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🌍Who Will Win the $100M XPRIZE Carbon Removal Challenge? ⏳ The countdown is on! On Earth Day next week, XPRIZE will announce the winners of the $100M Carbon Removal Challenge, marking a major milestone in the journey to scalable, high-quality carbon removal. The grand prize winner will receive $50 million. 📌 20 finalists—spread across 11 countries and 4 tracks (Air, Ocean, Land, and Rocks)—are building and operating projects aiming to remove 1,000 tonnes of CO₂ each this year. 📊 The finalists have sold over 892,000 tonnes of CDR to date (CDR.fyi data - as on April 16, 2025), showing strong commercial traction alongside technical progress. 💡 Learn more about the competition's finalists here: https://lnkd.in/geG_MwVR ❓ From which track do you think the grand prize winner will come from? 💨 Air 🌊 Ocean 🏝 Land ⛰ Rocks   Airhive Heirloom Octavia Carbon and Cella Project Hajar (Aircapture and 44.01) Skyrenu Technologies Kelp Blue Planetary Ebb Carbon Captura UNDO Lithos Carbon Silicate Mati Carbon Arca Yuanchu Technology Applied Carbon MASH Makes NetZero Takachar Vaulted Deep 💬 Cast your vote and let us know why in the comments!

***Update*** Announcing the first cohort of cities! We recently shared the growing list of supporting partners. Now, we announce the trailblazing cities joining us for the opportunity baselining phase. 🤝 We are super excited to work with the City and County of San Francisco, Boulder County, City of Flagstaff, Stockholms stad, Helsingin kaupunki – Helsingfors stad – City of Helsinki, Københavns Kommune (Copenhagen), Stadt Zürich, Glasgow City Council, Bristol City Council, City of Sydney and several others. We'll announce a second cohort of cities in the coming weeks. 🏙️ In the next months, we will be working with the cities to collect data across three grouped themes: Governance and GHG accounting; Policy and regulation; Urban systems and infrastructure. This data will help us groundtruth our assumptions and recommendations for unlocking: ✔️ Cities as Agents: Municipal governments are a powerful public governance layer after national governments and can pursue systemic policymaking close to everyday citizens. ✔️ Cities as Areas: The urban environment holds massive potential for CDR. A first-of-a-kind global assessment published end-2024 in Nature estimates it upwards of 1 Gt/CO2 p/a. 💡Specifically, this data will support a range of assets we will be publishing in the lead up to our final report in September: 👉 City case studies 👉 Urban CDR pathway fact sheets 👉 Cross-policy fact sheets 👉 City CDR strategy roadmaps 👉 City net zero action plan template 📢 How can you support this effort? ✅ Reach out if you know other cities—every city counts. ✅ Like and share the news to help expand our reach. ✅ Follow our LinkedIn page for updates.

🎪 This sounds like a festival that's too good not to share. Forget Coachella—Charmchella is where climate innovation is headlining. 🌳 As part of SF Climate Week, Charm Industrial is bringing together a powerhouse lineup from April 21–24 for a four-day series exploring durable carbon removal, corporate climate strategy, and high-integrity carbon credits. 📅 Here’s what’s on the Charmchella schedule: ⭐ April 21: The What, How, and Why of High-Integrity Carbon Credits with Calyx Global and CNaught ⭐ April 22: Carbon Removal Panel & Tour @ Charm Industrial ⭐ April 23: Protecting Forests & Scaling Climate Impact with Blue Forest, Wren, Graphyte and many more ⭐ April 24: Oxford Net Zero and Workday on Carbon Removals & Tour of Charm’s carbon removal technology Expect: 🔬 Hands-on demos of cutting-edge carbon removal 📊 Actionable insights on credit integrity and corporate climate planning 🔎 Behind-the-scenes looks at Charm’s operations 💬 Secure your spot now! Here's the link to Charm's original post: https://lnkd.in/gd-2f5G9

🌱 Who's breaking ground in CDR? 🔝 With the $100M XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition nearing its conclusion as the winners will be announced on Earth Day next week, the spotlight now turns to the finalists in the Land Track — a segment that has emerged as a major driver in durable carbon removal. 📽 Watch XPRIZE's recent docuseries episode featuring the land track finalists here: https://lnkd.in/gTFC_Rfh 🌏 From low-cost, portable systems that produce biochar or CDR solutions developed by using waste into carbon-rich slurry, these teams are scaling innovations to restore and enhance natural systems with groundbreaking land-based solutions. 🚀 Land-based CDR methods account for ~2 million tonnes of durable CDR (excluding BECCS ) sold to date (CDR.fyi data, as of April 17, 2025). 📈 The finalists have cumulatively sold over 277,000 tonnes of CDR so far. Today, we’re excited to highlight the finalists in the land category: ⭐ Applied Carbon ⭐ MASH Makes ⭐ NetZero ⭐ Takachar ⭐ Vaulted Deep ✨ A big congratulations to all the teams that have made it this far as we wish them the best for the final results. Jason Aramburu Vidyut Mohan Olivier Reinaud Kevin Kung Jakob Bejbro Andersen Julia Reichelstein Osvane Faria Nikki Batchelor Roopa Dandamudi

📢 Unlock tens of millions US$ in funding with Tencent’s CarbonX Program 2.0 💡 Join XPRIZE and Tencent today for an information session on Tencent’s CarbonX Program 2.0, whuch is offering major support for early-stage carbon removal technologies that can scale quickly and lower costs. The program is open to global applicants and seeks to fund first-of-its-kind pilot projects in real industrial settings across CDR, CCUS, and Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES). 📅 Today, April 17 | 11AM ET / 8AM PT In this webinar, you will learn about: 🔹 Proposal requirements and selection criteria 🔹 Funding opportunities 🔹 Building first-of-their-kind pilot projects in real industrial settings 💬 In case you missed CDR.fyi's joint webinar with Tencent that was held in March and have more questions, this session is a great chance to get your queries answered directly by the CarbonX Program team. ✅ Secure your spot by registering here: https://lnkd.in/g5WEeKE8 Xinwo Huang 黄珊蕙 Roopa Dandamudi 

Cutting carbon emissions is key to reducing the risks of climate change. But emissions likely won't fall fast enough to limit warming to 2C, let alone 1.5C. That's where carbon dioxide removal comes in. But funding to the nascent sector is mismatched. Currently, money flowing into direct air capture surpasses investment into all other types of carbon removal. That's not including the US Energy Department's commitment to spend billions on DAC hubs. Buyers have also concentrated most of their carbon removal purchases in one pathway: bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, or BECCS. Almost 60% of all purchases tracked by CDR.fyi between 2019 and 2024 are for BECCS, and the proportion has only risen this year. Despite their dominance, BECCS and DAC have only delivered a tiny proportion of promised removal to date. More than 80% of all removals delivered between 2019 and 2024 as tracked by CDR.fyi came from biochar. CDR experts I spoke to cautioned a diversified, portfolio approach is important when it comes to scaling this small but critical sector. Each carbon removal pathway has its pros and cons, and there's no silver bullet solution. But so far, the bets are not spread evenly. Scientists say the entire carbon removal industry has to scale dramatically if we want any chance of keeping the climate stable. They also warn that these technologies should only be used for a narrow set of applications: cleaning up legacy emissions and addressing the most intractable ones. Here's the full story on the state of the carbon dioxide removal industry (in front of paywall for 7 days): https://lnkd.in/gQ4ARwza

💡 New Webinar Alert: Scaling Durable CDR CDR.fyi is excited to co-host a webinar with Sylvera, diving into the findings from our 2025 CDR Market Survey Report. We'll explore how market sentiment, pricing expectations, and standard-setting guidance are influencing buyer and supplier behavior in the voluntary carbon market. 🔎 What we’ll cover: ➡ How purchasers are thinking about portfolios and pricing ➡ What suppliers expect on cost curves and investment ➡ Which standards will impact procurement decisions ➡ What trends are shaping the future of durable CDR 📅 May 8 | 3 PM BST / 10 AM ET / 7AM PDT The webinar will be moderated by Annalise Downey (Senior Technical Climate Consultant, Sylvera) and will feature a panel of experts: 🔹 Francesco Guglielmi, Chief Marketing & Sales Manager at Exomad Green 🔹 Christopher Spry, Head of Carbon Markets at NatWest Markets Plc 🔹 Robert Höglund, Co-Founder at CDR.fyi 🔹 Simon Manley, Director of CDR at Sylvera 👉 Register here to secure your spot: https://lnkd.in/dgW54qcg

🚨 Mega CDR Deal Alert for 6.75M tonnes! 🚨 🤝 AtmosClear, a portfolio company of Fidelis, has signed an agreement with Microsoft for 6.75 million tonnes of CDR, making it the single-largest durable carbon removal deal in record. 🚚 The tonnes will be removed over 15 years from AtmosClear's BECCS facility in Port of Greater Baton Rouge in Louisiana. 💸 Fidelis estimates that the project will result in over $800 million of investment and approximately 75 permanent and 600 construction jobs, while supporting a significant revival of forestry management jobs impacted by mill closures in the area. 📊 This deal constitutes ~36% of the total tonnes contracted by Microsoft so far. 🚀 Microsoft's contracted volume of durable CDR purchases has now crossed 18.6 million tonnes. 🆕 This is AtmosClear’s first deal tracked on CDR.fyi, and it takes them to the top of CDR.fyi Suppliers Learderboard 🔝 Microsoft further secures its top position on the CDR.fyi Purchasers Leaderboard. ⬆ This deal alone accounts for more than the total tonnes contracted in 2022 and 2023 (5.09M). ✨ Microsoft has announced deals worth 10,447,000 tonnes in the last 12 days. 🌿 BECCS contracts now account for 47.24% of the total ~24M tonnes of durable sold to date. 🔗 Read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/gaij55-C ✅ Join over 900 organizations and sign up for free to the CDR.fyi Portal by checking out our partner page on CDR.fyi to get detailed insights on past deals in durable carbon removal across methods.

🌉 Carbon Removal takes the spotlight in San Francisco | SF Climate Week 🌎 If you're headed to San Francisco for Climate Week (April 19–27), there's a packed line-up of carbon removal events—from facility tours to market-shaping summits. Whether you're a sustainability leader, innovator, or policy advocate, here are some standout events to mark on your calendar: 📅 April 21 ⭐ Corporate Sustainability Hot Topics: Reductions, Removals, and Materials — Goodwin, ClimateHack, Elements ⭐ Microbes + Pastries: an Andes Facility Tour — Andes ⭐ An Exclusive Carbon Removal Reception at SF Climate Week — Carbon Business Council, Carbonfuture, ClimeFi, Isometric, NextGen CDR, XPRIZE   📅 April 22 ⭐ Bridging Carbon Markets: A Carbon Removal Breakfast — Isometric, NextGen CDR, Carbon Business Council, Carbonfuture ⭐ Carbon Removal Panel & Tour @ Charm Industrial — Charm Industrial, Trellis Group, Zendesk ⭐ CDR and Tacos - Permanent Carbon Removal in the Global South - Alt Carbon, Flux ⭐ How understanding carbon removal positions you to be a better CSO - Workday 📅 April 23 ⭐ Scaling Carbon Removals to Restore Nature - Mast Reforestation, KPMG ⭐ Carbon Newbie Summit — clever carbon ⭐ AirMyne Happy Hour & Direct Air Capture Facility Tour 📅 April 24 ⭐ Cocktails & Carbon Removal: An Enhanced Rock Weathering Happy Hour — ZeroEx, Cascade Climate, Eion Carbon, InPlanet 📌 Don't forget to sign up to the events soon as only limited spots are available. ✅ Check out Isometric's free resource to track all the CDR-related events at SFCW: https://lnkd.in/gNadRYTg

CDR 101: Biomass Carbon Removal and Storage (BiCRS)—an introduction to one of the most widely deployed carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies. Isometric’s CDR 101 series breaks down key carbon removal pathways: how they work, why they matter and what makes each unique. This edition explores BiCRS—how it works, its key advantages and leading suppliers including Arbor Energy, Carba, Inc., Carboneers, Charm Industrial, Graphyte , Rewind and Vaulted Deep. What should we cover next in CDR 101? Let us know in the comments. Swipe through the carousel to get started and read the full explainer at the link in the comments.