The Great Unwind

Foundations for a Healthy ERW Market Cycle

Creating a virtuous cycle as enhanced rock weathering becomes one of the fastest-scaling durable CDR pathways

Jan 3, 2024 • 

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December 2023

Introducing Cascade Climate

It’s been several months since John and I last wrote a post, and we wanted to give our readers an update as to why we never finished the series we…

Dec 14, 2023 • 

Dai Ellis

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March 2023

Quantification Uncertainty and Discounting

Reflections on the biggest near-term risk to the maturation and flourishing of open-system pathways

Mar 30, 2023 • 

Dai Ellis

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Market shaping for climate tech

Sharing a new published piece outlining what we're missing in the way the world is pursuing market shaping for decarbonization

Mar 23, 2023 • 

Dai Ellis

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Leveling the Playing Field for Open-System Carbon Removal

Spotlighting the growing risks that we optimize for the short run at the expense of long-run scalability

Mar 21, 2023 • 

Dai Ellis

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January 2023

Who's got next?

Waves of key actors—with philanthropy and heavy industry on deck—in the journey toward gigaton-scale carbon removal

Jan 31, 2023 • 

Dai Ellis

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November 2022

Integrity at the core [CORRECTED]

Market shaping as the path to CDR verification arrangements and avoiding a bad-movie sequel to today's offset market quagmire

Nov 10, 2022 • 

Dai Ellis

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Integrity at the core

Market shaping as the path to CDR verification arrangements and avoiding a bad-movie sequel to today's offset market quagmire

Nov 10, 2022 • 

Dai Ellis

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September 2022

A trillion-dollar carbon removal market?

Musings on a recent debate and whether we're crazy to believe the world would ever pay that much for carbon removal

Sep 15, 2022 • 

Dai Ellis

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August 2022

Expanding the market-shaping toolkit

Using volume guarantees to de-risk demand and accelerate the path to the market of the future

Aug 11, 2022 • 

Dai Ellis

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June 2022

Toward a vision for the CDR market

How building the beginnings of a shared market vision helps crystallize a market shaping agenda for Frontier and its allies

Jun 22, 2022 • 

Dai Ellis

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May 2022

Frontier as CDR market steward

Using massive leverage and unique positioning to build and shape the market we so desperately need

May 31, 2022 • 

Dai Ellis

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