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Decarbonization

New Energy Nexus

Indonesia

New Energy Nexus is a global nonprofit providing funds, accelerators, and networks to drive clean energy innovation and adoption. This project will specifically focus on establishing a policy and regulatory framework that supports the growth of clean energy technology startups in Indonesia.

Industrious Labs

Decarbonization

Industrious Labs

United States

Industrious Labs is a new organization dedicated to decarbonizing heavy industry, with a specific focus on the aluminum, cement, steel and waste sectors. Shifting from carbon-intensive Portland cement to existing, low-carbon technologies can significantly reduce emissions in this sector. Their aluminum campaign aims to decarbonize the U.S. primary aluminum industry, leading to a substantial reduction in its CO₂ footprint.

Carbon Market Watch

Decarbonization

Carbon Market Watch

Belgium

CMW proposes a novel approach to monitor the EU's carbon removal targets, preventing the risk of discouraging mitigation efforts due to the absence of distinct reduction and removal targets. This approach aims to achieve near-zero emissions for the benefit of both the climate and society.

Kenya mangrove

Decarbonization

Clean Air Task Force

Nigeria

Africa is the continent with the greatest need for more energy. Clean Air Task Force has created an African energy and climate innovation program to lay the foundation for a clean-energy future.

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Decarbonization

Human Rights Watch

Bosnia-Herzegovina + 1 countries

HRW exposes fossil fuel harms, including to health. In 2023 they will follow up on work in Bosnia and South Africa and launch new research in a fossil fuel-producing country like Russia. They will also continue global advocacy aimed at ending international public financing for coal and other fossil fuels.

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Team 9 at Biosorra showing off

Durable Carbon removal title

Biosorra

Kenya

BIOSORRA aims to revolutionize sustainable agriculture in the Global South by transforming crop waste into biochar, enhancing soil health and crop yields. Partnering with over 2,036 farmers to date, BIOSORRA's patented pyrolysis technology creates a durable carbon sink and improves farming efficiency. Emphasizing community and climate justice, BIOSORRA supports women-led businesses and empowers local farmers with affordable biochar, boosting food security and environmental resilience.

Gaia Refinery lab girl

Durable Carbon removal title

Gaia Refinery

Canada

Gaia Refinery is pioneering a unique carbon dioxide removal technology that merges Direct Air Capture with Biomass Carbon Removal. This innovative approach utilizes liquid DAC capture technology and biogenic sources of acetic acid to capture three streams of CO2, offering a potentially more cost-effective solution than current DAC technologies. The hybrid technology requires less electricity, captures more CO2 per ton of biomass, and can achieve efficient scale at a smaller plant size.

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Durable Carbon removal title

Mati

India

Mati Carbon is pioneering a unique approach to carbon removal by enhancing rock weathering in paddy rice fields. The project is particularly noteworthy for its focus on smallholder farmers in the global south, and its ongoing research into reducing methane emissions from paddy farms. Mati Carbon is committed to maximizing the carbon dioxide removal value transfer to these farmers showing a potential for very high social and environmental co-benefits. The company also has a strong focus on measurement, reporting and verification, using methods developed in collaboration with the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture.

Lab synthesis

Durable Carbon removal title

Holocene

United States

Holocene has developed a continuous, low-temperature, thermochemical direct air capture technology, which combines the best of both traditional DAC approaches. The continuous, liquid absorption system coupled with a solid, low-temperature desorption, brings the benefits of affordability, scale, and flexibility inherent in such an approach. Holocene's proprietary combination of organic sorbents unlocks this whitespace, which can be more scalable and affordable than alternatives.

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Durable Carbon removal title

Aquarry

United States

Aquarry proposes a new approach to carbon removal called pit lake alkalinity enhancement. This involves adding alkaline materials to flooded surface mines, transforming them into carbon removal and storage assets while also improving water quality. The technology is similar to ocean alkalinity enhancement, but with less environmental risk and more measurable results. The technology has the potential to store millions of tonnes permanently at a low cost. This innovative approach is in its early stages, with laboratory work to confirm measurement and verification methods underway and larger-scale demonstrations planned.

A tractor from Flux working in a field.

Durable Carbon removal title

Flux

Kenya

Flux is the first company to start doing Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) in Africa where the potential co-benefits of the method are the highest. They spread crushed silicate rocks on farmlands in Africa to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere and to improve soil quality, improving farmers' yields and climate resilience. Flux is currently conducting a pilot project with smallholder farmers in Kenya and partnering with large-scale commercial farms and existing rock quarries across the continent for rapid scaling. Their gathering of data on how ERW works in African soils will help develop the method and be a catalyst for ERW across the continent.

ENI2790

Durable Carbon removal title

MASH Makes

India

MASH Makes creates biochar from leftover biomass that is added to degraded soils to increase yields. Biochar provides carbon storage and contributes to reduced air pollution, using biomass that would otherwise have been burnt.

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Durable Carbon removal title

Carbon Farming Study, Atmosfair, and Ithaka Institute

Nepal

This is a novel research project in Nepal on how changing farming practices can produce more biomass on land used for food production. More biomass means more carbon captured in plants that then can be converted to biochar, stabilizing the carbon and storing it for hundreds of years.

Silicate

Durable Carbon removal title

Silicate

Ireland

Silicate is exploring how returned concrete and other waste mineral products can be used to capture CO₂ cheaply and quickly. It is spread on fields, replacing the need for liming while capturing CO₂ at the same time. This method could potentially capture hundreds of millions of tons of CO₂.

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InterEarth

Australia

InterEarth grows a multi-species selection of highly adapted coppicing woody plants in Australia. Following periodic trimming, the harvested biomass is buried and encapsulated in dedicated chambers for long-term storage to permanently store the carbon captured within the biomass.

Octavia Carbon

Durable Carbon removal title

Octavia Carbon

Kenya

Kenya-based Octavia Carbon – the Global South’s first Direct Air Capture company – designs, builds and deploys DAC technology. Their DAC approach uniquely leverages Kenya’s geothermal energy, geology, talent and lower cost of production to radically accelerate DAC down the cost curve.

Mission Zero

Durable Carbon removal title

Mission Zero

United Kingdom

Mission Zero have developed a breakthrough technology that combines CO₂ capture and mineralization in one process. The 'Medusa' Process is a direct air mineralisation process that captures atmospheric CO₂ and turns it into rock in a matter of days. It has a potential to become among the cheapest DAC solutions.

Terrafixing

Durable Carbon removal title

TerraFixing

Canada

Canadian TerraFixing captures CO2 from the air via a novel DAC process that employs adsorption technology. It is designed to operate in cold, remote locations where extracting CO2 from the air is easier and cheaper and where the scalability of renewable wind power is immense.

Parallel Carbon

Durable Carbon removal title

Parallel Carbon

United Kingdom

Parallel Carbon is developing among the world's most affordable processes for DAC while also producing clean hydrogen for industrial decarbonization. They passively capture CO₂ from air with a mineral sorbent. To extract the CO₂ for permanent storage, they regenerate their mineral sorbent with an ambient temperature water treatment process facilitated by electrochemistry.

Takachar

Durable Carbon removal title

Takachar

India

Takachar produces biochar with a new mobile, MIT-developed technology that can latch on tractors and pick-up trucks. The advanced kiln is brought to farmers' fields where the waste biomass they have available is turned into biochar, mixed together with nutrients to be applied on the farmers own fields.

SeaO2

Durable Carbon removal title

SEAO2

Netherlands

SeaO₂ provides cost-efficient atmospheric carbon removal by leveraging the ocean, which has 150 times more carbon (as dissolved) compared to the atmosphere. SeaO₂’s electrochemical oceanic carbon capture technology is an early stage technology that demonstrates a lot of potential for cost efficient carbon removal.

Inplanet

Durable Carbon removal title

InPlanet

Brazil

InPlanet is working in Brazil, being the first ERW startup purely focussed on the tropics, spreading silicate rock powder under optimal soil and climate conditions for fast and effective weathering and capture removal.

Carbon Capture Scotland

Durable Carbon removal title

Carbon Capture Scotland

United Kingdom

Carbon Capture Scotland is a UK-based capture asset specialist focusing on capturing waste biogenic CO₂ from whisky distilleries in Scotland and storing it via geological storage or other permanent means. Their proprietary and bespoke technology reduces the cost and energy footprint of capturing and processing high-purity CO₂ from fermentation sources and allows for highly accurate measuring and reporting along the supply chain.

IMG 8750

Durable Carbon removal title

HUSK

Cambodia

HUSK creates biochar from old rice husks, stabilizing the carbon instead of releasing it through decomposition. Organic farmers use this biochar as fertilizer, restoring soil health and increasing yields.

Inside of Kiln

Durable Carbon removal title

Heirloom

United States

Global warming is speeding up. Heirloom is on the mission to develop the most cost-effective direct air capture solution. Their technology allows them to extract CO₂ directly from the air using limestone and store it permanently underground.

Sanya River Tree Planting

Nature restoration & protection

Plant with Purpose

Tanzania

Plant with Purpose works in rural communities to share knowledge on nature restoration and regenerative agricultural practices. This leads to improved yields, increased food sovereignty, and improved water quality and access.

Ceibo Alliance

Nature restoration & protection

Ceibo Alliance

Colombia + 2 countries

The Ceibo Alliance, an Indigenous-led organization operating in the Upper Amazon (Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru), builds power with Indigenous communities to combat deforestation and preserve vital carbon sinks across their territories. They map and monitor forests, assisting community land patrols in detecting and deterring rainforest-harming activities.

Planete Urgence

Nature restoration & protection

Planète Urgence

Indonesia

Planète Urgence project is tailored to combat the ecological harm caused by shrimp farming and deforestation in the fragile ecosystems of Borneo's Mahakam Delta and Adang Bay. This multifaceted initiative includes essential components such as environmental education, the establishment of community mangrove nurseries, and the provision of training in sustainable aquaculture practices.

Landsea

Nature restoration & protection

Landesa

Bay of Bengal

CTF funds Landesa’s project that aims to protect and restore mangrove forests in the Bay of Bengal, and engages in policy dialogues on promoting legal rights of small-holder forest owners across Southeast Asia. This project focuses on securing forest tenure, sustainable land management, reforestation, and afforestation.

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Nature restoration & protection

Justdiggit

Tanzania

Farmers in warm countries can benefit by having trees on their land. They contribute to more water remaining in the ground and create shade for other plants. Justdiggit is training farmers to use natural methods to grow small trees into mature ones.

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Nature restoration & protection

Isak Starlander migration initiative

Australia + 1 countries

Rainforests are being cut down to make room for palm oil plantations. Warsi helps local communities get forestry licenses for their land, so they have the legal rights to it and protect it, and be part of solving the climate crisis.