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Carbon Removal

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Carbon Removal

New Net Zero Standard Leaves Key Carbon Removal Questions Unanswered

The Science Based Targets initiative released long-awaited guidance that doesn’t exactly clarify matters.

Carbon Removal

The Government’s Carbon Removal Team Has Been Hollowed Out

Widespread federal layoffs bring even more uncertainty to the DAC hubs program.

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Politics

AM Briefing: Greens Go to Court

On congestion pricing, carbon capture progress, and Tim Kaine.

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Carbon Removal

Forest Carbon Removal Gets a $160 Million Vote of Confidence

Chestnut Carbon announces a major new funding round on the heels of its deal with Microsoft.

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Smokestacks.

The Carbon Removal Industry’s Trump Playbook

Three tactics from Erin Burns, executive director of Carbon180, on how the industry can use this time wisely.

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A standardized test and carbon capture.

A Standardized Test for Carbon Removal

Absolute Climate wants to grade all carbon credits the exact same way.

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Climate

Why Climate’s Hardest Problem Might Need a Carbon Market

What’s a big multinational like Microsoft to do when it wants to build with clean concrete?

A cement mixer.
<p>Heatmap Illustration/Getty Images</p>

Imagine you’re a corporate sustainability exec and your company is planning to build a new data center. You’ve managed to convince the higher-ups to pay extra to use low-carbon building materials, lest the project blow up your brand’s emissions goals. But when you meet with the general contractor hired for the job, they don’t actually know of any low-carbon concrete purveyors in the area. Concrete is a hyper-local industry by necessity — you can’t hold the stuff for more than 90 minutes or so before it hardens and becomes unusable.

So here you are, one of the few people with the power and budget to pay a premium for zero-emissions concrete — a product that must become the standard if we are to stop climate change — and you can’t even get your hands on it.

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Charm Industrial processes.
<p>Heatmap Illustration/Charm Industrial</p>

Deep in Inyo National Forest in the Eastern Sierra Nevada are a couple of bright white domed tents protecting an assemblage of technical equipment and machinery that, admittedly, looks a bit out of place amidst the natural splendor. Surrounding shipping containers boast a large “Charm Industrial” logo, an indication that, yes, the U.S. Forest Service is now working with the well-funded carbon removal startup in a two-for-one endeavor to reduce wildfire risk and permanently remove carbon from the atmosphere.

The federal agency and its official nonprofit partner, the National Forest Foundation, have partnered with San Francisco-based Charm on a pilot program to turn leftover trees and other debris from forest-thinning operations into bio-oil, a liquid made from organic matter, to be injected underground. The project is a part of a larger Cal Fire grant, to implement forest health measures as well as seek out innovative biomass utilization solutions. If the pilot scales up, Charm can generate carbon removal credits by permanently locking away the CO2 from biomass, while the Forest Service will finally find a use for the piles of leftover trees that are too small for the sawmill’s taste.

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