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Robert Höglund

@RobertHoglund

2 years

Now 2050 is as close as 1996.

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1 year

I may work full-time on climate, but definitely see AI as the bigger risk. It's not even close. Warming is bad, but human extinction is not on the list of outcomes. Not sure what your intention was @_david_ho_ but we ofc can and should work on several problems at the same time.

David Ho

@_david_ho_

1 year

Lol. Wait till they find out about climate change.

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Looks like I may need to redraw this graph. A new peer-reviewed paper points to biochar being permanent carbon storage with just a small part decomposing. Previous meta-studies have estimated that around 20% of the carbon in biochar is lost after 100 years and half after 500

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Robert Höglund

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2 years

Thank you to everyone commenting on the new carbon storage classification I put out. Ver 2.0 is now published in @illuminemNews Added distinction between very low/low/high risk of reversal, +biooil +changes to the article text. More comments welcome!

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For carbon removal, the 2020s is about figuring out what works. What is the most scaleable, sustainable, cheapest, least resource-intensive thing we can do to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. The CDR startup Running Tide is now laying off all staff. They piloted an approach

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Robert Höglund

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9 months

Here is a new, free dataset on the GHG emissions and profits of the world’s biggest companies. We manually collected emission data for the world's top 250 companies and used profit and revenue data from the Forbes 2000 list. The set contains 2020-2022 data. We used this for the

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🚨This is the HUGE. Unless country carbon accounting is changed we will only reach fake net zero, resulting in 0.5C more warming end of century. The way countries account for removals in the land sector includes the natural CO2 fertilization effect on managed lands. That

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Robert Höglund

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2 years

Carbon removal should be defined as carbon permanently removed. I & @hausfath @KDHoll5 @brunncy @kochalex_ Natalya Jarlebring argue for the need to separate solutions that restore carbon in the short carbon cycle from those that permanently store it away

Nature restoration and carbon removal are not the same. Here's why it matters

Planting trees is a key pillar in the fight against climate change but it's no substitute for permanently removing carbon dioxide from the air

www.climatechangenews.com

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Robert Höglund

@RobertHoglund

1 year

🤯🤯🤯OMG, @Microsoft buys 2,76 million tonnes of carbon removal from Ørsted using BECCS! To be delivered over 11 years. Before this deal, 1 million tonnes of durable CDR had been sold. That just grew with 176%.

Ørsted awarded contract – will capture and store 430,000 tonnes of biogenic CO2

orsted.com

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Robert Höglund

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2 years

Can it be worth choosing temporary CO₂ storage over more costly permanent options? I’ve been working on this article for a long time, delving into the topics of damage functions, discounting, adaptation and more. 1/6

Are temporary and permanent carbon stores interchangeable?

Are three trees worth one rock?

marginalcarbon.substack.com

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Robert Höglund

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2 years

I am very happy to be at the Negative emissions conference in Gothenburg! Starting a mega-thread with learnings.🧵 #NegCO2

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@RobertHoglund

10 months

Yes! I love this piece. People need to accept that there are tradeoffs to all climate solutions, not pretend we should wait for the ones without.

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Robert Höglund

@RobertHoglund

2 years

There are more marketplaces than there are companies actually removing carbon today

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@tmoindustries

2 years

it is hilarious to watch everyone try to build their own carbon marketplaces

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Robert Höglund

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9 months

NEW DATA & ANALYSIS - Who Can Pay for Carbon Removal? Today we publish an update of the Ambition gap paper I wrote with @CarbonGap last year, with new data. Companies with low emission have the greatest profits per tonne they emit and the largest capacity to pay the full cost of

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Robert Höglund

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3 months

🚨Megathread alert. The 3rd Int conference on Negative Emissions is kicked off today. Massively oversubscribed, every seat filled and hundreds that didn't get a ticket. Very exited to be here. Will be live tweeting my observations in this thread. #negativeco2conference

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Robert Höglund

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2 years

Carbon stored is not either permanent or temporary. For example 🤔C stored in nature isn't temporary 🧐Liquid CO2 underground isn't permanent 🤯Carbon can be stored temporarily for centuries Nuances are needed, here is a new way to depict CO2 storage

Carbon can be temporarily stored for a long time

And other surprising conclusions from thinking about permanence

roberthoglund.medium.com

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Robert Höglund

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1 year

We have put the world's carbon removal actors on the map! Explore where CDR suppliers and ecosystem actors are and see how many tonnes they have sold and removed. For @cdr_fyi by @TanksonChen Find the map here:

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Robert Höglund

@RobertHoglund

6 years

@nntaleb @juliagalef You certainly shouldn't call @juliagalef a BS vendor. Few people are as rational and intellectually honest as she is. Why not have a discussion about the topic instead of insulting her?

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Robert Höglund

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2 years

The first electrochemical ocean CO2 removal plant is live! Now we really need to solve the uncertainties about how much CO2 is removed from the atmosphere when CO2 is removed from the ocean. Now, most just assume -1tCO2 from ocean = -1tCO2 from air.

A startup in Hawaii just launched the world's first ocean-assisted carbon removal plant - Fast...

The current version of the technology can capture CO2 at a cost of $475 per ton—lower than any other direct air capture in the world.

www.fastcompany.com

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Robert Höglund

@RobertHoglund

1 year

This @BCG CDR market report is the best I've seen & their projections for durable CDR fit mine. TL;DR Voluntary buyers with big pockets lead demand up until 2030 (40-200 Mt) after which demand will outpace supply, and the compliance market start to take over. There is more👇

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I knew Sweden had low emissions from electricity, but that we were nr 1 in the world with 30x lower emissions/kWh than the US still kind of shocked

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2 years

This study deals a pretty serious blow against basalt enhanced weathering. Showing extremely slow CO2 capture, about 0,01% per year. Would make it completely unviable as a CDR method. Real-world conditions are very different from labs unfortunately.. :/

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Robert Höglund

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2 years

The Goldman Sachs MAC curve suggests more than half of world's emissions cost more than $100 per ton to abate. Suggests a huge role for CDR, much bigger than in other scenarios. @CarbonWrangler @hausfath @Peters_Glen , what are people saying about this (few years old) research?

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Robert Höglund

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4 months

This number could change everything. A new paper estimates a social cost of carbon of over 1000 dollars per tonne. And every degree of warming decreasing global GDP by 12%. This is 5-20 times higher than previous estimates. It is still just a working paper but *if* these

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1 year

@ESYudkowsky Don't Look Up was clearly not about climate but AI.

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5 months

Carbon LinkedIn blew up yesterday over the SBTi board making a statement that could be interpreted to endorse offsetting instead of emissions reductions. Today the details surface.The board acted alone and did not consult the staff, the technical Council or the advisory groups.

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Robert Höglund

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5 months

@jimmieakesson Jag har aldrig reagerat så starkt fysiskt på en nyhet. Alla gränser är överskridna för länge sedan men detta är ändå grövre än man ens kan drömma om. Detta måste bli vändningen!

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2 years

New 📰, Biochar might be permanent after all, or part of it. Biochar is made of labile and stable C. Extrapolating loss of the labile C in short studies could underestimate the permanence. This challenges the published literature so curious to see how the results can be validated

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Robert Höglund

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OMG, Microsoft and Stockholm Exergi just signed the world's biggest Carbon removal agreement. 3,3 Million tonnes of CO2 over 10 years from a BECCS plant. Microsoft is now the buyer for almost 65% of all permanent tonnes contracted, as seen on @cdr_fyi

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Robert Höglund

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2 years

It's time for traditional offsets to die and for corporate support to go to climate projects chosen for their quality,not price. Hard-hitting research from Bloomberg.

Big Companies Claim ‘Carbon Neutrality’ Using Junk Carbon Offsets

Bloomberg Green performed the broadest investigation yet of how companies rely on bogus offsets for their climate promises.

www.bloomberg.com

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Robert Höglund

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5 months

Good news, the Science Based Targets initiative now recommends Carbon Removal milestone targets. This is an important development. It is just as unrealistic to wait with CDR as it is to wait with emission reductions (although we of course need a whole lot more of the latter).

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2 years

@michaeljsmiddy Yeah, "beginning of 2050 is as close as beginning of 1996" is what would be technically correct.

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@RobertHoglund

10 months

Super interesting perspectives from climate experts on CDR. @KevinClimate @EveTamme @Oliver_Geden @Peters_Glen with others The last quote is among the best. By @hollyjeanbuck "The main mitigation deterrence risk is not from CDR, which few policymakers even know about, but from

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Robert Höglund

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2 years

Can you ever equate short-term carbon storage to permanent? I have been thinking about and researching this question a lot over the last few months. Tomorrow I will finally publish my long-form article trying to map it all out.

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Robert Höglund

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3 years

Big announcement! Last 6 months I've worked with Milkywire on creating a climate portfolio to reflect the needs of climate finance. @Klarna has contributed over $1 million to projects in the portfolio and now we are announcing the projects selected 🧵 1/8

This 'climate transformation platform' lets companies invest in bolder, alternative offsets - Fast...

Instead of just trying to find carbon credits, this portfolio allows companies to put their money into funding nascent carbon removal projects.

www.fastcompany.com

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Robert Höglund

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6 months

Yesterday a new study was shared that estimated the cost of DACCS won’t go below $340/t. But at the same time DACCS costs from some companies are already close to, or at this level. In this post, I show that the cost of DACCS is lower in the near term than people are assuming.

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1 year

The reason to do CDR today is not primarily to remove CO2 but to develop technologies and infrastructure that can do so tomorrow. Same as why people did solar 20 years ago even though there were more cost effective emission reductions.

David Ho

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1 year

There are three currencies that matter in CO₂ removal (CDR): money, carbon, and renewable energy (RE). It doesn't make sense to use RE for CDR when we're still emitting 40 billion tonnes of CO₂ a year because it means that RE could be used to curtail fossil fuel use.

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Robert Höglund

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2 years

Few might know this, but the advanced market commitment for CDR from Frontier is not the first. Sweden has already set out to procure BECCS for (on average) $192 million per year. The plan is for contracts to be entered in 2022 with delivery for 2026

Is Sweden becoming the world leader on BECCS?

First published on https://illuminem.com/energyvoices/1e5e9828-a0c2-4215-8f7f-86e68b1d1488 Sep 28 2021.

roberthoglund.medium.com

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Robert Höglund

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3 years

@LorentzTovatt @OliverRosengren @Folkhalsomynd @Anna_Ekstrom Bor utomlands och mina barn 5 & 9 år har haft munskydd (numera kn94/95/p2) varje dag i skolan (och på alla offentliga platser pga lagkrav) sedan 2020. De klagade lite första veckan, men man vänjer sig snabbt. Bra tillfällig åtgärd.

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Robert Höglund

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2 years

$1.5b invested in removals since 2020. Climeworks deal more than a third of that. The carbon category grew the fastest 21-22 (305%) but also include marketplaces and CCU/CCS Impressive work by @climatetech_vc

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Robert Höglund

@RobertHoglund

3 years

This is what 600 tons worth of CO2 looks like. It's not small, that's for sure. Carbon removal is intensely physical.

Sampo Tukiainen

@SampoTukiainen

3 years

300 tons of pyrolysis oil ready for geological injection, worth 600 t CO2e ⁦ @carbofex ⁩

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Robert Höglund

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😀😃😄finally made it to @CO2RemovalMemes !

Carbon Removal Memes for Climate Restorative Teens

@CO2RemovalMemes

2 years

Young Höglund, coming this spring on CBS

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Robert Höglund

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Today the Oxfam discussion paper Removing carbon now, that I've written is released. Negative emissions are needed to solve the climate crisis but different methods and projects vary greatly in how effective and safe they are. 1/6

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Robert Höglund

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Climeworks has doubled their cost estimates for 2030. From 2021's projection of $200-300/t, to today's estimate of $400-700. At the same time some DAC companies are preselling at below that cost today. Will be interesting to see if some methods prove to have faster cost declines

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Robert Höglund

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2 years

Microsoft just released its new update on carbon removal and published all the data on the proposals they received. I have been looking forward to this, will be following up with a blog post this weekend analyzing the proposals and purchases.

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I was interviewed for the Times Environment newsletter, commenting on the Oxy CEO saying that CDR gives the oil industry "a licence to continue to operate for the 60, 70, 80 years". Many took it to mean CDR will allow the oil industry to continue at todays scale 1/

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Robert Höglund

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2 years

The carbon removal market does not exist. Yet. Currently, buying durable removals works the same way as supporting creators on platforms like Kickstarter or Indiegogo. New article by me on @illuminemNews

The carbon removal market doesn't exist | illuminem

The market for durable carbon removal does not exist. Yet. What we have is a heterogenous space consisting of hundreds of companies with ideas on how to remove carbon. Many of them have lab results,...

illuminem.com

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Robert Höglund

@RobertHoglund

2 years

I would argue that the voluntary carbon market can be much more catalytic for carbon removal, which has gotten around a billion in investment so far, than for green energy, which got $755 billion in 2021 only.

Why is it so difficult to fund projects that reduce emissions?

More carbon will need to be removed than what would be optimal in theory

marginalcarbon.substack.com

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Carbon-only estimates of forests may be up to 81% too high according to a breaking new study on forests and albedo change. ☀ 🌲 ❄ We already knew growing forests in boreal areas reduced its climate effect due to trees lowering the sunlight reflection, but this is the first

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I put together this list of known purchases of durable carbon removal. The list doesn’t cover everything, since some purchases aren't public, but definitely the bulk of it.

CDR.fyi List of known CDR purchases

docs.google.com

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The three last purchases on @cdr_fyi looks...pretty amazing

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1 year

This is great. Don't be a destinationist.

Hannah Ritchie

@_HannahRitchie

1 year

Why tribalism and looking for a catch-all, perfect solution gets in the way of progress on climate change. Me in the @guardian :

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Robert Höglund

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A massive AI CDR Heart to keep track of all the research Only one person in the world probably scans through the majority of CDR publications, and that's Andrew Lockley @geoengineering1 . For the rest of us, we have to pick and choose, with only specialists in specific CDR

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Robert Höglund

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@ercwl Incredibly scary. How could someone protect themselves against that? If you have your password or physical wallet in a bank vault the risk is that the robbers won't believe you..

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Robert Höglund

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2 years

The State of CDR report is out! Here a thread with observations from it. First, the world already removes 2Gt per year! Mostly through net removals from managed land. But only 1% of that is sold as carbon credits.

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Robert Höglund

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@jacobrask Kan vi bara återinföra drop-in som det var tills för några år sedan. Man kanske får stå i kö i 5h nu i början, men den som verkligen behöver pass snabbt kan få det.

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Big news! After an extraordinarily competitive selection process, Milkywire has chosen thirteen new carbon dioxide removal suppliers we intend to support through the Climate Transformation Fund in 2024. This year, we reviewed over 220 CDR proposals through our open call, and

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Robert Höglund

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Curious about the latest CDR cost estimates? For the CDR IVL study shared earlier this week we did a literature review and summarized estimates from 75 studies, as well as compared these to actual purchase data from .

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2 years

If realized this changes everything. @_Capture6 is building DAC facilities to capture 5 Mt CO₂/yr 2026 🤯 Most new DAC companies plan to have a 1000 ton/yr facility by then. The tema is serious and has strong backing so this will be very exciting.

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2 years

Look at what just arrived in the mail. Looking forward reading something CDR in physical form.

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3 years

It is time to move beyond offsetting. In this new @GreenBiz article @EliMLarson and I make the case that companies should focus on maximizing climate impact with their investments rather than on compensating for their emissions. 🧵

What lies beyond offsetting? - Trellis

Companies with high climate ambition should focus on the big picture: maximizing impact for the planet rather than compensating only for their own emissions.

trellis.net

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@RobertHoglund

2 years

It is quite likely that the albedo effect means forestation in boreal landscape leads to net global warming. Now this paper shows forestation in the north could be weakening the gulf stream 🤯 and other strange effects. Climate is not straightforward.

Raphael Portmann

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2 years

Our study on the effect of global-scale forestation and deforestation on global weather patterns was published in @NatureComms last week (). If there is one implication I want people to take away from our study (and a range of previous ones) it is this:

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I've written on what to expect from carbon removal in 2022. Too many topics to sum up in a TLDR but it is going to be a great year in CDR! Read the article on @illuminemNews

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1 year

Today we publish our most comprehensive report so far, covering the CDR market up to mid-year 2023! I want to highlight part of the analysis, describing the two important roles CDR buyers play.🧵1/5

CDR.fyi

CDR.fyi is the reporting platform for the durable carbon removal market.

www.cdr.fyi

cdr.fyi

@cdr_fyi

1 year

"An unprecedented look at unprecedented GROWTH" Today we're dropping the most comprehensive report yet... 📈 2023 Mid-Year Progress Report 📈 2023 is shaping up to be a BIG year for carbon dioxide removal: - 3.3M tonnes

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@LorentzTovatt Det är bra att du/ni är tydliga med detta, tack för det! Vi är överens om mycket, men jag kan inte förstå hur man kan vilja stänga fossilfri kraft i ett klimtnödläge.

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Robert Höglund

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2 years

CDR is very, very physical. "DAC at 0.5 Gt scale would use around 1–3 percent of current U.S. concrete and steel production each year" (Although this will depend on methods) From @WRIClimate brief

Direct Air Capture: Assessing Impacts to Enable Responsible Scaling

The latest science affirms that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F) by midcentury requires both deep emissions reductions and natural and technological carbon removal. Direct air...

www.wri.org

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@spakhm I appreciate your message but can't help notice that 90k a year comfortably puts you in the top 1% earners in the world. You actually are incredibly rich empirically speaking.

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2 years

2022 was a big year for CDR, but I still came out worried. The number of big buyers is still very low. I think fear of backlash, lack of incentives, difficulty of buying, high prices, and underdeveloped MRV is holding companies back. 🧵

You can't wait with buying carbon removal

Why are so few companies purchasing removals at scale, and how can that be changed?

marginalcarbon.substack.com

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2 years

It's probably going to be more energy efficient and cheaper to burn kerosene in airplanes and offset it with DAC, than to use DAC to make synfuels. Not completely settled though. Excellent analysis here: Found via @lennartjoos

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2 years

The first tool to present the uncertainties for different CDR methods! Some methods shouldn't be scaled up beyond research before key questions can be answered, esp on safety. However, uncertainty on how much CO2 was removed might be acceptable if reasonable (± 20%👍, ± 90%✋).

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Carbon credits are not offsets. It sounds obvious, but to many, both critics of offsetting, and supporters of carbon credits, I don't think it is. See this new article by me and @EliMLarson in @illuminemNews

Carbon credits are not offsets | illuminem

In everyday language, ‘buying carbon credits’ and ‘offsetting’ are used interchangeably. But they are not the same. To stop greenwashing while increasing funding for climate projects, there is an...

illuminem.com

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Robert Höglund

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1 year

I've spent 8 years fighting climate change, and I won’t stop. Recognizing AI risk doesn’t mean less effort spent on climate. Similar to pushing for gun control while also worrying about nukes. One creates immense harm, the other carries some risk of full extinction. Both matter.

Robert Höglund

@RobertHoglund

1 year

I may work full-time on climate, but definitely see AI as the bigger risk. It's not even close. Warming is bad, but human extinction is not on the list of outcomes. Not sure what your intention was @_david_ho_ but we ofc can and should work on several problems at the same time.

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I think the traditional voluntary carbon market has started to descend and will, at least momentarily, crash and burn. In its ashes, the high-quality CDR market slowly rises. It is nothing to applaud since we need much more money flowing into avoided deforestation and decarb 1/6

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Robert Höglund

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2 years

This is so cool. Check out for the best overview of the carbon removal market. As many of you know I maintain a database of public CDR purchases, that is now merging into this (the Google doc will still remain for everyone to do their own analysis).

cdr.fyi

@cdr_fyi

2 years

Today we're excited to launch : a new open reporting platform for high-durability carbon dioxide removal purchases & deliveries - 584,000 tons tracked (4.6% delivered) - $150M total sales - 540 orders x ~100 buyers, 70 suppliers, 40 marketplaces 🚀🧵👇

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Avoided deforestation credits do unfortunately not work

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@RobertHoglund

3 months

Hugely insightful post from @nickvanosdol on Running Tide. He provocatively asks: "Do we want to remove gigatonnes of carbon from the atmosphere? Or do we prefer to ensure we can measure each tonne removed directly, cover corporate reputational risk, and avoid unknown risks to

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Robert Höglund

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6 years

2017 ökade CO2 utsläppen 1,4 procent. 70 procent av all ny energi var fossil. Förnybart minskar inte utsläppen, bara ökningstakten. Detta visar hur nästintill omöjligt svårt det är att kombinera ekonomisk tillväxt med grön omställning. #swgreen

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Robert Höglund

@RobertHoglund

2 years

This is a very useful graph. Ideally, we want to have to do as little CDR as possible.

Zeke Hausfather

@hausfath

2 years

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is not a replacement for deep mitigation. The higher the peak warming is, the bigger a "climate debt" we leave for future generations. Even if we get permanent CDR down to $50/ton, we incur a debt of $11 trillion for every 0.1C above 1.5C.

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Robert Höglund

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3 years

Yesterday the @sciencetargets Net-zero standard was released! I was part of the expert advisory group and am glad to see very robust criteria emerge. In this article, I share thoughts on how the new standard can affect carbon removal and the carbon market

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Robert Höglund

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2 years

"Sequestering soil carbon remains an uncertain approach to climate change mitigation." This new report on soil carbon from @EnvDefenseFund is a reminder that no one should be selling carbon credits from soil. At least not until we have more answers.

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We are on a path to 2.5-2.9C warming by 2100, but as long as emissions do not reach net zero, warming continues! It feels like what happens after 2100 is overlooked.

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Robert Höglund

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A lot of exciting new companies in Frontiers first announcement of purchases!

Frontier facilitates first carbon removal purchases

Frontier has facilitated its first purchases—from AspiraDAC, Calcite-Origen, Lithos Carbon, RepAir, Travertine, and Living Carbon—on behalf of Stripe. Stripe will spend $2.4M buying carbon removal...

frontierclimate.com

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Robert Höglund

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See this type of content often. It's like comparing the cost of CO2 reductions from solar to electric aeroplanes. Ofc the former is cheaper, the reason $ is spent on nascent solutions is to further innovation. We do not support CDR to maximize the nr of tonnes removed today.

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Robert Höglund

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Oh wow, this is the biggest news in CDR since... well ever!

Stacy Kauk

@stacykauk

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We know we can’t fight climate change alone. I’m excited to announce @shopify is joining @Stripe , @Google , @Meta , and @McKinsey Sustainability to launch Frontier, our combined $925M advance market commitment, to accelerate carbon removal. 🌍🚀

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Robert Höglund

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Direct air capture by #midjourney on my prompt.

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Robert Höglund

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How much carbon do we really need to remove? The most common answer is looking at how much emissions are projected to remain and concluding that CDR will need to cover the gap. But the higher the emissions, the less carbon will be removed! 1/5

The faster emissions are reduced, the more carbon will be removed

How much carbon will we need to remove from the atmosphere? The answer is often determined by looking at how much emissions are expected to…

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Robert Höglund

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A long-awaited moment! Today the second edition of the State of CDR report will be published. Follow the launch webinar this afternoon European time and look out for the report coming online later today. Congratulations to @stv_smth leading the work and the whole author team for

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Robert Höglund

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Amazing. Look at this unironic ad from a 1975 farming magazine. At least now people are ashamed of it. Picture from @NightmareBjo

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Robert Höglund

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Reporting from the first EU Expert group for carbon removal meeting, (I'm a member with observer status). The group will mainly advise on certification methods. More about the EU framework here:

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Robert Höglund

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SouthPoles NextGen facility might be of a similar size to Frontier! They plan to buy 1 m tons of *durable* removals at an avg price of $200 up until 2025= $200 million, I suppose much more 2025-2030 @BCG @SwissRe @UBS are among the foundational buyers

Technical carbon removals facility launched by major corporations

Companies announce their plan to join the NextGen CDR Facility (NextGen) as founding buyers to dramatically scale up carbon removal technologies and catalyze the market for high-quality carbon...

www.southpole.com

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Robert Höglund

@RobertHoglund

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New post with learnings from @Klarna and @milkywire purchase of carbon removal. Early buyers of removals should focus on widening the field and try be as catalytic as possible with purchases. Not just buying as many tons as cheaply as possible today.

Buying carbon removal — Learnings from Klarna and Milkywire

Co-written with Janek Kose at Klarna.

medium.com

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Robert Höglund

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Is insurance the key to scaling carbon removal? Pre-purchases of CDR credits is a way for suppliers to get funds to build their removal facilities, but since it puts the risk on buyers, the appetite for this is low. New article📰:

Is insurance the key to scaling carbon removal?

Derisking prepurchases to build capacity.

roberthoglund.medium.com

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Robert Höglund

@RobertHoglund

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Nature restoration should aggressively be pursued, both for its climate benefits but also for other positive effects such as increased biodiversity. However, it should not be used to offset fossil emissions in net-zero accounting.

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Robert Höglund

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Is there a carbon removal market, and what does the future for a CDR market look like? On Tuesday, I will speak at @openaircollect "This is CDR" event series about the @cdr_fyi year in-review report. Event link:

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Hot off the press, US Government will start to directly procure carbon removal! Great news (and a scoop from @heatmap_news )

The U.S. Government Will Pay to Remove Carbon From Atmosphere

The key climate technology lands a big customer.

heatmap.news

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Robert Höglund

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A great deep dive on ton-years from @carbonplan . Companies shouldn't make CO2-offset claims on the back of 1-year credits, and @NCX should stop saying they can. Some detailed comments from me on the value of temporary removals below:🧵

Unpacking ton-year accounting – CarbonPlan

Explaining methods used to value temporary carbon storage.

carbonplan.org

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Robert Höglund

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I would guess >80-90% of the general public think warming decreases if emissions do. It's not intuitive that CO2 sticks around, it must be learnt..

Kate Mackenzie

@kmac

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How many people appreciate that atmospheric co2 is a "stocks not flows" problem? I can hardly believe it could still be misunderstood after all this time, but I've been surprised before...

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Robert Höglund

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Very interesting overview of nr DAC companies per method. From @sustaera 's presentation at @openaircollect . Great to see their tech explained, especially encouraging that it can run on intermittent renewable energy.

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Robert Höglund

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I got a lot of respect for @dpaessler at @carbon_drawdown , he believes in enhanced weathering so he started spreading basalt on fields, I think at his own expense, to make models for measurement and monitoring. However, it is hard! And a lot of work left.

Measuring/Monitoring Enhanced Weathering on Croplands Is Really Hard To Do — Carbon Drawdown...

Measuring the weathering rates of basalt in “open nature” is very hard to do. To properly assess the weathering rates we need to measure this “in the field” as lab experiments are expected to show...

www.carbon-drawdown.de

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Robert Höglund

@RobertHoglund

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The money going into carbon removal is very clearly NOT something that distracts from clean energy.

Zeke Hausfather

@hausfath

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The world spent around $755 billion on the energy transition in 2021. Here is how it breaks down by different technologies: Data from @BloombergNEF w/ CDR investment numbers from CTVC)

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