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Stockholm Exergi and Microsoft have extended their BECCS carbon removal deal from 3.33 to 5.08 million tonnes over ten years, making it the worldโs largest annual agreement at 500,000 tonnes per year.
Exterra Carbon Solutions raised $14.5 million in Series A funding to commercialize its technology for turning mining waste into valuable, low-carbon materials & CO2 Sequestration.
Liverpool FC has launched the worldโs first carbon-negative football jersey. Developed with @1PointFive_, each shirtโs carbon footprint is offset using Direct Air Capture technology.
Enfinium partnered with carbon registry @Isometric_HQ for its Parc Adfer CCS project, aiming to generate 120,000 tonnes of durable carbon removal credits by 2030.
Puro.earth has reached a major milestone in Asia with the certification of Chinaโs first CO2 removal certificates, issued through the Nianโda Biochar Facility operated by MioTech. carbonherald.com/puro-earth-enaโฆ
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RMI has proposed a new flowchart-based framework to classify CDR methods by tracing COโ through capture, processing, and storage, aiming to simplify evaluation and deployment.
๐ฐ Here's your round-up of top #CarbonDioxideRemoval News / Developments from this week (28 April - 04 May 2025):
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Mirova announced a $40M investment in carbon projects across Argentina, Costa Rica, and Madagascar to restore 40,000 hectares, sequester 9.5M tonnes of COโ, and support local communities.
Brazilian carbon removal startup Mombak has secured $30 million in Series A funding, led by Union Square Ventures (USV), to accelerate reforestation and carbon removal projects across the Amazon.
New research shows that large-scale #CDRโessential for 1.5ยฐC or 1ยฐC climate goalsโcould demand vast land areas if we rely on energy crops, potentially up to 10% of todayโs cropland. But tech-based sol could greatly reduce that burden.
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2/ Most CDR plans today focus on bioenergy with carbon capture (#BECCS), reforestation, and afforestation. These options are land-intensive. This study compares them with other portfolios that prioritize low land use, low cost, high tech readiness, and security.
3/ The researchers modeled two total CDR targets:
โข 500 GtCOโ for a 1.5ยฐC pathway
โข 1750 GtCOโ for a 1.0ยฐC pathway
They included not just the land for CDR methods, but also for energy sources like solar and wind to run the full CDR-energy-industry system.
๐ฐ Here's your round-up of top #CarbonDioxideRemoval News / Developments from this week (21 April - 27 April 2025):
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@xprize announced the winners of its $100M CDR competition. The grand prize of $50M went to @mati_carbon for ERW. Other awards included $15M to @NetZero, $8M to @VaultedDeep, $5M to @undocarbon & $1M each to Planetary & Project Harar.
Microsoft has signed a large-scale carbon removal deal, purchasing 1.4 million tonnes of credits from @living_carbonโs reforestation projects on degraded U.S. mine lands.
๐จA recent field study conducted over the Great Barrier Reef has provided key insights regarding sea spray aerosols (SSA).
For the first time, it shows that SSA can reach the cloud base height, advancing Marine Cloud Brightening (#MCB) research.
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2/ MCB is a proposed climate intervention that aims to reflect more sunlight by enhancing marine clouds.
The concept relies on artificially generated sea spray aerosols (SSA) at the ocean surface and their transport in sufficient quantities to low-level maritime clouds.
3/ A portion of the SSA that reaches cloud height can act as additional cloud condensation nuclei and modify cloud microphysical properties, potentially reducing the amount of solar radiation reaching the sea surface.