Five Years, One Field, and a Question That Won't Sit Still: What We Learned at the First CDI Symposium

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Near the end of the first-ever Carbon Drawdown Initiative (CDI) Symposium, the man who paid for the whole thing stood up to thank everyone and said something you almost never hear from a project’s funder:

“It’s now five years ago since we literally spread the first ton of rock on the field… and I still cannot tell if we’ve done CDR since then. That drives me nuts. And it’s just one field.”

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Five Years, One Field, and a Question That Won't Sit Still: What We Learned at the First CDI Symposium