Friedmann (Carbon Direct) and Eli Mitchell-Larson (Carbon Gap) to design and present a workshop on carbon removals. We were aiming to focus on understanding quality criteria such as additionality and durability - but we started by looking at why we see carbon removals as a source of hope for climate action, not as climate denial or and moral hazard.

Here, Delia takes us through the stages of that event.

June 15, 2022

Discover the Great Carbon Valley

TED Countdown, New York

Social entrepreneur James Mwangi tells us why Africa could be the ideal home for scaling the latest carbon removals technologies to a planetary level

November 9, 2021

4:30 pm
6:00 pm

Reimagining carbon removals

Hydro, Action Room 1

At COP26 we ran a UNFCCC Futures Lab on reimagining carbon removals. An amazing group of speakers described their vision of a 2050 future where removals had helped achieve net zero, brought the Global South into the heart of climate action, leveraged the best of nature and tech and complemented robust reduction pathways.

Your guide to carbon removals at COP26

Carbon removal is not on the official agenda at COP26, but it’s being talked about a lot around the edges. We teamed up with our friends at Carbon Removal Advocacy Europe (launching under a new name at COP!) to pull together all the side-events we could find focusing on carbon removals.

September 14, 2021

4:15 pm
6:00 pm

Since we need removals to get to net zero, how can we do them right?

Webinar

No matter how fast we go on reducing emissions, science tells us that we will need to remove carbon on a gigatonne scale to stay within 1.5°C. It's a polarizing topic, but we urgently have to agree on how to tackle this challenge.

October 14, 2021

11:45 am
1:00 pm

TED Talk: Climate healing

Edinburgh

In this TED talk, Gabrielle Walker, Director of Valence Solutions and Founder of Rethinking Removals, will explore what it will take to remove carbon from the sky - and do it permanently and at scale, until the climate starts healing.

October 14, 2021

2:30 pm
4:00 pm

Getting positive about carbon negative. How do we get removals right?

Edinburgh, Scotland

Carbon removals raises lots of difficult questions. It’s tempting to turn away, but this session will look the issue squarely in the eye and ask: since we need removals to get to net zero, how can we do them right?

What we’re hearing…

Shifting from if to how

By Delia Meth-Cohn

December 8, 2022

The IPCC tells us we’ve got to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 to have a chance of keeping 1.5 degrees alive AND we must remove substantial amounts of CO2 from the air. It’s not an either/or choice -- we need both.

Six areas for action on carbon removals

January 25, 2022

We know what needs to be done - now we have to do it

What we learnt at TED and COP

By Delia Meth-Cohn

November 26, 2021

Carbon removals was not on the official agenda at COP26, but the emerging ecosystem was out in force - and collaborating ever more closely - at both COP and TED Countdown.

Join us in rethinking carbon removals

By Gabrielle Walker

October 5, 2021

Climate science shows unequivocally that there is a big missing piece in the efforts to achieve net zero and meet the Paris climate goals. In addition to reducing carbon emissions, we will also have to remove very substantial amounts of carbon from the air and store it somewhere safe.

Getting excited about carbon removals

By Delia Meth-Cohn

September 29, 2021

In our conversation with Nigel Topping, Ugbaad Koser, Eli Mitchell-Larson and Patrick Buergi, we started thinking about all the different mindsets that are needed to pour positive energy into carbon removals.

Embracing an exponential mindset

By Dr Gabrielle Walker

September 20, 2021

Nigel Topping, UN High-Level Climate Action Champion for COP26, launches our conversations with a fascinating look at how carbon removals fit into climate action and what it will take to get to scale.

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