In the second of our three-part deep dive, we plunge into the murky, acronym-rich depths of carbon removal policy across the UN, the EU, the US and beyond – and we promise to come up for air, eventually.

This podcast episode from The Carbon Removal Show first aired on May 14, 2025.

In this episode:

🧠 Acronyms and Initialisms Aplenty: Consider yourselves warned. This episode contains more letters than a game of Scrabble. Don’t worry, it’ll be quacking… sorry, cracking.

🌐 The UN – Going Global: We finally (finally!) get to grips with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement – the big hope for creating a global, compliance-grade carbon market. So, does it deserve its place as the darling of the CDR community?

🧱 The EU – Slow and Steady Wins The Race: We dissect Europe’s tripartite climate framework, learn what the CRCF stands for, and ponder the possibility of removals entering the ETS by 2031 (yes, we said 2031… pace yourselves.)

💵 The US – Land of the Free… Tax Credits: While the EU leans into regulation, the US has chosen financial incentives to scale engineered CDR… for now. (Content advisory: information likely to be outdated within minutes.)

🌏 Zooming Out: Switzerland is quietly blazing a trail. Japan is scaling up a national carbon market. India is laying the foundations. There’s a lot going on out there, if you’re willing to look.

🧩 Policy vs Reality: We explore how the right policy for the right place might be the secret to scaling CDR globally – and why no single blueprint might work for everyone.

👥 Featuring:

Guest insights from

– Sebastian Manhart (Carbonfuture)

– Eve Tamme (Climate Principles)

– Elisabeth Harding (Negative Emissions Platform)

– Varsha Ramesh Walsh (Offstream)

– Shilpika Gautam (Opna)

– Sylvain Delerce (Carbon Gap)

– Hosts Emily Swaddle and Tom Previte

– Producer Ben Weaver-Hincks