Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change The Billion-Tonne Promise of Carbon Dioxide Removal Isn't Working Out | Ep244: Robert Höglund
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Feb 11, 2026 Robert Höglund, carbon removal strategist behind Marginal Carbon, CDR.fyi and MilkyWire’s Climate Transformation Fund, shares five years of hands-on experimentation. He discusses why we should shift from speed-and-scale to prove-and-learn. Short takes cover corporate motivation, measurement and permanence challenges, which CDR methods show promise, and how early purchases shape startups.
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Prioritize What Firms Can Account For
- Do prioritize internal emissions reductions because companies prefer actions they can put on their emissions inventory.
- Also allocate some budget to external systemic work where firms lack internal investment needs.
Big Impact Often Means Hard To Measure
- High-impact interventions (policy, system-change) are often the hardest to measure.
- That measurability gap discourages corporate support despite large potential avoided emissions.
Fund A Portfolio, Not A Single Pathway
- Do design funds to support a portfolio across removal, restoration and emissions reductions.
- Use philanthropic grants to seed diverse solutions and generate learnings for scale-up.