Carbon removals

The shovel-ready carbon removal solution offers a host of social and economic co-benefits, writes International Biochar Initiative's Wendy Lu Maxwell-Barton

Vaulted Deep, backed with $8m led by Lowercarbon Capital, is one of about a dozen startups to receive carbon removal contracts through the Frontier buying group

US tech giant commits to purchasing 250,000 tonnes of CO2 removals over 10 years from 1PointFive's plant in Texas and confirms investment in DAC developer CarbonCapture Inc

UK-based aquaculture start-up sinks biomass bales, as it seeks to prove carbon removal potential of seaweed cultivation

US oil producer agrees to snap up all outstanding shares in Canadian carbon removals technology developer with ambition to scaling DAC technology worldwide

Firms developing proposals they claim could capture up to 100,000 tonnes of CO2 at the Parc Adfer facility

UK-based Brilliant Planet is developing a pilot plant in Morocco, which harnesses algae to provide a nature-based carbon sequestration solution

Wyoming's Republican governor and Colorado's Democratic governor come together to develop regional direct air capture technology

The emerging market for nature-based and human-engineered carbon removals could be worth trillions of dollars in the coming decades, yet at present governance, policy, and regulatory frameworks are almost non-existent

Nascent technology will need to scale at twice the speed seen in the solar sector, consultancy giant BCG warns