Sebastian Manhart | Carbon Removal: Where Technology Should Meet Policy | The Curious Learners Ep. 36

Hi everyone. My guest today is Sebastian Manhart. He is the senior policy adviser at Carbonfuture, which is a technology company building an operating system for high quality carbon removals.

Sebastian has a super interesting background of over a decade of entrepreneurship and an advisory role with the German government on decentralized identity. His move into climate-tech and more specifically carbon removals is a result of his passion for this space.

Sebastian and I had an eye-opening conversation on how governments view frontier technologies, state of the play for carbon removal policy globally, range of technologies for high quality carbon removals and of course what Carbonfuture is building in this exciting space.

Here are some of the topics that we discussed:

Technology vs Policy. How do these two work together?

How do governments and policy makers view frontier technologies?

In what practical ways do you help founding teams? How much of a difference does being proactive make?

What was your transition from advising on crypto to climate-tech?

What is your take on the climate-tech space from a policy perspective? And how does it differ across regions?

What does carbon removal actually mean?

What is high-quality carbon removal?

What doe Carbonfuture do?

What carbon removal technology does Carbonfuture currently focus on?

What made you get attracted to Carbonfuture over bunch of other companies in this space?

How do you get new suppliers onto the platform?

How about buyers of carbon credits? What attracts them to Carbonfuture?

What is the northstar metric at Carbonfuture?

What is missing in carbon removal markets? What is your agenda for 2023?

What are you most #curious about these days and what are you doing to #learn more about it?