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Welcome to Carbon Insider - Carbon Unbound's weekly briefing on the deals, data, and developments shaping the global carbon removal market. Let's get into it. Have we missed anything? Get in touch here to send news for feature or publish.
CDR News
Frontier Infrastructure Holdings and Carbonfuture ink The largest ethanol BECCS deal to date
Frontier Infrastructure Holdings has signed a multi-year partnership with Carbonfuture to bring ethanol BECCS carbon removal credits to buyers across global carbon markets. The agreement is the largest ethanol BECCS removal deal announced to date, landing as corporate demand for high-quality removals continues to outpace near-term supply.
Sylvera launches Open Carbon Data Project to unlock investment in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Sylvera has launched the Open Carbon Data Project with $900,000 in combined funding from The Rockefeller Foundation and Meta. Partnering with the State University of Santa Cruz, World Resources Institute, and Symbiosis Coalition, the project will create the world's first open access, benchmark grade forest carbon dataset in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. The aim is to lower the barrier to entry for carbon market participants, particularly smallholder and community led projects.
Verra launches rebuilt carbon registry with S&P Global in biggest platform upgrade in its history
Verra has launched a rebuilt carbon credit registry powered by S&P Global Energy, marking what the world's largest carbon crediting organisation describes as the most significant user experience upgrade in its history. The new registry, which went live Monday, migrates more than a decade of market infrastructure onto a single platform, consolidating over 5,900 projects, 10,500 account holders, 1.4 billion credits, and 125,000 documents.
Climeworks Solutions launches compliance-ready carbon removal offering as policy advances
Climeworks has expanded its carbon removal offering, giving organisations an easier path to portfolios aligned with evolving compliance regimes — including CORSIA, Article 6.2 mechanisms, and the EU's Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming Certification Framework.
Bid to retrofit Cheshire energy-from-waste facility into carbon negative operation
Energy-from-waste-wood operator Evero has filed a planning application for what would be the UK's first Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage facility, located at Peel NRE's Protos hub in Cheshire. The plans would convert Evero's existing waste wood biomass plant into a carbon-negative operation. Its Ince Bio Power Plant is already one of two projects on DESNZ's Track-1 expansion Project Negotiation List.
CLER VERTS received its first 63 Rainbow Credits for biochar CDR
Cler Verts is the first biochar producer in France to be CE-certified under the EU's Fertilising Products Regulation and the first biochar production unit in Occitanie. Cler Verts produced 63 credits in this first issuance and is expected to generate 1,084 Rainbow Carbon Credits per year from 2027.
Crown Estate seabed lease clears path for UK's first CCS project to reuse offshore oil and gas infrastructure
Liverpool Bay CCS Limited has signed a seabed lease with The Crown Estate, clearing a key hurdle for the UK's first carbon capture and storage project to repurpose existing offshore infrastructure for permanent CO2 storage. The project, owned by Eni's CCUS Holding group, underpins the HyNet North West industrial decarbonisation cluster, one of two clusters selected under the government's Track-1 programme in 2021.
Super6 flags timing mismatch in NorthBridge Group's new CCS-EAC accounting standard
The NorthBridge Group has published its CCS-EAC Standard, the first audited accounting framework letting corporate buyers claim the climate benefits of low-carbon fossil power. But the standard is built around gas plants fitted with on-stack carbon capture, technology that doesn't yet exist at commercial scale. With first-of-a-kind capture on gas turbines still years from bankability, the standard may have few if any high-integrity certificates to issue this decade.
Supercritical Calls For Biochar Feedstock Data On Behalf Of A Tech Giant
A global tech giant has commissioned an industry-wide data call through Supercritical, seeking input from biochar developers, feedstock owners, and operators on what's needed to scale biochar removal to the gigatonne level. The call spans four feedstock categories: forestry residues, nut and fruit shells, rice husk and straw, and sewage sludge. Supercritical CEO Michelle You said the biochar market's real constraint is supply, not science.
Dana Dufresne joins Grassroots Carbon as its first Chief Value Chain Officer
Texas based Grassroots Carbon, which describes itself as the largest soil carbon and regenerative ranching company in the United States, has appointed Dana Dufresne as its first Chief Value Chain Officer. The move brings in a food and consumer goods executive to deepen commercial partnerships with retailers and corporate buyers. Dufresne joins from Fair Trade USA, where she served as Chief Growth and Marketing Officer working with major retailers and brands on responsible sourcing and certified supply chain programs.
Counteract report makes the case for CDR as an emerging institutional asset class
Climate investment firm Counteract has released a new report outlining the financial case for carbon dioxide removal as an emerging institutional asset class. Authored by Partner Richard Barker, the paper argues that CDR has crossed a critical maturity threshold and is now transitioning from early stage venture capital funding toward multi billion dollar project financing from private equity and infrastructure funds.
Ocean To Sea awards $225,000 to study ocean alkalinity enhancement in wastewater treatment
Ocean To Sea, in partnership with DC Water, HRSD, the Ocean Sewage Alliance, and the Water Research Foundation, has awarded $225,000 to a team of researchers exploring how ocean alkalinity enhancement could be implemented into municipal wastewater treatment facilities globally. The research will produce a foundational technical report examining whether wastewater infrastructure can be optimised to deliver cleaner water, reduced treatment costs, curbed ocean acidification, and durable carbon dioxide removal.
PayPal partners with 3Degrees on its first carbon removal portfolio
Building on an existing renewable energy collaboration, PayPal has partnered with 3Degrees to navigate its first foray into carbon removals. 3Degrees curated a diversified portfolio of high durability projects, including artisanal biochar in India and BECCS in North Dakota, drawing on its expertise as a project developer to meet PayPal's standards for credibility and community impact.
Survey finds majority of Japanese adults support carbon dioxide removal
A new nationally representative survey released by the Carbon Business Council shows that a majority of adults in Japan support carbon dioxide removal as a tool to help the country reach its climate goals. The survey, conducted in May 2026 in partnership with Bellwether Research and Japan's Intage, included 1,061 adults across Japan.
Opinion: The main thing holding carbon removal back
"The biggest blocker to voluntary demand for carbon removal is that it cannot fulfill near-term climate targets.As long as durable CDR is reserved for “residuals only” and not seen as equal to, for example, biofuels and CCS, it will never scale." from Robert Hoglund
Welcome to Carbon Insider - Carbon Unbound's weekly briefing on the deals, data, and developments shaping the global carbon removal market. Let's get into it. Have we missed anything? Get in touch here to send news for feature or publish.
CDR News
Frontier Infrastructure Holdings and Carbonfuture ink The largest ethanol BECCS deal to date
Frontier Infrastructure Holdings has signed a multi-year partnership with Carbonfuture to bring ethanol BECCS carbon removal credits to buyers across global carbon markets. The agreement is the largest ethanol BECCS removal deal announced to date, landing as corporate demand for high-quality removals continues to outpace near-term supply.
Sylvera launches Open Carbon Data Project to unlock investment in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Sylvera has launched the Open Carbon Data Project with $900,000 in combined funding from The Rockefeller Foundation and Meta. Partnering with the State University of Santa Cruz, World Resources Institute, and Symbiosis Coalition, the project will create the world's first open access, benchmark grade forest carbon dataset in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. The aim is to lower the barrier to entry for carbon market participants, particularly smallholder and community led projects.
Verra launches rebuilt carbon registry with S&P Global in biggest platform upgrade in its history
Verra has launched a rebuilt carbon credit registry powered by S&P Global Energy, marking what the world's largest carbon crediting organisation describes as the most significant user experience upgrade in its history. The new registry, which went live Monday, migrates more than a decade of market infrastructure onto a single platform, consolidating over 5,900 projects, 10,500 account holders, 1.4 billion credits, and 125,000 documents.
Climeworks Solutions launches compliance-ready carbon removal offering as policy advances
Climeworks has expanded its carbon removal offering, giving organisations an easier path to portfolios aligned with evolving compliance regimes — including CORSIA, Article 6.2 mechanisms, and the EU's Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming Certification Framework.
Bid to retrofit Cheshire energy-from-waste facility into carbon negative operation
Energy-from-waste-wood operator Evero has filed a planning application for what would be the UK's first Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage facility, located at Peel NRE's Protos hub in Cheshire. The plans would convert Evero's existing waste wood biomass plant into a carbon-negative operation. Its Ince Bio Power Plant is already one of two projects on DESNZ's Track-1 expansion Project Negotiation List.
CLER VERTS received its first 63 Rainbow Credits for biochar CDR
Cler Verts is the first biochar producer in France to be CE-certified under the EU's Fertilising Products Regulation and the first biochar production unit in Occitanie. Cler Verts produced 63 credits in this first issuance and is expected to generate 1,084 Rainbow Carbon Credits per year from 2027.
Crown Estate seabed lease clears path for UK's first CCS project to reuse offshore oil and gas infrastructure
Liverpool Bay CCS Limited has signed a seabed lease with The Crown Estate, clearing a key hurdle for the UK's first carbon capture and storage project to repurpose existing offshore infrastructure for permanent CO2 storage. The project, owned by Eni's CCUS Holding group, underpins the HyNet North West industrial decarbonisation cluster, one of two clusters selected under the government's Track-1 programme in 2021.
Super6 flags timing mismatch in NorthBridge Group's new CCS-EAC accounting standard
The NorthBridge Group has published its CCS-EAC Standard, the first audited accounting framework letting corporate buyers claim the climate benefits of low-carbon fossil power. But the standard is built around gas plants fitted with on-stack carbon capture, technology that doesn't yet exist at commercial scale. With first-of-a-kind capture on gas turbines still years from bankability, the standard may have few if any high-integrity certificates to issue this decade.
Supercritical Calls For Biochar Feedstock Data On Behalf Of A Tech Giant
A global tech giant has commissioned an industry-wide data call through Supercritical, seeking input from biochar developers, feedstock owners, and operators on what's needed to scale biochar removal to the gigatonne level. The call spans four feedstock categories: forestry residues, nut and fruit shells, rice husk and straw, and sewage sludge. Supercritical CEO Michelle You said the biochar market's real constraint is supply, not science.
Dana Dufresne joins Grassroots Carbon as its first Chief Value Chain Officer
Texas based Grassroots Carbon, which describes itself as the largest soil carbon and regenerative ranching company in the United States, has appointed Dana Dufresne as its first Chief Value Chain Officer. The move brings in a food and consumer goods executive to deepen commercial partnerships with retailers and corporate buyers. Dufresne joins from Fair Trade USA, where she served as Chief Growth and Marketing Officer working with major retailers and brands on responsible sourcing and certified supply chain programs.
Counteract report makes the case for CDR as an emerging institutional asset class
Climate investment firm Counteract has released a new report outlining the financial case for carbon dioxide removal as an emerging institutional asset class. Authored by Partner Richard Barker, the paper argues that CDR has crossed a critical maturity threshold and is now transitioning from early stage venture capital funding toward multi billion dollar project financing from private equity and infrastructure funds.
Ocean To Sea awards $225,000 to study ocean alkalinity enhancement in wastewater treatment
Ocean To Sea, in partnership with DC Water, HRSD, the Ocean Sewage Alliance, and the Water Research Foundation, has awarded $225,000 to a team of researchers exploring how ocean alkalinity enhancement could be implemented into municipal wastewater treatment facilities globally. The research will produce a foundational technical report examining whether wastewater infrastructure can be optimised to deliver cleaner water, reduced treatment costs, curbed ocean acidification, and durable carbon dioxide removal.
PayPal partners with 3Degrees on its first carbon removal portfolio
Building on an existing renewable energy collaboration, PayPal has partnered with 3Degrees to navigate its first foray into carbon removals. 3Degrees curated a diversified portfolio of high durability projects, including artisanal biochar in India and BECCS in North Dakota, drawing on its expertise as a project developer to meet PayPal's standards for credibility and community impact.
Survey finds majority of Japanese adults support carbon dioxide removal
A new nationally representative survey released by the Carbon Business Council shows that a majority of adults in Japan support carbon dioxide removal as a tool to help the country reach its climate goals. The survey, conducted in May 2026 in partnership with Bellwether Research and Japan's Intage, included 1,061 adults across Japan.
Opinion: The main thing holding carbon removal back
"The biggest blocker to voluntary demand for carbon removal is that it cannot fulfill near-term climate targets.As long as durable CDR is reserved for “residuals only” and not seen as equal to, for example, biofuels and CCS, it will never scale." from Robert Hoglund
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