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Rob Niven

Reversing Climate Change

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Bigger Than Us

Mark Herrema

Diego Saez Gil

Rick Parnell

Jigar Shah

Steve Oldham

Anne Biklé

Jason Bradford

Sam Adams

David King

Joel Salatin

Jonathan Safran Foer

Mary Berry

Nathanael Johnson

Paul Greenberg

Phoebe Yu

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Rob Niven is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CarbonCure Technologies, the global leader in carbon dioxide (CO₂) utilization technologies for the concrete industry. Rob has the simple goal of making concrete sustainability both profitable and easy for industry. Under his direction, CarbonCure and its partners are achieving their mission to reduce 500 megatonnes of CO₂ emissions annually.  Rob has received countless international awards recognizing his leadership in sustainability, innovation and technology development including the Canada’s Top 40 Under 40, the 2016 Ernest C. Manning Innovation Award, the Cleantech Group’s Top 100 Global Cleantech Companies and the BloombergNEF New Energy Pioneers Award. https://www.carboncure.com/ https://nexuspmg.com/

Rob Niven is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CarbonCure Technologies, the global leader in carbon dioxide (CO₂) utilization technologies for the concrete industry. Rob has the simple goal of making concrete sustainability both profitable and easy for industry. Under his direction, CarbonCure and its partners are achieving their mission to reduce 500 megatonnes of CO₂ emissions annually. Rob has received countless international awards recognizing his leadership in sustainability, innovation and technology development including the Canada’s Top 40 Under 40, the 2016 Ernest C. Manning Innovation Award, the Cleantech Group’s Top 100 Global Cleantech Companies and the BloombergNEF New Energy Pioneers Award. <a href="https://www.carboncure.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.carboncure.com/</a> <a href="https://nexuspmg.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://nexuspmg.com/</a>

#102 Rob Niven, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CarbonCure Technologies

Concrete is an incredibly useful and highly resilient building material. And with population growth and urbanization, we are on pace to double everything we’ve ever built in the next 40 years. At the same time, concrete production accounts for as much as 8% of global emissions. So, how can we continue to reap the benefits of concrete in a way that complies with our climate goals? Robert Niven is the Founder and CEO of CarbonCure, a company that recycles waste carbon dioxide to make stronger and greener concrete. They are also one of the four companies chosen by Stripe for its first negative emissions purchases. Today, Rob joins Ross and Christophe to explain how concrete is traditionally produced and what CarbonCure does differently to permanently mineralize carbon in concrete, both improving its quality and reducing its carbon footprint. Rob weighs in on embodied carbon, sharing the benefits of CarbonCure’s solution in terms of scalability and cost, and discusses the potential for his process to eventually use direct air capture as a source of CO2. Listen in as Rob introduces us to his audacious goal of reducing emissions by 500 megatons per year and learn how we can accelerate the change with procurement policy and carbon offsets.  Resources CarbonCure CarbonCure on LinkedIn CarbonCure on Twitter Stripe’s Negative Emissions Commitment Stripe’s First Negative Emissions Purchases CarbonCure’s Cake Analogy Video Carbon Leadership Forum Bill Gates’ Resources on Climate &amp; Energy CLF’s EC3 Tool Methodology Breakthrough Energy Ventures Hawaii’s Concrete Procurement Policy CarbonCure’s Partnership with HC&amp;D in Honolulu Elemental Excelerator  Buy Clean California Act New York Assembly Bill 8617 Carbon XPRIZE Emissions Reduction Alberta’s Grand Carbon Challenge  ---   Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reversingclimatechange/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reversingclimatechange/support

Concrete is an incredibly useful and highly resilient building material. And with population growth and urbanization, we are on pace to double everything we’ve ever built in the next 40 years. At the same time, concrete production accounts for as much as 8% of global emissions. So, how can we continue to reap the benefits of concrete in a way that complies with our climate goals? Robert Niven is the Founder and CEO of <a href="https://www.carboncure.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CarbonCure</a>, a company that recycles waste carbon dioxide to make stronger and greener concrete. They are also one of the four companies chosen by Stripe for its first negative emissions purchases. Today, Rob joins Ross and Christophe to explain how concrete is traditionally produced and what CarbonCure does differently to permanently mineralize carbon in concrete, both improving its quality and reducing its carbon footprint. Rob weighs in on embodied carbon, sharing the benefits of CarbonCure’s solution in terms of scalability and cost, and discusses the potential for his process to eventually use direct air capture as a source of CO2. Listen in as Rob introduces us to his audacious goal of reducing emissions by 500 megatons per year and learn how we can accelerate the change with procurement policy and carbon offsets. Resources <a href="https://www.carboncure.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CarbonCure</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/carboncure-technologies?originalSubdomain=ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CarbonCure on LinkedIn</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/carboncure" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CarbonCure on Twitter</a> <a href="https://stripe.com/blog/negative-emissions-commitment" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stripe’s Negative Emissions Commitment</a> <a href="https://stripe.com/blog/first-negative-emissions-purchases" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stripe’s First Negative Emissions Purchases</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BillGates/videos/2575025766103022/?v=2575025766103022" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CarbonCure’s Cake Analogy Video</a> <a href="http://carbonleadershipforum.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Carbon Leadership Forum</a> <a href="https://www.gatesnotes.com/Climate-and-Energy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bill Gates’ Resources on Climate &amp; Energy</a> <a href="http://carbonleadershipforum.org/projects/ec3-methodology/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CLF’s EC3 Tool Methodology</a> <a href="https://www.b-t.energy/ventures/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Breakthrough Energy Ventures</a> <a href="https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/hawaii-to-combat-climate-change-with-carbon-injected-concrete/558200/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hawaii’s Concrete Procurement Policy</a> <a href="https://www.carboncure.com/news-press/2019/6/27/hcd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CarbonCure’s Partnership with HC&amp;D in Honolulu</a> <a href="https://elementalexcelerator.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Elemental Excelerator </a> <a href="https://www.dgs.ca.gov/PD/Resources/Page-Content/Procurement-Division-Resources-List-Folder/Buy-Clean-California-Act" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy Clean California Act</a> <a href="https://legiscan.com/NY/bill/A08617/2019" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New York Assembly Bill 8617</a> <a href="https://carbon.xprize.org/prizes/carbon" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Carbon XPRIZE</a> <a href="https://eralberta.ca/grand-challenge-innovative-carbon-uses/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Emissions Reduction Alberta’s Grand Carbon Challenge</a> --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reversingclimatechange/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reversingclimatechange/message</a> Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reversingclimatechange/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reversingclimatechange/support</a>

S2E16: Can we cure concrete's emissions problem?—w/ Rob Niven of CarbonCure