The Carbon Removal Show
Episodes
S4 #8 | CDR Buyers Deep Dive - Part 1: Why The £$€¥ is Anyone Buying This?
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ma...
S4 #7 | Public Perceptions Deep Dive - Part 3: Telling Better CDR Stories
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this final episode of our public perceptions mini-series, Tom and Emily ask a deceptively simple question: what would a better conversation about c...
S4 #6 | Public Perceptions Deep Dive - Part 2: Myths, Misconceptions and Communication Misfires
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this second instalment of our miniseries on public perceptions of carbon removal, Tom and Emily dig into the roots of scepticism: where the hostili...
S4 #5 | Public Perceptions Deep Dive - Part 1: What Publics Really Think of CDR
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 fut...
Event Announcement
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are hosting an event! Together with Coalition Member Supercritical and the FLN: GGR Future Leaders Network, we bring you… The Carbon Remova...
S4 #4 | CDR Policy Deep Dive - Part 3: The Road Ahead
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
S4 #3 | CDR Policy Deep Dive - Part 2: The Landscape Today
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 be...
S4 #2 | CDR Policy Deep Dive - Part 1: From Kyoto to Carbon Removal
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
S4 #1 | Where are we in the CDR story and where are we going?
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 indust...
Exciting news from The Carbon Removal Show
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Introducing... Grounded: A Climate Startup Journey
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
S3 #5 | How can companies contribute to industry scale?: Gigaton thinking - with MASH Makes
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when an individual company bakes industry scale up into their business philosophy? In this episode, Jakob Andersen shares the “gigaton ...
S3 #4 | The importance of fungibility in carbon markets - with Carbonaires
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
S3 #3 | 2023: Year in review
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
S3 #2 | Analogies for scale: what other technologies can teach us about carbon removal
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
S3 #1 | Getting serious about scale
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
S2 #10 | Ocean-based carbon removal part 2: What's happening along our coastlines?
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 mo...
S2 #9 | Ocean-based carbon removal part 1: What's so special about kelp?
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 w...
S2 #8 | Aledade's carbon removal story: How can smaller companies do more in this space?
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 car...
S2 #7: How Microsoft offsets emissions
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
S2 | #6.5: Taking a break
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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-sea...
S2 #6 | Offsetting: how to do it right
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 offs...
S2 #5 | Iceland: on the road
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ice...
S2 #4 | Iceland: the world's carbon removal capital?
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tickets? Booked. Microphone? Packed. Passport..? This week we're off to Reykjavik to take part in Iceland Innovation Week's climate conference Ok, by...
S2 #3 | Live in London: Getting removal right for people and planet
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
S2 #2 | The state of UK carbon removal
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
S2 #1 | Communicating carbon at the Science Museum
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ex...
NEWS: What's next for The Carbon Removal Show?
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Good news! The Carbon Removal Show will be coming back for another season this summer. We want to make it as interesting, entertaining and educationa...
S1 #9 | What's next for carbon removal... and how can I help?
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 remov...
S1 #8 | Perceptions: how do we think and talk about carbon?
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
S1 #7 | Fundraising and finance: how do we scale up carbon removal?
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"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 th...
S1 #6 | Utilisation and marketplaces: how to reimagine carbon
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For carbon removal to thrive under capitalism, we need thriving carbon removal businesses. And thriving carbon removal businesses need an income - but...
S1 #5.5 | A short break
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
S1 #5 | DAC and storage: can we engineer our way out of this?
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Measurable, instant, continuous carbon capture and safe, reliable, permanent storage. Sound too good to be true? Actually, this is exactly what engin...
S1 #4 | Biochar and BECCS: can we do more with plant power?
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At first, the idea of harvesting, harnessing, even burning our beloved biomass may seem counterintuitive, at least from a carbon removal perspective. ...
S1 #3 | Soil: carbon sink and saviour?
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"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 f...
S1 #2 | Trees: should we just plant more?
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"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 -...
S1 #1 | The case for carbon removal
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"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 ...
Trailer: The Carbon Removal Show
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ca...