Jason Hochman

Meme 🧵: CDR 101 to close out carbon removal week! (1/15)

Very excited to speak at DeCarbon Tokyo, taking place December 3-4, on two panels exploring the critical role Japan can play in scaling the CDR sector, & the opportunity DAC represents for Japanese stakeholders. Learn more & register to join us here: cmtevents.com/aboutevent.asp…

Wild that the day after news comes out that DOE is likely cancelling the major DAC Hub projects, the Nobel prize in chemistry is awarded to scientists whose breakthrough is materials that can capture CO2 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Excited to help shape the agenda of @UnboundSummits Carbon Unbound West Coast as a member of the Advisory Board for the January 22-23, 2026 event taking place in Vancouver, Canada. Learn more: lnkd.in/g3ejpwzZ

I see this study is making the rounds. It raises some valid points and misses others. But it certainly does not show "that Earth can safely store around 1,460 gigatons of carbon dioxide." Let's look at what the study really says🧵

@PeterOlivier 👀

@jasonclimateguy 👋

a business model for 2026: 1) target: the companies that raised in '20-'21 that in retrospect, were not "VC backable" 2) dynamic: their investors have given up but don't want to write them to zero & would be happy to get any money back 3) ∆ search fund for batteries/carbon/etc

We’ve raised $162M—bringing Climeworks’ total funding to over $1B and marking 2025’s largest carbon removal investment. Backed by our existing investors, we’re scaling up Direct Air Capture and expanding carbon removal solutions for a net zero future. climeworks.com/press-release/…

Excited to participate and share my insights on the state of play and future prospects for DAC at this year's @energyintel @EI_Forum energyintelligenceforum.com/2025/home

Don’t miss Jason Hochman, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Direct Air Capture Coalition, live on stage at the 2025 Energy Intelligence Forum. Secure your delegate pass today: 🔗 bit.ly/3YlsmJa #EIForum2025 #Energy #EnergyPolicy #GeopoliticalRisk #Protectionism

Great time at @CarbonEngineer DAC Camp yesterday. Learned a lot about the key advancements being made at the CE Innovation Center which will inform the 500k ton STRATOS plant. Also terrific seeing the gorgeous Squamish BC area! Thanks for the invite, @CarbonEngineer @1PointFive_

From “Impossible” to Inevitable: What History Teaches Us About Betting on Breakthrough Tech daccoalition.org/from-impossibl…

Read @AndreasenJack in @heatmap_news heatmap.news/ideas/climewor…

The scandal that wasn’t So many excited to celebrate the operational challenges of DAC without realizing it’s coming to their favorite climate tech next More from me: @heatmap_news heatmap.news/ideas/climewor…

DAC projects are investable and can bring in hundreds of millions to the United States @WeAreOxy and @ADNOCGroup looking at a $500mm JV for the South Texas DAC hub This is exactly why the hubs program is so critical. It keeps the US as a tech leader and brings investment.

Meanwhile, in other DAC news, just a $500M deal in the works @1PointFive_ oxy.com/news/news-rele…

@foam_boat @AndreasenJack @AkshatRathi @joelgombiner Some will go better than others, some won't go well at all, which is to be expected. It's the only way we'll actually understand what works & what doesn't in real world conditions & how to make incremental improvements based on experience in the field, i.e. "learning by doing"

@foam_boat @AndreasenJack @AkshatRathi @joelgombiner There are a lot more projects out there utilizing a variety of different approaches than just the more well known ones. daccoalition.org/global-dac-dep…

@AndreasenJack @AkshatRathi @foam_boat @joelgombiner As the IPCC aptly put it, large scale CDR/DAC is "essential" and "unavoidable" Any future without it is either a lot hotter or a lot poorer, most likely both to a disastrous degree.

@AkshatRathi @foam_boat @joelgombiner Forever my biggest criticism of the anti CDR/DAC crowd is they offer no alternatives or solutions for scale. Same goes with this article.

Every word 👇

As always @GianaAmador is correct

This article has some fair points, and VC funding for DAC is slowing But some key context: 1. VC for climate is down across the board 2. DAC is in the “prove it” phase, we need FOAK funding more than VC 3. We’ve seen investment in storage/transport, enabling infrastructure