This Week in CDR - Week 2, 2026

We are back with another edition of This Week in CDR, a weekly round-up of the top news, developments, and market updates from the world of durable carbon removal.

This week saw some key developments in durable CDR, Salesforce purchased around 12,500 tonnes of CDR from 19 suppliers in pre-purchase agreements facilitated by Milkywire, Exomad Green doubled the capacity at its Riberalta facility in Bolivia and CO2 Energie partnered with INEOS to store biogenic CO₂ in the Danish North Sea.

We are excited to announce that we recently published the Investment Landscape in Carbon Removal 2026, a report analyzing over $3.6 billion invested in durable CDR between 2021 and 2025, highlighting funding trends and offering a comprehensive view of how capital is shaping the durable CDR sector. It includes publicly announced equity and equity-like funding rounds involving VC, CVC, PE, growth funds, and other private investment.

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Deals and Partnerships

[Image source: Salesforce]

Deals

Salesforce completed pre-purchases of 12,492 tonnes of CDR from 19 suppliers, facilitated by Milkywire. The pre-purchases are part of Salesforce’s commitment to purchase $100M in durable CDR by 2030.

ClimeFi facilitated an 85,000‑tonne procurement round of $18 million across eight methods from suppliers Andes, BioCirc, Carboneers, CREW Carbon, DeepSky, Exomad Green, Graphyte, InPlanet, O.C.O. Technology, and Vaulted Deep

Carbonsate completed its first issuance of 799 credits from its Namibia-based project under Puro.earth’s Terrestrial Storage of Biomass methodology. Carbonsate becomes the 100th facility to be in the Puro registry for certified projects.

Partnerships

The CO2 Energie BECCS project announced an agreement, facilitated by Airfix, with INEOS, to store captured Swiss biogenic CO₂ at the Greensand Future project in the Danish North Sea.

Bigadan partnered with Isometric to certify and issue CDR credits from its Kalundborg Bioenergy project in Denmark, which captures biogenic CO₂ from residual biomass and has a total carbon removal capacity of 25,000 tonnes per year.

44.01 signed a memorandum of understanding with Sumitomo Corporation and ENEOS Xplora, advancing in‑situ CO₂ mineralisation projects in Japan and exploring commercial opportunities for scalable carbon storage.

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Projects

[Image source: Exomad Green]

Exomad Green announced that it has doubled the capacity at its Riberalta biochar facility in Bolivia, increasing CO₂ capture to 120,000 tonnes annually. Exomad Green is the leading supplier of biochar CDR with over 1.77 million tonnes sold to date.

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Financing

[Image source: Black Bull Biochar]

Black Bull Biochar secured £4 million in late seed funding round to expand its operations. The round was co-led by TSP Ventures and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority Investment Fund.

Paebbl secured €4 million ($4.7 million) in grant funding from the European Innovation Council’s Pathfinder program, to develop an alternative binder to magnesium-based silicates in concrete to turn it into a carbon sink.

The Carbon Removers secured nearly £1 million in funding from South of Scotland Enterprise (SOSE). The investment is aimed at unlocking further funding and expansion of its operations across the UK and Europe.

Norway-based company Carbon Centric received NOK 9.51 million (€ 0.81 million) in funding from Enova for a new carbon capture facility at Skogn, which aims to deliver permanent carbon removal and produce sustainable, liquefied CO₂.

CEEZER opened applications for the fourth Carbon Coalition accelerator program, launching a new edition focused on nature-based solutions to support mature project developers in the voluntary carbon market, from ideation to commercialization.

CDR.fyi Updates and Research

• Investment Landscape in Carbon Removal 2026

This week, we published the Investment Landscape in Carbon Removal 2026, analyzing over $3.6 billion invested in durable CDR between 2021 and 2025, highlighting funding trends and offering a comprehensive view of how capital is shaping the durable CDR sector. It includes publicly announced equity and equity-like funding rounds involving VC, CVC, PE, growth funds and other private investment.

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