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📰 Here's your round-up of top #CarbonDioxideRemoval News / Developments from this week (19 May - 25 May 2025):

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@AltCarbonIndia secured $12 million in seed funding to scale its enhanced rock weathering operations in South Asia.

1/24
alt-carbon.com/press-releases…

JPMorgan signed 13-year deal with CO280 to remove 450,000 tons of biogenic CO₂ from a U.S. pulp mill at under $200/ton—one of the largest and lowest-cost CDR deals to date.

2/24
esgtoday.com/jpmorgan-signs…

Exomad Green signed a 10-year deal with Microsoft to remove 1.24M tons of CO₂ using biochar. It’s the biggest biochar deal and one of the largest carbon removal agreements ever.

3/24
carbonfuture.earth/magazine/exoma…

Emissions Reduction Alberta has launched the $50M Industrial Transformation Challenge 2025 to fund emissions-cutting tech, including BECCS and other carbon removal solutions. Proposals are due by July 23.

4/24
eralberta.ca/funding-techno…

@terrasetclimate has launched the Terraset Revolving Fund—a new early-stage financial mechanism that recycles donor capital to scale the carbon removal market.


5/24open.substack.com/pub/terraset/p…

EcoVadis moved from buying carbon offsets to investing in biochar, supporting a project in Spain that turns olive waste into a way to store carbon and improve soil, through Supercritical’s platform.

6/24
biochartoday.com/2025/05/20/bey…

CO2 Lock and EmitIQ partnered to sell up to 33% of carbon credits from the carbon sequestration project in BC, aiming to generate over 300,000 verified credits annually for permanent CO₂ removal.

7/24
newsfilecorp.com/release/252784…

Ocean wildlife restoration company Positive Polar has ventured into combining cruise ship travel with marine carbon dioxide removal research, converting a cruise vessel into a floating research lab.

8/24
carbonherald.com/positive-polar…

Syntopa, Inc., a biotech startup, won a Phase I NSF SBIR grant to develop a microbial platform accelerating carbon removal through enhanced rock weathering, boosting soil fertility and farm productivity.

9/24
einpresswire.com/article/813497…

Airex Energy, Groupe Rémabec, and SUEZ launched Carbonity, Canada’s first industrial-scale biochar plant in Port-Cartier, with 10,000 tonnes annual capacity, set to triple by 2026.

10/24
newswire.ca/news-releases/…

Aircela unveiled the first U.S. fridge-sized machine in NYC that converts direct air captured CO₂ into fossil-free gasoline.

11/24
globenewswire.com/news-release/2…

Cool Effect has expanded its portfolio of carbon removal offerings with a direct air capture initiative called Project Juniper, developed by Clairity Technology.

12/24
businesswire.com/news/home/2025…

AspiraDAC and Great Carbon Valley signed an MoU to develop a solar-powered Direct Air Capture project in Kenya, aiming to capture and store 5,000 tons of CO₂ annually, with potential for larger future scale-ups.

13/24
linkedin.com/posts/aspirada…

Microsoft to purchase up to 700,000 nature-based carbon credits through 2035 from Climate Asset Management’s forestry project in Washington State.

14/24
esgnews.com/microsoft-secu…

Riverse has partnered with Klimate.co to streamline access to vetted carbon removal credits, boost project transparency, and scale climate solutions.

15/24
linkedin.com/posts/riverse_…

DWF partnered with Climate Impact Partners to launch the ‘DWF Forest’ in Scotland, aiming to cut emissions 90% and offset the remaining 10% via carbon removals from the Broadmeadows woodland project.

16/24
climateimpact.com/news-insights/…

@ClimeFiHQ has announced a new data partnership with CrystalTrade – a platform for digital monitoring, reporting, and verification (dMRV) of CDR.

17/24
climefi.com/blog-posts/cli…

Verde Resources and C-Twelve established a 10-year exclusive partnership to commercialize low-carbon asphalt technology across the United States.

18/24
finance.yahoo.com/news/verde-c-t…

CUR8 has launched its first-of-a-kind offtake financing product to help address one of the major barriers in the CDR industry.

19/24
cur8.earth/supplier/finan…

@Isometric_HQ has certified the first-ever protocol for carbon removal via River Alkalinity Enhancement (RAE).

20/24
isometric.com/writing-articl…

The UK government has initiated an independent review of CDR technologies, including DAC and BECCS to assess their role in achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Respond by 20 June 2025

21/24
gov.uk/government/cal…

@carbon_180 announced the launch of the Making Waves Ocean CDR regranting initiative, offering $100K grants to marine-focused nonprofits to explore and advance ocean-based carbon removal projects. Applications close June 20, 2025.

22/24
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

@Carbon_Direct, in collaboration with Microsoft, has published a first-of-its-kind guide to high-quality environmental attribute certificates for low-carbon concrete and steel.

23/24
carbon-direct.com/research-and-r…

A recent review of 20 North American forest carbon protocols found 86.7% are too weak to guarantee high-quality, reliable carbon credits.

24/24
forestcarbonprotocols.org

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