Episodes
S3 #5 | How can companies contribute to industry scale?: Gigaton thinking - with MASH Makes
What happens when an individual company bakes industry scale up into their business philosophy? In this episode, Jakob Andersen shares the “gigaton thinking” mindset that drives his company, MASH Makes , in their approach to business and biochar. MASH Makes started as a project at the Technological...
S3 #4 | The importance of fungibility in carbon markets - with Carbonaires
With scaling up in mind, this episode dives into an innovative concept that could help the industry take big steps forward. Tom and Emily are joined by Jonny Gilson from Carbonaires and Professor Niall Mac Dowell from Imperial College London to discuss Carbonaires’ ideas for the future of the volun...
S3 #3 | 2023: Year in review
2023 was a big year for carbon removal! With only 27 years until 2050, Tom and Emily look back on the last 12 months to reflect on the current stage of the industry’s growth commercially, socially and politically. With big thanks to the organisers, speakers and participants of Carbon Unbound Europe...
S3 #2 | Analogies for scale: what other technologies can teach us about carbon removal
Season 3 continues and the team remains focused on scaling up. The question today: has it been done before? The task ahead is huge and can sometimes feel insurmountable. In order to deliver what scientists say is needed, the carbon removal industry must go from the young seedling emerging market we...
S3 #1 | Getting serious about scale
We are back! Did you miss us? Kicking off Season 3, Tom and Emily are exploring what it will take to grow the carbon removal industry to the scale we need. They speak to various actors in the carbon removal space, from project developers and policy experts to marketplaces and buyers. Their curiosit...
S2 #10 | Ocean-based carbon removal part 2: What's happening along our coastlines?
The world’s coastal areas are some of the most at risk places on earth when it comes to climate change, but could they potentially be some of the most valuable places for creating solutions too? It’s time for part two in our mini-series on Oceans and... it's the Season two finale! As we established...
S2 #9 | Ocean-based carbon removal part 1: What's so special about kelp?
The time has finally come to talk about ocean-based carbon removal! In this episode (the first in our two-part mini-series on Oceans) Tom and Emily will be exploring the role that oceans can play in carbon removal. They'll be focusing on the way kelp is being used as a biomass-based approach to car...
S2 #8 | Aledade's carbon removal story: How can smaller companies do more in this space?
It's not only big names like Microsoft who are addressing their impact on the climate crisis, there are lots of smaller organisations appearing on carbon removal buyer lists too! This week's episode puts a spotlight on Aledade , a US healthcare services organisation with an interesting philosophy a...
S2 #7: How Microsoft offsets emissions
Now we've been through the process of buying our first carbon credits, we wondered how a larger, infinitely more complex operation might do the same. We spoke to Elizabeth Willmott from Microsoft to get to the bottom of what it means to be a big time buyer of carbon credits. We dive into the compan...