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One of the fundamental reasons we started the Carbon Removal Alliance was to ensure high-quality and durable carbon removal was able to capture a sizable piece of the growing market. Our work draws directly from the commercialization challenges of carbon removal companies, and marries it with scientific rigor and deep knowledge of federal programs.
We often tap the expertise of leading scientific experts to help inform our work, including the process of screening and bringing on new Alliance members. This week we are formalizing these relationships by creating a Science Advisory Board to help evaluate new members and bring additional scientific rigor to our policy development work.
We’re also bringing an exceptional voice in the carbon removal sector to the board of directors, deepening our bench of experts.
Bringing expert voices into our work is critically important to ensure that policy incentivizes measurable climate impact. We will continue to be a nexus between innovators working on high-quality removal methods, scientists studying carbon removal, and policymakers.
More on our new additions below.
Adding Noah Deich to our board of directors
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Noah joins our board from his most recent post as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Carbon Management at the Department of Energy, where he was a key architect and leader of the country’s carbon removal programs. Throughout his more than a decade in the carbon removal space, Noah has helped bring carbon removal into the mainstream climate conversation, launched the field’s first dedicated nonprofit, and shaped consequential federal programs.
The Alliance supported the Department’s work on the first federal purchasing program for carbon removal which signals the government’s confidence in the carbon removal market and disbursed millions of research and innovation dollars under the Carbon Negative Shot. These investments helped spur private sector investments and bring carbon removal solutions to market.
Prior to the Dept of Energy, Noah and our executive director, Giana Amador, founded Carbon180opens in a new tab, the carbon removal nonprofit that helped to bring the industry into the fray of the climate conversation and where he remains a Senior Advisor. He has also served on the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board and the Biden-Harris Transition Energy Agency Review Team.
Noah has earned the respect of the entire Carbon Removal Alliance membership and the field, and we’re grateful to have him joining the board of the Carbon Removal Institute, our affiliated 501(c)3 organization.
Launching our Science Advisory Board
Our Science Advisory Board will support us in developing and advocating for the very best carbon removal policies. This team is comprised of trusted scientific leaders in their respective fields, and will help translate the science and commercialization challenges that carbon removal companies face into smart, actionable, and effective policies. They’ll also help ensure that Alliance members uphold our principles of permanence, net negativity, additionality, measurability, and co-benefits.
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Danopens in a new tab is our resident expert on biomass and bioenergy. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor at the University of California Berkeley and Principal Scientist at Carbon Direct. He runs the university’s Carbon Removal Lab to commercialize removal technologies and support outreach to policymakers.
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Graceopens in a new tab is our resident expert on marine carbon removal. She is the founder and Executive Director of Hourglass Climate, a non-profit conducting rigorous, independent research into mineral-based ocean alkalinity enhancement strategies. She is a geochemist by training, earning a PhD in earth and planetary science at Northwestern University.
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Jennopens in a new tab most recently led the Dept of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management. Today, she’s a professor of Chemical Engineering and Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also Chief Scientist at Isometric and Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute. She is the leading scientific voice on carbon removal and one of TIME’s most influential voices in climate.
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Mattopens in a new tab brings deep expertise in marine carbon removal. He co-founded [C]Worthy, a non-profit research organization focused on building scientifically credible quantification tools to ensure safe, effective ocean-based carbon removal. Formerly, he was a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and he holds a PhD in Oceanography from Stanford.
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Peteropens in a new tab recently founded Absolute Climate, launching the first independent standard to define and assess carbon credit quality. Prior to that, Peter served as the Science and Innovation Director at Carbon180, and ran several climate technology accelerator and incubator programs. He has a deep understanding of monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) and a commitment to high quality carbon removal.
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Noahopens in a new tab is a geochemist with a long history and expertise in enhanced rock weathering. He is currently a Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences at Yale University, as well as a Senior Contributing Scientist at Environmental Defense Fund and at Cascade Climate.
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