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AirMail - OpenAir's Monthly Newsletter - June 2024 Edition
News, events and highlights from the OpenAir Collective.
OpenAir
June 10, 2024
Welcome to AirMail, OpenAir’s monthly newsletter where we share news, events and content related to carbon removal and our community’s growing range of activities. Thanks for subscribing!
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 | Join us for OpenAir Office Hours, now twice per week.OpenAir co-founder Chris Neidl holds 1-hour zoom drop-in sessions for new and current members. These sessions are open to all, are intended to help members get plugged in, ask questions, meet others, and share ideas related to OpenAir’s goals, community and missions. All are welcome! |
Carbon Removal Challenge This is it, the Carbon Removal Challenge Finalist Showcase, hosted by OpenAir Collective co-founder Chris Neidl!
Dozens of teams from around the world submitted entries to the 2024 Carbon Removal Challenge. THANK YOU to our amazing sponsors, Carbon Unbound, Peter and Erika Reinhardt, Carbon Upcycling, and Acre Resources Ltd.
Hear from the five finalists teams selected by our esteemed panel of judges in this recording above at Carbon Unbound's opening night on May 21, 2024!
The Nakivale Biochar Project is up and running with three kilns, an amazing team, and limitless excitement for what’s next! Based in Africa’s oldest refugee settlement in Uganda, this 2-years in the making mission empowers resident refugees to make and deploy biochar on local farms to combat erosion and boost crop production, while generating carbon removal credit revenues to fully cover their operations. A collaboration of Nakivale, OpenAir, C-Go, C-Capsule and Sacurn, this new model has enormous replication potential across East Africa and beyond. Stay tuned for opportunities to further support and follow.
We want to thank the 12 OpenAir members who contributed to our final Spring Crowdfund, donating $1,520 to help cover final mission costs; and to the amazing generous support of our partner Sacurn, which contributed $9,000 to make our campaign a success!
Carbon Gardener’s latest team and test site went live in May, with Weston High School, located in Weston, Connecticut, and is now up and running. Carbon Gardener is a global citizen science project that aims to enlist hundreds of university and secondary school teams to test and report data on the efficacy of enhanced rock weathering across different soil and environmental conditions, using simple raised beds and equipment. All data will be published, open source, after a year of testing, and will help fill knowledge gaps related to the performance of this critical carbon removal pathway.
The reality of deploying carbon removal via direct air capture in the field This article by Climeworks provides an opportunity to look behind the scenes of Climeworks’ field deployment journey.
From Awareness to Action: The Six Building Blocks for Purchasing Carbon Removal - This report by the BMW Foundation, remove, and sus.lab at ETH Zurich focuses on these early adopters and delves into their motivations, internal drivers, and decision-making processes. It draws from interviews with 14 corporate sustainability leads who had successfully guided (pre-)purchases of durable carbon dioxide removal (CDR) credits in their organizations.
Biochar Is Dominating the Carbon Removal Market — But No One Seems to Care - Heatmap News explores biochar for carbon removal and offers a few explanations as to why it is attracting so little attention compared to other CDR technologies.
Research, development and innovation funding in the EU & US - This report by Policy Tracker at Carbon Gap offers insights into the differences between the EU and the US in funding for research, development and innovation. It offers policy makers recommendations on how to tackle the several issues identified before being able to provide a robust RD&I funding environment.
The 2024 Buyer's Guide to Carbon Removal Policy - The 2024 Buyer's Guide to CDR Policy report dives deep into the policy landscape of the U.S. and the European Union, as well as key CDR incubators like California, Denmark and Germany. Corporate sustainability leaders and CDR buyers will find this guide invaluable for understanding the state of CDR policy right now and what lies ahead over the coming years.