The newsletter of calendar week 49 of 2020 is now available here.
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"But now, human-forced climate change is warming Earth too quickly for it to be controlled by natural silicate weathering, which can take hundreds of thousands of years to work. To have a larger impact, Graham said we’d have to use enhanced weathering to speed up the process." LINK
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"Critics say the project will do little to dent Australia’s greenhouse emissions. But if deployed at scale, gas captured from wastewater can help decarbonise our gas grid and bolster energy supplies. The trial represents the chance to demonstrate an internationally proven technology on Australian soil." LINK
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"While wood pellets are already part of the climate solution, the future holds even more promise. Emerging technology such as carbon capture and storage (CCS) promises to use wood pellets to achieve negative GHG emissions which are mixed with a solvent and then, instead of being released to the atmosphere, are sent through a pipeline to deep underground air pockets where they are permanently stored." LINK
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"Without setting basic principles, there is a risk that projects which claim to be carbon dioxide removal, will actually increase the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. Hence, defining what Credible and Real CDR is will serve setting boundaries the overall if not creating a gold standard for removing co2 from the atmosphere, this especially in order to avoid loopholes in the accounting." LINK
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