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AirMail - OpenAir's Monthly Newsletter - April 2024 Edition

News, events and highlights from the OpenAir Collective.

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April 04, 2024

Welcome to AirMail, OpenAir’s new monthly newsletter where we share news, events and content related to carbon removal and our community’s growing range of activities. Thanks for subscribing!

We have a lot to report in this April Edition, including updates on two of our in-progress advocacy campaigns; and Nakivale, OpenAir assisted refugee-led biochar project that is on the brink of taking their production from pilot sustainable business.

We’ve also included loads of links to both upcoming and recently recorded events produced by OAC members all over the world: Enjoy!

  1. Upcoming Events

  2. Mission Spotlights

  3. Collector of the Month

  4. Video Playlist

  5. Recommended Reading

April 9, 12pm EST

EPISODE 100!!!! OpenAir is pleased to welcome Deep Sky Chief Carbon Scientist and Head of Engineering Dr. Phil De Luna to discuss how the company is building large-scale infrastructure in Canada to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at an unprecedented rate.

April 17, 12pm EST

OpenAir hosts its monthly onboarding orientation webinar for new and returning members. The 1-hour session is open to all, and completely interactive, allowing attendees to ask questions, meet others, and share more about their own carbon removal interests and goals as OpenAir members.

Farmer entrepreneurs in Nakivale, Uganda, Africa's oldest refugee settlement, are on the brink of taking their biochar production from pilot to sustainable business. In 2023, OpenAir members all over the world helped crowdfund Phase 1 of this project, funding the manufacture and installation of three biochar kilns in Nakivale. With your generous support, we can help get them from pilot to self-sustaining enterprise, supporting improved soil, reduced food insecurity, and carbon removal!

Help the Nakivale team reach its fundraising goal of $9,300!

The Concrete Carbon Utilization, Removal & Reduction Breakthrough Act (CCURRB) is yet another viral version of the Low Embodied Carbon Concrete Leadership Act, OpenAir’s original legislative product that is now law in New Jersey and New York State. The time is right for this policy in Illinois and we need volunteer advocates right now to help us make it law.

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Come on New Yorkers, let’s get this one done! The Carbon City PTA Act is first-of-kind state legislation, drafted by OpenAir members, that will incentivize building owners in NYC to adopt building- integrated carbontech solutions with a property tax credit. It’s introduced in both chambers of the state legislature right now. We have until June to make it law. Join our campaign!

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  • “On Hooks & Windows” - An essay by OpenAir co-founder Chris Neidl about the importance to designing local CDR support legislation around local social, political and economic considerations.

  • “The Blueprint: Asserting Luxembourg’s Leadership in Carbon Removal Finance - Pt. 2 Activating Luxembourg’s Inherent Advantages.” The second essay in a three part series exploring Luxembourg’s unique opportunities and advantages in this critical area in the CDR value chain.

  • Enhanced Weathering Policy Primer - Carbon Business Council publishes the Enhanced Weathering Policy Primer highlighting the EW moment; identifies key challenges; and offers a set of focused recommendations for policymakers, the emerging EW commercial sector, and other CDR ecosystem actors to responsibly accelerate the advancement, deployment, and scaling of EW.

  • Funding Beyond Value Chain Mitigation - Milkywire, Gold Standard, and Murmur publish a guide detailing how a company can select projects and set internal BVCM targets. The guide intends to complement the recent SBTi reports.

  • Envisioning a carbon removal strategy for Europe - 18 actionable policy recommendations for how the EU could support carbon removal over the next thirty years as part of an EU carbon dioxide removal (CDR) strategy crafted by Carbon Gap. These recommendations focus on four main areas that represent the pillars: integration into compliance markets, funding for research and innovation, deployment incentives, and climate justice.

  • 2023 Global Biochar Market Report - Biochar has come into its own as a CDR technology, a circular climate change mitigation and adaptation solution, and as an input material for agriculture, the built environment, and soil and water remediation work, among other sectors. This report highlights the growth in the biochar industry, along with priorities, challenges, and insights, gathered during a 2023 survey.