This Week in CDR - Week 29, 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 huge developments in durable CDR, led by the 2nd largest durable CDR ever for 4.915 megatonnes between Vaulted Deep and Microsoft, and Palo Alto Networks made its first durable CDR purchase for 10,000 tonnes from 1PointFive, while Frontier Buyers announced its 2025 prepurchases of 2,982 tonnes from 3 suppliers for $1.75M.

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Deals and Partnerships

[Image source: Vaulted Deep]

Deals

Vaulted Deep signed an offtake agreement with Microsoft for 4.915 million tonnes, making it the 2nd largest durable CDR deal to date. Vaulted recently opened a new facility that is expected to deliver 50,000 tonnes of CDR annually at full capacity.

Palo Alto Networks signed an offtake agreement with 1PointFive to purchase 10,000 tonnes of CDR. This is Palo Alto’s first-ever durable CDR deal, and the credits will be delivered over 5 years from 1PointFive’s STRATOS facility in Texas.

Frontier announced that it has facilitated $1.75 million worth of CDR prepurchases from 3 companies - Karbonetiq, Limenet, and pHathom, for 2,982 tonnes of CDR. It has facilitated purchases on behalf of buyers using Stripe, Shopify, and Google.

Partnerships

McGill St Laurent (MSL) Climate partnered with Deep Sky, securing an allocation of 3,000 tonnes of CDR for its clients. The credits will be delivered starting in 2027, and the partnership also marks the first DAC project in MSL Climate’s portfolio.

Rainbow (formerly Riverse) and Offstream announced a partnership with an aim to streamline the entire MRV processes, from data collection and monitoring to documentation and audit readiness.

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Financing

[Image source: SeaO₂]

Dutch marine CDR company SeaO₂, along with TU Delft, Twente University, and NERA, secured €1.64 million from the TKI Energy and Industry program to develop sustainable aviation fuel (e-SAF) using seawater, renewable electricity, and captured CO₂.

DAC company Spiritus was awarded $500,000 by the New Mexico Economic Development Department (NMEED), supporting its local expansion and presence that is expected to introduce new job opportunities in the region.

CEEZER announced that its third Carbon Coalition accelerator program has produced seven startups projecting 2.5 Mt CO₂e removals by 2030; listings are now live for preview buyers on the CEEZER platform.

Policy

[Image source: Negative Emissions Platform]

Negative Emissions Platform, in collaboration with partners such as AFEN and CDR.fyi, published a toolkit outlining 25 policy instruments, emphasizing early commitments and long‑term demand signals to mobilize investment for CDR at scale.

Research and Reports

[Image source: Carbon to Sea Initiative]

Carbon to Sea Initiative, along with its partners, released a worldwide Request for Information (RFI) seeking researchers and sites to build a distributed ocean alkalinity enhancement field network to accelerate collaborative discovery.

ClimeFi and the World Ocean Council released an article exploring marine CDR’s growing role in climate action, highlighting diverse technologies, unique features, challenges, and opportunities that they present.

Carbon Direct published a whitepaper examining biochar’s carbon permanence, challenging comparisons to inertinite and advocating for conservative, science-based crediting to ensure durable carbon removal.

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Poll of the week

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