The Carbon Curve
By Na’im Merchant
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The world needs to remove billions of tons of CO₂ from the atmosphere — and an entirely new industry is emerging to do it. On The Carbon Curve, Na'im Merchant explores the people, policies, and technologies driving carbon removal forward through conversations with the sector's leading voices. From policy wins and market shifts to breakthrough technologies and global perspectives, each episode unpacks what it takes to scale carbon removal to meet the enormous climate challenge. New episodes every two weeks.
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Carbon removal is stuck in low earth orbit. Here's how we get out.
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Seven buyers in a trench coat
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Why carbon removal needs a new story
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Policy wins and hard lessons as carbon removal finds its footing
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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A year of renewal: carbon removal in the climate pullback era
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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How will this newly launched DAC facility hold up to a Canadian winter?
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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The carbon market's original sin
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Philanthropy's role in shaping climate finance
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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CO280 is turning pulp and paper mills into carbon removal factories
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Has Avnos flipped the script on DAC?
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Mati Carbon's $50M leap forward
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Special Episode: Canada's Carbon Edge
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Special Episode by Plan Sea and The Carbon Curve: Insights from the Carbon to Sea 2025 Annual Convening
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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What's in store for carbon removal under America's policy pivot?
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May 29, 2025 |
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We need to stand up for carbon removal in a turbulent 2025 to build on the gains of the past few years
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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A new standard could help restore trust in carbon markets
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Senator Colin Deacon thinks Canada should put forward a bold vision on carbon removal
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Can policy play a catalytic role in advancing MRV?
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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What does leading systems change in carbon removal look like?
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Changing the conversation on carbon removal
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Jim Mann, CEO of UNDO, on scaling enhanced rock weathering
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Special Episode: What does the $25M Frontier offtake agreement mean for CarbonRun?
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Major carbon removal policy developments in Europe
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Noah Deich on the US policies driving carbon removal innovation
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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A new initiative just launched that could upend the approach to carbon removal standards.
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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What does it take to succeed as a DAC company in 2024?
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May 28, 2024 |
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Cascade Climate is working to realize the "good movie version" of enhanced rock weathering
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May 14, 2024 |
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Can Isometric turn the carbon market on its head?
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Why focus on responsible carbon removal deployment?
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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What's on the horizon for Eion and enhanced rock weathering
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Here’s how Deep Sky thinks about scaling carbon removal
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Julio Friedmann and Tim Bushman take stock of carbon removal leading into 2024 and Canada's potential as a global CDR leader
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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A carbon removal New Year's special
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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The future of mining needs to be carbon negative
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Is Kenya the next carbon removal powerhouse?
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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How direct air capture can help decarbonize aviation
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Carbon removal's victory condition
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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How the EU is shaping policies to pursue global leadership in carbon removal
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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How carbon removal is helping make ultra-low carbon concrete a reality
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Digging deep on carbon storage
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Greg Nemet on the State of Carbon Dioxide Removal
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Julio Friedmann, James Mwangi, Ugbaad Kosar, and Marcius Extavour on meeting this critical moment in carbon removal's evolution
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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What a responsible future for ocean carbon removal looks like
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May 11, 2023 |
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Dr. Shuchi Talati on enabling climate policy and governance to keep pace with new technologies and interventions
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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A new accelerator helping build the innovation pipeline and ecosystem to scale carbon removal in Europe
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Ted Christie-Miller from BeZero on assessing the scalability of carbon removal
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Special Episode: My path into the carbon removal field and lessons learned along the way
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Best of 2022: Insights on scaling carbon removal from 7 industry leaders
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Mike Kelland, CEO of Planetary, on the vast potential of ocean-based carbon removal
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Natalia Dorfman, CEO of Kita, on why insurance is key to scaling carbon removal
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Peter Minor from Carbon180 thinks high accountability measurement, reporting, and verification can be carbon removal’s crucial link between trust and scale
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Scaling up geochemical carbon removal? RMI has a map for that. A conversation with Dr. Cara Maesano
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Adrian Corless, CEO of CarbonCapture, on what it's going to take to build a 5 million ton per year direct air capture plant
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Celina Scott-Buechler from Data for Progress shares voter perceptions and community insights on the equitable deployment of carbon removal
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Stacy Kauk, Head of Sustainability at Shopify, on getting in early on carbon removal and the next phase in scaling it up
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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A more precise definition of carbon removal and a more catalytic approach to supporting its growth
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Shashank Samala, CEO of Heirloom, on the formidable challenge of driving down the cost of carbon removal and the ecosystem levers that can help
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Carbon removal policy wins in the Inflation Reduction Act and beyond
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Robert Niven, CEO of CarbonCure, on the potential to turn thousands of concrete plants into carbon removal factories
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Ben Rubin on launching the Carbon Business Council to help the carbon removal industry reach gigaton scale
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Peter Reinhardt, CEO of Charm Industrial, on forging a new path towards building trust in the carbon removal industry
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Dai Ellis on what scaling up HIV medicines can teach us about building a thriving carbon removal market
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Chris Neidl on how OpenAir Collective reimagines the model for climate activism
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Introducing the Carbon Curve Podcast + Jason Hochman on a New Coalition to Scale Up Direct Air Capture
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Jun 30, 2022 |