Greetings NCEC members, 

Our monthly feature is an NCEC Expert Insight with Dr.  Stephanie Arcusa, please see the attachment or click HERE to read Towards Operationalizing a System for Negative Carbon Emissions. Dr. Arcusa is a leading researcher and advocate in climate policy, specializing in carbon removal and sequestration strategies. Dr. Stephanie Arcusa is an Assistant Professor in Arizona State University’s School of Complex Adaptive Systems. Dr. Arcusa’s work presents a pivotal shift in climate strategy, bridging science, policy and industry to create scalable, accountable and lasting solutions for carbon sequestration.

NCEC Updates:

• SAVE THE DATE: NCEC Annual Meeting will be held at Istinye University during COP 31 11-13 November, Istanbul.  

• NCEC Annual Meeting 2026 Book Proposal: The New Carbon Economy: Economic Modeling, Optimization and Strategic Energy Transformation, an opportunity to collaborate for NCEC members. We’ve received great interest from members, but please respond to this email if you’re interested in contributing and haven’t reached out yet. 

External Network Updates:

• The global energy think tank Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is expanding its work on carbon management and the new carbon economy and will be organizing a series of roundtables over the course of 2026 (overview here). If you are interested in discussing further or getting involved, please reach out directly to Rudy Kahsar (rkahsar@rmi.org) or Brianne Cangelose (brianne.cangelose@rmi.org)

• Fair Carbon- Webinar Recording One project, many standards: How do I decide? HERE 

• Carbon180- Equity & Justice in Carbon Removal: Evolving and Broadening Our Work. Building a field where climate action is shaped with communities, not just deployed around them. HERE

• Reuters- The GHG Protocol’s new land standard: Why it could transform the economics of regenerative agriculture HERE. 

• Climate XChange- US State Policy Solutions for Data Center Impacts: Affordability and Reliability Recording HERE. 

• Carbon180- NCEC Co-Chair Erin Burns- Policy was aways the point HERE. 

• Yale Center for Environmental Communication’s webinar: Behavioral Interventions to Catalyze Climate Advocacy Recording HERE. 

• Ocean Visions- Phytoplankton Carbon Report HERE. 

• Trellis Group- What’s Next for Power Demand? Rethinking Load Forecasting for a Changing Grid HERE. 

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 or if you’d like to be featured as the NCEC monthly profile or if you would like your research featured through an NCEC Expert Insight!