This Week in CDR - Week 28, 2025

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, led by Gaia ProjectCo’s 2.95 megatonne offtake agreement with Microsoft along with a $41M deal between Arbor Energy and Frontier Buyers, while Terraset announced a new round of philanthropic investment across 8 new CDR projects.

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Deals

[Image source: Gaia ProjectCo/energynews]

Denmark-based Gaia ProjectCo signed a long-term agreement with Microsoft for 2.95 million tonnes of CDR. The agreement will enable Gaia to retrofit a waste-to-energy facility to capture and store 500,000 tonnes of biogenic and fossil CO₂ annually.

Arbor Energy signed a $41 million offtake agreement with Frontier Buyers for 116,000 tonnes of CDR, which will enable the launch of its first commercial facility in Louisiana to validate a new approach for generating clean electricity and removing CO₂.

UK-based climate platform Glad Climate made its first biochar CDR purchase through a deal for 1 tonne of biochar from Restord at £200/tonne, with the credit’s delivery and retirement scheduled by September 30, 2025.

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Financing

[Image source: Terraset]

Terraset announced an investment of a seven-figure amount in additional philanthropic capital into 8 durable CDR companies, which include CarbonRun, Deep Sky, Eion, NY Carbon, Pyrogen, Sinkco, Terraton, Tradewater, and UNDO.

Dutch company Carbyon secured strategic investment from ISAI Build Venture to scale its fast-swing direct air capture technology. The fresh investment is an extension to its $17.9 million Series A round that was announced in September 2024.

remove opened applications for its 8-month accelerator program in India, supporting early-stage carbon removal startups with expert coaching, ecosystem access, and up to €15,000 in non-dilutive funding in the second stage.

Research and Reports

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Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and DVNE published a report outlining what Germany needs to scale carbon removal across investment, policy, EU ETS integration and national support framework to catch up with leading nations like the Denmark, UK and US.

TierraSphere launched the world’s first CDR methodology based on photosynthesis-driven oxalate-carbonate mineralization that converts CO₂ into stable minerals through regenerative agroforestry systems.

Carbon Direct and Microsoft released their updated criteria for high-quality carbon removal, adding marine CDR guidance and refining standards across methods to ensure scientific rigor and transparency.

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