Greetings NCEC members, 

The NCEC LinkedIn has also launched! Please follow along. 

NCEC 2025 Annual Meeting Save the Date: June 29th- July 1st hosted at the University of Exeter.  In advance of the UNCCC conference of the parties in Azerbaijan, Exeter and partners have produced a helpful Parliamentarians’ Guide to Climate Change.

Our monthly feature for November is ASU’s Center for Negative Carbon Emissions (CNCE). Please see the attachments for a presentation and an NCEC interview with Matt Green, Director of the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions and Associate Professor with tenure within Chemical Engineering at ASU. Additionally, linked here is a recorded presentation from Matt Green on the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions.

Updates for this month:  

• UN Emissions Gap Report 2024: brings together many of the world’s top climate scientists to look at future trends in GHG emissions and provide potential solutions to the challenge of global warming.

• U.S. Department of Energy Invests $58 Million to Tackle Climate Change by Removing Carbon from the Atmosphere. Selected projects will conduct pilot-scale testing of advanced carbon dioxide removal technologies- including a project to produce carbon-negative hydrogen from biomass. 

• Nearly £22bn pledged by the UK government for projects to capture and store carbon emissions from energy, industry, and hydrogen production. 

• We Don’t Have Time, Move the Money Campaign, Climate Dialogue Interview with Breene Murphy, President, Carbon Collective Investing Center. 

• World Resource Institute Digest feature: Amid Record-breaking Fires, Will Brazil Confront Its Climate Challenges? 

• ASU-led initiative announces first decarbonization projects for US industry: 5 jump-start projects selected in partnership with US Department of Energy aim to create cost-effective, electrified alternatives for industrial process heating. 

• Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes: New Tools for Science Policy: Carbon Removal Social [Science] event and seminar video.

The NCEC website revamp will be launched in December.

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.