The Carbon Removal Show
by Carbon Suckers Media
The Carbon Removal Show is the world's leading in-depth podcast on carbon removal. We combine hours of research and interviews with the world’s leading experts to explore the latest developments in carbon removal technology and policy in an easy to digest and engaging podcast format. Our narrative driven, story-focused episodes are enjoyed by both experts in the field and climate-curious individuals wanting to learn more about this increasingly widespread topic. The problem of carbon emissions is clear - the solution, however, is not. Our succinct, level-headed and impartial approach to carbon removal gives our listeners the facts and the tools they need to make sense of, and take action on, how we as humanity can sustainably remove carbon from the atmosphere. To find out more, head to https://thecarbonremovalshow.com/
Episodes
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Come Make Season 5 With Us: Join The Coalition!
The Carbon Removal Show Coalition is opening its second round, and we'd love more organisations with us for season five. The Coalition is the group who keep an independent, science-led conversation about carbon removal going. And we think that's important. So, if your organisation works in or…
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S4 #10 | CDR Buyers Deep Dive - Part 3: The Future of Buying (in a post-Microsoft world?)
In the final episode of our CDR Buyers Deep Dive, Tom and Emily ask what needs to change if carbon removal buying is going to move from early adopters to something much bigger. What would make buying easier, less risky, more attractive, and more scalable? And what happens when the market’s…
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S4 #9 | CDR Buyers Deep Dive - Part 2: Ready, Set, Buy!
Get in loser, we’re going shopping. In part two of our buyers deep dive, Tom and Emily move from motivation to mechanics. Because deciding to buy carbon removal is only the beginning. The real challenge is everything that comes next. In this episode: 🏗️ Buying CDR Is Not Exactly A Trip To The...
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S4 #8 | CDR Buyers Deep Dive - Part 1: Why The £$€¥ is Anyone Buying This?
In the first part of our buyers deep dive, Tom and Emily start with a deceptively simple question: why is anyone buying carbon removal at all? In a market with no universal mandate, high prices, and a dash of reputational risk, the real surprise is not that buying is hard. It’s that any company...
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S4 #7 | Public Perceptions Deep Dive - Part 3: Telling Better CDR Stories
In this final episode of our public perceptions mini-series, Tom and Emily ask a deceptively simple question: what would a better conversation about carbon removal actually look like? One that can hold urgency without hype, complexity without alienation, and honesty without infighting. In this...
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S4 #6 | Public Perceptions Deep Dive - Part 2: Myths, Misconceptions and Communication Misfires
In this second instalment of our miniseries on public perceptions of carbon removal, Tom and Emily dig into the roots of scepticism: where the hostility comes from, which fears are justified, and where misinformation takes hold. This episode explores why trust is hard-won - and so critical to get...
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S4 #5 | Public Perceptions Deep Dive - Part 1: What Publics Really Think of CDR
Tom and Emily kick off a brand-new three-part miniseries on how people understand (and misunderstand) carbon removal - and what that means for the future of the sector. From the words we choose to the baggage they carry, from early “sci-fi” scepticism to today’s governance debates, this episode...
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Event Announcement
We are hosting an event! Together with Coalition Member Supercritical and the FLN: GGR Future Leaders Network, we bring you… The Carbon Removal Chat Room: Ask Us Anything Supercritical HQ, London 6pm Wednesday 19th November Sign up here: https://luma.com/0ii0lsis We’ve created this event for...
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S4 #4 | CDR Policy Deep Dive - Part 3: The Road Ahead
In this final instalment of our three-part policy miniseries, Tom and Emily look to the future of carbon removal policy: who’s shaping it, what’s getting in the way, and what else can Emily see in her crystal ball? In this episode: 🏗️ Building the Future Without a Manual: We meet a company...
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S4 #3 | CDR Policy Deep Dive - Part 2: The Landscape Today
In the second of our three-part deep dive, we plunge into the murky, acronym-rich depths of carbon removal policy across the UN, the EU, the US and beyond - and we promise to come up for air, eventually. In this episode: 🧠 Acronyms and Initialisms Aplenty: Consider yourselves warned. This…
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S4 #2 | CDR Policy Deep Dive - Part 1: From Kyoto to Carbon Removal
Welcome to the first in a Carbon Removal Show three-part policy miniseries! We’re diving into the bureaucratic spaghetti of CDR policy - what it is, why we need it, and why pretending it doesn’t exist is no longer an option. It’ll be fun – we promise. In this episode: 📜 Policy 101: What do we…
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S4 #1 | Where are we in the CDR story and where are we going?
Welcome back to The Carbon Removal Show! We’re kicking off Season 4 with a view from the top - checking in on the state of the carbon removal industry here in the dizzying heights of 2025. In this episode: 🌍 Where are we now? Durable CDR purchases hit 8 million tonnes in 2024 (a 78% bump from...
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Exciting news from The Carbon Removal Show
The Carbon Removal Show team are dusting off our mics, and we have some exciting news! The biggest of welcomes and ‘thank you’s to our coalition partners: BeZero, Carbon Engineering, Carbonfuture, Carbon Gap, CarbonX, Klarna, MASH Makes, Milkywire, the Negative Emissions Platform, Opna, Patch,...
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Introducing... Grounded: A Climate Startup Journey
While you’re waiting for more episodes of The Carbon Removal Show, we wanted to introduce you to another project that our very own Tom Previte has been busy on… Grounded: A Climate Startup Journey This is the story of a startup that wants to remove carbon from the atmosphere and help reshape our...
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S3 #5 | How can companies contribute to industry scale?: Gigaton thinking - with MASH Makes
What happens when an individual company bakes industry scale up into their business philosophy? In this episode, Jakob Andersen shares the “gigaton thinking” mindset that drives his company, MASH Makes, in their approach to business and biochar. MASH Makes started as a project at the…
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S3 #4 | The importance of fungibility in carbon markets - with Carbonaires
With scaling up in mind, this episode dives into an innovative concept that could help the industry take big steps forward. Tom and Emily are joined by Jonny Gilson from Carbonaires and Professor Niall Mac Dowell from Imperial College London to discuss Carbonaires’ ideas for the future of the...
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S3 #3 | 2023: Year in review
2023 was a big year for carbon removal! With only 27 years until 2050, Tom and Emily look back on the last 12 months to reflect on the current stage of the industry’s growth commercially, socially and politically. With big thanks to the organisers, speakers and participants of Carbon Unbound…
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S3 #2 | Analogies for scale: what other technologies can teach us about carbon removal
Season 3 continues and the team remains focused on scaling up. The question today: has it been done before? The task ahead is huge and can sometimes feel insurmountable. In order to deliver what scientists say is needed, the carbon removal industry must go from the young seedling emerging market…
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S3 #1 | Getting serious about scale
We are back! Did you miss us? Kicking off Season 3, Tom and Emily are exploring what it will take to grow the carbon removal industry to the scale we need. They speak to various actors in the carbon removal space, from project developers and policy experts to marketplaces and buyers. Their...
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S2 #10 | Ocean-based carbon removal part 2: What's happening along our coastlines?
The world’s coastal areas are some of the most at risk places on earth when it comes to climate change, but could they potentially be some of the most valuable places for creating solutions too? It’s time for part two in our mini-series on Oceans and... it's the Season two finale! As we…
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S2 #9 | Ocean-based carbon removal part 1: What's so special about kelp?
The time has finally come to talk about ocean-based carbon removal! In this episode (the first in our two-part mini-series on Oceans) Tom and Emily will be exploring the role that oceans can play in carbon removal. They'll be focusing on the way kelp is being used as a biomass-based approach to...
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S2 #8 | Aledade's carbon removal story: How can smaller companies do more in this space?
It's not only big names like Microsoft who are addressing their impact on the climate crisis, there are lots of smaller organisations appearing on carbon removal buyer lists too! This week's episode puts a spotlight on Aledade, a US healthcare services organisation with an interesting philosophy...
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S2 #7: How Microsoft offsets emissions
Now we've been through the process of buying our first carbon credits, we wondered how a larger, infinitely more complex operation might do the same. We spoke to Elizabeth Willmott from Microsoft to get to the bottom of what it means to be a big time buyer of carbon credits. We dive into the...
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S2 | #6.5: Taking a break
Having spent the previous six weeks on our travels, bringing you carbon conferencing from near and far, this week we're taking our traditional mid-season break. With six episodes behind us and several more on the way, there's plenty to look forward to. To learn more about The Carbon Removal Show,...
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S2 #6 | Offsetting: how to do it right
All the excitement of recording the previous two episodes in Iceland left us with one puzzling question. How would we practice what we preach and offset the carbon we emitted by flying there? We set our researcher Henry on the case, and got in touch with the show's sponsors, Patch, in order to…
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S2 #5 | Iceland: on the road
Following our trip to the climate conference at Iceland Innovation Week, we wanted to explore. Today we're trying to get to the bottom of whether Iceland is a geological and political anomaly or a real glimpse into a potential brighter future for all of us. Many thanks to our guests in this...
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S2 #4 | Iceland: the world's carbon removal capital?
Tickets? Booked. Microphone? Packed. Passport..? This week we're off to Reykjavik to take part in Iceland Innovation Week's climate conference Ok, bye. The event's name refers to the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change, Ok-jökull and it was a chance for us to check in with some of the...
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S2 #3 | Live in London: Getting removal right for people and planet
It's our final episode from the UK Greenhouse Gas Removal Event in London and our very own Tom Previte was asked to host another panel. This one was called "Getting it right for people and the planet" and was the conference's public facing panel, giving non-experts and newcomers a chance to learn...
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S2 #2 | The state of UK carbon removal
Today we’re at the UK Greenhouse Gas Removal Event, a gathering of researchers, policy makers and businesses, to discuss the state of carbon removal in the UK today. CO2RE, the greenhouse gas removal hub led by Oxford University and the hosts of the event, were kind enough to ask us to host a…
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S2 #1 | Communicating carbon at the Science Museum
We're back! And we've been busy... Today, Tom visits the Science Museum in London to take a look at Our Future Planet, the museum's carbon removal exhibition. As carbon communicators ourselves, we were keen to find out what the Science Museum were doing to educate their guests on our favourite...
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NEWS: What's next for The Carbon Removal Show?
Good news! The Carbon Removal Show will be coming back for another season this summer. We want to make it as interesting, entertaining and educational as possible for all of you so we're asking you to let us know your thoughts about Season 1, Head to restored.cc/feedback to let us know what you...
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S1 #9 | What's next for carbon removal... and how can I help?
Now you've discovered what carbon removal is all about, what are you going to do next? In this finale, we have brought together a mix of carbon removal-related inspiration: An interactive game to help us all understand the road to gigaton-scale carbon removal A reflection on how COP26 left the...
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S1 #8 | Perceptions: how do we think and talk about carbon?
What we do about climate change may be one of the biggest questions of our generation. Everyone should be able to have their say. This means we need to start having conversations in earnest to understand how we really think and feel about carbon removal. But these conversations about carbon…
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S1 #7 | Fundraising and finance: how do we scale up carbon removal?
"It's not going to take a few dozen, or a few hundred, or a couple thousand people working on this. We're going to need many more people working on this." (Marcius Extavour) These days, we talk about carbon removal at the scale of tonnes - hundreds...even thousands of them. Over the coming…
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S1 #6 | Utilisation and marketplaces: how to reimagine carbon
For carbon removal to thrive under capitalism, we need thriving carbon removal businesses. And thriving carbon removal businesses need an income - but who's paying? Can a service like this, operating for the good of humanity, really work in a world that revolves around money? That's the crux of...
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S1 #5.5 | A short break
We're taking a short mid-season break this week but don't worry, we'll be back next week. In this short bonus episode to tide you over, Tom and Emily discuss what we've learned so far and where we'll be going next. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To learn more about The Carbon Removal Show, including...
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S1 #5 | DAC and storage: can we engineer our way out of this?
Measurable, instant, continuous carbon capture and safe, reliable, permanent storage. Sound too good to be true? Actually, this is exactly what engineered solutions like DAC (Direct Air Capture) and geological sequestration claim to bring to our carbon removal toolkit. The former promises...
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S1 #4 | Biochar and BECCS: can we do more with plant power?
At first, the idea of harvesting, harnessing, even burning our beloved biomass may seem counterintuitive, at least from a carbon removal perspective. Why not just leave biomass be? Well, as we've heard so far this season, the carbon cycle is out of kilter. Even with our best efforts of…
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S1 #3 | Soil: carbon sink and saviour?
"We can sequester with regenerative agriculture between 5% of all emissions and 100% of all emissions. That's a big difference" Whenever we used to find ourselves around farmland, we never paid much attention to the soil beneath our feet. Making this episode will make us think twice next time......
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S1 #2 | Trees: should we just plant more?
"The jingle which everyone quotes is the right tree in the right place" (Harriet Rix) At first, the clear need for carbon removal begs the question - isn't that what trees do? And they do - amongst a whole host of other benefits that they bring to our lives (tree-huggers exist for good reason).…
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S1 #1 | The case for carbon removal
"The need is irrefutable. It's scientific fact. We need carbon removal" (Sophie Purdom) If you're reading this, you've probably considered a certain question at some point in your life. It's the same question that puzzles the mind of many others, from activists to artists, businesses to busy...
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Trailer: The Carbon Removal Show
The facts are clear - the planet is heating up because of emissions humans are putting into the atmosphere. Even if we are able to cut out all our carbon emissions as fast as possible, we would still need to remove carbon we've already put in the atmosphere to hit global temperature targets. Join...
About this show
The Carbon Removal Show is the world's leading in-depth podcast on carbon removal.
We combine hours of research and interviews with the world’s leading experts to explore the latest developments in carbon removal technology and policy in an easy to digest and engaging podcast format.
Our narrative driven, story-focused episodes are enjoyed by both experts in the field and climate-curious individuals wanting to learn more about this increasingly widespread topic. The problem of carbon emissions is clear - the solution, however, is not. Our succinct, level-headed and impartial approach to carbon removal gives our listeners the facts and the tools they need to make sense of, and take action on, how we as humanity can sustainably remove carbon from the atmosphere.
To find out more, head to https://thecarbonremovalshow.com/
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