Hosted by Na’im Merchant · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 64 episodes
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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. carboncurve.substack.com
Na’im Merchant hosts The Carbon Curve, a technology show with 64 episodes published.
Episode 64 is with Dr. Julio Friedmann, Chief Scientist at Carbon Direct In this episode, Na’im speaks with Dr. Julio Friedmann about Carbon Direct’s recent publication “ 5 Pillars of Successful Project Deployment and De
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Episode 63 is with Jack Andreasen Cavanaugh Last week, Heatmap reported that Microsoft — the single largest buyer of durable carbon dioxide removal in the world, accounting for 80–90% of all purchases ever made — is paus
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Episode 62 is with Robert Höglund (Head of Climate Strategy and CDR, Milky Wire; Co-Founder, CDR FYI; CEO, Marginal Carbon). In this episode, host Na’im Merchant catches up with Robert Höglund to discuss his latest think
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Episode 61 is with Giana Amador (Executive Director, Carbon Removal Alliance), Erin Burns (Executive Director, Carbon180), and Peter Minor (CEO, Absolute Climate). In this inaugural Removers Roundtable episode, host Na’i
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Episode 60 is a special ask me anything style episode with Na’im Merchant and Rahima Dosani In this annual “flip the script” episode of The Carbon Curve, Na’im is back in the hot seat as his wife Rahima Dosani interviews
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Episode 59 is with Rory Brown, Co-Founder & CEO at Airhive In this episode, Na’im speaks with Rory about his journey into carbon removal technology with a focus on direct air capture (DAC). Other major themes include the
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Episode 58 is with Marc Roston (Stanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy) and Peter Minor (Absolute Climate) This episode features Marc Roston, senior research scholar at Stanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy, and Pet
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Episode 57 is with Adam Fraser, CEO of Terraset. In this episode, Na’im speaks with Adam Fraser about Terraset, an innovative nonprofit dedicated to removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. They discuss Adam's back
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Episode 56 is with Jonathan Rhone and Natalie Khtikian, co-founders of CO280. In this episode, Na’im speaks with Jonathan and Natalie about their groundbreaking work in large-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR) projects,
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Episode 55 is with Will Kain, Founder & CEO of Avnos In this episode, Na’im speaks with Will Kain about the advancement and commercialization of hybrid direct air capture (HDAC) technology at Avnos. The conversation also
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Episode 54 is with Shantanu Agrawal, Founder and CEO of Mati Carbon and Nikki Batchelor, Executive Director for the $100M Carbon Removal XPRIZE. In this episode, Na’im delves into the groundbreaking achievements in carbo
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Episode 53 is a Special Episode with Ed Whittingham of Advance Climate Solutions and Grégoire Baillargeon, President of BMO Québec and Vice Chair of BMO Capital Markets. In this special live episode of The Carbon Curve,
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Episode 52 is a special joint episode with Plan Sea host Anna Madlener and Lennart Bach, Associate Professor and ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) scientist at the University of Tasmania. In this episode, Na’im joins An
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Episode 51 is with Erin Burns, Executive Director of Carbon180. This episode highlights the critical need for long-term strategies and adaptability in carbon removal policies amidst changing political landscapes. Key tak
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Episode 50 is a special AMA style episode with Na’im Merchant and Rahima Dosani In this special “ask me anything” episode of the Carbon Curve podcast, the tables are turned and Na’im is interviewed by his wife, Rahima Do
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Episode 49 is with Peter Minor (Absolute Climate) and Travis Caddy (Evident) Despite all of the recent progress to integrate carbon removal in carbon markets globally, a significant problem remains. Existing market mecha
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Episode 48 is with Senator Colin Deacon, Senate of Canada Independent Senator Colin Deacon was appointed to represent Nova Scotia in the Senate of Canada in June 2018. Senator Deacon shares his vision on how government p
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Episode 47 is with Giana Amador, Executive Director at Carbon Removal Alliance Monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) is critical to ensuring carbon removal quality, but what is the role of public policy to enable
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Episode 46 is with Josh Albert, Associate Partner with KONU You’ll often hear people say climate is a systems problem, but we in the carbon removal field don’t have a useful framework for driving systems change. In this
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Episode 45 is with Eli Mitchell-Larson, Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Carbon Gap, and Robert Höglund, Co-founder of CDR.fyi and Fund Manager at Milkywire. Today Na’im speaks with Eli and Robert about their latest pub
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