With 40 days until COP28, expect to be hearing a lot more about carbon removal. We spoke with one of the UK’s leading founders in the space - Jim Mann of UNDO, which is a pioneer in enhanced rock weathering. Jim tells Richard Delevan why we can’t just plant a trillion trees to draw down CO2, whether carbon removals creates a moral hazard that gives oil and gas a longer license to operate, and the challenges of scaling.
Jim’s Catalysts:
Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth
The New Climate War by Michael E. Mann
Climate scientist Katherine Hayhoe
Some additional resources from UNDO:
UNDO is also a founding member of the recently signed Reykjavik Protocol. According to its statement, the Protocol is “a set of principles that governs how [nature-deployed carbon credit] suppliers can responsibly bring their solutions to market.”
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We’ll be back tomorrow with a companion episode to this chat with Jim Mann - featuring Abatable CEO Valerio Magliulo and Charlie Mercer from the Startup Coalition.
UNDO CEO Jim Mann on carbon removals