"We must build demand for carbon-negative products," Marta Sjögren, Paebbl Co-CEO & Co-Founder

"We must build demand for carbon-negative products," Marta Sjögren, Paebbl Co-CEO & Co-Founder

For this episode, we were joined by Marta Sjögren, Co-CEO and Co-founder of Paebbl, a company that's developing carbon-storing building materials by permanently mineralizing captured CO2 into valuable industrial products. Marta shares the complexities of bringing sustainable building materials to scale, including navigating buyer demand, policy, regulation and the uncertainty of a maturing market.

"Carbon Removal Is a Boots-on-the-Ground Business," Diego Justiniano, Exomad Green CEO

Joining us in today's episode is Diego Justiniano, CEO and founder of carbon removal company and the world's largest biochar supplier Exomad Green. Diego shared the company's journey to its latest milestone of 2.3 million tonnes of CDR credits sold and over 300,000 tonnes delivered, and stressed the importance of understanding that carbon removal requires a hands-on approach to achieve industrial scale.

"Nature-Based and Tech-Based Carbon Removal Work Better Together," Christoph Gebald, Climeworks CEO

In this episode, our guest is Christoph Gebald, CEO and co-founder of direct air capture pioneer Climeworks. As one of the first DAC companies on the market, Climeworks has a rich history of successes and lessons, some of which we discuss with Christoph, alongside DAC's unique ability to constantly improve and surpass expectations. Christoph also shares his view of the carbon removal market, some of its current major trends, and thoughts on why nature-based solutions must be paired with tech-based CDR to ensure growth.

"Accuracy is the most important thing for carbon markets," Nick Marshall Project Developer Forum Chair

Today we're joined by Nick Marshall, Chair of the Project Developer Forum - a global network and collective voice of over 60 companies and practitioners dedicated to developing and financing carbon credit projects. Nick talks about some of the main issues with carbon markets today, their evolution and the scrutiny they've come under in recent years, as well as some of the main challenges developers face.

"The carbon market is already maturing," Jan-Willem, Puro.earth President

For this episode, we are joined by Jan-Willem Bode, President of the world's leading crediting platform for engineered carbon removal, Puro.earth [http://Puro.earth]. JW walks us through his lengthy experience in the voluntary carbon market basically since its inception and shares his thoughts on the progress made so far, and what 2026 will likely bring for carbon removals.