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Absolute Climate @absoluteclimate.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

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Carbon removal is moving beyond early curiosity and into real investment. That was a clear takeaway from #CarbonRemovalDay in Ottawa last week, where we hosted “Setting the Standard,” a breakfast with leaders from industry and government on building national standards for CDR.

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Absolute Climate @absoluteclimate.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Emissions are often not reduced because of market structure, not technical limits. Procurement. Geography. Financing. We’re expanding Absolute Climate’s certification framework to include Environmental Attribute Certificates for low-carbon products.

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Absolute Climate @absoluteclimate.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

A slower year for carbon removal doesn’t mean the industry is stuck.

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Peter Minor @peterminor.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Last chance to give us your feedback on ACS v2.0!

The only solutions are clear definitions and consistent accounting. Otherwise, we are likely to erode the trust needed to bring buyers to the table, and inadvertently introduce a barrier to scale that may never be overcome.

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For buyers, conflating reductions and removals creates confusion about the impact being created, increasing the likelihood that the wrong claim will be made against their emissions. We need to do better.

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When reductions claim to be removals, they're exposed to the same greenwashing risks seen in avoidance and forestry. They also absorb resources from real negative emissions, reducing their ability to scale to the levels needed in the decades to come.

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Most carbon standards today regularly blur the lines between the two. They enable registry-certified projects to claim to be a negative emission while INCREASING the amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere. As a result, both reductions and removals are negatively affected.

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Reductions are essential, and represent the bulk of the impact needed to reach net zero. Our ability to scale carbon removal actually increases as the world achieves deeper decarbonization. The relationship is symbiotic, rather than contentious.

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When emissions reductions and negative emissions are conflated, there are no winners. I wrote an op-ed with @impactalpha.com to explain why 👇

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For us, this work is more than an academic exercise. We want to build the foundation for how truly accountable CDR will scale in the decades to come. But thats only possible with input from the community. So please consider sending us your feedback before the December 26th deadline!

I'm especially proud of all the incredible thought and effort from our Standards Lead Grant Faber, who lead this update process. I don't know anyone else who could make such impactful changes and ship them after only 2 months on the job 😵‍💫

We just pushed a big update to our Absolute Climate Standard! We've doubled-down on the clarity and consistency thats needed for quality certifications. This revision brings us closer to our mission of ensuring that CDR project claims always match real atmospheric benefits.

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Absolute Climate @absoluteclimate.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Big update from the Absolute Climate team!

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New Removed & Proved: @GianaAmador From policy to partnerships, she shares how to create a trusted, scalable carbon removal market, and why standards matter now more than ever. Link to the full blog in the comments.

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Peter Minor @peterminor.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

🇨🇦 Carbon Unbound is returning to the West Coast in January, but this time in beautiful Vancouver! Carbon Unbound excels at bringing the right climate leaders and innovators together to discuss how to move CDR forward. Hope to see you there! 👉 Learn more here: invt.io/1lxb5hmn195

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Peter Minor @peterminor.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Northern Trust is leading the way when it comes to regulated credit issuance. We're excited to be working together to bring independent quality and governance expertise to their registry!

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Peter Minor @peterminor.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Always fun to talk to Benjamin @cleantechnica.bsky.social! He asks such specific and unexpected questions. My favorite: ❓What are the main unsolved questions in CDR? 💡Market imbalances due to poor accounting may inadvertently prevent us from achieving net zero cleantechnica.com/2025/07/30/a...

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Absolute Climate Co-Founder Peter Minor Speaks Carbon Removal - CleanTechnica

You’re a Co-Founder of Absolute Climate. When was the first time you heard about carbon removal? My first real conversation on the topic was in 2014. I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when someone f...

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Rob Watson @kilrwat.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Very excited to join this important effort!

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Peter Minor @peterminor.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Rob now wants to help us have the same level of impact on CDR. He'll be advising us on the development of the Absolute Carbon Standard (ACS), and our approach to deploying it globally.

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Peter Minor @peterminor.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The LEED Green Building Standard is one of the most impactful climate standards ever created: 🌍 Certified over 100K buildings in 180+ countries ⬇️ Reduced 78M tonnes of CO₂ 🏗️ Created buildings that use 25% less energy and 11% less water

Peter Minor @peterminor.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

When designed properly, standards are more than science. They ensure consistency and quality at scale. No one knows how to do this better than Rob Watson (@kilrwat.bsky.social), the founder of the LEED Green Building Standard. Today, he's joining the @absoluteclimate.bsky.social advisory board.

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Peter Minor @peterminor.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Direct link to the DAC module for the impatient: absoluteclimate.notion.site/direct-air-c...

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Direct Air Capture and Storage | Notion

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Peter Minor @peterminor.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The Absolute Carbon Standard is now officially ready for DAC 😤 We've published DAC + storage modules for public consultation. We'd love feedback on any areas where it needs to be improved.

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Peter Minor @peterminor.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Another fantastic post by Na'im Merchant and @carbonremovers.bsky.social My favorite line: "Canada offers something increasingly hard to find: a stable, supportive policy environment for carbon removal innovation” carboncurve.substack.com/p/canada-a-s...

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Canada: a safe haven for carbon removal innovation in an uncertain world

Post-election, Canada is positioned for global leadership in carbon removal technology right when the world needs it most

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If you know Adam, you know he’s not just one of the most technically capable people in CDR, but he also brings his personal integrity into the work he does. He deeply believes that it’s possible to build scalable MRV without compromising on the climate benefits delivered by CDR. Welcome Adam!

Thank you Erin and Giana for contributing your expertise to our missions to bring independent and universal standards to our industry!

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Critically, they also deeply understand the role MRV must play so CDR delivers on climate promises. They’ll be advising the Absolute Climate team on how to support US policymakers, and influencing our strategy to ensure high-accountability MRV embeds into future policy opportunities.

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Erin and Giana built the foundation for CDR policy, and continue to lead the way through their work at @carbon180.bsky.social and @weremovecarbon.bsky.social respectively.

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Peter Minor @peterminor.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Ensuring that accountable standards underpin the CDR industry requires more than science. Policymaking is critical. For this reason, I feel beyond lucky to share that @erinmburns.bsky.social and Giana Amador are joining as inaugural members of the @absoluteclimate.bsky.social advisory board! 🥳

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This is what I'm talking about! CDR has a massive political role to play on ensuring equitable trade between industrial economies. @weremovecarbon.bsky.social continues to show that they have a strong vision for the future of CDR policy in the US. www.carbonremovalalliance.org/policy-work/...

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The newly-introduced Foreign Pollution Fee Act could help grow America’s carbon removal industry

There's been a lot of talk about tariffs lately, but one tariff deserves our attention: a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. It includes carbon removal.

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Peter Minor @peterminor.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Building a scalable and accountable carbon removal industry requires early demand. Learnings from real deployments are the best way to drive down MRV uncertainty and develop new innovations. That's why I'm excited to join the CDR Demand session at Carbon Unbound East Coast, May 20-21 in NYC.

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Peter Minor @peterminor.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Vesta has spent more than a decade developing world-class mCDR MRV capabilities, making them the perfect partners for this milestone. We’re looking forward to showing more about what we’ve built together in the near future.

Peter Minor @peterminor.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

At @absoluteclimate.bsky.social, we apply universal assessment criteria to all projects — meaning we hold an mCDR approach to the same standard as BiCRS or DAC. We can remove uncertainty about whether a mCDR project has been scoped properly, or if the monitoring requirements will hold up over time.

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Peter Minor @peterminor.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

This is a big one for us! We’re partnering with Vesta to apply the Absolute Carbon Standard to marine CDR for the first time. mCDR is often treated as a 2nd class citizen, because of the challenge of connecting project claims to atmospheric impacts. We want to fix this.

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Peter Minor @peterminor.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Building the standards and certification processes needed for gigaton-scale CDR is complex, and there won’t be a single “right” answer. But having multiple approaches in the market increases the chances that we’ll land on solutions that actually help CDR scale.

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Peter Minor @peterminor.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

CDR needs an accounting system that ensures scale-up aligns with climate goals. One-size-fits-all won’t cut it. That’s why Absolute Climate uses emissions flux models—giving buyers a clear, apples-to-apples way to compare projects.

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Peter Minor @peterminor.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Really appreciate this opinion piece by Freya, Zeke, and Kata. I totally agree. “What is CDR” is the wrong question. The real question is: Does a project deliver the right climate impact? 👇

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Peter Minor @peterminor.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I’m excited to be joining the Carbon Removal Alliance Science Advisory Board, because no one does this better than Giana and team. We’re going to keep pushing towards a future with gigatons of accountable carbon removal that deliver on climate promises. Thank you to CRA!

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Deepening our carbon removal brain trust

We’re launching our Science Advisory Board and adding Energy alum Noah Deich to our board

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Peter Minor @peterminor.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I like aligned climate action!

You can read more about Mitigation Classes in the quoted @absoluteclimate.bsky.social post or on our website: www.absoluteclimate.com/blog-posts/m...

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This approach allows us to design a North Star for the rigor needed at gigaton-scale, while also meeting projects where they are today. A win-win for the industry.

With this additional distinction, the Absolute Carbon Standard is capable of supporting all projects, without needing to reduce rigor to do so. Credit buyers are provided with more transparency around what is being delivered, and how a project ranks against its peers.

Currently, there are two classes -   Absolute: Projects that adhere to all the strict criteria in the Absolute Carbon Standard.   Innovation: Projects that don’t meet all of the criteria because they're still developing their technology or have unresolved scientific uncertainty.

Mitigation Classes are an acknowledgment that mature projects and innovations need and should be held to different requirements. They label project credits based on their ability to meet the full set of requirements in the Absolute Carbon Standard (ACS).