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Carbon Removal Newsletter #2: pick of 10 jobs, hello new subscribers, carbon academics providing some juicy reading!

The Carbon Removal Jobs Newsletter

Author

Adam Feldman
September 25, 2022

The Carbon Removal Jobs Newsletter

Hello! Subscribers have more than doubled since our last issue!

Another note on growth as a quick reminder - we need around 40% YoY growth in removals every year for the next 30-odd years to avoid the worst effects of climate change.

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In this newsletter, you’ll find some of the latest jobs found by Carbon Removal Jobs as well as:

  • News from the industry

  • Opportunities to help others in the CDR community

  • The best resources for job-seekers

  • A highlight of one project/achievement/person pushing the industry forward

Feedback? What works and what doesn’t in the newsletter? Is there anything you’d like to see next time? Any parts you skipped over? Have suggestions for improving any of the content sections? Please reply to this email!

Now onto the good stuff...

10 awesome jobs in CDR 💼

In each edition we will pick out 10 of the 100+ jobs that are added to Carbon Removal Jobs between issues. Find all open roles on the site or catch every new role on our Twitter.

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Helping the Carbon Removal community 🎁

Our mission is catalysing talent into the CDR industry. However, not all talent gaps make sense for formal job adverts on Carbon Removal Jobs. This section is dedicated to shouting out some practical requests for help in this nascent industry. If you have a request you'd like featured here, reach out on Airminers, LinkedIn or Twitter.

Electrolysis Consultant in Calgary

Hello, I work for ZS2 Technologies (https://zs2technologies.com/) and we are interested in hiring an individual in a consulting role to assist with the development of an electrolysis unit. This electrolysis process is one step in our entire CCUS solution. We are HQ in Calgary, Canada but we are able to accommodate consulting help online or in a hybrid capacity. Please reach out to my email ([email protected]) or via slack if you are interested or you know someone who is interested. Thank you so much!

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Staying updated on carbon tech 📰

New major DAC facilities on the horizon

CarbonCapture and Capture6 have both announced separate plans to build DAC plants capable of capturing and storing 5 million tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere. For reference, the DAC leader Climework’s largest plant Orca sucks 4 million tonnes of CO2 from the air. Project Bison, CarbonCapture’s plant seems to be further along with operations starting in 2023 in Wyoming.

Rockstar academic review of the state of NETs gets a sequel

When looking for an overview of the current state of the technologies comprising this industry, many will tell you that one of the first places you should look is Geochemical Negative Emissions Technologies: Part I. Review. Now, those same authors have sought to lay out needs and high-priority initiatives across six key elements required for the responsible and effective deployment of geochemical NETs at Mt and then Gt scale. Must read for operators in the business. This image is a highlight:

Funding announcement for carbon removal API platform, Patch

One of the major constraints on the scale of the industry is the difficulty for climate-conscious companies to start choosing suppliers in the carbon markets (more on this in our CDR hero section). Patch makes this easier for companies with a selection of high-quality, removals-focused, carbon credit suppliers accessible through an enterprise-grade API. The startup raised $55m in September to expand its product and sales team. Get hired by Patch on Carbon Removal Jobs.

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Giving CDR projects their flowers 💐

The budding carbon removal industry is attracting many incredible, bright, and dedicated people. This is a section to highlight a project/person/achievement that deserves praise for helping humanity reach multi-gigatonne scale removals.

Last time we talked about how cdr.fyi is helping to build trust in carbon removal through public registry and data enablement tools to share project deliveries transparently. However, this is just one part of building trust in this nascent ecosystem. Many agree that one of the most difficult long-term challenges to overcome in the industry will be the development of standardised measurements of the removal outputs of projects. For the next wave of commercial purchasers to be confident that their emissions will be 100% offset by a removal project, that project must be able to prove that its technology is resulting in the removals they have promised. However, the diversity and small-scale nature of technology deployment to date has meant no such consistent industry standards have been developed.

(carbon)plan and Frontier are tackling this area with their CDR Verification Framework for suppliers. The framework allows removal buyers to specifically query the reporting and verification standards of a supplier. Any new buyer entering the space can quickly identify key uncertainties for six major CDR pathways. For me, the reason this is so exciting for the space is twofold: Firstly, the framework is another useful tool to help navigate the space for new buyers. Secondly, the framework focuses buyer pressure on suppliers to make clear the risks of their technologies, encouraging more investment into measurement & standards that will benefit the industry as a whole. Frontier are already deploying the framework to inform their own purchasing decisions. Read more about the framework in (carbon)plan’s explainer.

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Top resources for job-seekers

A running list of resources that we have found helpful for finding a career in carbon removal. Reply to this email if you have any further suggestions.

  • Airminers Community - Slack community of founders, scientists, investors working on mining carbon from the air.

  • Airminers Boot-up - Brilliant way to get learned on CDR. Join a cohort and form a reading group that takes you through the basics of the industry.

  • Work on Climate - Slack community dedicated to helping those find a job in climate (plus events and more)

  • Terra.do - App for all things work in climate related. Includes university style courses, networking opportunities and more.

  • Open Air Collective - Crack-team of activists working to advance the CDR industry. The best place to get involved in a carbon removal project today.

  • Carbon Curve substack - High quality, in-depth interviews and takes from the industry. Na’im also regularly shouts out job opportunities he finds.

  • Climatebase - A job board for the climate industry as a whole as well as offering a fellowship and other career-boosting services. Sometimes difficult to find carbon removal jobs.

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