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Exclusive: World’s largest carbon removal plant is about to open

by Corbin Hiar on eenews.net, February 06, 2024

“A startup backed by Bill Gates plans this week to begin operating what could be the largest carbon removal facility on the planet — a potentially remarkable achievement for a firm that’s only a year old. The southern Arkansas plant owned by Graphyte aims to use carbon-rich sawdust and other woody waste from nearby paper mills to create biomass bricks that can be stored underground for centuries. The company’s Loblolly facility — named after the pine tree species grown in the area — intends to start manufacturing the shoe-box-sized blocks no later than Friday and gradually scale up production, CEO Barclay Rogers told E&E News.”

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Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal: Issue Brief

by Isabella Corpora on carbonbusinesscouncil.org, January 23, 2024

“The Carbon Business Council published an issue brief about Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR). Given its enormous scale, the ocean has an outsized potential role to play in advancing carbon removal to the level required to meet Paris Agreement targets. mCDR has the potential, when responsibly deployed and scaled, to offer significant climate benefits, while also contributing to sustainable economic development for coastal communities, maritime nations, and small island developing states. Additionally, certain mCDR approaches may yield co-benefits such as improvements to ocean health, via local mitigation of ocean acidification, to coastal ecosystems and commercial aquaculture.”

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Carbon Removal Prices To Continue Going Down According To Report From AlliedOffsets And Carbon Herald

by Vasil Velev on carbonherald.com, January 18, 2024

“2023 was a milestone year for carbon removal with the industry graduating from a field largely populated with startups, to one that has a growing number of scaleups, government and private investment in the billions and its own voice when it comes to influencing policy and how we tackle emissions in the atmosphere. With this in mind the AlliedOffsets team has been meticulously gathering data on hundreds of metrics throughout last year, looking for the trends and patterns defining this congregation of technologies that share the common goal of removing CO2.”

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The ‘dark earth’ revealing the Amazon’s secrets

by Zaria Gorvett on bbc.com, January 16, 2024

This layer of charcoal-black soil, which can be up to 3.8m (12.5ft) thick, is found in patches across the Amazon basin. It is intensely fertile – rich in decaying organic matter and nutrients essential for growing crops, such as nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus. But unlike the thin, sandy soils typical of the rainforest, this layer was not deposited naturally – it was the work of ancient humans. This rich soil is a relic from a very different time – an era when indigenous groups formed a thriving network of settlements across this rainforest world. 

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Removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

by Juliane El Zohbi and Diana Rechid on openaccessgovernment.org, January 9th, 2024

“The agricultural sector plays a decisive role in tackling climate change. GERICS explores what actors of the agricultural sector think of removing carbon dioxide and what support they need from science.”

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Why does engineered carbon removal need ratings?

by Alex Luke, Victoria Harvey, Ted Christie-Miller on bezerocarbon.com, December 13, 2023

“Although the sector is growing, an enormous scale-up is still required. Estimates anticipate that demand for CDR will grow to 40-200 Mt/CO2e per year by the end of this decade. At present, engineered CDR removes just 61,000 tonnes of CO2 per year. Therefore meeting the projected demand will require annual deliveries to increase by 655-3,300 times by 2030. Ratings will be vital to helping the sector meet this challenge. Over the coming years, they will be a catalyst for the growth of the sector by driving demand for CDR credits, helping to unlock finance for new or early-stage projects, and improving confidence and trust in the voluntary carbon market.”

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