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Top 10 Misconceptions About Carbon Removals, Debunked

Have you heard of these misconceptions about carbon removals? Come read more to learn what's fact or fiction.

Putting the “Net” in Net Zero: Aviation

Catch the panel from Farnborough International Airshow 2024.

Commentary: Carbon Removals Are An Essential Part Of Decarbonizing Aviation

Aviation has one of the most challenging pathways to net-zero emissions: and carbon removals are an essential part of that story.

Purchasing Strategies Emerging in Carbon Removals

To neutralise emissions that cannot be abated, carbon removal is a critical component of corporate sustainability strategies. This blog explores the leading purchasing strategies that can help sustainability teams like yours build the business case for carbon removals. This can support you in making meaningful progress towards your organisation’s net zero goal while maximising impact and minimising risk.

How To Build and Execute a Net Zero Strategy With Carbon Removals

Discover how to build a successful net zero strategy with carbon removals.

Unlocking the Business Case for Carbon Removals

Check out insights from our recent webinar on how to unlock the business case for carbon removals.

The Revised Oxford Offsetting Principles Explainer

The Oxford Offsetting Principles (OOP) aim to guide and incentivise good corporate climate investment in offsetting. These ‌widely-used principles offer offsetting recommendations from world-leading climate scientists, and the long-awaited update, launched this week, shows a path for companies get to net zero emissions in time.

CUR8’s 10 Takeaways From COP28

CUR8 is a market maker for carbon removals, acting on the science that tells us we need billions of tonnes of removals to stay below 1.5 degrees. While the final commitments that emerged from COP28 left much to be desired, it was hugely encouraging to see carbon removals take a much more visible role in the discussions, both inside the official negotiating rooms and outside them too. We worked alongside our sister NGO Rethinking Removals and a coalition of other NGOs to bring up vital issues such as enabling policies, access to finance, risk management and collaboration between the Global North and Global South. In 2024 we’ll work hard to translate these discussions into action.

EU Carbon Removal Certification Framework

This week, the passing of the Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF) within European Parliament represented a landmark moment for the carbon removals sector. It is the clearest signal of intent yet in Europe to promote high quality carbon removal as an essential climate mitigation strategy to meet net zero targets by 2050 (as well as those expected to be set by the EU next year to 2040).

Carbon Credits: Offsets Vs Removals

Carbon Credits: Offsets vs Removals The carbon markets have been in the news for all the wrong reasons, with doubts over their effectiveness and widespread confusion. That could be a disaster, given that both the voluntary and compliance markets are critical for cooling the climate crisis. A major source of this confusion has been overcomplicated and misleading terminology. So in this essential guide, we will explain the types of carbon credits and how they are used – and crucially why we need to stop talking about carbon offsets, and start talking about carbon removals.

Why We Need A Carbon Removals Market Now

Why we need a carbon removals market now To stand much chance of holding global warming below 1.5°C, cutting emissions is vital… but it simply won’t be enough anymore. We will also need to actively remove carbon dioxide from the air. Many technologies can already do this, but most of them are nascent. Scaling them up in time to save the planet will need serious investment, and starting now.

New York Climate Week 2023 Wrapped

New York Climate Week 2023 is now in the history books, and what a week it was! The momentum is clear and infectious. While there is still a long road ahead of us to get the carbon removals market to gigaton scale, it was energising to see removals play an even more central role in tackling the climate crisis. Here are our 10 key takeaways from the fantastic discussions and events throughout the week.

CUR8 Raises £5.3 Million To Accelerate The Carbon Removals Industry

Founded by serial fintech entrepreneur Marta Krupinska, renowned climate scientist Dr Gabrielle Walker and net-zero expert Mark Stevenson, CUR8 is the market-maker for carbon removals. Removing carbon emissions from the atmosphere is critical to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees and reach net zero by 2050 to prevent a climate disaster. Major industries need to invest in carbon removal to offset their emissions but there is a lack of trust and verification in the burgeoning industry. CUR8 carries out supplier due diligence and monitoring to provide high-quality carbon removals portfolios that buyers can trust, with customers including The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant and British Summer Time concert series.

“A Plan, And Not Quite Enough Time….”

Right now the auditing giants (Ernst & Young, PWC, Deloitte and KPMG) are rubbing their hands together with glee. Already servicing between 80-90% of the financial audits required by the world’s publicly quoted companies they are now tooling themselves up to satisfy a whole new audit and compliance market thundering down the tracks. What’s better than one massive compliance market? Two, of course.

Mixed, Matched And Curated – How Portfolios Help Your (And The Planet’s) Race To Net Zero

There are lots of ways to draw down carbon from the atmosphere (and more coming in the years ahead). When you buy a removal from CUR8 we blend them together in a portfolio. Why? There are three main reasons.

We Will Rock You – Could Carbon Removals Be The Fastest Growing Industry In History?

Here’s a stark fact which is either incredibly depressing or insanely motivating depending on the way you look at it: if we want to meet net zero by 2050 we’ll need to remove and store 5-16 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year. That’s on top of fast and deep cuts in emissions.

Carbon Credits Should Be One Of Our Best Tools To Fight Climate Change —If We Use Them Right

The market for carbon offsets is booming, and a series of efforts have sprung up to define rules and standards that will tackle their often dodgy reputation. Global agreement on those rules is crucial to achieving a net-zero future and essential to helping avert the looming climate catastrophe.