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AirMail - OpenAir's Monthly Newsletter - May 2024 Edition

News, events and highlights from the OpenAir Collective.

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!

  1. Upcoming Events

  2. Mission Spotlights

  3. Video Playlist

  4. Recommended Reading

May 22, 6pm EST

​Come join Activate, C2V Initiative, Carbon180, Carbon Business Council, Carbon Removal Alliance, Direct Air Capture Coalition, and OpenAir — with special guest cohosts Carbon to Sea 🌊 and Cascade Climate 🪨 — Wednesday May 22 for the next NYCDR Community Happy Hour!!!

May 15, 12 pm 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.

CO2municator is a weekly workshop hosted by OpenAir and led by science communications expert and organizer Bob Sadler. Every Wednesday at 3pm EST attendees are invited to present or give feedback on different carbon removal related communications efforts – public presentations, social media messaging, activist outreach, etc. All are welcome to join, learn, and receive and give feedback!

In May we will cover the following topics:

May 8 - Citizen Lobbying Preparation for Californians!

May 15 - Honing your Presentation Content

May 22 - Developing your Core Story and Hooks

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!

  • XPRIZE “Carbon Removal Getting to Gigatonne Report” The second This report is an analysis of the top 100 XPRIZE Carbon Removal teams, using real data from their February 2024 submissions to the Finals of the competition.

  • 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.