Weekly Climate Solutions Digest

Welcome Day and night meet as equals this week. The light feels freshly washed. In low marshes, spring peepers try out their first chorus, small notes that somehow fill the cold air. So much of our selection shares that feeling of beginnings that are also completions. Two East Coast wind

FOR PEOPLE AND PLANET

New Georgia Tech research argues CDR needs radical transparency to earn public trust and policy support.

Researchers mapped which removal pathways offer the clearest benefits, what they cost, and where transparency gaps are most damaging.

https://www.captaindrawdown.com/posts/georgia-tech-cdr-transparency-research/

#CarbonRemoval #CDR #Transparency #MRV #ClimateAction

The #EU Governance Regulation and National Energy and Climate Plans are vital to Europe’s #EnergyTransition.

In feedback to a call for evidence by the @EUCommission for the review of the #EnergyUnion and #ClimateAction governance regulation, #EASAC urges it to use this revision to:

📋 Enforce common reporting standards
⚖️ Strengthen accountability
📈 Address energy poverty systematically

https://easac.eu/news/details/easac-feedback-on-the-review-of-the-eu-governance-regulation-on-the-energy-union-and-climate-action

EASAC Feedback on the Review of the EU Governance Regulation on the Energy Union and Climate Action

The EASAC Energy Steering Panel submits response to a public consultation and call for evidence by the European Commission to help shape the upcoming revision of the Governance Regulation on the Energy Union and Climate Action.

🗳️ Your Vote Cools the Planet In Canada’s upcoming by-elections, voting for pro-climate candidates isn’t just a choice—it’s climate action. Our research shows each vote in the 2025 election may have help cool the planet by 13.54 tCO₂e per year.✨ #ClimateAction #VoteForThePlanet #ByElections2026

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New research from Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada (CCL Canada) reveals that Canadians who voted for pro-climate candidates in 2025, and whose candidate was elected, may have reduced their personal greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint by an average of 13.54 tonnes of CO₂ equivalent (t CO₂e) per year simply by helping elect a climate-friendly MP.

Citizens' Climate Lobby Canada
Africa: South Africa's Just Transition Must Also Be a Health Transition: [Daily Maverick] Cleaner air, healthier communities and new economic opportunities are not secondary benefits of climate policy. They are central outcomes of a transition designed to protect people and the economy. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TRZgCF #ClimateAction #JustTransition #HealthEquity #SustainableDevelopment #CleanAir
Australia's Energy Independence Moment: Why the Fuel Crisis Must Accelerate Renewables

Australia hit 51% renewables in 2025, but political delays risk missing targets. The fuel crisis makes energy independence urgent.

The Daily Perspective

88% of all carbon removal credits sold involve biomass. A new CATF report checked 25 certification protocols — and almost all have notable accounting flaws.

The offset market crashed from bad accounting. CDR can't afford a repeat.

https://www.captaindrawdown.com/posts/biomass-carbon-credits-accounting-crisis/

#CarbonRemoval #CDR #BiomassEnergy #ClimateAction

🧪 Our biggest publishing day — 10 original posts.

We launched the CDR Researcher Census: 129,637 scientists, 39,278 papers, 185 countries. First researcher-centric census of the field.

Also today:
💰 Google × AMP: 200K-ton biochar deal
🌾 India's enhanced weathering takes off
🪵 17-company biomass burial coalition
☀️ DAC sorbent uses sunlight to release CO₂

Full digest: https://www.captaindrawdown.com/posts/daily-digest-2026-03-18/

#CarbonRemoval #CDR #ClimateAction

📋 CDR Daily Digest — March 18, 2026

Google signed a 200,000-ton carbon removal deal with waste-to-biochar startup AMP. Indian farmers are turning basalt dust into verified carbon credits. A 17-company coalition launched to scale biomass burial as a CDR pathway. And researchers built a DAC sorbent from wood waste that regenerates using sunlight alone.

Full digest: https://www.captaindrawdown.com/posts/daily-digest-2026-03-18/

#CarbonRemoval #CDR #ClimateAction #DAC #Biochar

CDR Daily Digest — March 18, 2026

Google bets big on waste-to-biochar, Indian farmers become carbon removal pioneers, a new coalition organizes around biomass burial, and DAC gets a solar-powered upgrade.

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#ClimateAction Africa's highest court is about to hear something historic. For the first time, we're arguing that the climate crisis is a violation of African people's rights and that polluters must be held accountable under African law. Add your name: https://act.gp/3Ndgoz0
African Court to put climate justice into law

This is your moment to be part of history. Add your name before the 31st of March. Let’s tell the African Court to put climate justice into law.