Right this moment we’re asserting a long-term buy settlement and fairness funding in carbon elimination startup Terradot to assist catalyze their enhanced rock weathering (ERW) strategy. Via our settlement, we’re buying 200,000 tons of carbon elimination credit, to be delivered by the early 2030s — the most important ERW deal to this point.
With this partnership, we’re enabling Terradot to scientifically show and operationally scale their strategy, and advance ERW as a key local weather resolution that may ship thousands and thousands of tons of carbon elimination inside the subsequent decade. ERW is one in all a number of approaches we’re supporting to realize our web zero aim as an organization whereas accelerating carbon elimination as a great tool for the planet.
You’ll be able to truly watch the method of rock weathering occurring (very, very slowly) in your yard or native park. When rainwater — which comprises a small quantity of dissolved CO2 from the ambiance — falls on rock, a pure chemical course of locks a portion of the CO2 into the rock for hundreds of years. Terradot goals to hurry up this pure phenomenon by crushing broadly obtainable basalt rock and spreading it over huge areas of farmlands, bettering soil well being within the course of. Terradot is already working pilot operations in Brazil, the place early outcomes have proven that tropical temperature and soils within the area are particularly promising for ERW.
Proper now, it’s arduous to measure with precision how a lot CO2 this course of removes from the ambiance. However the one method to develop extremely rigorous measurement instruments is to deploy this strategy broadly in the true world. That’s why our assist goals to assist Terradot’s resolution get out of the lab extra shortly — just like our latest direct air seize take care of Holocene.
Learn extra about how Terradot is working to develop and scale their ERW resolution.
