🚨 Mega CDR Deal Alert! 🚨 Varaha <> Microsoft

🚨 Mega CDR Deal Alert! 🚨

🤝 Microsoft has signed an agreement to purchase 100,000 tonnes of biochar carbon removal credits from Indian project developer Varaha over the next 3 years.

🌱 The credits will be generated from Varaha’s biochar project which will use cotton as feedstock sourced from smallholder farmers in the state of Maharashtra, India.

🌏 The agreement will the fund the development of 18 gasification reactors across India’s cotton belt over 15 years and the total projected removal volume is expected to surpass 2 million tonnes of CO₂ over the project's lifetime.

✨ This is Microsoft’s first biochar credit agreement with an Asian supplier.

📈 With 118K+ tonnes delivered to date, Varaha is the second-largest durable CDR supplier by volume delivered.

⬆ Varaha moves up to 11th on CDR.fyi Suppliers Leaderboard, with over 491K tonnes sold to date.

🔝 With over 34.6M tonnes in purchases, Microsoft continues to stay top of the CDR.fyi Purchasers Leaderboard.

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