CDReality
Narrative 4: CDR will be done in many…
Carbon removals can be done responsibly, globally, in many different ways and by diverse organisations, in meaningful consultation with the communities most affected by climate change.
Narrative Fundamentals
Carbon removals can be done anywhere, by anyone, but have a global impact.
All carbon removal approaches have their strengths and weaknesses. We need a broad portfolio of options if we want to stay below 1.5C.
Carbon removal projects can help drive climate-positive growth in the Global South and beyond.
The only reason to do carbon removals is to raise climate ambition, so we affirm the need for rigorous, transparent principles, regulations and standards.
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Narrative 1: The science is clear.
We need carbon removals as well as deep emissions reductions and adaptation to tackle global warming.
Narrative Fundamentals
There is no net zero without both carbon reductions and removals....
CDReality: Is CDR Greenwashing?
Opponents of CDR frequently claim that efforts to remove CO2 from the air are just a smokescreen for the fossil fuel industry. Is it true, is CDR greenwashing?
What is true, is that the oil and gas...
CDReality: Our Basic CDR FAQ
Here is some foundational info in form of a basic CDR FAQ document for anyone getting ready to engage with CDR skeptics, opponents & newbies. If you’ve wrapped your head around these basics, y...
News
This Is CDR Available as a Podcast
The OpenAir Collective is proud to announce that our famous This Is CDR series (hosted by Toby Bryce and Megha Raghavan) is now available in podcast form!
Because TiCDR is presented as a video medium, we recommend subscribing via YouTube Music, where you can choose between video and audio-only.
We also publish audio-only episodes to Apple Podcasts and Spotify. New episodes will appear within an hour of being posted in to YouTube.
Narrative 2: Never an Excuse.
Carbon removals are never an excuse to keep fossil fuels in play or delay mitigation. They’re an additional measure that enables us to increase climate ambition.
Narrative Fundamentals
We ca...
OpenAir’s Response to the UNFCCC Supervisory Body’s Information…
May 24, 2023
Supervisory Body
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
By Email: Supervisory-Body@unfccc.int
RE: Input to SB005 2022 Annotated Agenda and Related ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: WASHINGTON STATE PASSES HISTORIC GREENHOUSE…
Olympia, WA - May 23, 2023 – In a pioneering move to clean up climate pollution, Washington State Governor Jay Inslee signed a capital budget that allocates funding for greenhouse gas removal (GGR)....
Collector of the Month
April Collector of the Month: Chris Neidl
This July OpenAir will mark the 6th anniversary as a community. What's it like to look back at where you started from where OAC is right now?
Yeesh. That’s a hard one. In some ways it’s kind of become what I thought it might become. But in other ways, not at all. I think the core hypothesis - that you can form open source, distributed, entirely volunteer-based networks that can fill gaps and do certain things that otherwise wouldn’t get done - has more or less held up. And that’s been incredibly gratifying to watch unfold. The highlight of my weird 20-year journeyman climate career, for sure.
But figuring out how to keep a community like this coherent and functioning, when everyt...
March Collector of the Month: Tank Chen
Tank, you jumped into the OpenAir discord about a year ago? What led you to our carbon removal community?
I had been searching for ways to get involved in carbon removal since I first encountered the...
June Collector of the Month: Henry He
Henry, you jumped into the OpenAir discord about a year ago for the first time? What led you to our carbon removal community?
For most of my life, climate change was THE imminent issue that I could n...
May Collector of the Month: Nacho Vázquez Narváez
Nacho, you have jumped in with both feet into the Spanish CDR group, which formed last summer, participating in research, due diligence and outreach activities. Can you explain what the group is up to...
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