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The Carbon Removal Scoop
Get the Scoop on the latest carbon removal developments across policy, markets, and tech with Eve Tamme and Sebastian Manhart.
Punchy, unfiltered, to the point discussions on all the hottest developments in the sector.
Listen in to go several levels deeper and beyond the analysis that you won't find anywhere else. Enjoy.
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Episodes
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107 | Mining's Untapped Removals Opportunity - with Cara Maesano
In this episode of The Carbon Removal Scoop, Eve Tamme and Sebastian Manhart sit down with Cara Maesano, lead author of RMI's new report Mining and Carbon…
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106 | SHOWDOWN: Europe’s CDR Strategy: BioCCS vs Tech Neutral - with Kaja Voss and Alastair Collier
In this episode of The Carbon Removal Scoop, Eve Tamme moderates our fifth SHOWDOWN debate, live on stage at Carbon Unbound Europe in London. The motion takes…
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105 | What Next for the ISO Net Zero Standard - with Delia Meth-Cohn
In this episode of The Carbon Removal Scoop, Eve Tamme sits down with Delia Meth-Cohn, Co-founder of Rethinking Removals, to make sense of what happened to ISO…
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104 | From Equity to Debt: How CDR Gets Bankable - with Julia Reichelstein and Tyler Manchester
In this episode of The Carbon Removal Scoop, Sebastian Manhart sits down with Julia Reichelstein, co-founder and CEO of Vaulted Deep, and Tyler Manchester…
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103 | Levelling up CDR Advocacy: Carbon Gap's Policy Levers Library - with Alexander Mäkelä
In this episode of The Carbon Removal Scoop, Eve Tamme and Sebastian Manhart sit down with Alexander Mäkelä, Chief Policy Officer at Carbon Gap, to dig into…
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102 | Inside the UK’s Answer to the GGR Review - with James Screen
In this episode of The Carbon Removal Scoop, Eve Tamme and Sebastian Manhart sit down with James Screen, who until recently led the team designing carbon…
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101 | Quarterly catch up: ETS Review, Buyers Coalition, and current VCM Dynamics
In this quarterly catch up, Eve Tamme and Sebastian Manhart swap the guest chair for each other and look back at three busy months in carbon removal policy…
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100 | The Minister Betting Big on Biochar - with Minister Chi-ming Peng
In this episode of The Carbon Removal Scoop, Eve Tamme and Sebastian Manhart sit down with Chi-ming Peng, Taiwan's Minister of Environment, shortly after he…
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99 | MEP Emma Wiesner: Let EU ETS Operators buy CDR Directly
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Eve Tamme and Sebastian Manhart sit down with Emma Wiesner, Renew Europe's shadow rapporteur on the EU ETS review, as…
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98 | Live From Brussels: The Carbon Removal Policy Summit - with Rodica Avornic
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Eve Tamme and Sebastian Manhart record live from Brussels across two days at Carbon Gap's first Carbon Removal Policy…
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97 | MEP Peter Liese: the Rapporteur's take on removals in the EU ETS
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Eve Tamme and Sebastian Manhart sit down with Dr. Peter Liese, the German MEP steering Parliament's response to the…
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96 | What is really happening to DAC Hubs? - with Grant Faber
Grant Faber, Head of Standards at Absolute Climate, joins Eve Tamme and Sebastian Manhart. Grant previously served as Director Capture Hubs program manager at…
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95 | What Does CDR Actually Cost in Europe? - with Hansjörg Lerchenmüller and Eadbhard Pernot
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Eve Tamme and Sebastian Manhart dig into the cost assumptions behind the European Commission's EU Emissions Trading…
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94 | Article 6 Letters of Authorisation Explained - with Lisa DeMarco
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Eve Tamme and Sebastian Manhart sit down with Lisa DeMarco to unpack the legal machinery behind Article 6 of the Paris…
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93 | Is Enhanced Rock Weathering Ready for Scale? - with Dirk Paessler and Mel Murphy
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Sebastian Manhart and Eve Tamme are joined by Mel Murphy, an independent geochemistry consultant, and Dirk Paessler…
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92 | Inside the Framework for Residual Emissions - with Injy Johnstone
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Eve Tamme and Sebastian Manhart sit down with Dr. Injy Johnstone, Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Net Zero…
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91 | The EU ETS Proposal: the Scoop’s Debrief
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Eve Tamme and Sebastian Manhart follow up on their interview with Mette Quinn to hash out their own read of Brussels'…
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90 | Removals Enter the EU ETS: What Brussels Actually Proposes - with Mette Quinn
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Eve Tamme and Sebastian Manhart sit down with Mette Quinn, Deputy Director for Carbon Markets and Clean Mobility at…
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89 | Inside the Fight to Save $600 Million for DAC - with Vikrum Aiyer
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Sebastian Manhart sits down solo with Vikrum Aiyer, Head of Global Energy and Policy and Climate Policy and External…
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88 | Buffer Pools Aren't Enough: The Case for Contracted Durability - with Luke Pritchard
In this episode, Eve Tamme digs into contracted durability with Luke Pritchard, Director at Beyond Alliance, a coalition of major carbon dioxide removal…
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87 | Getting CDR Right in the EU ETS: What's at Stake - with Francesca Battersby and Louis Uzor
In this episode, Eve Tamme sits down with Carbon Gap’s ETS experts, Francesca Battesby and Louis Uzor ahead of the European Commission’s ETS proposal, expected…
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86 | Quarterly Catch Up: National CDR Targets, ETS Integration, and Who Pays for Removals
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Sebastian Manhart and Eve Tamme sit down for their second quarterly, unscripted catch-up of the year, working through…
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85 | ISO, SBTi, and the LCAW Verdict on Corporate Net Zero - with Kaya Axelsson
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Sebastian Manhart and Eve Tamme are joined by Kaya Axelsson, Research and Policy Fellow at Oxford Net Zero, just days…
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84 | Inside the ISO Net Zero Standard - with Delia Meth-Cohn
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Sebastian Manhart sits down with Delia Meth-Cohn, Co-founder of Rethinking Removals, who has been part of the ISO Net…
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83 | Green-Hushing, Safe Harbors, and Who Actually Owns a Carbon Credit - with Dr Ruth Dagan
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Sebastian Manhart sits down with Dr. Ruth Dagan, Senior Partner and Head of Environment & Climate Change at Herzog…
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82 | SBTi 2.0 Net Zero Standard: What It Actually Means for CDR - with Robert Höglund
Guest: Robert Höglund, writer of Marginal Carbon, climate strategist at Milkywire, and co-founder of CDI FYI The Science Based Targets initiative has released…
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81 | Taking Stock: The State of CDR - Fireside Chat with Oliver Geden
Recorded live at the Negative Emissions Platform (NEP) event in June 2026, this fireside chat brings Sebastian Manhart together with Oliver Geden for a…
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80 | The State of CDR 2026: The CDR Policy Scoop Verdict
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Sebastian Manhart and Eve Tamme dig into the highly anticipated third edition of the State of CDR Report. At 300 pages…
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79 | LULUCF, Carbon Farming and the CRCF Review - with Asger Strange Olesen
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Sebastian Manhart and Eve Tamme welcome back Asger Strange Olesen, Global Head of Climate and Biodiversity at the…
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78 | Live from Brussels: Does the EU Buyers' Club Have What it Takes?
Recorded on the ground at the first annual CRCF Days in Brussels, Eve Tamme and Sebastian Manhart spent the day inside Day One on permanent carbon removals and…
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77 | CBAM and International Credits: What’s Just Changed? - with Dan Maleski
The European Commission just published a draft implementing act on CBAM and it quietly opens the door to international carbon credits counting toward carbon…
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76 | The World's First International CDR Transfers: Lessons from the Inside - with Veronika Elgart and Ane Gjengedal
Recorded on May 6th at Zurich's first-ever Climate Week, this is a different kind of episode. Sebastian Manhart and Eve Tamme spent the day inside a series of…
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75 | Insurance, Buffers, and the Permanence Trust - with Natalia Dorfman
Who should hold permanence liability, for how long, and how? In this episode of the CDR Policy Scoop, Eve and Sebastian speak with Natalia Dorfman has spent…
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74 | DIGGING DEEP with Gabrielle Walker: A Life in Climate
This is a different kind of episode. Gabrielle Walker. You probably know her as a scientist, author, science communicator, co-founder of CUR8 and Rethinking…
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73 | SHOWDOWN: Corresponding Adjustments: Necessary or Overkill?
CDR Policy Scoop is back with our next SHOWDOWN, this time on one of the hottest fault lines in carbon markets: should voluntary offsetting require…
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72 | A Government AMC for CDR - with Noah Deich
Noah Deich is back. When he last joined the show in February 2025, the US DOE had just gutted its CDR programmes. This time, he returns to debrief on a very…
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71 | Australia's CDR Roadmap - with Andrew Lenton
In this episode, co-hosts Sebastian Manhart and Eve Tamme are joined by Dr Andrew Lenton, Director of CSIRO's CarbonLock Future Science Platform, to discuss…
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70 | Quarterly catch up: CBAM, ETS, and AI
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, co-hosts Sebastian Manhart and Eve Tamme sit down for their unscripted quarterly catch-up to discuss what's top of…
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69 | Frontier: The Private Bet on the Public Good - with Hannah Bebbington Valori
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Sebastian Manhart and Eve Tamme are joined by Hannah Bebbington Valori, Head of Deployment at Frontier, the advanced…
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68 | Do long-term strategies deliver credible CDR pathways? - with Harry Smith
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Sebastian Manhart and Eve Tamme are joined by Harry Smith, Principal Consultant at Aether and former Leverhulme…
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67 | Biochar's Washington Playbook - with Maureen Walsh
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Sebastian Manhart and Eve Tamme are joined by Maureen Walsh, Executive Director of the US Biochar Coalition (USBC), to…
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66 | From Air to Sea: the Canadian Senate takes on marine CDR - with Senator Colin Deacon
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Eve Tamme is joined by Canadian Senator Colin Deacon from Nova Scotia. Senator Deacon is a former entrepreneur, who…
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65 | How CDR Can Survive Trump? - with Jennifer Wilcox
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Sebastian Manhart and Eve Tamme are joined by Jennifer Wilcox, Presidential Distinguished Professor at the University…
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64 | Rethinking Corporate Net Zero - with Robert Höglund
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Sebastian Manhart and Eve Tamme are joined by Robert Höglund, Manager of the Milkywire Climate Transformation Fund and…
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63 | The Pioneer Pushing CDR in California - with Senator Josh Becker
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Sebastian Manhart and Eve Tamme are joined by Josh Becker, California State Senator representing Silicon Valley, to…
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62 | Inside Denmark’s €4bn CCS Tender - with Jannick Buhl
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Sebastian Manhart and Eve Tamme are joined by Jannick Buhl, Head of CCUS, CDR and Biomass at the Danish District…
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61 | DEEP DIVE: Can Germany live up to its true CDR potential?
Germany is emerging as one of Europe’s most active carbon removal markets - with new public funding, a growing startup ecosystem, and heavy industry exploring…
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60 | Are Article 6 Credits Going to Count Under CBAM? - with Dan Maleski
How will the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) handle carbon price paid abroad, and what does that mean for carbon removal and international…
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59 | Carbon Markets and CDR: What matters and what’s next? - with Alexia Kelly
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Sebastian Manhart and Eve Tamme sit down for a second time with Alexia Kelly, Managing Director of the Carbon Policy…
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58 | Green Industrial Policy and CDR in the Global South - with Amir Lebdioui
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Sebastian Manhart and Eve Tamme are joined by Amir Lebdioui, Director of the TIDE Centre at the University of Oxford…
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57 | How Switzerland is Pioneering CO2 Infrastructure - with Sophie Wenger
In this episode of The CDR Policy Scoop, Sebastian Manhart and Eve Tamme are joined by Sophie Wenger, Climate Policy Officer at the Federal Office for the…
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56 | Special Episode: Behind the Scenes - with Helen Lundebye
What is The CDR Policy Scoop really about and how did it come to be? In this special episode, the microphones are turned around. Producer Helen Lundebye steps…
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55 | CDR 2026 Policy Outlook
Everyone agrees that the next phase of carbon removal will be shaped by policy, but which decisions will actually matter in 2026? Recorded in mid-December…
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54 | CDR’s Defining Policy Moments of 2025
2025 was a year of real progress for carbon removal, but also one that exposed the limits of existing frameworks. In this end-of-year retrospective, Eve Tamme…
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53 | What Do CDR Buyers Really Think? - with Robert Höglund, Lamé Verre, Chris Minter and Adina Braha-Honciuc
Everyone agrees that carbon removal needs more buyers - but what will actually make that happen? At Carbon Unbound Europe (21–22 October), co-hosts Eve Tamme…
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52 | The EU’s 2040 Climate Target: Credits and Credibility - with Lambert Schneider
The EU is preparing to allow the use of international carbon credits towards its 2040 target, a major policy shift. At the same time, the EU is also…
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51 | The Uncertain Future of the EU’s CDR Buyers’ Club - with Robert Höglund
The European Commission has started fleshing out an EU Buyers’ Club to jump‑start demand for high‑quality CRCF credits in the voluntary market. The first…
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50 | What did COP30 deliver for CDR? - with Chris Neidl
COP30 is behind us with two weeks of intense negotiations, pledges, and a full Action Agenda. But now comes the REAL question: Did any of it *actually* move…
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49 | Can CDR30 help mainstream removals at COP30? - with Chris Sherwood
COP30 is in full swing, and carbon removal is drawing unprecedented attention. For the first time, the Global Carbon Dioxide Removal Initiative (CDR30) has…
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48 | The Net Zero Standards: ISO vs SBTi - with Mai Bui
The SBTi has just published its second draft of the Net-Zero Standard v2 with important developments on carbon removals, and ISO is developing its own Net-Zero…