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PRECONTEXTIn 2025, despite growing global awareness and rising investment in climate action, the state of the climate and greenhouse gas emissions continued to highlight a persistent gap between ambition and outcomes. According to the Global Carbon Budget 2025, global fossil CO₂ emissions rose by approximately 1.1% in 2025, reaching record levels of around 38 Gt CO₂ and pushing atmospheric concentrations to an annual average exceeding 426 ppm, more than 50% above pre-industrial levels. These emissions trends are translating directly into rising temperatures. Data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service and other agencies indicate that in 2025, the world experienced its third-warmest year on record. The last 11 years are the warmest ever recorded, and the average temperature from 2023 to 2025 has now risen more than 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, marking a critical threshold referenced in the Paris Agreement. Meanwhile, the UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2025 finds that current national policies and pledges remain misaligned with pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C, placing the world on a trajectory of approximately 2.3 °C to 2.8 °C of warming by the end of the century, depending on implementation. The consequences of this trajectory are already becoming visible in economic and human terms. The Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2025 indicates that average direct losses from climate-related disasters rose from approximately $70-80 billion per year between 1970 and 2000 to $180-200 billion per year during 2001-2020, with total costs exceeding $2.3 trillion annually when indirect and ecosystem impacts are considered. According to the charity Christian Aid’s 2025 annual assessment, the world’s top 10 climate-related disasters alone caused more than $120 billion in economic losses. The human toll is rising as well. The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change 2025 reports a 23% increase in heat-related mortality since the 1990s, reaching an estimated 546,000 deaths per year. Projections from the World Economic Forum suggest climate change could contribute to around 14.5 million additional deaths globally by mid-century under current trends. These conditions have sharpened scientific and policy discussion around a broad portfolio of climate responses - deep mitigation and rapid emissions reduction, expansion of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) approaches, and rigorous, transparent research on solar geoengineering (SRM) and other climate intervention strategies, to manage both near-term risks and long-term stabilization goals. This animation shows the expected impact of climate disasters on GDP from the year 2030 to 2100 (Source)2025 CDR Year in ReviewFor those unfamiliar: Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) refers to anthropogenic activities that remove CO₂ from the atmosphere and durably store it in geological, terrestrial, or ocean reservoirs, or in products, to counter residual emissions and limit global warming. TABLE OF CONTENTSIf you find this work valuable, consider supporting us with a paid subscription and share this post to help reach a wider audience. MARKET SNAPSHOTThroughout 2025, the Carbon Removal industry experienced noteworthy expansion, driven by significant corporate acquisitions, government funding initiatives, noteworthy fundraising efforts by emerging startups and high-profile announcements.Durable CDR purchases exceeded $11 billion in 2025, representing an increase of roughly 230% compared with the $3.34 billion spent in 2024. Over the same period, the volume of carbon removal sold rose to more than 43 million tonnes, a jump of approximately 235% from the 12.8 million tonnes sold in 2024.However, delivery performance moved in the opposite direction. Only 2.7% of total volumes purchased were delivered in 2025, compared with 4.2% delivered in 2024, a relative decline of about 36%. This widening gap between contracting and delivery highlights persistent challenges the industry faces in scaling operations to meet surging demand.
KEY HIGHLIGHTSHere is an overview of the CDR landscape in 2025:The carbon removal market in 2025 was overwhelmingly shaped by a single buyer. Microsoft accounted for roughly 90% of all CDR credits purchased, making it by far the dominant source of demand, while Exomad Green ranked as the largest supplier. (Jump to relevant section for more details)Delivery outcomes continued to favor deployable pathways. Biochar accounted for the largest share of carbon removal volumes delivered in 2025, reflecting buyer preference for technologies with proven, near-term execution.Despite persistent scaling constraints, the durable CDR market reached a milestone, surpassing 1 million tonnes in cumulative deliveries for the first time. This progress, however, remained far outpaced by the rapid growth in contracted volumes.Market growth was driven by volume expansion rather than buyer diversification. Retirements and offsets increased by approximately 100 Mt compared with 2024, while the number of unique buyers remained largely unchanged, indicating that rising demand was concentrated among a small group of repeat purchasers. New entrants emerged from Asia and parts of Europe, according to AlliedOffsets.The United States remained the largest CDR market in both purchasing and project development, followed by other established markets including the UK, the Netherlands, and Canada.Institutional acceptance of carbon removal advanced as the Science Based Targets initiative incorporated CDR into the draft Corporate Net-Zero Standard v2, formally positioning removals as a legitimate component of science-aligned corporate climate strategies.Carbon removal also had its first-ever dedicated physical pavilion at UN climate negotiations during COP30.Policy momentum diverged sharply. In the United States, Department of Energy funding reversals and program pauses, particularly affecting Direct Air Capture, slowed deployment and introduced significant uncertainty for large-scale projects. (Jump to relevant section for more details)By contrast, Europe strengthened long-term policy commitments, with Germany allocating nearly €500 million to CDR by 2033 and the UK announcing plans to integrate carbon removal into its emissions trading system by 2029. (Jump to relevant section for more details)Alongside market and policy developments, 2025 saw a rapid expansion of CDR-related infrastructure. New tools, platforms, datasets, methodologies, reports and educational resources were launched to improve market transparency, MRV rigor, and buyer accessibility across all CDR pathways. (Jump to relevant section for more details)
This service costs us around $XXX each month and relies entirely on your donations. Help ensure its future by subscribing to a paid plan. ESSENTIAL CDR RESOURCES FROM 2025Grant Faber compiled a global list of 708 active carbon removal companies spanning DAC, BECCS, biochar, and other durable approaches.Robert Höglund developed 4 interactive calculators that compare fuel costs and volumes and removals for aviation and shipping. Two focus on costs, when is which mitigation alternative cheapest. And two on volumes (how much CO₂ removals are needed for shipping and aviation under different shares of biofuels and electrofuels).Carbon Drawdown Initiative launched a curated directory of shops offering verified carbon dioxide removal. The platform helps individuals and SMEs purchase high-quality CDR quickly, transparently, and without sales calls.Carbon Removal Canada launched the Carbon Console, a comprehensive dashboard that tracks everything happening in Canada’s carbon removal sector in real time.Isometric introduced AI-assisted validation in its Certify platform, marking a first for carbon removal. The tool speeds up reviews by flagging issues early, giving suppliers faster feedback and credit issuance.The World Resources Institute released a roadmap outlining how U.S. states can expand direct air capture by advancing policies, infrastructure, and workforce development to achieve climate goals and drive local economic growth.RMI launched an interactive carbon credit tool that maps credit types, compares quality, and highlights market and regional trends.Cascade Climate launched the Weathering Potential Explorer, a global tool that maps soil and climate conditions to help researchers, developers, and policymakers identify croplands best suited for enhanced rock weathering, supporting carbon removal research and project planning.Everest Carbon validated its third-generation field alkalinity sensor (Everest Pulsar) for Enhanced Weathering Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification and plans to launch sales in early 2026, aiming to provide accurate, cost-effective measurement of carbon removal from rock dust applied to land.Tao Climate launched FlyGuiltFree.com, a global real-time carbon-removal platform for air travellers. The app lets passengers measure flight emissions and offset them instantly using hemp-based carbon removal, verified via AI, satellites, and science.Milkywire released a 5-part weekly CDR email series explaining CDR’s role in net zero, credits, buyer needs, policy trends, diversification, and best practices for getting started with CDR.Carbon Gap developed the Coordinated Allocation of Removal Efforts (CARE) Calculator, an interactive tool to explore EU and national CDR targets based on a global goal, using different methods for distributing responsibility among countries.CarbonPlan launched CDRXIV, an open-access preprint server and data repository for carbon dioxide removal research.Sebastian Manhart, Senior Policy Advisor at Carbonfuture launched a free six-day crash course that clearly and accessibly explains the complexities of EU carbon removal policy.Puro.earth updated its biochar methodology to allow retail sales to earn CORCs with new safeguards.Cascade Climate released ERW Metal Accumulation Calculator (ERW-MAC), a tool to help assess potential metal accumulation risks in soils from enhanced rock weathering projects.Terraset and Commons launched a tax-deductible model to fund vetted CDR portfolios.Perennial launched a platform “Soil Ecosystem Maps” which can identify & estimate the carbon sequestration potential of soils globally.Everest Carbon released a new software using Monte Carlo simulations to model uncertainties in enhanced rock weathering, improving measurement and credit quality for ERW carbon removal projects.Puro.earth launched Puro dMRV Connect. This new digital integration connects digital monitoring, reporting, and verification (dMRV) platforms directly into Puro’s certification platform, MyPuro 2.0.International Wineries for Climate Action launched a global initiative to set a science-based benchmark for soil carbon sequestration in the wine industry.Nasdaq and AirMiners launched the Carbon Academy, a self-paced online course for sustainability professionals and learners to understand carbon removal markets, methods, credit buying, and building CDR portfolios.The Open Standard Carbon Removal Purchase Agreement (OSCAR) launched at COP30, providing an open, standardised contract framework to simplify, speed up, and scale durable CDR deals while reducing friction for buyers and suppliers.Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) developed SINKER, an innovative instrument with advanced microscopes and cameras that track marine snow in real time, revealing how the deep ocean stores and transports carbon.TREEO and biometrio.earth launched the ‘world’s first premium carbon removal credits’ that combine data-driven single-tree monitoring with cutting-edge biodiversity analytics.Carbon Herald launched dedicated carbon removal podcast hub.UPM Timber launched a carbon storage calculator to help calculate carbon sequestration in wood and assess its climate impact.Rainbow published its Enhanced Rock Weathering methodology for durable, field-verified carbon removal.IBI and HAMERKOP published 2025 manual for biochar carbon removal.The Grantham Research Institute, in partnership with AlliedOffsets relaunched TRACEcdr, an upgraded tool to boost transparency in the CDR market.[C]Worthy and CarbonPlan released the first Direct Ocean Removal Efficiency Map, charting where and when CO₂ can be effectively pulled from the sea—and how storage losses bite into total impact.CDR.fyi launched nbs.CDR.fyi, a public tracker for forest-based carbon credit commitments.Dalhousie University’s Ocean Frontier Institute launched mCDR COMPASS to track CDR progress in Canada.Supercritical launched a new platform for simple purchase of verified biochar credits.Isometric launched Area Suitability Check tool for reforestation suppliers.Climate Tech Atlas launched to showcase climate solutions such as greenhouse gas removal.Xilva launched MONITOR tool to flag early risks in CDR portfolios.Octavia Carbon, with atmosfair gGmbH launched an ‘Adopt a DAC Machine’ model. The scheme lets buyers fund new Direct Air Capture units while securing multi-year carbon credit allocations, aiming to speed up deployment of durable carbon removal.Rainbow & Sinkco launched MRV protocol for biomass burial under marine sediment.Meta, in collaboration with Georgia Institute of Technology and CuspAI, released the Open DAC 2025 (ODAC25) dataset, comprising nearly 70 million new data points on DAC sorbents, to help identify efficient materials in the technology.Exomad Green & Carbonfuture released The Power of Biochar, a documentary on biochar production in the Bolivian Amazon.Cascade Climate launched ERW Data Quarry - a new data-sharing platform for enhanced rock weathering projects.Ocean Visions released a new environmental impact assessment framework for marine CDR research, aiming to guide safe and effective ocean interventions.Frontier released a new primer offering a clear, non-technical overview - covering the underlying chemistry, durability, MRV complexities, and why buyers are starting to take Alkalinity Enhancement in oceans seriously.Isometric launched a new GHG accounting module, creating what it describes as the first universal framework for measuring emissions and removals across all carbon removal pathways.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Submarine Scientific, and Carbon to Sea released the Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement Data Management Protocol, a first-of-its-kind framework outlining standards for preparing, documenting, and sharing data from OAE field research.Perennial launched VT0014, the first Verra-approved AI tool for digital soil carbon measurement.Marine CDR Coalition launched by the Carbon Business Council and World Ocean Council to unite industry, nonprofits, and academics to advance responsible ocean carbon removal after two years of stakeholder dialogue.BioEnergy Development launched a biomass-fueled microgrid supplying power to AI and crypto, while also delivering carbon-negative energy and removal.Mitsubishi Research Institute and Mitsubishi Corporation planned to launch the Japan CDR Council. The initiative aims to unite diverse stakeholders to accelerate CDR development and build a robust carbon removal ecosystem in Japan.NZZ Format released a documentary spotlighting Swiss carbon removal leaders, including Climeworks, Neustark, and Carbfix, examining whether today’s limited global capacity (~1 Mt) can scale fast enough to meet mid-century climate goals.Tierrasphere unveiled the world’s first CDR methodology based on photosynthesis-driven oxalate-carbonate mineralization.RC Technologies launched a financial rebate program to boost CDR adoption by businesses.CUR8 launched an offtake financing product to help overcome major CDR industry barriers.Third Way released new series of renderings to show how America can combine nascent CDR approaches with its legacy industries to create durable jobs for everyday Americans, improving local communities, and solidifying the US’ place as a global leader in technological innovation.Open Ocean Robotics launched first USV for MRV of marine CDR—already selling to leading research institutions.Carbon Removal Canada launched Carbon Console, a real-time dashboard tracking Canada’s CDR projects, companies, and capacity.Ocean Visions launched a Marine CDR Ecosystem Database to map sector activity.Yard Stick & Soil Health Institute developed a probe, validated by Geoderma, for in-field soil carbon measurement.Carbon Direct and Microsoft released science-based criteria to guide high-quality marine CDR projects and credit purchases.Removall Carbon and Sumitomo Corporation launched Summit Removall to co-finance global CDR projects.Artio launched a data-driven insurance product to mitigate risks in early-stage carbon removal credit projects to boost investor confidence.Carbon to Sea & NASEM launched a standing committee to share scientific updates and track ocean-based CDR.Symbiosis Coalition launched a nature-based CDR investor database.The Africa Carbon Removal Accelerator (ACRA) launched to support CDR startups from African countries (ACRA).Share Carbon Removal Updates POLICY PULLBACKS AND PROJECT RETRENCHMENTIn the United States, the Department of Energy paused billions of dollars in funding for large-scale carbon capture and Direct Air Capture hub projects, bringing the DAC Hubs program to a standstill and creating significant uncertainty for projects in Texas and Louisiana.The U.S. DOE also cut $3.7B in clean energy grants, hitting key carbon capture firms. Cement decarbonization startups took major hits - Sublime lost $86.9M, Heidelberg $500M, and Brimstone $189M - stalling progress in low-carbon tech.In California, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed two CDR-related bills - SB 643, which proposed a $50M grant program, and SB 88, which would have integrated biochar into the state’s 2028 Scoping Plan - citing budget constraints and duplication.DAC leader Climeworks reduced its workforce by roughly 22% amid weakening U.S. incentives.In Europe, Sweden’s 2026 budget cut BECCS subsidies from 36bn SEK to 30bn SEK, leaving just 10bn SEK available beyond the already-committed support for Stockholm Exergi.UK’s Drax Group launched consultations to cut up to 100 jobs, largely within its U.S.-based carbon removal arm, Elimini, citing inflation and rising capital costs.The year also saw multiple company closures and pilot cancellations. U.S.-based DAC startup Noya ceased operations after five years, and mineralization-focused Alkali Earth shut down after four years, citing commercial hurdles.Planetary Technologies also cancelled its ocean-based mCDR project in Cornwall. The pilot aimed to boost alkalinity with magnesium hydroxide but was ended due to supply chain challenges and commercial unviability.GOVERNMENT-LED CDR INITIATIVESSweden’s Energy Agency launched a $1.8 B BECCS funding round for CO₂ capture from bioenergy (deadline Aug 13, 2026).Gresham House raised £500M to expand UK forestry and carbon removal, targeting 4.7M tonnes of CO₂ via nature-based credits.Germany’s 2026 budget allocated €476M for CDR through 2033, including €156M this year.The Swiss Federal Office of Energy earmarked 100 million Swiss francs for CDR, CCS and storage projects under the new Climate and Innovation Act.Finland government launched €90m call for proposals for bio-based CO₂ capture projects.Government of Canada committed $10M to carbon removal and launched an RFI to engage the industry on procurement options for CDR services.Norway and Switzerland signed the first bilateral CDR deal under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement, enabling cross-border CO₂ transfers through CDR pilots. By 2028–29, they plan to trade 1K-10 Kt of BECCS CO₂ from Norway and 100-1 Kt of mineralized CO₂ from Switzerland.US Representatives Blake Moore and Jim Costa introduced bipartisan, innovative legislation bolstering the deployment of BECCS technology in the U.S.U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Adam Schiff introduced the Wildfire Reduction and Carbon Removal Act 2025, offering $180/t tax credits for BiCRS projects locking up CO₂ for 1,000+ years - or $60/t for 100+ years.UK government has signed contracts for its first commercial carbon capture & storage projects at Heidelberg Materials’ Padeswood cement plant and Encyclis’s Protos waste-to-energy facility. Together they’ll capture 1.2 million tonnes of CO₂ annually and create ~500 skilled jobs.The UK government released the Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR) Business Model, a framework to unlock private investment in GGRs by providing revenue stability and appropriate risk-sharing under a private law contract.34 governments launched Forest Finance Roadmap to fund anti-deforestation.California has passed three new bills (AB1207, SB804, SB643) to accelerate CDR. They integrate CDR into the Cap & Invest program, open funding through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, and establish a $50M competitive purchase program for eligible CDR projects.In a newly issued proposal, the Swiss government presented the intention of purchasing CDR in addition to ambitious emissions reductions as part of its administration’s strategy for reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.The UK announced plans to fully integrate CDR into its ETS by 2029.The German government launched CORE initiative that will support 12,000 rice farmers with biochar practices to cut emissions and boost soils.The Foreign Pollution Fee Act of 2025, introduced by Sens. Cassidy and Graham, proposed carbon import fees based on emissions intensity relative to U.S. manufacturing standards. It recognizes carbon capture and carbon removal technologies, mainly DAC and mCDR, as valid mitigation strategies to reduce these fees.Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland formed the Nordic Carbon Removal Association (NCRA) to boost CDR advancement in their region.The European Commission adopted implementing rules under the CRCF Regulation, launching a voluntary EU-wide carbon removal certification scheme, alongside plans for an EU Buyers’ Club, a carbon farming database, and a 2026 storage-in-buildings methodology to scale verified removals across agriculture, forestry and land use.Share STARTUP FUNDING VENTURES AND SIGNIFICANT HIGH-PROFILE ANNOUNCEMENTSFINANCINGStockholm Exergi secured 20B SEK in Sweden’s BECCS reverse auction to remove 800,000 tCO₂/yr.Shell, Equinor, and TotalEnergies committed $710 million to expand Norway’s carbon storage project, following a new customer deal with BECCS firm Stockholm Exergi.Manulife raised $480M for its Forest Climate Fund, targeting to capture 6M tCO₂.Origis Energy secured $415M to fund its 145-MW Swift Air Solar project in Texas. The project will power 1PointFive’s STRATOS DAC facility under construction in the Permian Basin.Holcim launched €400M OLYMPUS project in Greece that will capture 1Mt CO₂/year and produce 2Mt low-carbon cement by 2029.Heracles launched a €380M CCUS project at its Greek cement plant, aiming to capture 1Mt CO₂/yr and hit net-zero by 2029.Cibus Capital launched an A$300M fund for Australian forests to generate 11.25M carbon credits over 30 years.All Aboard Coalition of VC firms announced to raise $300M for CDR and climate tech.Rio Tinto joined A$250M soil carbon platform Meldora in Australia.Brazil secured $247M to restore 54,000 hectares of forests in the Amazon and Cerrado to cut 7.75M tonnes of CO₂ and create 21,000 jobs.Chestnut Carbon secured up to $210M in non-recourse financing, led by J.P. Morgan for its afforestation project, marking a first-of-its-kind deal in the US carbon removal space.McDonald’s USA pledged $200M over 7 years for regenerative ranching across 38 states.Climeworks raised $162 million Series E to scale Generation‑3 direct air capture and grow its carbon removal portfolio.Chestnut Carbon raised $160M in Series B to expand afforestation and sequester 100M tons of CO₂ via its Sustainable Restoration Project.Terra CO2 secured $124.5 million Series B to build commercial low-carbon cement facilities.IKEA & BTG Pactual launched forest restoration in Brazil to support €100M carbon removal pledge.XPRIZE awarded $100M in its CDR competition: $50M to Mati Carbon (enhanced weathering), with NetZero, Vaulted Deep, UNDO, Planetary, and Project Harar among the runners-up.ReGenEarth & RER launched £100M green bond to scale global biochar systems.Ardian NBS fund secured €100M from DFIs to back reforestation and wetlands.InSoil secured its largest funding to date through a €100 million agreement with Key Carbon, accelerating regenerative agriculture and carbon credit generation across Europe.Skanska signed $98.7M contract with Stockholm Exergi to lay foundations and build a quay for the BECCS Stockholm facility.GE Vernova invested $96M in New York for decarbonization and CDR.Chestnut Carbon raised $90M (Series B) for U.S. afforestation & carbon removal innovation.Sumitomo & Peak Cluster announced to invest $80M in CO₂ pipeline for UK cement decarbonization.Brazil’s BNDES announced to invest $71M in FS Indústria’s corn-ethanol BECCS project.ReCarber secured SEK 60 million to accelerate BECCS.Five UK cement & lime firms raised £60M to build the world’s largest cement CCS plant, creating 12,500 jobs.BECCS firm, Arbor Energy raised $55M to scale modular turbines for AI data centre electricity demand.Emissions Reduction Alberta launched a $50M fund to support emissions-cutting tech, including BECCS and CDR.Aircapture raised $50M in Series A funding to scale its California-based DAC tech.Frontier signed a $44.2M offtake deal with NULIFE to remove 122,000 tCO₂ via bio-oil and biochar storage from 2026-2030.Frontier buyers signed a $41M offtake with German BECCS firm Reverion to store 96,000 tCO₂ from biogas by 2030.Frontier signed a $41M deal with Arbor for 116,000 tCO₂ removals (2028–2030).Mirova invested $40M in carbon projects in Argentina, Costa Rica & Madagascar to restore 40,000 ha, remove 9.5Mt CO₂ & support local communities.Eion secured a $33M Frontier deal to remove 78,707 tCO₂ (2027-2030) via olivine on U.S. farmland.BeZero Carbon secured $32 million in a Series C funding round.Frontier signed a $31.6M deal with Hafslund Celsio to remove 100,000 tCO₂ (2029–30) via a waste-to-energy retrofit in Oslo.Frontier signed a $31.3M deal with Planetary to scale ocean alkalinity enhancement, aiming to remove 115,211 tCO₂ at $270/t from 2026–2030.Frontier Buyers committed to invest $30.6M in Phlair’s electrochemical DAC to remove 47,000 tons of CO₂ from 2027–2030.Mirova invested $30M in Varaha’s regenerative agriculture project in India.Spiritus raised $30M in Series A to scale Direct Air Capture.Mombak raised $30M Series A to scale Amazon reforestation & carbon removal.Tencent named 50 finalists for CarbonX 2.0, offering $28 M to scale carbon removal and CCUS innovation.Capture6 raised $27.5M to advance carbon removal via waste brine.Mast Reforestation secured $25M for Biomass Carbon Removal & Storage and launched the first restorative carbon removal project.Pure Data Centres invested £24M in UK’s largest biochar facility in Wiltshire. The project will produce ~11,500 tons biochar/year.Solid Carbon project led by UVic & Ocean Networks Canada, secured $24M for ocean-based CO₂ storage research.Fiber Global raised $20M to convert waste into low-carbon building materials.Pegasus Capital plans to invest up to $20M in Partanna to scale CO₂-negative building materials and coastal resilience solutions.CarbonQuest raised $20M to capture CO₂ from buildings and power plant.LEGO Group committed DKK 19M to 4 CDR projects in partnership with Climate Impact Partners & ClimeFi, supporting biochar, ERW, and reforestation.Carbon Upcycling raised $18M to turn waste + CO₂ into cement.ClimeFi facilitated an $18 M, 85,000-t CDR procurement round across eight methods from 10 suppliers.Avnos secured $17M from Shell and Mitsubishi to build its first hybrid direct air capture facility.RepAir raised $15M Series A for DAC tech.Theia Ventures secured $15 million for decarbonisation and industrial biochar technologies.Exterra Carbon Solutions raised $14.5M Series A to scale tech that transforms mining waste into low-carbon materials & sequesters CO₂.Origen secured a $13 million in Series A funding that will enable the scale-up of its innovative limestone-based DAC technology.Puro.earth raised $12.8M in Series B led by Nasdaq to scale its CDR certification platform.Arca raised $12.2M to scale carbon removal at Western Australian mine sites.Biochar firm TOWING raised ~$12M in Series B to scale its high-performance carbon removal tech.Uganda is set to launch first-ever industrial biochar CDR & biochar-based fertilizer production project worth $12 million.Alt Carbon raised $12M seed funding to scale enhanced rock weathering in South Asia .Equatic raised $11.6M Series A led by Temasek Trust’s Catalytic Capital and Kibo Invest.Biochar platform Terraton raised $11.5 million seed funding led by Lowercarbon Capital and Gigascale Capital.ASU received $11.2M from DOE to begin developing a DAC Hub that will feature CarbonCapture’s next generation DAC modules.Deep Sky Alpha secured CA$11M credit for Alberta DAC facility testing 10 DAC technologies with permanent CO₂ storage.Munich-based OCELL landed €10M Series A for AI-driven European forest projects.Limenet raised $8.2M to scale its CDR tech and build its first production site in Sicily.Mote secured $7M in Series A to advance its carbon-negative BiCRS tech.Mission Zero won £6M from the UK government to advance design work for a DAC-enabled SAF plant in Cumbria, building on £1.38M in prior funding.Brineworks raised €6.8M to advance DAC for e-fuels.Rock Flour raised €6.1M seed to scale glacial rock flour enhanced weathering.Carba raised $6M in seed funding led by Rusheen Capital Management and Canopy Generations Fund to scale tech and expand into Asia-Pacific.Carbon Reform raised $5.5M to scale operations and move toward commercialization.ReCarber raised €5.1M to scale high-integrity carbon removals aligned with the Swedish and global climate targets.The Government of Alberta invested $5 million to help Deep Sky build the world’s first direct air capture center.Riverse raised €5M to expand its carbon crediting platform for engineered CDR.Vycarb secured $5M to advance its water-based CO₂ removal and storage tech.Carbon Lock Tech proposed a $5M pyrolysis plant in Manitoba to convert waste into biochar pellets, aiming to produce carbon removal credits alongside other revenue streams.Washington State University launched a $5M, six-year biochar and hemp study for soil, crops & carbon capture.44.01 secured an additional $5M for Series A, bringing total to $42M for mineralisation efforts.Japan’s MUCC invested $5M in MCi carbon to advance cement decarbonization.Paul G. Allen Foundation awarded $5M to six Pacific Northwest nature-based CDR project.Paebbl received $4.7M in EIC Pathfinder grants to develop carbon-sink concrete binders.Ontario invested $4.6M in Haliburton Forest Biochar for engineered biochar tech.Qualterra secured $4.5M to expand biochar production and launch carbon credits.Nebraska launched $4.4 million grant program to fund biochar facilities.The University of Calgary received $4.3M to fund three projects on CCS, CCUS, and CDR.Carbon to Sea & MEOPAR announced to invest C$4M in ocean CDR research and development across Canada.Black Bull Biochar secured £4M in late-seed funding co-led by TSP Ventures and GMCA Investment Fund.CarbonZero emerged from stealth with a $3.5M seed round for biochar-based CO₂ removal, backed by tech executives.BIOSORRA raised $3.5M to scale biochar carbon removal and regenerative agriculture.Canada Nickel Company Inc. received $3.4 million in federal funding to develop a technology that uses mine tailings to store carbon.Baden-Württemberg invested €3M in hydrogen and carbon removal tech via two ZSW projects.RepAir Carbone signed a $3M deal with Shell & Mitsubishi for Louisiana’s Pelican DAC Hub project.B.C. Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy launched Canada’s first CDR fund, offering $3M for early-stage, hard-tech carbon removal projects.Equilibrium raised $3M seed funding to expand carbon removal projects.DACLab exited stealth with $3M to launch “Kelvin,” a cost-efficient DAC system for e-fuels & CO₂ sequestration.The Government of Canada awarded CA$2.5M to TerraFixing to develop DAC suited for cold climates.NorthX invested US$2.4 M in four Canadian CDR startups: CarbonRun, Skyrenu, NULIFE Greentech, and pHathom.BlueShift secured $2.1M pre-seed to advance ocean-based carbon removal & critical minerals.Brineworks secured €1.8M to supercharge its Direct Ocean Capture technology.Hempalta Corp. secured $2 million funding and transitions to carbon-focused model with expanded biochar initiatives.Verde closed $2M investment from Ergon to commercialize BioAsphalt™ carbon-sequestering tech.The INVEST-CDR project received €2M from Sweden’s Formas to advance BECCS and DACCS in Nordics.SeaO2, in collaboration with TU Delft, University of Twente, and NERA secured nearly $2M for a seawater-to-e-SAF project via TKI Energy and Industry program.Yale researchers won $1.9M from Bezos Earth Fund to build AI for marine CO₂ removal forecasts and ocean bicarbonate modeling.Brineworks awarded $1.92M EIC grant to scale electrochemical platform capturing CO₂ & producing green hydrogen.Ottawa-based DAC developer Terrafixing secured $1.8M from the Canadian government.Frontier facilitated $1.75M in CDR purchases from Karbonetiq, Limenet & pHathom for buyers including Stripe, Shopify & Google.Homeworld Collective awarded ~$1.4M to 11 GGR projects via its Garden Grants, backing innovations like methane-eating microbes and enhanced rock weathering.Cascade Climate awarded $1.2M to 9 ERW field data projects with Google, Frontier, and Grantham.Carbon Cell secured £1.2M to scale biochar-based foam that locks CO₂.Sequestra raised €1.1M to develop technology to permanently store CO₂ in industrial waste.Moore Foundation granted $1M to Colorado Mines for biochar concrete research.Wise added £1M to its Opna partnership, bringing total to £1.5M for nature-based projects in Latin America & APAC.Cool Effect launched $1M award for carbon reduction/removal projects.Gevo, a US-based sustainable aviation fuel producer, generated $1 million in revenue from selling BECCS credits during the second quarter.Aston University secured £700k for biochar R&D.Homeostasis raised $600K to turn atmospheric captured CO₂ into industrial graphite.UK fintech Wise pledged £500K to support nature-based and hybrid CDR in Latin America and Asia-Pacific.Cytochrome Technologies received ~$438k for its new Carbon sequestration tech.Arca won $315K from MICA to scale microwave-based Mineral Activation, boosting CO₂ reactivity of mine waste 1000x.Graphyte secured $250K prepurchase for 450 tons of durable carbon removals via Frontier Buyers Club.CURA received $100K funding from NorthX Climate Tech to support its technology.CO2RE funded five carbon removal projects with £75,000 each.CIEIF announced completion of its fourth round of US$ 75,000 grants towards EIA for climate restoration projects. The recipients are Acacia Impact Innovation, HighTechXL, Global Ocean Health, and SeaO2.The Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund completed third round and awarded $75K to Bennu Climate, Frost Methane & ZeroEx.Heirloom received investments from the Development Bank of Japan and Chiyoda Corporation to scale its DAC technology.Carbonfuture closed its Series A2 round led by SIX with participation from Idemitsu America Holdings.Octavia Carbon secured investment from Carbon Drawdown Initiative to sacle DAC in Kenya.DEALS AND PARTNERSHIPSArtichoke Trust partnered with CUR8 to neutralize emissions from The Gallery S5 via high-integrity CDR projects.The Mercedes Formula 1 team partnered with Chestnut Carbon to support high-quality CDR projects across the Southeastern United States.Chestnut Carbon signed multi-year carbon credit deal with TD Bank from its forest management projects.Netflix inked 15-year ARR credit deal with American Forest Foundation.Carbon Direct partnered with Varme Energy on Canada’s first commercial waste-to-energy facility with carbon capture.VCM partnered with Altitude to scale high-integrity carbon removals in the Global South.Google bought 200,000 tons of reforestation credits from Mombak.Barclays signed deal with UNDO to permanently remove 6,538 tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere.Residual partnered with Rainbow Standard to offer verified biochar carbon-removal credits.Charm Industrial teamed with Mangrove Systems on MRV infrastructure for digital carbon-removal tracking.ADM and Super6 Carbon signed an MoU to produce CDR credits via CO₂ storage at Decatur, Illinois.JP Morgan Chase agreed to buy 50,000 tonnes of carbon removals over 10 years from 1PointFive’s new DAC plant in Texas.United Airlines announced to invest in Hirloom and secured rights to purchase 500,000 tons of CO2 for sequestration or use in making cleaner jet fuel.Frontier Infrastructure Holdings signed an offtake agreement with Wild Assets for up to 120,000 tonnes of BECCS credits.Microsoft entered a 12-year deal with Agoro Carbon to purchase 2.6 million credits from regenerative farming.Microsoft teamed up with Anew Climate and Aurora Sustainable Lands on a 10-year deal to deliver 4.8 million nature-based credits.Southwire partnered with Algae Tree and UGA to pilot a microalgae photobioreactor that captures CO₂ at the rate of about 38 mature trees.Carbon Futures joined the South East Regional Delivery Alliance to support 109 Net Zero homes in Scotland.Return Carbon partnered with Permian Energy Lab on Trinity DAC test site; Phase 1 targets 10,000 tons/year, scaling to 100,000–500,000/year in Phase 2.Air New Zealand partnered with My Native Forest to buy 8,000 tonnes of verified forest carbon removals by 2030.LongStraw Carbon partnered with Isometric to issue carbon credits from biochar made from rice husks and corn cobs.agriCARBON-CZ partnered with Isometric to issue verified biochar credits via Karbotech One.Wild Assets partnered with Vericap to accelerate investment in CO₂ removal projects.Canada Nickel partnered with NetCarb to use Crawford Project tailings for carbon removal.Varaha issued Asia’s first Puro.earth-verified enhanced rock weathering carbon credits.TOWING partnered with SCG Cement (Thailand) to use microbial biochar tech for soil and agriculture benefits.Neustark and Fehr partnered to decarbonize concrete in Alsace using carbon-storing tech.PepsiCo & Cargill partnered to expand regenerative ag on 240,000 Iowa acres by 2030.City CDR Initiative announced partners mapping carbon removal deployment in cities.Verde AgriTech and UNDO Carbon formed commercial partnership for enhanced rock weathering carbon credits.Arca signed a 10-year deal with Microsoft to remove 300,000 tCO₂ using mineralization of mine waste.CO280 signed a landmark 3.69 million tonne agreement with Microsoft over 12 years to scale-up carbon dioxide removal in the us pulp and paper industry.Orbital Materials and Civo partnered to pilot Orbital’s carbon removal tech at Civo’s data center.Sayari Earth and Stellenbosch University partnered to use mobile biochar technology to convert invasive alien plants into a stable carbon product to address climate change.NYK signed 2nd DAC credit deal with 1PointFive to offset residual emissions via Texas STRATOS facility.Gevo partnered with Biorecro NA to commercialize carbon removal credits from North Dakota facility.Microsoft signed a multi-year deal with Gaia - a joint venture between Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and Vestforbrænding for 2.95 MtCO₂ engineered removals.Swedish firm Heba signed 15-year deal with Stockholm Exergi for permanent negative emissions from district heating.Microsoft signed world’s largest carbon removal deal to buy 6.75M tons of BECCS-based CDR from AtmosClear over 15 years.Limenet partnered with Isometric to enter the ocean CDR market.IMC Trading secured 4,000 tonnes of Carboneers biochar credits via offtake with Cawa.Schneider Electric & Climeworks teamed up to remove 31,000 t CO₂ by 2039 via DAC.Varaha signed 5-yr deal with Louis Dreyfus to supply 6,000 tCO₂/yr credits from agri projects.Stockholm Exergi & Microsoft expanded their BECCS deal from 3.33 to 5.08 Mt over 10 years.Climeworks & NYK signed a multi-year deal to remove CO₂ via a portfolio including ERW, biochar, and BECCS.Nordbex and Aker Solutions signed an MoU to develop Bio-CCUS plants across Europe.Verde and Ergon partnered to commercialize carbon-sequestering road materials.SQUAKE and Deep Sky partnered for MRV-backed carbon removal credits with verified storage on its platform.Regreen & Nestlé partnered to restore 2,000+ ha of Atlantic Forest, generating 880K carbon credits in 30 years.Carbonfuture partnered with Biomass Projects and Residual to dMRV a biochar project that aims to remove 500ktCO2/year using invasive biomass.1PointFive signed 5-year deal to supply Palo Alto Networks with 10,000 tCO₂/yr from Stratos DAC.Deep Sky & McGill St-Laurent partnered to deliver 3,000 tCO₂ DAC credits starting 2027.Vaulted Deep signed 12-year offtake deal with Microsoft for up to 4.9 million tonnes of CO₂ by 2038.Bain & Company partnered with ZeroEx to scale up enhanced rock weathering projects.Ebb Carbon partnered with Saudi Water Authority to convert desalination brine into megaton-scale CO₂ removals.Greengine and Rewind Earth partnered on underground biomass storage development.Global Innovation Fund & Mati Carbon expanded enhanced rock weathering across five Global South regions.C2X & Microsoft signed a 3.6 Mt durable CDR deal from the Beaver Lake project (Louisiana), delivered over 12 years.Boomitra signed the largest-ever soil CDR deal for 500,000 credits with Restoration Climate and the Ethereum Climate Platform.Hafslund Celsio inked a deal with Microsoft to supply 1M+ tons CO₂ removal credits over 10 years from its BECCS project.Cowboy Clean Fuels and Mangrove Systems teamed up to deploy digital MRV on Wyoming CDR & RNG sites.Elimini and HOFOR signed a joint agreement to explore a major BECCS project at Copenhagen’s Amagerværket power plant.JPMorgan signed a 13-year, $200/ton CDR deal with CO280 to remove 450,000 tons of biogenic CO₂.Exomad Green signed a 10-year, 1.24M-ton biochar CDR deal with Microsoft.Revalue and Carbon Containment Lab partnered to convert thinned biomass into stable carbon stored in mangrove ecosystems.Marks & Spencer partnered with Black Bull Biochar to buy biochar carbon credits for poultry farms, boosting welfare and nutrient retention.Eion secured a carbon removal offtake deal with Ripple, facilitated by Watershed, to scale rural-based CDR in the U.S.Microsoft partnered with Equinor to develop CCS and CDR credits in NW Europe & US.Google announced to remove 50,000 tCO₂ via Vaulted Deep & certify avoided methane with Isometric.Altitude agreed to buy 360,000 t CDR from Alcom and purchased another 165,000 t from biochar projects in Argentina, West Africa, and Southeast Asia.US SAF firm Avfuel partnered with Frontier Infrastructure Holdings to purchase BECCS credits from the “Project Sprint” initiative in the Mountain West.Microsoft partnered with Equinor to develop CCS and CDR credits in NW Europe & US.EnEarth partnered with Heidelberg Materials for Bulgaria’s first large-scale cement CCS.Deep Sky signed a framework agreement with the W8banaki Nation to collaboratively develop carbon removal projects in Québec.Microsoft signed a long-term deal with Chestnut Carbon to restore 60,000 acres of forest, supporting its 100Mt CO₂ removal goal over 50 years.Lithium developer Winsome Resources partnered with Arca, Exterra Carbon Solutions, Aquarry, and Isometric to establish the world’s first CDR Hub at the Renard mine site in Quebec.1PointFive inked a 25-year agreement to sequester 2.3M tCO₂/yr from CF Industries’ upcoming low-carbon ammonia plant in Louisiana.Capture6 teamed up with registry Isometric to issue credits from Project Wallaby, its DAC venture with Pilot Energy in Australia.CO2 Lock & EmitIQ teamed up to sell 33% of credits from a BC mineralization project—targeting 300,000 verified CDR credits/year.Great Carbon Valley signed a deal with Beyond Captur to co-develop a DAC project in Kenya, one of Africa’s first major DAC efforts.Gevo sold BECCS credits from its newly acquired ethanol facility in North Dakota, expanding its carbon removal footprint.Rubicon Carbon signed an offtake with Bio-Logical for 15,000 t biochar credits from its Mt. Kenya facility.1PointFive partnered with Liverpool Football Club to offset the carbon footprint of their fan merchandise by utilizing CDR credits generated through 1PointFive’s DAC process.Varaha secured a multimillion-dollar investment from Conductor Capital to expand carbon removal projects across India and Nepal.Alt Carbon partnered with Climeworks to deliver high-durability ERW credits from the Darjeeling Revival Project.Microsoft announced to buy up to 18M tCO₂ of nature-based removal credits from Rubicon Carbon.Mati Carbon secured JPMorgan debt financing to scale ERW in India & Sub-Saharan Africa.Capgemini signed CDR offtakes for 29.5 ktCO₂ via Climeworks and Charm Industrial.Varhad announced to sell 6,000 CDR credits from its 2nd biochar site to Carbonfuture.The Carbon Removers picked Isometric to register 50,000 tCO₂/yr stored beneath the North Sea.Zurich Insurance Group signed a deal with Nellie Technologies for 17,500 tCDR generated through the production of biochar over 5 years.Liverpool FC unveiled world’s first carbon-negative football jersey using DAC offsets via 1PointFive.Groundwork BioAg partnered with Sustainable Travel International to offer travelers and businesses access to premium CDR credits from mycorrhizal fungi applied in cropland.Microsoft partnered with EFM to purchase up to 3 Mt of nature-based removal credits toward its 2030 carbon-negative goal.Gigablue signed the largest mCDR agreement with SkiesFifty for the sequestration of 200,000 tonnes of CO2 over the next four year.Road Scholar partnered with Klimate to fund long-term CDR innovation and procure high-quality removal credits.Enfinium teamed up with Isometric on its Parc Adfer CCS project, targeting 120,000 t of durable CDR credits by 2030.Microsoft signed an offtake deal with Terradot to remove 12,000 tonnes of CO₂ via enhanced rock weathering between 2026–2029.InPlanet & Microsoft agreed on 28,900 t of enhanced weathering CDR in Brazil under Isometric’s protocol.Canada Nickel partnered with NetCarb to scale mineral carbon sequestration at Crawfield.Ebb Carbon & Google signed a prepurchase for 3,500 t CDR, following Ebb’s desalination decarbonisation project in Saudi Arabia.SeaCURE launched UK pilot to remove 100t CO₂/year from seawater with £3M government support.Lithos Carbon received certification for 5,160 t of enhanced weathering CDR, the largest issuance to date.AltCarbon issued Asia’s largest ERW credits to Mitsui O.S.K. Lines.Perennial & Valor Carbon partnered to accelerate soil carbon projects globally.Boeing announced to buy up to 100,000 t CO₂ removal from Charm Industrial’s bio-oil tech.Altitude announced to buy 50,000 tCO₂ removal credits from GreenGlow’s Southeast Asia biochar sites.Capture6 partnered with Isometric to issue credits from Project Wallaby under its rigorous DAC protocol.SWISS Airlines signed a multi-year deal with Neustark, backing 38 CO₂ storage sites across seven European countries.Carbon EX & Sylvera partnered to improve Japan carbon market transparency.AURELIA Design and CALCAREA partnered to advance ocean-based carbon capture in commercial shipping.Supercritical partnered with Exomad Green to secure 130,000 tonnes of biochar carbon removal.Nordea signed a multi-year agreement with BECCS company Inherit Carbon Solutions to purchase 68,000 tonnes of CDR.Spanish airline Volotea signed a two-year deal with a DAC developer, 280earth, to explore carbon credit projects.Climeworks partnered with TikTok and Two Drifters to remove over 6,000 tons of CO₂ through DAC, biochar, and reforestation.Aarksee Group & Soletair Power formed a strategic alliance to deploy the world’s first integrated microalgae-sequestered CCS tech across the Middle East and India.ReCarber and Skellefteå Kraft partnered to explore BECCS at Hedensbyn district heating in Sweden.KAIST, KRICT & Ecopro HN teamed up to use DAC to enrich greenhouse crops with captured CO₂.Arbonics partnered with Treebula to expand CDR in Sweden, allowing 300,000 forest owners to earn credits via AI-driven forestry.Chestnut Carbon & Funga partnered to scale forest restoration and carbon removal in the US.Carbon to Sea partnered with Ocean Visions and others to spotlight African ocean-climate innovation at Africa Climate Summit 2.Microsoft signed a 5-year deal with Carba for 44kt of biochar removals.Mitsui OSK Lines partnered with Climeworks to remove 13,400 metric tons of CO₂ by 2030.Perdue AgriBusiness and Eion teamed up for ERW deployment to remove 3,500 tons of CO₂.Deep Sky partnered with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation to accelerate DAC and CDR deployment in Japan.Everest Carbon partnered with Inplanet to deploy MRV sensors for enhanced weathering credits.Soletair Power & Carbonaide collaborated on carbon capture and net-negative concrete solutions.Boomitra’s Mexico grassland project joined Querétaro’s compliance scheme as first Verra soil carbon project.Frontier Infrastructure Holdings signed offtake with Wild Assets for 120,000 t high-permanence BECCS CORCs.MaRS Discovery District and M-Lab pre-purchased CDR credits from six Canadian startups to fund early-stage tech.Farm Credit Canada invested in UNDO to advance enhanced rock weathering for sustainable farming.IMC purchased DAC credits from Sirona Technologies to support high-integrity carbon removal.Mizuho, a Japanese Mega Bank joined NextGen CDR as a major buyer of permanent carbon removals.Absolute Climate partnered with Vesta to develop methodologies for Vesta’s ocean carbon capture pathway.Clyde & Co struck a five-year deal with Nature Broking to remove 10,000 tCO₂/year through 2028.Kenya’s Octavia Carbon secured 10-year DAC offtake via Carbonfuture.Climeworks partnered with Sylvera to strengthen carbon intelligence and ratings.[C]Worthy secured multi-year support to scale open-source marine CDR tools.Volkswagen ClimatePartner invested in 60 ha UK peatland restoration project, aiming to cut 12,000 tCO₂e over 100 years.Microsoft received 60,000 soil carbon credits from Indigo Ag—its largest delivery yet—toward 2030 carbon-negative goals.Perennial and rTek launched a 10-year deal to monitor, report, and verify global grassland regeneration.Gevo agreed to buy $637K in CO2 from South 8 Energy as part of its North Dakota carbon capture and ethanol acquisition.Planet Savers & Australian Carbon Vault signed an MoU to pilot DAC with onshore CO₂ storage in South Australia.MOL & Isometric formed a partnership to issue CDR credits supporting shipping decarbonisation.DACMA and Deep Sky signed a long-term agreement to co-develop DAC facilities in CanadaBeZero Carbon partnered with Chloris Geospatial to improve forest carbon measurement.Terraset & Commons launched a tax-deductible donation model to channel philanthropy into vetted CDR portfolios.Share PROJECTSDeep Sky injected CO₂ at its Thetford Mines site using Skyrenu’s DAC pilot, marking Quebec’s first permanent geological CO₂ storage.Onnu & ReGenEarth launched a waste-to-energy facility at Hope Farm (UK) using CarboFlow pyrolysis, targeting 4,300 tCO₂e removals per year.Holcim & 44.01 began a first-of-its-kind cement CO₂ mineralisation pilot in Fujairah, UAE, aiming to capture 5 tCO₂ per day.ON Power and Carbfix launched Europe’s first onshore CO₂ mineral storage facility at a geothermal plant in Iceland.Takachar received first ever certification for biochar-based CDR credits for their Facility in the USA by Puro.earth.Airbuild announced Project Photosynthesis, the world’s first self-powered system to capture CO₂, treat water, and create regenerative biochar.44.01 scaled up its UAE mineralisation project to inject 20 tCO₂ per day, a tenfold increase over its XPRIZE-winning system.Climeworks opened its DAC Innovation Center, the world’s largest, to accelerate next-gen DAC testing and cost reductions.Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Worley set to build UK’s first full-scale CCS at Padeswood, aiming to generate 800,000 tCO₂/yr by 2029.Stockholm Exergi began building BECCS plant in Sweden (800 ktCO₂/year).Great Carbon Valley & Beyond Captur announced to launch Kenya’s first electrochemical DAC pilot.CarbonZero.Eco unveiled its first commercial biochar plant in California and signed its first carbon credit deal with Climeworks (volume undisclosed).NetZero opened a biochar plant in Paraguaçu, Brazil, processing 16,000 t biomass/year and removing 6,000+ tCO₂ while supporting 250 farmers.Kawasaki Heavy Industries completed a major DAC demo unit in Kobe, capturing 100–200 tCO₂/year.CarbiCrete & Isobloc unveiled North America’s first cement-free insulated block.Pure DC committed £24m to the UK’s largest biochar facility in Wiltshire, targeting up to 18,500 tCO₂ removals/year.Airhive opened a 1,000 t/yr DAC system at DeepSky, Alberta, aiming for sub-$500/t CO₂ capture by 2026.Canada Nickel launched carbon sequestration pilot at Crawford Nickel Project with U.S. DOE & UT Austin.CO280 completed a carbon-capture field pilot at a U.S. pulp & paper mill, advancing biogenic CO₂ removal projects for 2030.Deep Sky began operating Airbus DAC technology at its Alpha facility, removing 250 tCO₂/year.Onnu deployed its first CarboFlow pyrolysis units in Malaysia, producing ~1,900 t biochar/year.Altitude secured 120,000 t of Puro.earth-verified biochar CORCs from facilities in West Africa.Svante & Södra announced to launch a biogenic CO₂ capture pilot at Sweden’s Värö site in 2026.MCi Carbon launched “Myrtle,” a CO₂-to-materials demo plant in Newcastle to convert captured CO₂ into building materials.Return Carbon & PEDL partnered on a DAC and storage hub in Texas’s Permian Basin, targeting 100,000–500,000 tCO₂/year.Sirona Technologies and Cella Minerals launched Project Jacaranda, a DAC and carbon mineralization initiative in Kenya.Kellanova and Varaha launched a 5-year regen-corn program in Maharashtra to remove ~100,000 tCO₂.CarbonBuilt began commercial production of low carbon concrete products in Connecticut.CarbonCapture / True North Carbon announced to deploy the Tamarack DAC system at Deep Sky Alpha (Alberta), targeting up to 2,000 tCO₂/year.Phytostone launched biochar-based, cement-free wall and plaster products, cutting construction emissions while boosting insulation.Airchive launched a low-cost DAC system targeting <$500/tCO₂.Rewind launched DMS Georgia, the first deep-mine carbon storage project, targeting 50,000 tCO₂e/year by 2027.Mati Carbon received an AApre rating from BeZero, the highest for an Indian climate tech project, validating its enhanced weathering approach.MASH Makes opened India’s first industrial-scale biofuel and biochar CDR facility in Udupi.Ebb Carbon began operations at Project Macoma (Washington), demonstrating ocean alkalinity enhancement to cut acidification and remove CO₂.Skytree unveiled a DAC system producing beverage-grade liquid CO₂ on-site for drinks manufacturers.Carbo Culture announced ARC Middenmeer, a commercial biochar facility in the Netherlands for permanent CDR and renewable energy generation.CarbonCapture launched Project Tamarack at Alberta’s Deep Sky Alpha facility.SironaTechnologies launched Project Moringa, a solar powered DAC initiative in Oman and UAE.Varaha achieved Asia’s first registry-backed enhanced weathering credit issuance via Puro.earth in Madhya Pradesh.Deep Sky completed Deep Sky Alpha, the world’s first cross-technology carbon removal center, enabling real-world testing of multiple DAC systems and targeting 3,000 tCO₂/yr in Alberta.Green Carbon in collaboration with The Varhad Group and Nature Base Consulting launched a biochar project in India, aiming for 110,000 tons of CDR credits per plant over 15 years.Novocarbo issued its first carbon credits from a biochar-enhanced asphalt pilot in Germany.Prometheus, Spiritus, and Casper Carbon partnered to build $500M carbon-negative data campus in Wyoming.Truecoco (Ghana) became the first Puro-certified CDR project in West Africa, issuing credits from coconut-husk biochar.Travertine selected Isometric as the registry for its first commercial plant, expected to deliver more than 10,000tCO₂ between 2028 and 2030.Deep Sky announced plans for a Manitoba DAC facility targeting 500,000 tCO₂/year at full scale, with construction starting in 2026.Microsoft backed Fortera to build a 400k t/yr low-carbon cement plant and secure EACs for Scope 3 cuts.Aircapture launched Japan’s first DAC-to-concrete project with a commercial unit in Fukushima.GE Vernova announced to deploy DAC at Deep Sky’s Alpha hub in Alberta, capturing 1,500 tCO₂/yr by 2026.Occidental announced its STRATOS DAC facility is 94% complete and on track to launch by end-2025, targeting 500,000 tCO₂/yr in permanent storage.Mission Zero activated its third DAC unit at Deep Sky Alpha (Alberta), a solar-powered system capturing up to 250 tCO₂/yr, marking its first international deployment.Carbon Upcycling and Ash Grove broke ground on Canada’s first CCU cement plant, backed by CA$10M, to produce 30,000 t/year of low-carbon material.Planboo & Carboneers launched a biochar project in Oti, Ghana, enabling cacao farmers to convert ag waste into biochar, cutting methane 94% with digital MRV.Sunrock Industries & Lithos Carbon launched North Carolina’s first enhanced rock weathering project.Boomitra launched its first BiCRS project in Botswana, turning invasive woody biomass into underground carbon bales while restoring savannas and creating rural jobs.Microsoft piloted use of data center waste heat to power Direct Air Capture systems.Phlair & Carbon Removal partnered to build Europe’s largest DAC storage project in Øygarden, Norway.Svante opened a commercial gigafactory in Burnaby to produce carbon capture/removal filters with up to 10 MtCO₂/yr capacity.Vestforbrænding & Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners planned a BECCS site near Copenhagen for carbon credits.Suntory and TOWING launched a biochar pilot using beverage byproducts to boost fertilizer efficiency and cut emissions.Climeworks reported DAC tests with Svante adsorbents doubled capture capacity while cutting energy use 50%.Radisson Hotel Group launched Net Zero hotels in Manchester and Oslo using emissions cuts and Agreena-backed offsets.Carbonity, Canada’s first industrial biochar plant, launched with 10,000 t/year capacity - set to triple by 2026.Releaf Earth launched Nigeria’s first industrial biochar plant, targeting 40,000–60,000 tCO₂ removed by 2030.MioTech’s Nian’da facility became the first Chinese biochar project to issue Puro CO₂ Removal Certificates.Elematic & Carbonaide launched world’s first CO₂-cured precast concrete via a commercial partnership.Carbfix secured Europe’s first onshore CO₂ storage permit, enabling up to 106,000 t/yr in Icelandic basalt.Mission Zero opened world’s first fully integrated DAC plant in Norfolk, UK, that has ability to capture 250 tCO₂/year for carbon-negative limestone.CO2-Sync & Carbo-FORCE opened Utah’s first biochar plant, using beetle-killed wood for carbon removal.Cool Effect added Clairity’s Project Juniper, its first DAC project, to its carbon removal portfolio.South Africa’s B10 Char announced to launch its first major biochar facility, cutting 15,000t CO₂ annually.Climeworks & KAPSARC deployed an operational mobile DAC unit in Riyadh, validating DAC performance in hot, arid conditions.Planboo and Carboneers launched a biochar CDR project in Ghana, turning cacao waste into stored carbon.Clairity Tech’s new Project Juniper becomes the world’s first ‘integrated’ DAC plant in the U.S. designed for both CDR and storage (via mineralization) at one place.Graphyte planned to triple capacity at its Arkansas site from 14,000 to 45,000 tCO₂/yr after storing ~5,000 tonnes so far, with new sites planned in British Columbia and Arizona.Evero entered UK government negotiations to convert its Ince biomass plant into the UK’s first BECCS facility, targeting 217,000 tCO₂/yr of removals.Sweden’s Medclair unveiled tech that cuts hospital CO₂e removal costs to ~€10/t by breaking down nitrous oxide into nitrogen and oxygen.Alcom opened the Philippines’ first biochar + bio-oil CHP plant, aiming to remove 1M+ tCO₂ and create green jobs.Yama completed France’s first DAC pilot, scaling to a 22 tCO₂/year module in one year using electrochemical capture.CO280 awarded Pre-FEED contracts for a Canadian pulp & paper project targeting 800,000 tCO₂/year of biogenic capture from 2029.Charm Industrial announced it has successfully removed more than 10,000 tonnes of atm CO₂.Carbyon unveiled Carbyon GO, a fast, modular DAC unit capturing up to 3 tCO₂/year per kg of sorbent.Poland announced to launch first solar-powered DAC pilot in Kielce that aims to capture 500 tCO₂/yr.Carbon Direct & Strategic Biofuels launched Louisiana BECCS project sequestering 1M+ t CO₂/year.Thalo Labs installed the first public DAC system at Newark Airport, USA.Mast Reforestation completed the world’s largest biomass burial project in Montana, targeting up to 5,000 t CDR credits by Q1 2026.Boeing, SEDC Energy, and Equatic announced to build a seawater-based CDR demo in Sarawak, capturing 365 tCO₂/year while producing green hydrogen and limestone.Green Carbon, Varhad Capital, and Carbonfuture partnered on a large Indian biochar CDR project targeting ~120,300 credits.Pronoe & ITC partnered on Project Teydea to integrate CO₂ removal at a desalination plant in Gran Canaria.CapitalT partnered with CUR8 to invest in curated carbon removal projects and neutralize its annual emissions footprint.Aramco in collaboration with Siemens Energy launched the Saudi Arabia’s first DAC test unit, capable of removing 12 tons CO₂/year.Captura launched its new 30,000 sq ft global HQ in Pasadena, which will also serve as a manufacturing hub for its ocean-based CO₂ capture tech.Brazil’s FS Agrisolutions signed its first BECCS offtake deals at $150/tCO₂e with buyers including Schlumberger and Rubicon.InSoil’s program verified by SCS Global removed 154,915 tCO₂e and are aiming to issue 4 million credits by 2027.CarbonImpact & C Questra launched BECCS project in France to capture 50,000 tons of CO₂ by 2028.Rainbow partnered with Sylvera to enhance reach and integrity of certified projects.Ucaneo began work on an electrochemical DAC demo in Berlin (~150 tCO₂/year from 2026).atmosfair & Octavia Carbon launched Kenya’s first DAC unit, scaling to 100 tCO₂/yr by 2026.1PointFive & Enbridge formed joint venture for Pelican CO₂ sequestration hub in Louisiana.Equatic, Boeing & SEDC Energy partnered on a CDR demo in Malaysia (~365 t CDR plus green hydrogen).NetZero launched Brazil’s first industrial sugarcane biochar plant, processing ~4,000 t/year from Feb 2026.Origen Carbon commissioned a DAC-enabled kiln in North Dakota, enabling 2,000+ tCO₂/year removal.Share Carbon Removal Updates ESSENTIAL CDR READS FROM 2025Orchestrating Carbon Removal: How Science, Policy And Industry Strike The Right Note (New Oxford Institute for Energy Studies)Global Carbon Budget 2025 (GCB 2025)Australian Carbon Dioxide Removal Roadmap (CSIRO)2025 Q3 Durable CDR Market Update - Tacking into the Wind (CDR.fyi)Understanding and Implementing the Like for Like Principle (CarbonGap)Sustainable scaling limits for Carbon Dioxide Removal pathways (Climeworks)2025 CDR Salary Report (CDRjobs)Pathways to Carbon Sink Cities: Implementation Guide (2025) (City CDR Initiative)Alignment of international standards for CDR using Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) (CO2RE)Growing Curiosity: 2025 scan 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How Global South can Leverage Carbon Dioxide Removal (TIDE Centre, University of Oxford)Overshoot returning to 1.5 °C requires net-negative emissions targets (SWP)First complete record of global underground CO₂ storage gives hope during COP30 (Imperial)UK net zero research and innovation framework delivery plan: Progress report 2022 to 2025 (Gov.UK)The State of Durable CDR Financing: Insights from the CDR.fyi x Planet2050 Survey (CDR.fyi)Emissions Gap Report 2025: Off Target - Continued Collective inaction puts Global Temperature Goal at Risk (UNEP)What the Airline Industry Should Know About Carbon Removal Before 2026 (Carbonfuture)From Science to Scale: How the XPRIZE Carbon Removal Finalists are Reducing Costs through Deployment (XPRIZE and BCG)A Government-Led Advance Market Commitment (AMC) for Carbon Removal (RMI)How to Get to the Net? A discussion paper on carbon dioxide removal (UNEP)Carbon Dioxide Removal in the G20 pledges: Limited and lacking credibility (Oxford’s Smith School)The Climate Cost of Growth in Sport (Milkywire)Direct Air Capture Market Snapshot | 2025 (CDR.fyi)Investment Need & Support Mechanisms for Scaling CDR in Germany and Europe (BCG)From Targets to Tonnes: Exploring Compliance Options to Drive Lasting Demand for Carbon Removals in the EU (CarbonGap)Divide to deliver: Why 2040 separate targets for carbon removal are feasible and necessary to reach EU net zero (Carbon Gap)Clearing the air: How Canada can be a global leader in carbon removal (MaRS Discovery District)Biochar Carbon Removal Market Snapshot | 2025 (CDR.fyi)Scaling Carbon Dioxide Removal: A Toolkit to Unlock the Next Generation of Clean Tech and Strengthen Industrial Decarbonisation and Competitiveness (Negative Emissions Platform, AFEN, CDR.fyi)Industrial Mineralization: A Distinct Pathway for Scaling Durable Carbon Removal (Arca)Bottlenecks and Breakthroughs - Scaling biochar on the road to 2030 (Supercritical)Ocean carbon dioxide removal: What’s on the horizon? 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