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Carbon Removal

#42 · May 1, 2025

42. The Future of Carbon Removal: Is the hype gone? Discussion with co-founder of Non-Profit accelerator remove - Marian Krüger

In the latest episode of Sustain Now, we interview Marian Krüger, co-founder of the non-profit accelerator Remove, to tackle one of the most pressing questions in climate tech today: Is the carbon removal hype fading? And if so, why?Marian, who brings a unique background combining entrepreneurial ventures, techno beats, and carbon innovation, doesn’t shy away from difficult truths. He offers a critical, but ultimately hopeful, perspective on the challenges and future of carbon removal (CDR).You

#27 · November 2, 2023

27: Harnessing the Ocean's Might with Rose and Ruben from Sea02

While completing her PHD at the University of Delft in the Netherlands, Rose was inspired by immense potential of electrochemical oceanic carbon capture. Soon after she met Ruben, a serial entrepreneur and a business consultant for several major companies. By combining her academic background in oceanic carbon removal with his expert business experience, along with support from their third co-founder David Vermaas, SeaO2 was formed! Sea02 is an oceanic carbon removal company based in the Netherl

#26 · October 12, 2023

26: BiCRS - Biomass as carbon removal tech with Stephanie Bischof, Managing Director of AirFix

With a background in business and education, Stephanie worked for more than 10 years in finance for large international companies, focusing on performance management. A movie about soil health led her to move into the climate field. Since the spring of 2022, she has led a subsidiary of South Pole in the field of biomass carbon removal and storage with the goal of creating markets for negative emission technologies.Managing Director of Airfix, a business in the newly emerging carbon removal indus

#14 · November 22, 2022

14: Using rocks to capture carbon at big scale! -Interview with Lithos Co-Founder and CEO, Mary Yap

Mary Yap is the co-founder and CEO at Lithos Carbon, a leading company transforming farmland into carbon capture centers.Lithos Carbon's mission is to accelerate mineral weathering — an integral process in the Earth's carbon cycle that naturally captures CO₂ at the gigaton scale. She studied plant biology at The University of Chicago and later obtained a degree in Geology and Planetary Sciences at Yale University, where she conducted award-winning scientific and urban research on the climate cri

#11 · August 8, 2022

11: Winning the 100m USD carbon removal XPrize - Interview with student initiative CircularHorizon

In this episode, I am talking with Stella Harper and Darius Stulz. Darius co-founded the student initiative Circular Horizon with the goal of developing a scalable carbon removal project based on biochar. They are participating in the 100m USD XPrize Challenge by Musk Foundation. To win the grand prize, teams must demonstrate a working solution at a scale of at least 1000 tonnes removed per year; Stella Harper is an ETH Environmental Sciences Student and joined the team later in the communicati