Carbon Herald

6 days ago | carbonherald.com | Theodora Stankova

Cascade Climate, in partnership with the Grantham Foundation, Google, and Frontier, has awarded more than $1.2 million in funding to support nine innovative projects in the field of enhanced rock weathering (ERW). This initiative uses a “piggybacking” model—where academic researchers build on existing ERW deployments to conduct field-based scientific investigations, Cascade said earlier this week.

6 days ago | carbonherald.com | Sasha Ranevska

SeaCURE, an ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) project, has officially launched pilot operations in Weymouth, United Kingdom. The pilot facility is projected to have an annual capture capacity of 100 tonnes of atmospheric CO2, and will serve as a testing and refinement ground to verify the decarbonization impact of this novel CDR approach, gathering knowledge towards future operations scaling.

1 week ago | carbonherald.com | Sasha Ranevska

Sustainable agriculture company Indigo Ag has delivered nearly a megaton of carbon removal, issuing almost 1 million soil carbon credits. This progress was powered by the company’s latest issued batch of independently verified carbon credits, totaling more than half a million, which were issued through the Climate Action Reserve. Through soil carbon activities, the company has managed to sequester or abate 927K metric tons of CO2e since its establishment back in 2018.

1 week ago | carbonherald.com | Sasha Ranevska

In a major market update, Occidental Petroleum has purchased Holocene Carbon, a direct air capture (DAC) startup based in Knoxville, Tennessee, Heatmap reports. While the amount of the transaction was not disclosed, this acquisition represents the second addition to Occidental’s DAC portfolio, which also bought Carbon Engineering back in 2023.

1 week ago | carbonherald.com | Sasha Ranevska

Italian ocean CO2 removal company Limenet announced that it has signed an agreement with leading registry Isometric, embarking on a collaboration that will enable Limenet’s debut on the carbon dioxide removal (CDR) market. Through this partnership, Isometric will monitor Limenet’s CO2 removal operations, ensuring that the credits generated from these activities adhere to the highest science-based criteria for quality, transparency, and traceability.