Greetings NCEC members, 

Our monthly feature for January is the University of Exeter. Please see the attachment or click HERE for an NCEC interview with University of Exeter Professor Paul Halloran on SeaCURE. SeaCURE has developed and demonstrated the components of a marine-based Negative Emissions Technology (NET), with the potential to be applied at very large scales. 

Updates for this month:  

• NCEC is proud that associate member Aspiring Materials has been awarded one of the Elemental Impact grants to scale their innovative carbon capture technology. Aspiring Materials founder Chris Oze (Stanford/U Canterbury) participated in person at the annual NCEC meeting hosted at Arizona State University in 2022 and the NCEC Secretariat alerted him to this opportunity for funding to scale via Elemental Impact and wrote a letter of support to Aspiring Materials’ application and are delighted to see this success!

• NCEC associate member, Upflow, leading US-NZ 2025 Indigenous Geothermal Cultural Exchange.

• Carbon180 celebrates 10 years of carbon removal advocacy in 2025. Check out their resources HERE.  

• World Resource Institute digest features  Next-Generation Geothermal Can Help Unlock 100% Clean Power.

• ASU co-hosts The Leveraging Decarbonization for Community Benefits in Arizona Symposium. The Symposium featured Shalanda Baker, former director of the Office of Energy Justice and Equity in the U.S. Department of Energy as a keynote on “Justice40: How We Got Here, What We’re Fighting For and How We Win.”

• “Plans to stabilize Earth’s climate rely on emerging carbon removal technology- we need to get moving” from The Conversation. 

• TIMES features Where Does Corporate Climate Action Go Next?

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.  

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.