CarbonDew is a Community of Practice with the vision that measurements of carbon, greenhouse gases (GHGs), water vapor, and heat exchange, directly in and out of the air, will anchor and enable fair and interoperable solutions across multiple economic sectors. Our mission is to bring together stakeholders across the entire environmental spectrum to jointly address the optimization of natural resources by catalyzing cross-disciplinary expertise.
Since our last update in September 2024, the community has grown by nearly 40%.
“There is definitely a way to resolve climate and carbon issues by working together across domains, sectors, and silos, and it is working, slowly but surely.”
From Our Journey, Section 02
Source: CarbonDew Newsletter · October 2026 · Four-Year Newsletter & Impact Update
A group of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly. Practitioners advance their understanding and build bridges so that others understand their perspectives, and intentionally learn from and share practices and ideas with each other. Community of Practice (CoP) is well-described in this Harvard Business Review.
It is not an academic study. It is an alpha-stage development and testing of the CarbonDew vision based on the latest, most direct tools currently available to science, and achieved via a technology transfer from academic science to practical applications outside academia.
Initial activities include:
Our vision and mission can only be achieved through the participation and feedback of all interested parties. We rely on diverse, long-term partnerships with key stakeholders to empower all stages of development.
Existing natural and managed ecosystems - provide global-scale ongoing carbon sequestration and storage management services, as well as water use and management services. Such services need to be priced fairly and reliably, so that resulting optimization and equitable trade yield effective societal benefits.
Growers - from small microfarmers in the developing world to large international corporations, including production agriculture and forestry, these have strong potential for carbon reduction and sequestration, and very significant potential for optimizing water use.
Industry - from the food industry to the oil and gas industry, these have very strong potential for lowering emissions and reducing losses. The Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) industry also has the potential for carbon sequestration, depending on the price of carbon and economy of scale.
Municipalities and local governments - have a strong potential for carbon and water use reduction through regulations and incentives that benefit local communities, as well as improvements in urban heating and energy efficiency.
For-profit organizations - from financial and carbon/water consultants to carbon/water traders and tech innovators, these can drive and incentivize all of the above, while making a profit.
National governments and global non-profits - can regulate, drive, and incentivize all of the above while achieving their societal improvement goals.
CarbonDew founded as a Community of Practice linking flux-measurement science with real-world users; ICOS Science Conference, Utrecht: “2100+ CO₂ and H₂O Flux Measurements Across the Globe: Sitting on a Golden Egg?”
AGU, San Francisco (Dec); WMO Global Greenhouse Gas Watch Workshop, Geneva (Oct); AmeriFlux Annual Meeting, Gardner (Oct); coordinated response to the draft U.S. Federal Strategy for GHG Measurement in Agriculture and Forest Sectors (Aug); ESA, Portland (Aug); first CarbonDew newsletter (Jun); EGU, Vienna (Apr); coordinated response to the draft Federal Strategy for an Integrated U.S. GHG Monitoring and Information System (Apr); Battelle Conference, Columbus (Mar); NACP meeting, online (Feb); iLEAPS-OzFlux, Auckland (Jan).
AGU, Washington DC, 40 presentations and Congressional visits (Dec); ICOS Science Conference, Versailles, 20 presentations (Sep); CarbonDew Library launched (Sep); AmeriFlux-NEON-CarbonDew Workshop, Berkeley (Jul); AOGS, Gangwon-do (Jun); EGU, Vienna (Apr); featured by Green Success Stories (Apr); AMS, Baltimore (Jan).
AGU, New Orleans (Dec); AsiaFlux, Riau (Oct); AGU Chapman Conference, Boulder (Sep); AOGS, Singapore (Jul-Aug); EGU, Vienna (Apr-May); SCD0003 goes live (Mar); Quarterly Talk launch (Mar); LI-COR Connect, Tucson (Feb); International Carbon Registry, Reykjavík (Jan).
AGU, San Francisco (Dec, upcoming); AsiaFlux, Bangkok (Nov, upcoming); ICOS Science Conference, Lund (Sep); AOGS, Fukuoka (Aug); EGU, Vienna (May); Remote Sensing & Fluxes Workshop, Boulder (Mar).
Source: CarbonDew Newsletter · October 2026 · Four-Year Newsletter & Impact Update
