Ryan Orbuch

Partner, Lowercarbon Capital · 2 appearances on the record.

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Ryan Orbuch is a Partner at Lowercarbon Capital, where he leads investments in early-stage carbon dioxide removal and climate technology startups. He previously initiated and led Stripe's carbon removal procurement program and co-created the award-winning iOS app Finish.

25statements → 8claims → 6claims resolved → 100%fully supported → 3.92/5average certainty → 2.8/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated →

6 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 8 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

8 assertions · 6 opinions · 11 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 6 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Ryan argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Orbuch: High-quality carbon removal offtakes rival legacy voluntary market size
“Most of the dollars that have gone into the sort of market for higher quality removals are forward offtakes, right? Shayle Kann: Right. Shayle Kann: I guess that's true. Ryan Orbuch: So the cash is spent when the removal is delivered. And like, if you add up a…”
Ryan Orbuch Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 7:16 Fixing the messy voluntary carbon market

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Assertion Supported
Orbuch: Traditional carbon avoidance credit volumes dropped year-over-year in 2023
“After massive spikes in, in twenty-twenty-one especially we've seen traditional offset market, especially avoidance credits, actually down year over year on volume in twenty-twenty-three for the first time in a while.”
Ryan Orbuch Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 5:24 Fixing the messy voluntary carbon market

Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Fixing the messy voluntary carbon market Jan 4, 2024 22m
Growing the Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) market May 5, 2022 25m
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