Today, I’m excited to launch Frontier—an advance market commitment (AMC) that will buy $925M+ of permanent carbon removal by 2030. Build and we will buy: frontierclimate.com. 🛠️
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Head of Climate . I also lead Frontier, an advance market commitment for carbon removal (frontierclimate.com).
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Chart from & team makes it clear we can't solely rely on conventional land-based removals. To stay within warming targets, we must develop new carbon removal approaches and get them to massive scale, very quickly.
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Today we publish the 1st edition of the "State of Carbon Dioxide Removal" report, a global assessment of the current #StateofCDR, and the gap we need to close to achieve the Paris temperature goal.
Full report
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"We need somewhere to put the carbon." Important piece from on the need to swiftly license Class VI wells if we want any shot at unlocking the carbon removal potential of the IRA.
slowboring.com/p/america-need
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Midjourney or irl buildings on a moody LA day?
(Relatedly, the William Kentridge exhibit at the Broad is fantastic if you have a chance to see it)
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In partnership with , Zendesk joins $1B initiative to commit to accelerating permanent carbon removal.
⛅️ Learn more: zdsk.co/carbonremoval
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This partnership is an awesome milestone for Watershed, our customers, and the planet. Enormous thanks to , , , , and the Frontier team, led by the inimitable . Together we’re paving the way for permanent removal to reach global scale.
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We’re partnering with Frontier to bring climate-critical permanent carbon removal to companies of all sizes and sectors.
@Boomaero, @Canva, @SKIMS, and @Zendesk are raising the bar for climate leadership as the first Watershed customers to participate.
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We’ve teamed up with to make it easy for their customers to buy permanent carbon removal through Frontier. 🚀
Big thank you to , and the Watershed team for their partnership in growing the market for carbon removal!
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We’re partnering with Frontier to bring climate-critical permanent carbon removal to companies of all sizes and sectors.
@Boomaero, @Canva, @SKIMS, and @Zendesk are raising the bar for climate leadership as the first Watershed customers to participate.
watershed.com/blog/watershed
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It’s extremely encouraging that arguments in favor of energy abundance — and careful technical analyses of how we might get there — are getting real airtime in the mainstream. Great piece by today.
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At we're looking for Founders in Residence in:
🐮 💨 Methane Abatement
🧬 🌱 Biotech CDR
🦠 ⚙️ Bioproduction
🎛 💨 Direct Air Capture
🌊 🪨 Geochemical CDR
🔍 👀 And more!
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A look back at 2022 with my favorite innovation economics papers of the year (that I first encountered this year). Writing this made me excited for the year to come! Here we gooooo...
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this is great thank you so much!
and I think this really is the #1 takeaway I would highlight for people, that while we reflexively assume that "pretentiousness" is a sign that you are being false to yourself, it is often a sign that you are on your way to your (new) "true self"
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I’m a long-time fan of 's essays, but only just read her 2018 book: "Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming." I jotted down a few of the ideas that will stick with me:
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got a good feeling about 2023
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it's that time of year when you download all the books you've wanted to read all year en masse and completely ignore the fact that you're only out for a week...
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Come work with us ( and ) we're looking for people to work with us on technology assessment of mine waste carbonation, electrochemical based geochemical CDR, and ocean alkalinity enhancement
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It's easy to be skeptical that countries are taking little action on climate change.
This isn't true.
Looking at the shift in our trajectory in just a few years tells a different story.
I looked back at the past 6 years of projections 👇
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If you know someone who works on vaccines, or a microbiologist looking for a new challenge, here's a list of resources to get up to speed on strep A: savac.ivi.int/documents
The pipeline is thin, but infections lead to perhaps 500,000 deaths/year in low-& middle-income countries
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7 children have died in the last 3 months in the UK, due to Group A Strep.
Here are 11 key facts you need to know about Strep + Scarlet fever:
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We're finishing the year with a two-part Climate mini-series.
Today, talks to about Carbon Removal.
- Why we need carbon removal
- How the tech works
- How to kickstart the market
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🙌Big news on carbon removal in FY23 omni - New pilot CDR procurement direction to DOE using existing funding streams + $140M for DOE CDR RD&D shared across FECM, EERE, and Office of Science
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If you’re a clear communicator, can be creative about applying economic principles, ready to engage in informed guesswork and curious about the major challenges humanity faces, come join us! Apply here uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External
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Operation Warp Speed and the Pneumococcal Vaccine demonstrated the enormous potential of market shaping instruments. is leading this for carbon removal @ frontierclimate.com nber.org/digest/apr20/p
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The economists who invented AMCs are starting an accelerator to apply market shaping mechanisms to climate & pandemic preparedness.
We were very lucky to work with many of them on Frontier. They're hiring for several policy roles. Keep an eye out for accelerator apps soon!
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Thrilled to announce we’re launching a new Market Shaping Accelerator @UChicago led by @rglenner, Michael Kremer, and Christopher Snyder (@dartmouth). Also with @center4risc, @UChiEnergy, @BeckerFriedman and others...
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Love this example of quasi-pathological tinkering-to-perfection. From 2012 profile of Seinfeld.
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Earlier this year we worked with to launch an interactive verification tool for permanent CDR pathways. carbonplan.org/research/cdr-v
Today we are updating the Enhanced Weathering pathway based on extensive feedback from the community:
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Is there any credible science on recurring dreams? Why we have them, what's going on in the brain when we do, etc.? Would love to get to the bottom of this one...
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Tomorrow! Join Progress Studies & Effective Altruism SF to celebrate people advancing human progress with guest speakers and !. Dolores Park behind the Hellen Diller playground at 2pm.
Meetup meetup.com/san-francisco-
Facebook facebook.com/events/3366402
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I promise you will have a better day if you kick it off by reading about fusion ignition, renewable progress, carbon removal, biotech, weight loss drugs, & AI than by spending another 15 mins doomscrolling Elon takes.
+ a Q&A w 's
notboring.co/p/weekly-dose-
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Free climate tech ideas 👇
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Excited to have partnered with @gustaf in writing @ycombinator’s just launched Climate Tech Request for Startups. And thank you to @billclerico, @MichaelWWara, @rewiringamerica's Ari Matusiak, and many others for the input and feedback! twitter.com/ycombinator/st…
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Carbon removal shifted into high gear this year.
Frontier received twice as many applications as it did during its first cycle six months ago, with projects spanning more than ten different pathways. 📈
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Frontier is buying more carbon removal!
We’ve whittled 150+ applications down to seven companies burying, injecting, and mineralizing CO₂ from the air and ocean.
@stripe and @shopify are committing $11M and will be the first customers for five of them.
frontierclimate.com/writing/fall-2
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"Like a great book, a great friend has inexhaustible depth." - Leon Kass
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In the final part of the a16z Podcast's series on carbon removal, take a deep dive into three projects of varying scale, business models, and technical challenges:
Biomass pyrolysis with
An electrochemical process with Travertine
Mineralization with
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If you’re itching to put your skills to work in service of carbon removal, we’ve built a database of gnarly challenges that need to be tackled urgently and require a wide range of talents from engineering to law, data science, and policy.
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The founders of are turning agricultural waste into a bio-oil that traps CO₂ that otherwise would have been released into the atmosphere, and buries it underground forever.
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