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Orbuch: Legacy carbon offset market operated as an aligned house of cards
“Because the registries and the feedback loop with the registries is to just keep issuing credits and make each credit look the same as every other credit, everyone's incentivized the other way because the buyers don't want to go back and say, Wow, all this mon…”
Ryan Orbuch Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 25:31 Fixing the messy voluntary carbon market
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Orbuch: Next-generation carbon registries must be buyer-funded with ex-post credit issuance
“So there's two things that change. One is that the buyer pays the registry to evaluate deliveries and two, the credits are issued after they've been delivered, not preemptively before.”
Ryan Orbuch Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 35:43 Fixing the messy voluntary carbon market
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Orbuch: Categorize CDR by trapping mechanism rather than natural versus engineered
“One thing that I found a little more useful is to kind of just think about like, what's the actual trapping mechanism for the CO two? Like where does the carbon actually end up? And there you can sort of think like, okay, well, it's leaving the air and another…”
Ryan Orbuch May 5, 2022 ▶ 5:34 Growing the Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) market
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Black: New Mexico SIC created $300M+ advanced energy fund with Lowercarbon
“So, just a month ago, the State Investment Council Created a new fund of over three hundred million dollars, part with lower carbon energy to fund fusion and advanced energy projects in New Mexico.”
Rob Black Nov 18, 2025 ▶ 20:01 New Mexico proves America can still build [partner content]
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