Carbon Removal
Mizuho and Sumitomo boost market for carbon removals
The Japanese weights "expand the category" in a market dominated by U.S. tech companies — and not a moment too soon. Read More
How Meta’s latest forest credits purchase gets it closer to net zero
Olympic Peninsula deal is the second major such purchase by the tech giant. Read More
What TikTok and Sumitomo can teach about navigating the carbon removal market
Trellis asked the social media platform and industrial conglomerate to unpack the process they followed to build an effective portfolio. Read More
United Airlines bets on direct air capture to help decarbonize aviation
The carrier’s venture fund has the option to use carbon captured from the atmosphere to offset emissions or as feedstock for sustainable aviation fuel. Read More
Carbon recycling firm LanzaTech is spinning out synthetic biology tech
LanzaTech, which went public last year, is still not profitable. Read More
Improved Forest Management: The Importance of Methodology to Reflect Quality
Carbon removal has a measurable climate impact by removing tons of emissions from the atmosphere. True carbon removal methods are rarely questioned for their value or integrity. However, carbon markets have long been flooded with “avoidance” or “reduction” offsets based on counter-factual deforestation claims in absence of carbon credit revenues. Read More
Fragility of carbon removals market starts with a mismatch between buyers and sellers
Stripe, McKinsey and other innovators to date have grown the market, seen as an integral component of the transition to net zero, but prices must come down to attract other buyers. Read More
Shell and Microsoft top list of 10 biggest carbon credit buyers in 2024
The two companies at the top of credit leaderboard paid vastly different amounts and backed very different projects to achieve their ranking. Read More
Google, Microsoft, others invest $300 million in crushed rocks as CO2 removal solution
Enhanced rock weathering has gone from an interesting idea to large-scale trials in just a few years Read More
Carbon removal pioneer Frontier enlists 2 climate tech startups to curb emissions from industrial plants
The latest investments by the organization, co-founded by Google, means it has now contracted for more than a million tons of CO2. Read More