In this episode of This Is CDR we welcome back Mati Founder Shantanu to discuss how his new non-profit seeks to scale long duration carbon removal via enhanced weathering (EW) in partnership with smallholder farmers in India and other regions of the Global South.ABOUT SHANTANU:Shantanu Agarwal is a climate tech entrepreneur with more than 20 year of energy industry experience. Prior to founding Mati, Shantanu is Co-Founder and CEO for Sustaera, a company focused on Direct Air Capture of CO2 and also Co-Founder for climate tech R&D company Susteon.Shantanu has served as board director of multiple startups and led investments as part of a energy technology VC fund in the past. Shantanu has also consulted with McKinsey & Co and worked with Schlumberger. Shantanu has an MBA from Harvard Business School, Cambridge, USA & B. Tech in Chemical Engineering from IIT, Roorkee.SESSION LINKS:- https://mati.earth/- https://twitter.com/mati_carbon- https://twitter.com/shantanuagarwal- Shantanu on TICDR w/ Sustaera (DAC) Ep27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiUUsUuwesc- Past EW TICDR episodes – Garrett Boudinot ex-Cornell CALS Ep2; Undo Ep28; Carbon Drawdown Ep44; Lithos Ep50; Eion Ep70 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1je2pACUAbKdS4529vLLHgZR2MGk9KLm- Garrett Boudinot et. al. report in EW in Global South https://precisiondev.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IGSDPxD-ERW-- Enhanced-Rock-Weathering-in-the-Global-South-26-02-23-2.pdf- Dail Ellis and John Sanchez blog on “leveling the playing field” for open-system CDR approaches like EW – https://greatunwind.substack.com/p/leveling-the-playing-field-for-open- Recent David Beerling paper on agronomic cobenefits - https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05343