Episode 3 - Greg Nemet

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In this episode of CDR Procurement Guide, Eli spoke with Greg Nemet Professor and Director of La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Greg specializes in energy systems, negative emissions, and climate policy. He is a leading voice in the development of CDR at the scale required and is a lead author of the State of CDR Report, first published in 2023, with a second edition recently published. He has been one of the leading scientific thought leaders on carbon removal as a climate change mitigation tool.

Highlights from this episode:

• The importance of objective evidence based information about carbon removal, what it is and what it isn’t and the diverse and increasing range of solutions
• The need for society to engage with a broad portfolio of solutions at this stage of development to give the greatest chance of success.
• Why climate science so challenging to communicate and what will help build a strong social license for CDR
• The goal of The State of CDR report and data portal to put the information needed in the hands of those that need it to facilitate the rapid development of CDR
• The 4 gigaton CDR gap and how to fill it
• How new technologies develop and move through the formative proving stage through deployment and adoption
• The need to get to a global standard equivalent to what we have for financial accounting (GAAP), converging from the 102 standards and protocols today
• The important features of effective government policy
• The value of learning by doing to gain experience and start to establish market practices
• The challenge: lessons from the industrial scale up of ammonia synthesis
• The need to scale up capacity now across the range of CDR solutions in order to meet 2050 goals. The role of absorptive capacity.

-Relevant Links-

• Greg Nemet’s LinkedIn
• Greg Nemet’s website
• The State of CDR Report
• CDR infogrphaphic