Climate on the Edge

🚨 New Climate on the Edge Episode Alert! What happens when the world’s most vulnerable regions get a say in shaping frontier climate interventions like Solar Radiation Management (SRM)? The results will surprise you... 🌍 In our latest episode, Andy Parker, founder and CEO of The Degrees Initiative, shares the cutting-edge work his team is doing to empower scientists in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America to lead SRM research. We discuss: 👉 The ethical and political stakes of SRM for the Global South. 👉 Whether SRM research is a moral hazard—or an enabler of climate action. 👉 The Degrees Initiative’s groundbreaking grants, capacity building, and the upcoming Degrees Global Forum 2025 in Cape Town. Andy also shares insights from his 16+ years at the forefront of SRM governance and reflects on the challenges of navigating climate risks in a world where emissions cuts alone aren’t enough. 🎙️ Listen now: https://lnkd.in/g5whsnue 💡 What do you think? What does SRM have to do with climate justice? Share your thoughts in the comments! #ClimateAction #SolarGeoengineering #GlobalSouth #ClimateJustice #ClimateOnTheEdge

After a brief hiatus, we're back! Extreme heat is an invisible killer—and it’s coming for us all 🌡️ 🥵 In the latest episode of Climate on the Edge, host Susan Su speaks with Anna Bershteyn, the brilliant researcher leading Project HEATWAVE at NYU Langone Health, and one of the few people in the world looking critically at the intersection of climate change and public health, and how to reduce climate-caused mortality We discuss: ✅ Why extreme heat is the "pandemic" of climate change ✅ The staggering evidence gaps that prevent us from acting effectively ✅ Novel solutions, from biomedical interventions to geoengineering ✅ How governments can prioritize resources to save lives Anna’s work bridges public health, climatology, and policy to tackle a crisis that will affect over a billion people this century. This conversation will change the way you think about climate adaptation—and show you why it’s time to act now. 🎧 Listen to the episode here: https://lnkd.in/gNrSsqd6 #ClimateTech #ClimateChange #ExtremeHeat #PublicHealth #Innovation

The incredible Kelly Wanser Executive Director of SilverLining talks to us about the theory and practical reality of Solar Radiation Management, and why we need more core Earth science research now This couldn't be a more timely conversation as the UN releases its report warning of a 3.1 degrees C world, and as the US heads into a presidential election that could determine the course of federal science funding Full episode here: https://lnkd.in/gQ_n5DVq

In our first of several episodes on Solar Radiation Management, we talk to author and professor Holly Jean Buck of University at Buffalo and professor Wil Burns of the Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal American University and Northwestern University on the opportunities, risks and imperatives around SRM https://lnkd.in/gjpdBCPv

In the less than four weeks since we launched Climate on the Edge, we've heard from the majors in carbon removal and beyond: - Nikki Batchelor of XPRIZE Carbon Removal & Jack Andreasen of Breakthrough Energy level set on where innovation still needs to happen for carbon removal to scale - Omar Abou-Sayed of Vaulted Deep shared how burying toxic liquid waste for carbon removal is a double-solve for customers and the planet - Jim Mann of UNDO talked about the software stack that's enabling their growing removal sales (just signed another 15K tonnes with Microsoft) - Steve Oldham shared his vision for humanity's plan B (and plan C) and how his company Captura, the best funded ocean CDR startup in the world, is playing a role - Marc Shapiro of Breakthrough Energy talked all things contrails, and why mitigating them is likely aviation's cheapest, best climate strategy and so many more 😲 Check out our recap episode + summary of other important frontier climate interventions here: https://lnkd.in/gkcjK2wM And all episodes on our Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gTCzhEjx

Tom Quigley of Superorganism dives deep into the resilience of biodiversity and what it means for the future of both nature and humanity. While extinction events have wiped out 50-90% of species in Earth’s history, life has always rebounded in new and unexpected ways. Tom highlights that the real risk is to humans, not biodiversity itself. "I think the odds are zero that we drive biodiversity to zero. It’s far more likely we do a lot of damage to the human species instead." - Tom Quigley, Co-Founder of Superorganism. In a conversation with Susan Su, Tom explores the need for a human-centric approach to conservation—where both people and nature can thrive together. It’s about finding balance, fostering ecosystems, and building a fair, abundant future. Listen to the full conversation where they dive into the intersection of human needs, economic stability, and healthier ecosystems for a thriving planet. Catch the whole episode on Spotify & Apple Podcasts.

We spoke with eight of the world's top carbon removal companies — and XPRIZE Carbon Removal finalists — at the Santander and XPRIZE Carbon Removal Capital Summit last week, and heard both inspiring reasons for hope and surprising areas of concern from Omar Abou-Sayed of Vaulted Deep, Martin Freimüller of Octavia Carbon, Jason Aramburu of Applied Carbon, Tom G. of Vesta, PBC, Axel Reinaud of NetZero, Steve Oldham of Captura, Jim Mann of UNDO and Daniel Hooft of Kelp Blue Check out all our XPRIZE coverage here: https://lnkd.in/gTCzhEjx

Vesta, PBC, is pioneering a solution that doesn’t just remove carbon from the atmosphere—it also protects coastlines from the impacts of climate change. By deploying carbon-removing sand made from olivine, Vesta is turning coastal protection projects into carbon-negative interventions. “Turning them carbon negative and achieving this co-benefit of both protecting coastal communities and coastal habitats from the effects of the climate crisis while addressing the root cause at the same time by doing carbon dioxide removal.” - Tom G., co-founder and CEO of Vesta Combining climate adaptation with mitigation, ensuring our coastlines are protected and our emissions are reduced. 🌊🌍 Explore how Vesta is riding the wave of scalable, nature-based solutions in this full conversation:  https://lnkd.in/dggTBkFh

Omar Abou-Sayed, co-founder and Executive Chairman of Vaulted Deep, is leading a revolutionary approach to carbon removal by turning oil and gas technology into a climate solution. Vaulted Deep uses slurry injection technology, originally designed for oil fields, to permanently sequester toxic waste and carbon deep underground. “The technology comes out of the oil and gas sector and it repurposes the geomechanical science behind hydraulic fracturing to allow solids to be deposited back underground for permanent storage.” - Omar Abu Sayed, Vaulted Deep Omar’s unique approach to leveraging existing technologies highlights how the innovations of the past can be repurposed to solve today’s most pressing challenges. In his conversation with Susan Su, he explores the financial and regulatory hurdles facing carbon removal and how Vaulted Deep is setting the standard for high-quality, safe solutions. 🌱 Ready to learn more about this fascinating intersection of waste management and carbon removal? Catch the full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/dggTBkFh

🌊 Steve Oldham's Captura, is betting on the ocean to help us reverse climate change. With the ocean covering 70% of the planet and already absorbing a significant share of CO2 emissions, it’s clear we have a scalable solution right in front of us. “The ocean is doing that for us. It’s already covering 70 percent of the surface of the planet. And if we can use that effectively, we already have the scale we need.” - Steve Oldham, CEO of Captura. In a fascinating conversation with Susan Su, Steve talks about how Captura leverages the ocean’s natural carbon removal properties, the importance of scalable, low-cost solutions, and why carbon removal is poised to become a global commodity market, just like oil and gas. 🌍🌊 Ready to learn more about how the ocean might just be our best bet to capture climate solutions? Catch the full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/dggTBkFh