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Climate Advocate | Policy @ Carbonfuture | Founder @ CDRjobs | Chair @ DVNE | Ex-Merkel, World Bank, Tech Entrepreneur | UCL-Cambridge-Harvard 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇮🇹

💥🪨 Paving the way for Enhanced Weathering (#EW) in the European Union 🪨💥 On Tuesday, the Enhanced Weathering Alliance (EWA) held its inaugural assembly in Brussels, meeting with policy makers, NGOs, and - crucially - with each other. 🎯 Our objective is clear: establish EW as one of the most viable paths to reach net-zero in Europe (and beyond). How? Primarily by getting the European Commission to prioritise the development of an EW methodology within the Carbon Removal Certification Framework (#CRCF), ideally starting in 2024 and not late 2025. Why? Here's a reminder on just how awesome EW is: 😯 In 2023, EW removed 30,000t of CO2. EWA members alone deployed rock that will sequester 100Kt in 2023 and aim to remove up to 2.5Mt by 2026. 💸 EW has a clear path to $100/t. Currently, prices are inflated given the massive investments into monitoring, reporting, and verification (#MRV). Once we feel comfortable moving to model-based MRV, costs will drop massively. 🚜 EW can replace lime, a well-established process used by farmers to manage pH levels (30Mt/year in the U.S. alone), providing farmers with a potential revenue stream and a much-needed path for agriculture to reach net-zero. 📈 EW’s scaleability is huge, given it builds on the foundations of one of the world’s largest industries: mining, which produces almost 9Gt (!!!) of tailings annually, much of which can be used for EW. 🔒 EW is permanent for tens of thousands of years. 🤝 Intrigued? Get in touch with us today and join the 17 companies that have already teamed up to drive the scale-up of enhanced weathering. 😍 On a personal note, this is a huge moment of pride for me: Carbonfuture has been trying to mobilise the EW community for a long time. A year ago, I teamed up with Adam Wolf (Eion) and Matthew Clarkson, PhD (InPlanet) alongside Antonio Astolfi and Julian Jacobitz (FGS Global) to increase the momentum. Then earlier this year we were finally able to launch Enhanced Weathering Alliance (EWA). 🙏 Thank you to all the members who joined us on Tuesday: Hara Wang Rachel S. Isabella Corpora Charlie Hendry-Smith, Tony Oehm, Jonte Boysen, Silyan Ivanov, Simon Manley, Sam Davies, Eliot Booth, as well as all the EWA members who were with us in spirit. 🔗 Want to find out more about the potential of EW for climate policy? Check out this excellent EW Policy Primer by the Carbon Business Council: https://lnkd.in/dqPdNVX3 🤘 Time to rock! #carbonremoval #enhancedweathering #netzero

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Adam Wolf

Founder & CIO at Eion

2w

I was amazed to join so many peers who are bringing different perspectives on "the scaling story" for EW in Europe. Simon Manley with his experience professionalizing biochar in the UK, Eliot Booth has a killer track record in commercializing life sciences in crop production in France, Silyan Ivanov is a mechanical engineering wizard who is innovating rock dust applications in forests in Bulgaria, Tony Oehm is weaving the tapestry joining farmers and policy makers in Germany, Jonte Boysen is inventing new sensors for monitoring alkalinity in soils , Charlie leveraging a globally operating company to bring systems to scale .... and Sebastian Manhart pulling it together into a cohesive playbook joining industry and civil society. I could go on but in such a young industry there is abundant space for YOU to join and make a difference moving the needle.

Dai Ellis

CEO & Co-Founder at Cascade Climate

2w

Thanks to everyone who’s coming together to spread the word and raise awareness! Adam Wolf & Sebastian Manhart lots of gratitude for your tireless efforts

Sam Davies

CEO & Co-Founder at Flux | Permanent Carbon Removal in Africa

2w

Brilliant work Sebastian - thanks for all your efforts putting this together - very proud to be part of EWA and such a meaningful pathway!

What a pleasure to make this trip to Europe and work with the amazing industry partners in raising awareness of enhanced rock weathering!

Eliot Booth

COO @ Rock Flour Company

2w

Thanks for your all the good work Sebastian. We will keep pushing and working hard.

Simon Manley

Head of Carbon at Undo, specialist in voluntary carbon markets, nature-based solutions, carbon removal, methodologies and standards

2w

Great to bring the EW community together to share experience, opportunities and challenges. We're united in our need to raise awareness and understanding of the CDR potential of this important pathway. Thanks EWA for organising!

Rachel S.

Carbon Removal and Climate Policy | Cascade Climate

2w

Thank you for helping bring the EW community together, Sebastian! So excited to see how far EWA has come and even more excited to see where it can go. 

Tony Oehm

CEO & Co-Founder ZeroEx

2w

Thank you Sebastian Manhart and Adam Wolf for putting us all together in this amazing group and enabling us to speak with a unified voice, this is just what the industry needs! Was a pleasure to join you all in Brussels and support bringing this sector the recognition it deserves

Felix Harteneck

Founder & CEO at InPlanet | Forbes 30under30 | Serial Tech Entrepreneur | Carbon Removal

2w

 So great to see that we are paving the way together 🪨 🌱

Moving EW forward, together 🚀 It's amazing to be part of this. Living a historical moment, for sure.

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