While you’re waiting for more episodes of The Carbon Removal Show, we wanted to introduce you to another project that our very own Tom Previte has been busy on…Grounded: A Climate Startup JourneyThis is the story of a startup that wants to

S3 #5 | How can companies contribute to industry scale?: Gigaton thinking - with MASH Makes

Jan 30th, 2024 39m 55s

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

S3 #4 | The importance of fungibility in carbon markets - with Carbonaires

Jan 16th, 2024 24m 30s

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

S3 #3 | 2023: Year in review

Jan 9th, 2024 47m 35s

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 organis

S3 #2 | Analogies for scale: what other technologies can teach us about carbon removal

Dec 19th, 2023 45m 27s

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 indu

S3 #1 | Getting serious about scale

Dec 12th, 2023 34m 10s

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 p

S2 #10 | Ocean-based carbon removal part 2: What's happening along our coastlines?

Nov 16th, 2022 50m 15s

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 Oce

S2 #9 | Ocean-based carbon removal part 1: What's so special about kelp?

Nov 9th, 2022 45m 54s

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

S2 #8 | Aledade's carbon removal story: How can smaller companies do more in this space?

Sep 28th, 2022 53m 48s

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

S2 #7: How Microsoft offsets emissions

Sep 21st, 2022 30m 51s

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 b

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S2 | #6.5: Taking a break

Sep 14th, 2022 2m 38s

Having spent the previous six weeks on our travels, bringing you carbon conferencing from near and far, this week we're taking our traditional mid-season break.With six episodes behind us and several more on the way, there's plenty to look fo

S2 #6 | Offsetting: how to do it right

Sep 7th, 2022 36m 58s

All the excitement of recording the previous two episodes in Iceland left us with one puzzling question. How would we practice what we preach and offset the carbon we emitted by flying there?We set our researcher Henry on the case, and got in

S2 #5 | Iceland: on the road

Aug 31st, 2022 55m 34s

Following our trip to the climate conference at Iceland Innovation Week, we wanted to explore.Today we're trying to get to the bottom of whether Iceland is a geological and political anomaly or a real glimpse into a potential brighter future

S2 #4 | Iceland: the world's carbon removal capital?

Aug 24th, 2022 42m 23s

Tickets? Booked. Microphone? Packed. Passport..?This week we're off to Reykjavik to take part in Iceland Innovation Week's climate conference Ok, bye.The event's name refers to the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change, Ok-jökull a

S2 #3 | Live in London: Getting removal right for people and planet

Aug 17th, 2022 1h

It's our final episode from the UK Greenhouse Gas Removal Event in London and our very own Tom Previte was asked to host another panel.This one was called "Getting it right for people and the planet" and was the conference's public facing pan

S2 #2 | The state of UK carbon removal

Aug 10th, 2022 51m 23s

Today we’re at the UK Greenhouse Gas Removal Event, a gathering of researchers, policy makers and businesses, to discuss the state of carbon removal in the UK today.CO2RE, the greenhouse gas removal hub led by Oxford University and the hosts

S2 #1 | Communicating carbon at the Science Museum

Aug 3rd, 2022 45m 31s

We're back! And we've been busy...Today, Tom visits the Science Museum in London to take a look at Our Future Planet, the museum's carbon removal exhibition. As carbon communicators ourselves, we were keen to find out what the Science Museum

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NEWS: What's next for The Carbon Removal Show?

Mar 24th, 2022 2m 49s

Good news! The Carbon Removal Show will be coming back for another season this summer.We want to make it as interesting, entertaining and educational as possible for all of you so we're asking you to let us know your thoughts about Season 1,

S1 #9 | What's next for carbon removal... and how can I help?

Dec 15th, 2021 41m 28s

Now you've discovered what carbon removal is all about, what are you going to do next?In this finale, we have brought together a mix of carbon removal-related inspiration:An interactive game to help us all understand the road to gigaton-sca

S1 #8 | Perceptions: how do we think and talk about carbon?

Dec 8th, 2021 54m 15s

What we do about climate change may be one of the biggest questions of our generation. Everyone should be able to have their say. This means we need to start having conversations in earnest to understand how we really think and feel about carbo

S1 #7 | Fundraising and finance: how do we scale up carbon removal?

Dec 1st, 2021 50m 55s

"It's not going to take a few dozen, or a few hundred, or a couple thousand people working on this. We're going to need many more people working on this." (Marcius Extavour)These days, we talk about carbon removal at the scale of tonnes - hun

S1 #6 | Utilisation and marketplaces: how to reimagine carbon

Nov 24th, 2021 52m 50s

For carbon removal to thrive under capitalism, we need thriving carbon removal businesses. And thriving carbon removal businesses need an income - but who's paying? Can a service like this, operating for the good of humanity, really work in a w

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S1 #5.5 | A short break

Nov 17th, 2021 2m 8s

We're taking a short mid-season break this week but don't worry, we'll be back next week.In this short bonus episode to tide you over, Tom and Emily discuss what we've learned so far and where we'll be going next.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

S1 #5 | DAC and storage: can we engineer our way out of this?

Nov 10th, 2021 46m 20s

Measurable, instant, continuous carbon capture and safe, reliable, permanent storage. Sound too good to be true?Actually, this is exactly what engineered solutions like DAC (Direct Air Capture) and geological sequestration claim to bring to o

S1 #4 | Biochar and BECCS: can we do more with plant power?

Nov 3rd, 2021 41m 29s

At first, the idea of harvesting, harnessing, even burning our beloved biomass may seem counterintuitive, at least from a carbon removal perspective. Why not just leave biomass be?Well, as we've heard so far this season, the carbon cycle is o