Join us on this episode of the Carbon Exposure Project as we delve into the importance of carbon dioxide removals (CDR) with Alvin Lee, Head of APAC from Puro.earth, as he provides the audience with masterclass on the importance of carbon dioxide removals (CDR) in order to deliver Net Zero.
Alvin sheds light on the vision driving Puro.Earth’s mission as the first carbon market standard and registry focussed exclusively on CDR.
In this episode our host, Rene Velasquez explores the concept of carbon as an asset class with Alvin, and they discuss how with any asset class there are varied and diverse offerings. Alvin provides his views and outlines how under this new asset class there are three complimentary subsets; avoidance, compliance and emissions clean up.
Alvin unpacks that although carbon removals represent a small quotient of today’s supply in carbon markets, that they are increasing in terms of both importance and scale. Most interestingly, Alvin describes the need to build up a carbon removals services sector – akin to building a sector the size of the automotive sector during 20th century, but in the space of a few decades – in order to make Net Zero possible.
Timestamps
| 00:00 | Introduction |
| 00:14 | Purpose of CXP |
| 00:45 | Views on Carbon Markets |
| 01:38 | Evolution of Carbon Markets |
| 02:15 | Carbon as an asset class |
| 02:29 | About Puro.earth |
| 03:00 | About Emissions removals |
| 03:20 | Antti’s (CEO of Puro.earth) contribution to carbon markets |
| 04:42 | About Puro.earth team and their focus (carbon removals) |
| 05:56 | About carbon removals market (value, pricing and growth) |
| 09:23 | Limiting factors of achieving scale |
| 11:54 | Examples of green ventures approach |
If you’re interested to learn more about CDR, this is the episode for you! If you’re looking for the full audio episode, please feel to listen on Spotify.