This Week in CDR - Week 37, 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, as Mast Reforestation completed the world’s largest biomass burial that will generate 5,000 CDR credits by Q1 2026, while Carbon Drawdown Initiative launched a new directory for individuals and small/mid-size businesses to find vendors for CDR credits in small volumes, and NewClimate published a report assessing 35 companies’ durable CDR efforts.

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Biochar CDR Market Snapshot
Explore insights from the Biochar Carbon Removal Market Snapshot 2025 to understand purchasing trends, delivery vs. retirement dynamics, and what’s shaping biochar’s role in durable carbon removal.

Deals

[Image source: Octavia Carbon]

Kenya-based DAC company Octavia Carbon signed a 10-year offtake agreement facilitated by Carbonfuture, adding to its list of 20+ corporate partners. The volume and the purchaser were not disclosed.

Sweden’s Biokol issued Rainbow’s first 1,000-year permanence credits from its forestry-residue biochar, delivering measurable co-benefits such as clean energy, lowering agricultural N₂O emissions, and supporting local producers and rural communities.

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Projects

[Image source: Mast Reforestation]

Mast Reforestation completed the world's largest biomass burial project in Montana in the US, burying fire-killed trees to prevent carbon release. Mast expects to generate up to 5,000 tonnes of CDR credits by 2026 Q1.

Green Carbon partnered with Varhad Capital and Carbonfuture on one of India’s largest biochar carbon removal projects, with the potential to generate ~120,300 tonnes of CDR credits through Carbonfuture.

Pronoe and Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias (ITC) signed an agreement on Project Teydea to demonstrate the industrial integration of its CO2 removal technology at a desalination plant in Gran Canaria, Spain.

Ucaneo announced that it has begun work on a first-of-a-kind, energy-efficient electrochemical DAC demonstration plant in Berlin, with an initial capacity of ~150 tCO₂ per year starting in the second half of 2026.

Financing

[Image source: Rock Flour Company]

Rock Flour Company raised €6.1 million in seed funding led by the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO) and Novo Holdings to scale its enhanced weathering technology using glacial rock flour.

Carbon Drawdown Initiative launched Carbon Removal Shops, a new directory that makes it easier for individuals and small/mid-size businesses to find vendors for CDR credits in small volumes.

Pricing Perception Gap in Durable CDR
Explore insights from the Durable CDR Pricing Survey, conducted in partnership with OPIS, to help market participants better understand pricing expectations for durable CDR credits.

Policy

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The Carbon Business Council and its partners released a CDR policy primer for Canada with recommendations to position the country as a global CDR hub, unlock demand, mobilize investment, and capture the emerging market.

Research and Reports

[Image source: NewClimate Institute]

NewClimate published a report assessing 35 companies’ durable CDR efforts, urging separate reduction and removal targets, commit near-term spend, define durability with safeguards, improve disclosure, treating durable CDR as a public good.

ClimeFi and the World Ocean Council published an article showcasing marine CDR deals progress, profiling Equatic–Boeing and Gigablue–SkiesFifty from pilots to commercial offtakes, including MRV, permitting, and risk allocation considerations.

Puro.earth opened public consultation on updates to its Enhanced Rock Weathering methodology, seeking feedback incorporating five key changes to streamline high-quality, field-ready delivery.

BlueLayer and Supercritical published a report outlining key trends and recommendations for improving the Request for Proposal (RFP) process across the carbon removal industry, focusing on solutions for market participants on both sides.

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CDR.fyi Updates and Research

• CDR.fyi Durable CDR Methods Update | June 2025

This week, we released the Biochar Carbon Removal Market Snapshot 2025, in which we analyze the dynamics behind biochar’s rapid rise and explore what sales, deliveries, and buyer behavior reveal about its role in the state of the durable CDR market.

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Poll of the week

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