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Week in CDR — 2026-W39

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Captain Drawdown’s weekly Sunday selection — 12 candidate stories considered, 6-9 picked. Each link carries our 1-2 sentence take so you don’t have to click everything to know what’s there.

Two direct air capture companies made moves this week that say more about where the money is than where the CO2 ends up: one is relocating to Norway, the other is lining up oil producers as customers for enhanced oil recovery. Alongside that, mineralisation showed up in three different registers (a croplands field study, a lab concrete mix, and a cement-waste review), and the nature-based and ocean pathways drew the kind of scrutiny that arrives once a method starts scaling. The thread is that removal is being tested less on chemistry this week than on where it sits in the real economy and on the ground.

Week in CDR — 2026-W37

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Captain Drawdown’s weekly Sunday selection — 9 candidate stories considered, 6-9 picked. Each link carries our 1-2 sentence take so you don’t have to click everything to know what’s there.

The candidate pool this week skews academic, with five research artefacts against two industry items. That makes for a cleaner-than-usual read on where the methodological frontier sits: ocean CDR efficiency, carbon-cycle asymmetries under net-negative pathways, and the discourse layer sitting on top of it all. On the commercial side, Climeworks is the only operator making noise.

Week in CDR — 2026-W35

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Captain Drawdown’s weekly Sunday selection — 8 candidate stories considered, 6-9 picked. Each link carries our 1-2 sentence take so you don’t have to click everything to know what’s there.

The week’s signal is concentrated on enhanced rock weathering, with two peer-reviewed papers pulling in opposite directions on whether ERW can actually deliver at scale, alongside a commercial deal extending ERW credit access. Around that core, offshore CCS gains a new contractor entrant and mineralization-in-concrete gets a fresh LCA scrutiny.

Week in CDR — 2026-W34

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Captain Drawdown’s weekly Sunday selection — 11 candidate stories considered, 6-9 picked. Each link carries our 1-2 sentence take so you don’t have to click everything to know what’s there.

The week’s throughline is credibility infrastructure: German regulators pulling credits from Chinese projects, a long-running CDR newsletter reassessing its own cadence, and researchers modeling what a real CO2 transport backbone would need to look like. Deal flow continued in the background, but the more interesting signal is around what gets counted, trusted, and physically moved.

Week in CDR — 2026-W33

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Captain Drawdown’s weekly Sunday selection — 14 candidate stories considered, 6-9 picked. Each link carries our 1-2 sentence take so you don’t have to click everything to know what’s there.

The through-line this week is a demand-side wobble meeting a conceptual reckoning: Microsoft’s pullback lands at the same time researchers and commentators are picking apart how removals should count against emissions in the first place. Meanwhile, the supply side keeps announcing pilots and offtakes as if nothing had changed.

Week in CDR — 2026-W30

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Captain Drawdown’s weekly Sunday selection — 16 candidate stories considered, 6-9 picked. Each link carries our 1-2 sentence take so you don’t have to click everything to know what’s there.

Two structural stories dominated the week: fresh evidence that natural carbon sinks are getting less reliable exactly when we need them most, and concrete signals about how the CDR market plumbing — pipelines, ETS integration, procurement readiness — will actually get built. Below, the science pieces that should update your baselines, and the market-infrastructure pieces that should update your roadmaps.

Week in CDR — 2026-W29

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Captain Drawdown’s weekly Sunday selection — 15 candidate stories considered, 6-9 picked. Each link carries our 1-2 sentence take so you don’t have to click everything to know what’s there.

The connecting thread this week is accountability — who checks the numbers, and what happens when they don’t hold. Two governments faced scrutiny over how removal money and removal policy actually get executed, two registries and frameworks opened up their accounting logic for inspection, and a stack of new bench science quietly explained why several pathways are slower or messier than the pitch decks suggest. If you only have ten minutes, read the policy pair; if you’re building or buying, the methodology cluster is where the money will move.

Week in CDR — 2026-W28

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Captain Drawdown’s weekly Sunday selection — 15 candidate stories considered, 6-9 picked. Each link carries our 1-2 sentence take so you don’t have to click everything to know what’s there.

The week split cleanly along the industry’s two workstreams: cleaning up how credits are defined and issued, and grinding out the operational evidence for the removal pathways themselves. Verra’s cookstove overhaul and a new Nature framework both attack the classification chaos that keeps burning buyers, while on the deployment side, DAC and BECCS projects in Europe put actual cost and tonnage numbers on the table. Enhanced rock weathering, meanwhile, is quietly assembling the field-data record it will need when scrutiny inevitably shifts its way.

Week in CDR — 2026-W27

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Captain Drawdown’s weekly Sunday selection — 16 candidate stories considered, 6-9 picked. Each link carries our 1-2 sentence take so you don’t have to click everything to know what’s there.

The week’s connecting thread is infrastructure and institutions catching up to the pitch decks: Canada committing real money to a west-coast CO2 pipeline, the Netherlands naming a CRCF supervisor, Germany opening its largest DAC unit, and a fresh arXiv paper reminding us that enhanced weathering timelines depend on soil chemistry the marketing rarely mentions. Meanwhile the buyer base for durable CDR keeps broadening even as the EU ETS review slips — small delay, but the calendar around 2040 targets is tightening.

Week in CDR — 2026-W26

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Captain Drawdown’s weekly Sunday selection — 15 candidate stories considered, 6-9 picked. Each link carries our 1-2 sentence take so you don’t have to click everything to know what’s there.

The week’s signal sits at the intersection of policy plumbing and capital flows: jurisdictions are linking compliance markets while private registries and ocean-CDR vendors raise rounds that bet on those markets actually clearing. Meanwhile, the methodology frontier keeps creeping into stranger biology — fungi-mediated soil carbon credits being the latest test of what measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) can credibly underwrite.

Week in CDR — 2026-W24

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Captain Drawdown’s weekly Sunday selection — 13 candidate stories considered, 6-9 picked. Each link carries our 1-2 sentence take so you don’t have to click everything to know what’s there.

The week’s signal is a widening gap between announced capacity and what’s actually getting built or bought. A 1Mt ARR deal and the largest-ever SAF certificate purchase show corporates still willing to write big checks for the lower-permanence end of the stack, while a new UK DAC consortium and fresh analyses of the EU Buyers’ Club and marine CDR rulebook underline how much policy scaffolding is still missing for the durable end. A German broadsheet hammering the “huge gap” framing rounds out the mood.

Week in CDR — 2026-W23

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Captain Drawdown’s weekly Sunday selection — 13 candidate stories considered, 6-9 picked. Each link carries our 1-2 sentence take so you don’t have to click everything to know what’s there.

The third State of CDR report landed alongside a fresh batch of buyer signals this week, and the contrast is doing most of the analytical work: institutional demand is finally arriving in Asia and from public procurement, while the technology side keeps getting reminded it’s behind schedule. Add a quietly telling headcount snapshot of the entire pure-play industry and a CO2 shipping deal that suggests Northern Lights’ logistics tail is real, and the week reads less like a single story and more like a maturity check across the value chain.

Week in CDR — 2026-W22

Sun, 31 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Captain Drawdown’s weekly Sunday selection — 21 candidate stories considered, 6-9 picked. Each link carries our 1-2 sentence take so you don’t have to click everything to know what’s there.

The week’s signal sits at the intersection of policy retrenchment and methodological maturation: U.S. disclosure rules are being unwound just as Europe and Asia tighten market plumbing, and the science community is sharpening the question of what “permanent” actually buys you. Two large buyer deals also landed, both shaped less by climate ambition than by procurement strategy and portfolio engineering.

Week in CDR — 2026-W21

Sun, 24 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Captain Drawdown’s weekly Sunday selection — 15 candidate stories considered, 6-9 picked. Each link carries our 1-2 sentence take so you don’t have to click everything to know what’s there.

The week’s signal isn’t a single megadeal — it’s the slow consolidation of plumbing. Microsoft re-entered the buyer narrative just as Europe’s Buyers’ Club inched toward operational status and Singapore-plus-World-Bank stood up new Article 6 infrastructure. Meanwhile, a Nature paper put a serious crack in the integrity story underpinning US forest offsets, a reminder that the integrity layer is still load-bearing for everything being built on top.

Week in CDR — 2026-W20

Sun, 17 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Captain Drawdown’s weekly Sunday selection — 20 candidate stories considered, 6-9 picked. Each link carries our 1-2 sentence take so you don’t have to click everything to know what’s there.

The week’s connective tissue is infrastructure quietly being rebuilt around CDR — Frontier and Cascade Climate setting de facto methodology standards, Canada and the EU bolting compliance scaffolding into place, and the AI-data-center narrative hardening from talking point into actual capital allocation logic. Underneath that, a bankruptcy and a bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) warning paper offer useful counterweights to the build-out story.

Week in CDR — 2026-W19

Sun, 10 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Captain Drawdown’s weekly Sunday selection — 18 candidate stories considered, 6-9 picked. Each link carries our 1-2 sentence take so you don’t have to click everything to know what’s there.

The week’s throughline: capital and policy scaffolding for CDR is wobbling at the same time the workforce and demand-side data show how thin the actual production base is. BP is exiting UK CCS, Microsoft is reportedly pulling back, EU banks want carbon credit use curtailed — and meanwhile only ~9,500 people work at pure-play CDR firms globally. The picks below trace where the supports are buckling and where buyers and regulators are still moving.

Week in CDR — 2026-W18

Fri, 01 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Captain Drawdown’s weekly Sunday selection — 48 candidate stories considered, 6-9 picked. Each link carries our 1-2 sentence take so you don’t have to click everything to know what’s there.

The week’s most useful signal came from a five-year scorecard on whether durable CDR has lived up to its 2021 promises — and the answer, predictably, is “uneven.” Around it, mineralization quietly emerged as the pathway with the most institutional momentum (Frontier, Carbon Direct, Arca, a new Quebec hub), while buyer-side activity continued to broaden beyond DAC into biochar and enhanced rock weathering (ERW) portfolios. Meanwhile Europe is sending mixed signals on carbon markets: Germany retiring allowances, IEEFA pushing back on power-sector CCS, and the EU inching toward letting international removals back in.