Public consultation
Carbon Dioxide Removal Industry Commitments
The Negative Emissions Platform is thrilled to announce the launch of the public consultation phase for the Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) Industry Commitments. NEP invites feedback from all stakeholders on the document, aiming to refine its provisions before finalisation.
The CDR Industry Commitments outline a set of principles and pledges aimed at guiding the behaviours of various stakeholders within the CDR community. Emphasising the need for CDR as a vital component of climate action, the commitments underscore the shared responsibility of the sector in combatting anthropogenic climate change.
Joint blog
The Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) is one of the few funding tools currently available to support the carbon removal sector. When designed correctly, policies can help to build trust in the market and pre-empt any claims of greenwashing. Greenwashing has witnessed a surge in recent years with misleading claims affecting trust between companies and consumers, which has raised questions over the credibility of claims made by companies, products, and services. Governments around the world are working to create enabling policies for carbon removal to scale, and part of these policies focus on ensuring that carbon removal has efficacy and is working properly. The Negative Emissions Platform and the Carbon Business Council summarise the latest developments in the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) on creating a robust removals market built upon trust.
❗ Calling for tech-neutrality in the Carbon Removal Certification Framework (#CRCF) ❗
The Negative Emissions Platform is joining 16 leading organisations representing the carbon dioxide removal (#CDR) ecosystem who have gathered to express their concern around recent developments within the European Parliament´s ENVI Committee that seem to limit the scope of the CRCF in a potentially very damaging way.
Interview with Carbon Herald - “Regulation Is The Bedrock Upon Which The Carbon Removal Industry Stands – It’s What Makes Our Business Feasible” – Chris Sherwood, Secretary-General Of Negative Emissions Platform
We sat down with Carbon Herald to talk about everything from NEP’s newest Member-led initiative, i.e. the CDR Capital Flow Chapter, to the importance of EU regulation on setting the tone on CDR across the globe and the benefits of joining the Negative Emissions Platform.
The Negative Emissions Platform released an explanatory thread on the Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA)
The proposed Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA) is a paramount EU industrial policy promoting #cleantech manufacturing to achieve #climateneutrality.
🚨 But here's the deal!
Net-zero is incomplete without carbon removals. It's high time legislation with "net-zero" in its name recognizes the indispensable role these technologies play in achieving EU climate goals.
We are thrilled to extend a warm welcome to Stripe
a global technology powerhouse, to the Negative Emissions Platform!
Stripe is a global technology company building economic infrastructure for the internet. Tens of thousands of companies are dedicating a portion of their revenue to carbon removal through Stripe Climate. Stripe's role as an early buyer of carbon removal aligns seamlessly with NEP's mission. Together, we're forging pathways to not just reduce emissions, but actively remove carbon from the atmosphere, driving the transition towards a carbon-neutral world.
The Negative Emissions Platform is advocating for integrating CDR technologies within EU legislation
Honoured to be one of seven signatories advocating for a pivotal update to the Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA). Together, we emphasise the need to include carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies in the scope of NZIA.
❗Achieving global net zero hinges on it
By including CDR in the NZIA, we can pave the way for a European carbon removal ecosystem, truly embodying the "net" in net zero. Together, we can turn ambition into action!
Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) company reverce
is taking over the Fieldcode NEP membership
As reverce, they combine scientific and business expertise to create an end-to-end process chain for weathering-related carbon removal. Through this consolidated approach, reverce strive to accelerate the worldwide scaling of carbon dioxide removal in partnership with the NEP community and contribute to the necessary reduction of greenhouse gases
The Negative Emissions Platform is thrilled to announce the addition of two esteemed members to its Board! Please join us in warmly welcoming Leila Toplic, Chief Communications & Trust Officer at Carbonfuture, and Venna Lepel, Chief Commercial Officer at Novocarbo!
By adding representatives of biomass-based CDR methods (Novocarbo) and an MRV platform for durable CDR (Carbonfuture) member category to the Board, NEP is broadening and adding new skills and experience to its leadership team. This will help us reinforce our unwavering commitment to accelerating the development and deployment of negative emissions technologies worldwide, ensuring that our efforts to achieve net-negative carbon emissions are comprehensive and effective.
We're very excited to announce the arrival of two new members to the Negative Emissions Platform (NEP) community: CarbonX and Circular Carbon.
Carbonx Climate helps organisations on their net zero journey by facilitating access to permanent carbon removal solutions. They focus on four core removal pathways including Direct Air Capture (DAC), Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW), Bio-based with long-term storage and Ocean Alkalinity. Carbonx screens, assesses, and monitors every project they work with, saving customers time and resources, while maximizing their climate impact.
Circular Carbon develops biomass energy systems for the production of valuable biochar and renewable process steam. With the help of this technical solution, this company enables industrial customers in the food and biomass sectors to decarbonise their production processes and to sequester carbon when selling off the biochar from the pyrolysis process (negative emissions). The Circular Carbon system transforms residual biomass into carbonaceous materials that can be used in agriculture, fruit and horticulture, urban trees, animal feed as well as in construction.
We're very excited to announce the arrival of two new members to the Negative Emissions Platform (NEP) community: Neustark and Microsoft.
Neustark is a Swiss company that removes CO2 from the atmosphere, permanently storing it in demolished concrete via their mineralization technology. Their first solutions have been deployed in Switzerland and Europe and are already capturing and storing tons of CO2 every day. They are currently scaling up their operations on the journey to remove one million tons of CO2 in 2030.
Microsoft is the first of what we hope will be many "demand-side" members - i.e. companies that buy carbon removal credits. As a significant corporate buyer of carbon removal solutions, Microsoft is one of the first companies to apply a due diligence process to its own purchases and has a strong commitment to developing the global removal market and working with others to advocate for high-quality standards.
NEP is hereby expanding the range of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies represented in our membership, as well as broadening to include a critically important new type of stakeholder. This moves us further towards our mission of being "the home of CDR" and a leading voice in the fight against climate change and helping Europe meet its net-zero goals.
Negative Emissions Platform welcomes the EU’s Green Deal Industrial Plan but calls for massive increases in investment and a more urgent regulatory focus.
Massive increases in investment in net-zero technologies, including negative emissions technologies, will be needed if global climate goals are to be achieved. The Inflation Reduction Act and other policies that have been recently announced by the U.S. government, and the measures outlined in the European Commission’s Green Deal Industrial Plan (GDIP), are welcome and essential first steps in this direction.
However, the scale of investment required to meet global climate goals is orders of magnitude greater than what current U.S. and European policies are capable of generating.
Chris Sherwood, NEP Secretary-General, said, “It is essential that governments act quickly to support a mix of decarbonisation strategies. These must include the development of a wide array of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies, including but not limited to ocean-centered carbon dioxide removals, direct air capture, bioenergy with CCS, biochar and pyrogenic CCS, and enhanced rock weathering. They must also include the development of massive new carbon dioxide management, transport, and storage infrastructure.”
We look forward to working with the European Commission, EU legislators, and European governments to maximise the climate impact of the GDIP and other European policies and financing instruments.
The Negative Emissions Platform is an alliance dedicated to promoting carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies through advocacy for regulatory frameworks that build credibility and trust, education & awareness among policy makers and the general public, collaboration between organisations engaging in work om CDR, and research on the climate potential, costs, and side effects of negative emissions technologies.
Negative Emissions Platform calls for policy signals in the ReFuelEU Aviation proposal to scale up investment in direct air capture.
We have issued a joint statement with Transport & Environment, Bellona and CATF proposing that a share of DAC be mandated within the synthetic fuel sub-target as a part of an investable policy framework for near carbon neutral fuels in aviation.
Negative Emissions Platform launches CDR Atlas
Carbon Dioxide Removal Atlas is an ongoing research project, to map companies and projects that are active in the field of atmospheric and biogenic carbon removal with durable or permanent storage.
Interview with Nan Ransohoff, Head of Climate at Stripe
We sat down, virtually, with Nan Ransohoff, Head of Climate at Stripe to discuss the concept of advance market commitments for carbon removal tech, and recent policy and carbon market developments.
Carbofex, the Europe’s largest EBC-certified biochar producer, has joined Negative Emissions Platform
Carbofex has developed a negative emissions technology that permanently removes atmospheric carbon by converting unutilised biomass into valuable biochar with its proprietary pyrolysis technology.
Pledge, an embedded climate infrastructure platform for transportation and logistics, has become our member
Through Pledge’s carbon offsetting marketplace, businesses have access to verified carbon projects and removal technologies all on one platform, allowing them to offset their unavoidable emissions.
Case study: Shopify’s Sustainability Fund
In September 2019, the e-commerce platform Shopify launched its Sustainability Fund with a stated goal of supporting the most promising solutions and technologies to fight climate change globally. Shopify is now one of the world’s largest purchasers of carbon removal credits and a leader in this nascent market.
Negative Emissions Platform and five climate think tanks call for action on carbon removals
In an open letter to the EU Commission, Negative Emissions Platform called for further actions on CCS & carbon removal as a way to tackle climate change, as well as for targeted support for carbon removal technologies in the Innovation Fund.
What will it take to scale up negative emissions technologies?
Negative Emissions Platform hosted the COP26 event: On the road to net-zero, scaling the deployment of negative emissions technologies. Panel speakers discussed challenges and opportunities in deploying carbon removals to a climate-relevant scale.
The most optimistic of climate change scenarios are becoming more plausible
One of the most debated parts of the recently released 6th assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change, or IPCC, is also its brightest glimmer of hope.
What’s a climate researcher’s perspective on carbon removals?
We continue our series of interviews of the greatest minds in climate policy with Oliver Geden, one of the few specialist in the emerging field of carbon dioxide removals, or CDR, policy and governance. Dr. Geden is a lead author of the IPCC working group 3, which report on climate mitigation is due in March 2022.
Carbo Culture joins Negative Emissions Platform
Carbo Culture makes functional biocarbons and Biographite from waste to keep CO2 out of the atmosphere. It is working with green and blue infrastructure and carbon-negative materials developers to start a new era of Carbon Culturing.
What is Orca? A way of turning captured atmospheric C02 into rock
Staying on the path to limit global warming to 1.5°C would require the advancement of a kind of technology that is scraping carbon from the atmosphere. A new plant built in Iceland, Orca, makes this goal seem more attainable.
What are the EU policy instruments that could help the tech that’s pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere?
While reducing greenhouse gas emissions can limit temperature increase, negative emissions can actually help drive global temperatures down. The Centre for European Policy Studies has published a paper presenting its initial recommendations for an EU policy framework.
CarbonCure, carbon utilisation rising star, joins Negative Emission Platform
CarbonCure, which has developed a carbon utilisation technology for concrete production, has become a member of Negative Emissions Platform. It joins a network of start-ups part of the carbon value chain that Negative Emissions Platform represents.
Think tanks and clean energy advocacy groups call for a more innovation-friendly EU climate policy framework
The joint letter was sent on September 22 to the EU Council and EU Parliament and considers a variety of legislative interventions which could enhance Europe’s position as a forerunner in climate innovation.
Microsoft’s purchase of carbon removal credits, a case study
In early 2020, Microsoft announced an ambitious target: to become carbon neutral across its whole value chain by 2030, this including activities that are only indirectly related to its day-to-day business. It also plans on compensating by 2050 for its historical carbon emissions since 1975.
National recovery plans are missing opportunities on green innovation
We have joined other organisations in signing a letter directed at the Presidents of the EU Commission and European Council, on the importance for Member States to enhance their EU-backed recovery plans by broadening their portfolio of innovative green technologies, and adding green policies and funding mechanisms.
Negative Emissions Platform adds RepAir as newest direct air capture member
As a hub for the carbon removal ecosystem, and particularly for direct air capture start-ups and SMEs, Negative Emissions Platform facilitates collaborations with various players along the carbon removal value chain,.
Standard Gas joins Negative Emissions Platform as a member
Standard Gas, a UK-based start-up which technology captures carbon while simultaneously generating clean, renewable energy has now joined Negative Emissions Platform’s broad alliance of like-minded organisations, sharing knowledge and giving voice to the carbon removal sector.
Carbon markets, what we can learn from past mistakes… & successes!
Negative Emissions Platform sat down, virtually, with Peter Vis, who for over two decades worked on many of the European Union’s most emblematic climate policies, notably as part of the team overseeing the development of the EU’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS).
Now is the time for an ambitious European e-kerosene target
Negative Emissions Platform co-signed this call to the European Commission together with Transport&Environment. The EU should support the sourcing of CO2 via direct air capture technology, through guaranteeing market demand for it within the framework of ReFuelEU Initiative.
Horizon Europe sees a large increase in funding for carbon removal techs and solutions
On Thursday 24 June 2021, the first round of calls will open for the newly adopted Horizon Europe work programme, with an earmarked €14.7 billion in funding. For the first time, a large part of the programme will be dedicated to carbon dioxide removal technologies.
Negative Emissions Platform joins the Advisory Board of CCS+, a newly launched carbon market initiative
Negative Emissions Platform will take part in the advisory group of the CCS+ Initiative, formed to advance carbon accounting for a range of CCUS and carbon removal technologies.
Commission and Breakthrough Energy Catalyst partner to support direct air capture
The European Commission and the Breakthrough Energy Catalyst have announced last week a pioneering partnership to boost investments in critical climate technologies, including direct air capture and sustainable aviation fuels.
Guest blog: Project Vesta’s coastal carbon capture
A guest blog from Nathan Walworth, VP of science for Project Vesta, an endeavour to remove carbon from the atmosphere by spreading an abundant mineral, olivine, in coastal areas.
Negative Emissions Platform welcomes Stripe’s last round of funding for negative emission techs
The last round of carbon removal purchases by Stripe, the technology company building economic infrastructure for the Internet, showcases the role of private companies in future-proofing Negative Emissions Technology pathways.
#Fit4ClimateInnovation
Letter to the European Commission
Negative Emissions Platform together with a number of leading European tech & climate policy organisations called on the European Commission to put innovation at the core of the Fit for 55 package.