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Solving human-caused climate change requires deep emissions reductions combined with permanent carbon removal. Companies of all sizes play a crucial role in achieving this audacious - and very possible - goal.
Future proof your company and net zero program by combining permanent carbon removal alongside your operational decarbonization.
Invest in a balanced blend of high quality, ready-made carbon removal solutions across all pathways for a predictable and stable price per tonne.
Develop your business' climate competitive advantage by supporting the scaling this crucial new industry, all while actively removing CO2.
Build trust and transparency while engaging and inspiring your customers as well as employees by leading on climate in line with the latest science.
Companies are key players in decarbonizing our world by reducing new greenhouse gas (CO2 along with others) emissions from the present ~50 billion tonnes per year.
We provide you with accessible tools and resources to support and enable your climate programs and initiatives with the latest science.
There is no Business-As-Usual in an increasingly extreme climate. We can do something about it - whether big or small, leader or employee. For the largest global corporations to the smallest local businesses, and everything in between, combining carbon emissions reductions with removals is our best, most science-backed, road to tackling climate change.
The science shows that deep decarbonization and emissions reduction is absolutely key - it's 90% of the work we collectively need to do. At the same time we also need to scale up durable permanent carbon removal to billions of tonnes per year by 2050. This is both for the remaining 10% emissions for net zero and also sequestering some of what's already been released.
Implementing your roadmap to decarbonize as much as possible - as close to 90% as possible - across Scopes 1, 2, and 3 from your own operations as well as your supply chains.
Removing everything else - or as much as possible - from now onwards using high quality, durable and permanent carbon removal solutions to slow, then stop, the temperature rising.
Ensuring the carbon removal industry grows to the 10 billion tonnes per year we need by 2050 to achieve net zero and balance any remaining hard to reduce emissions.
We research, bundle, diversify, purchase, and manage high quality carbon removal in our ready-made, balanced, portfolios based on our custom methodology. We focus on diversification of pathway, company and stage of scale-up, all while prioritizing permanence of removal.
All portfolios are available in GBP£, EUR€, CA$ and AU$ on request.
An accessible, vetted, portfolio with 55% durable carbon removal over 500 years permanence
Diverse geographies & companies
From US $150 per tonne
A higher durability CDR portfolio with 65% over 500 years permanence
Diverse geographies & companies
From US $235 per tonne
Our most durable CDR portfolio, with 75% permanence over 500 years
From US $285 per tonne
Custom portfolios and single pathway purchases are available on request.
No single solution type or company will be at the scale we need by 2050. The problem calls for a portfolio approach. Our methodology involves researching, evaluating, comparing, tracking and supporting carbon removal solutions that have the potential to grow to millions of tonnes per year and beyond.
We take a permanence and additionality first approach from a pathway-by-pathway perspective, looking for the best in class for each solution type.
Of paramount importance, how long does the solution lock planet-heating CO2 way for? The longer the better.
How high a net negativity does a removal activity have and without it would the CO2 have contributed to heating?
Can we track and measure that the CO2 has actually been removed in a robust and scientifically defensible way?
Are the solutions seeking independent third-party audits of their activities and processes to ensure high quality removal?
How soon will it happen and are the credits produced in a credible year for when the CO2 will be removed?
Does it actively seek climate justice and non-CO2 co-benefits that contribute to planetary and human wellbeing?
Our partners are leading the charge to pull down and safely store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere for hundreds to thousands of years and beyond.
Putting boosters on the natural weathering cycle of basalt
Taking CO2 directly out of the air and mineralizing deep underground
Stablizing plant waste to lock the carbon away for hundreds of years
Using the ocean carbon sink to store more planet-heating emissions
Turning waste biomass into a high carbon and low energy liquid
Supporting and developing land-based natural carbon sinks
Our partners are leading the charge to pull down and safely store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere for hundreds to thousands of years and beyond.
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Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) is anything that pulls planet-heating carbon dixoide out of the air and stores it safely for a period of time. The longer the better.
It's a range of solutions that include various Nature-based, some tech-enabled or nature-inspired and fully engineered approaches and technologies. For example:
Forests and oceans are crucial natural carbon sinks which already draw down and lock away huge amounts of emissions. They'll be a part of the solution, but likely only about 20-30% of the removal we need.
On the more technological and engineered side, you might have heard about things like Direct Air Capture, Bio-oil, Biochar or Enhanced Weathering or Ocean Blue Carbon. These approaches, and others being worked on, are going to be need to fill the gap.
Go deeper into the different types of carbon removal.
Our CDR portfolio is a blend of different carbon removal solutions, mixed together to make it an affordable cost per tonne. Here's more info.
We believe this approach is ideal, based on the science-backed pathways to support growing the global carbon removal capacity to gigatonnes per year.
Combined with large scale global decarbonization, we need to reach about 10 billion tonnes of annual removal by 2050. There is no silver bullet solution and no one category or company will be big enough, which is why we take a portfolio approach to invest in a range of approaches.
Following the science-backed approach to Net Zero we advocate for 90% emissions reductions and decarbonization from current levels (about 50 gigatonnes of CO2e per year). Then using high permanence removals for the 10% hard-to-reduce remaining emissions.
Our angle on CDR is that even for that 10% it's a huge lift from where we are. Investing and growing the industry now is crucial.
If our goal is to build up the carbon removal industry to be the size we'll need by 2050 it needs to grow about 40%+ every year. It's not something that we can switch on overnight, it's something we'll have to build-up over time.
Not so much. Offsetting has been traditionally to be used to counterbalance the continued release of emissions, which only adds to the challenge of slowing and then reversing the increase in global average temperatures.
The vast majority (cough - 95% - cough) of offsets available don't remove carbon. Some may be good projects and have other societal benefits that aren't primarily about removing the gigatonnes of harmful gases we humans have pumped out.
Where carbon removal is different is that the only reason many of the technologies exist is to take out and sequester carbon dioxide - from the air or elsewhere - for hundreds to thousands of years, so it can't contribute to the continued heating of the planet and all the impacts of that.
Carbon removal is what's called highly additional, meaning the primary reason it exists is to do exactly as its name suggests.
This said, carbon removal can be used to offset emissions, though this should be only as part of a concerted effort to reduce as large a chunk of emissions as possible. It can also be used to remove older emissions that happened in the past.
We think that now is the time to fund and invest in carbon removal. Even if it is still more expensive than traditional offsets and it's not always viable to buy the same tonnes, it works in the way we need by literally removing the carbon dioxide so it can't contribute to climate change.
Find out more about Avoidance Offsets and the Voluntary Carbon Market.
There are a whole range of reasons. To us, some of the most compelling are:
- So the industry reaches about 10 billion tonnes of capacity by 2050 - the "net" bit of Net Zero
- The ratio of carbon removal in the Voluntary Carbon Markets needs to increase (compared to other approaches like avoidance or reduction)
- No one carbon removal type or company is going to be big enough on its own, we need a range of solutions and providers
- When combined with reducing emissions from everything we do, carbon removal will be a key tool to slow and then reverse climate change
- Funding and investing in it now helps to reduce the cost per tonne it takes to remove the carbon. Decreasing the cost by increasing demand will support the growth in supply of high-quality carbon removal options and capacity volume.
More on why we should invest in carbon removal now.
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