Brose: Carbon removal pledges total $1.5B to $2B
Raphael Brose · A breakout year for carbon removal? · Dec 6, 2022 · at 10:50
Raphael Brose, Manager of the Carbon Removal Program at Microsoft, discusses corporate procurement momentum across initiatives like Frontier Climate and the First Movers Coalition.
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“Altogether, you're talking one and a half, maybe two billion dollars in publicly pledged money. That doesn't include folks who are coming in out of the wings that, you know, that haven't announced yet.”
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