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Sifa Kinoti grew up believing she could leave the world a better place. That conviction took her from environmental engineering at the University of Nairobi into Octavia Carbon, the first direct air capture company in the Global South. Now Head of Policy and Partnerships, she talks about what it really takes to thrive in a CDR startup, how to break into a sector that barely exists yet in East Africa, and why she thinks her continent shouldn't be waiting for someone else to le

Alex Kim always knew he wanted to work in carbon removal. But knowing where you want to go and knowing how to get there are very different things. Now a Climate Analyst at Supercritical in London, he walks us through his CDR journey. The childhood realisation, the degree that didn't quite prepare him, and the months of relentless networking. Most people who find their way into carbon removal arrive via a winding road. A career pivot, an unexpected PhD, a growing frustration w

Aurélie Gonzalez spent a decade trying to decarbonise heavy industry from the inside. Then she quit, spent two years searching, and built a direct air capture company almost from scratch. This is what she learned, and what she wishes more people coming into CDR already knew. When Aurélie Gonzalez founded Yama , a French direct air capture company (DAC) working on an electrochemical approach to CO2 removal, she didn't arrive with a perfectly plotted career path. She arrived wi