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📰 Here's your round-up of top #CarbonDioxideRemoval News / Developments from this week (28 July - 03 August 2025):

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🧵0/21 Germany’s 2026 draft budget allocated €111 million for negative emissions in 2026 and a further €320 million in subsequent years. A new federal department has also been set up to focus on carbon removal.


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🚨How does #SolarGeoengineering affect air pollution & public health?

New study using a cutting-edge Earth system model shows that #SAI has only modest effects on PM₂.₅ & ozone-related mortality & these impacts are mostly due to climate shifts, not aerosol deposition.🧵1/8 2/ Using CESM2-WACCM6 simulations across three scenarios (SSP2-4.5 baseline, ARISE-SAI-1.5, ARISE-SAI-1.0), the study quantifies global mortality attributable to ozone (O₃) & fine particulate matter (PM₂.₅) under future SAI deployment targeting 1.5°C and 1.0°C warming levels.

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📰 Here's your round-up of top #CarbonDioxideRemoval News / Developments from this week (21-27 July 2025):

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🧵0/22 Chestnut Carbon secured up to $210M in non-recourse financing, led by J.P. Morgan for its afforestation project, marking a first-of-its-kind deal in the US carbon removal space.


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🚨Scientists have discovered a common soil bacterium, Bacillus megaterium, that can rapidly remove CO2 from the atmosphere by transforming it into solid limestone (calcium carbonate) within 24 hours, without creating toxic byproducts.
#CDR #CarbonMineralization

DETAILS🧵1/8 2/ Microbially induced calcite precipitation (MICP) is a technique where microbes precipitate CaCO₃, often used in eco-friendly building materials.

Most MICP uses urease to break down urea, which produces ammonium, a problematic byproduct.

🚨🗓Carbon Removal Events🗓🚨

Here's a list of what's coming up this week (22 July - 28 July 2025) in the field of #CarbonDioxideRemoval:

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🧵1/11 teamup.com/kshqbfhrqkw36s… EVENT—Food, Ag & Regen Farming + Biotech & Life Sciences Call by 4WARD

🗓23 July 2025 | Online
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2/11circle.4ward.earth/c/events/food-…

🚨Solar Geoengineering (#SRM) may seem cheap (~$18B/yr) to cool the planet, but when you factor in societal risks, political instability & sudden climate rebounds, the true cost may far exceed technical estimates from both moral & practical standpoints, says a new study.

🧵1/11 2/ SRM often gets touted as cheap even “pennies per ton” compared to the hundreds of $/ton needed for large-scale CDR.

But these estimates usually ignore the real-world costs of deploying SRM in a politically fractured and climate-damaged world.

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📰 Here's your round-up of top #CarbonDioxideRemoval News / Developments from this week (14-20 July 2025):

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🧵0/23 Frontier facilitated $1.75M in CDR purchases from Karbonetiq, Limenet & pHathom for buyers including Stripe, Shopify & Google.


1/23frontierclimate.com/writing/summer…

🚨Global talk on #SolarGeoengineering is heating up but Latin America’s barely in the room.

A new study analyzes the #MakeSunsets case in Mexico & shows why Latin America & the Caribbean need urgent, inclusive SRM governance to prevent risks & protect real research.🧵1/8 2/ With climate risks growing, solar radiation modification is gaining attention globally.

Yet in the Latin America & the Carribean (LAC) region, it's still a marginal topic, largely absent from political agendas, public debate, and regulatory systems.

🚨🗓Carbon Removal Events🗓🚨

Here's a list of what's coming up this week (08 July - 21 July 2025) in the field of #CarbonDioxideRemoval:

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🧵1/17 teamup.com/kshqbfhrqkw36s… EVENT—This is CDR: Divert, Transform, Apply – How BioForceTech is Removing CO2 by Turning Wastewater Sludge into Aggregate by @openaircollect

🗓15 July 2025 | Online
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📰 Here's your round-up of top #CarbonDioxideRemoval News / Developments from this week (07-13 July 2025):

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🧵0/23 Frontier signed a $41M deal with Arbor for 116,000 tCO₂ removals (2028–2030).

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🚨Georgia Tech researchers have developed a low-cost method to pull CO₂ from the air (#DAC) using cold temperatures and common materials, potentially slashing capture costs to ~$70 per ton and expanding where Direct Air Capture can work. #CDR

DETAILS🧵1/9 2/ DAC is a critical tool for fighting climate change, but it’s been too expensive to scale.

Current systems often exceed $200 per ton of CO₂ captured, partly due to the high energy needed to run them.

🚨From Air to Stone🚨

New study revealed that Kenyan fig trees can literally turn parts of themselves to stone, using microbes to convert internal crystals into limestone-like deposits that lock away CO2, sweeten surrounding soil & still yield fruit. #CarbonRemoval

DETAILS🧵1/8 2/ Some Kenyan fig trees, like Ficus wakefieldii, store CO₂ not just as organic matter (wood/leaves) but also as calcium carbonate (CaCO₃) - the same mineral as chalk or limestone.

This process is called the oxalate-carbonate pathway (OCP).

🚨🗓Carbon Removal Events🗓🚨

Here's a list of what's coming up this week (08 July - 14 July 2025) in the field of #CarbonDioxideRemoval:

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🧵1/15 teamup.com/kshqbfhrqkw36s… EVENT—5th Brazilian Congress of Remineralizers Conference

🗓8-11 July 2025 | Brazil
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📰 Here's your round-up of top #CarbonDioxideRemoval News / Developments from this week (30 June - 06 July 2025):

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🧵0/19 @Climeworks raised $162 million Series E to scale Generation‑3 direct air capture, cut costs to $400–600/t, and grow its carbon removal portfolio.

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🚨What if we bet too much on future carbon removal tech and it doesn’t deliver?

New study shows that over-relying on #CDR like DACCS & BECCS could let fossil fuel emissions continue longer, delay action, and raise costs later.

Key findings🧵1/9 2/ Many net-zero plans assume large-scale CDR. But techs like direct air capture (DACCS) & bioenergy with CCS (BECCS) are tiny today and scaling them is risky due to land, energy & cost barriers.

🚨🗓Carbon Removal Events🗓🚨

Here's a list of what's coming up this week (01 July - 07 July 2025) in the field of #CarbonDioxideRemoval:

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🧵1/11 teamup.com/kshqbfhrqkw36s… EVENT—This is CDR - Embedding CDR: Unlocking Scale Through Industrial Integration with Cara Maesano, PhD. by @openaircollect

🗓01 July 2025 | Online
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🚨Tired of drowning in climate science papers?

🎧 Remove & Reflect Podcast does the digging for you—turning research & reports into short, sharp episodes on #CDR & #SRM.

YouTube:youtube.com/@removeandrefl…

Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/0dxuwkOuH…

Check out some must-listen episodes:🧵1/12 This episode dives into a radical proposal: using a buried nuclear explosion on the seafloor to break up basalt & speed up carbon removal via Enhanced Rock Weathering. The goal? Sequester 30 years of global CO2.

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📰 Here's your round-up of top #CarbonDioxideRemoval News / Developments from this week (09 June - 15 June 2025):

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🧵0/17 @InSoilClimate secured its largest funding to date through a €100 million agreement with Key Carbon, accelerating regenerative agriculture and carbon credit generation across Europe.

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🚨A new study [preprint] shows that injecting sulfur at 50km could make #SolarGeoengineering much safer.

It cools the planet more effectively, speeds ozone recovery & avoids stratospheric disruptions. This could be done using a fleet of clean, reusable H2 rockets.

DETAILS🧵1/10 2/ SAI involves spraying SO₂ into stratosphere, where it forms aerosols that reflect sunlight—cooling Earth. It mimics volcanic eruptions like Mt. Pinatubo (1991), which temporarily cooled the planet.

But current “SAI models” inject SO2 at a rate of 10 Tg/yr at ~25km altitude.

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📰 Here's your round-up of top #CarbonDioxideRemoval News / Developments from this week (02 June - 08 June 2025):

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🧵0/21 @capture_air raised $50M in Series A funding to scale its California-based DAC tech.

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🚨A new study has revealed for the first time that ancient carbon, stored in landscapes for thousands of years or more, can find its way back to the atmosphere as CO₂ is released from the surfaces of rivers at a rate of 1.2 billion tonnes per year.

Details🧵1/8 2/ To understand the true source of river CO₂, researchers compiled a global dataset of 1,195 radiocarbon measurements of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), CO₂ & CH₄ from rivers & streams.

This let them determine whether the emitted carbon was modern—or much older.