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Why a carbon roundtable?
Mankind´s carbon budget is evaporating. And fast. Keeping global warming within 1.5 degrees C is now an incredibly optimistic target and would require unprecedented action.
We need to restore the carbon in our atmosphere back to safe levels around 350ppm. We need negative emission technologies (NETs). Now.
Even keeping temperature increase within 2 degrees C – the internationally agreed maximum acceptable risk – will be a huge task. A task that will require everything we can do. Reducing emissions to zero is not enough. We will need to actively remove carbon from the atmosphere.
It is our vision that mankind needs to unite to face this challenge. For actively removing carbon from the atmosphere, we have to coordinate our efforts on a scale never seen before.
“All pathways that limit global warming to 1.5°C with limited or no overshoot project the use of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) on the order of 100–1000 GtCO2 over the 21st century.”
– IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change), 2018
Our Mission
Help to reduce carbon levels in the earth’s atmosphere below 350 ppm
Enable Cooperation
We provide a space for people willing to bring about change in the field of reversing carbon emissions. We create opportunities to meet, exchange ideas and develop a new vision for an economy beyond fossil carbon. The way forward is all about working together.
Accelerate Solutions
We work to enable solutions to reduce carbon in the atmosphere. We provide insights on technologies, research and policy solutions furthering that goal. We approach and connect partners from industry, society and government – in Germany and internationally.
Inform Changemakers
We need all the smart we have to tackle climate change. To stand a chance, we need all hands on deck, technical solutions in every industry, policies approaching the problem from every angle and a society that aspires to restore our atmosphere, instead of polluting it.
Who we are:
CarbonRoundTable is a non profit organization based in Berlin. It was founded in 2020 with one huge vision: to facilitate disruptive new ways to reduce carbon levels in the Earths’ atmosphere.
We see ourselves as a catalyst between research, politics and industry.
We identify innovations for carbon reduction, helping to understand their potential and scale them to global levels.
We support businesses, from early start-ups to large-scale industries, to incorporate carbon removal thinking in their operations.
We push the conversation around carbon removal towards a holistic vision of a regenerative economy that helps to clean our atmosphere.
Within our team of voluntaries, we combine all necessary skills and long-standing experience in international business-, project management-, growth-, innovation-, communication-, climate- and the IT-sector, allowing us to make a difference. We are supported by an extensive global network of likeminded, passionate, highly skilled and well experienced professionals and key institutions.
Skills we provide
Matt Beer
Climate, energy, data visualization and graphic design/deconstructing complex ideas and visually representing & animating them
Marie Budde
Project management, logistics and MRP-planning, controlling, cost accounting
Kaj Fischer
Climate knowledge (political and business side), project management, grant writing, workshop facilitation.
Michael Günther
Project management, grant writing, policy advisor, knowledge in climate adaptation and climate protection (political and business side)
Jochen Kleef
Business leadership, strategy & development, team building. Grew and managed a staff of 4,000 in 69 cities in China with parallel APAC responsibility.
Achim Richter
Project management, professional interpreter for Chinese & English
Sybe Rispens
PhD in AI, certified IT security specialist, IT System Architect
Julia Roth
Project management, logistics and MRP-planning, controlling, cost accounting
Yannick Schreiber
Environmental sciences & climate, sustainable technologies, business development
Our Values
Reducing carbon levels in the atmosphere needs global innovations that work on a scale previously unimaginable.
This can only succeed based on a common value set. Here is ours.
Our Partners
We are working with partners, who share the same values and similar goals, trying to keep our CO2-footprint as small as possible.