Greetings NCEC members, 

Our monthly feature for February is Fair Carbon. Please see the attachment or click HERE for an NCEC interview with Diana Denke, Co-Founder and CEO, Fair Carbon. Fair Carbon protects and restores blue carbon ecosystems through education, capacity building, early-stage funding, and policy development, overcoming barriers to growth and driving high-quality projects to market. 

Updates for this month:  

• Please join us for World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS) Talks on Science for Human Security: New Carbon Economy. Register HERE. Online on February 20, 2025, from 6:00 pm to 7:35pm CET. 

• Founding NCEC member, Cornell University releases an article with Forbes on “Regenerative Agriculture: Soils, Cows and Climate,” read more on Forbes HERE. 

• Michigan State University’s Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences releases a long-term study that “Reveals Best Practices for Building Soil Carbon in Agriculture”, read more HERE. 

• OPIS releases “Bridging the Gap: Durable CDR Market Pricing Survey- Purchaser and Supplier Expectations in 2025 and 2030,” read more HERE. Carbon180 says, “The bottom line: there’s a chasm between what customers want to pay and what suppliers need to charge to stay afloat.” 

• Climate Investment Funds, “How CCMM Works,” enables the “front-loading” of benefits from the CTF loan portfolio and other investments, allowing new climate finance to be swiftly unlocked at scale, without having to wait for long-term reflows in the future. Watch HERE. Read more HERE. 

• “Saudi Aramco Taps Alphabet Spinoff Sandbox AQ for AI Tie-Up,” read more on Bloomberg HERE on using AI to turn carbon emissions into useful products. 

• Blue Carbon + (BC+) is accelerating emergent Blue Carbon Business Models is accepting applications HERE for early-stage projects and businesses that rely on and seek to conserve & restore blue carbon coastal ecosystems. BC+ was launched in 2024 by Conservation International and The Nature Conservancy. 

• ASU- led collaboration receives $11.2 million to build Southwest Regional Direct Air Capture Hub. US Department of Energy funds regional effort to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Read more HERE. 

• Reuters, Michael Bloomberg steps in to help fund UN climate body after Trump withdrawal. After the U.S. pulled out of the Paris Agreement, Michael Bloomberg pledged to fill the funding gap for the UN climate body’s budget. Bloomberg Philanthropies will cover the U.S. financial contributions and work with U.S. states, cities, and companies to ensure continued climate action despite the federal withdrawal.

Reminders:

• The NCEC LinkedIn has also launched! Please follow along and invite your colleagues to follow along as well! 

• NCEC 2025 Annual Meeting Save the Date: June 29th- July 1st hosted at the University of Exeter.  Registration coming soon in March! 

We look forward to continuing the critical work to develop a new carbon economy.  

Please reach out if you’d like to add any updates for next month.