Carbon Removal for Sale: What’s Real, What’s Hype, and Who Pays?

<p>What if one of the most important industries for solving climate change barely exists today?</p><p>The world is getting better at reducing emissions. Renewable energy is scaling. Electrification is accelerating. Efficiency is improving.</p><p>But even in the most optimistic climate scenarios, billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide will still need to be removed from the atmosphere every year.</p><p>In this Earth Set conversation, Amy brings together three experts working on the emerging carbon removal economy to unpack what that actually means.</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/codierossi/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>Codie Rossi</strong></a>, Director of Carbon Management and Markets at the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/clean-air-task-force/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Clean Air Task Force</a>, works on the policy frameworks shaping carbon removal markets.</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-barker-78b97428/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>Richard Barker</strong></a>, Partner at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/wecounteract/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Counteract</a>, advises investors and companies on carbon strategy and the realities of scaling climate technologies.</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/swarnalimitra/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>Swarnali Mitra</strong></a>, Director at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/cur8earth/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">CUR8</a>, builds portfolios of carbon removal projects for corporate buyers navigating the early market.</p><p>Together they explore how carbon removal works, why it’s becoming central to climate strategy, and why building this industry could be one of the largest economic transitions of the coming decades.</p><p>Humanity emits roughly <strong>55–60 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases every year</strong>.</p><p>Most climate pathways now suggest the world will also need <strong>5–15 billion tonnes of carbon removal annually</strong> to stabilise global temperatures.</p><p>Today, we remove only a tiny fraction of that.</p><p>This conversation explores the gap between those numbers, the technologies trying to close it, and the financial and policy systems that will determine whether carbon removal becomes a defining industry of the 21st century.</p><p><strong>In this episode you’ll learn</strong></p><ul><li>Why cutti