MEERTalk January 2026

MEERTalk: Carbon Removal Won't Scale in Time with Paul Gambill

The only permanent solution to Earth's energy imbalance is removing over 1.5 trillion tonnes of excess CO2 from the atmosphere. In less than a decade, an industry has emerged from nothing: 700+ companies, billions invested, and real technology proving out. And yet for all that progress, we remain orders of magnitude behind the pace required to lower global temperatures before crossing catastrophic tipping points. If carbon removal can't arrive in time—and the math suggests it can't—what fills the gap? In this talk Paul makes the case that cooling interventions aren't Plan B—they're what makes Plan A possible.

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Paul Gambill co-founded Nori, the first carbon removal marketplace, and served as CEO from 2017-2023. An early pioneer in carbon removal, he helped establish it as a distinct industry category and led Nori to sell the world's first soil carbon removal credits. After a decade building financial infrastructure for scaling CDR, Paul now writes at Inevitable & Obvious about the hard lessons learned in carbon removal and why cooling interventions are essential for buying time while CDR reaches the scale climate science demands.

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Thursday, January 8, 2026
2:00pm EST
7:00pm GMT

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