Accurately measuring carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is crucial to responsibly reaching net-negative emissions. Even though there are currently no standardized ways of calculating carbon dioxide removals, governments and private companies have been making voluntary purchases of CDR project credits and using a range of methods for measuring them.
As the call for CDR grows louder and the toolbox of CDR strategies grows larger, it is imperative that regulators, policymakers, and organizations overseeing CDR accurately and consistently measure CDR’s benefits. Policymakers and regulators must ensure that Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) standards hold CDR project leaders accountable and don’t incentivize using CDR in place of directly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In this webinar, experts will discuss the key challenges in creating consistent standards for measuring CDR and the critical role of accounting standards in ensuring carbon removal becomes a climate solution that the climate movement can trust.
Please join us for the fifth installment in our six-part Carbon Dioxide Removal webinar series. This series is co-hosted by California Environmental Voters, The Climate Center, and Project 2030.
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Speakers
Anu Khan founded Carbon Removal Standards Initiative (CRSI) in early 2024 while an Entrepreneur in Residence at Carbon180. CRSI is a new nonprofit initiative focused on bringing rigor and accountability to the Carbon dioxide removal sector through the uniquely powerful mechanism of regulatory standards. She previously led the Science & Innovation team at Carbon180. Before Carbon180, Anu worked in climate philanthropy at Founders Pledge. Her academic background is in electrochemistry and materials science.
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Danny Cullenward is an economist and lawyer focused on the scientific integrity of climate policy. He is the co-author of Making Climate Policy Work (with David G. Victor), a book about the political economy of carbon markets. Dr. Cullenward is a Senior Fellow with the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, a Senior Fellow with the Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal at American University, and the Vice Chair of California’s Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee. He previously held research and teaching appointments at UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Carnegie Institution for Science, and Stanford University. He earned his JD and PhD in Environment and Resources from Stanford University.
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Eli is focused on policy development, with a special interest in demand-side policy. He is passionate about creating a robust market for durable carbon removal and hopes to see a net-negative world in his lifetime. He comes to Carbon Removal Alliance from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, where he led a $115 million carbon removal funding portfolio. His portfolio included the $35 million Carbon Dioxide Removal Purchase Pilot Prize and the $52.5 million Direct Air Capture Pilot Prize. Through the Purchase Pilot Prize, Eli helped design and implement the first government program ever to purchase carbon removal credits directly from the private sector. He has advised states and international governments on their carbon removal purchasing initiatives and sits on various industry advisory groups.
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