This Week in CDR - Week 44, 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 Arca and Microsoft signed an agreement for 293,579 tonnes of CDR, Tencent announced the top 50 finalists of the CarbonX 2.0 Program, and the State of CDR published an insight report on the CDR readiness of G20 countries.

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Deals and Partnerships

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Deals

Canadian mineralization company Arca signed an agreement to supply 293,579 tonnes of CDR to Microsoft over 10 years. Arca will deliver durable CDR credits through its mineralization process at its first commercial projects, repurposing byproducts of mining.

Partnerships

Supercritical announced that it has listed Denmark-based BioCirc as the first BECCS project on its marketplace. The project is expected to remove nearly 1 million tonnes of CO₂ over its lifetime and is one of the most rigorously vetted in the market.

Japanese company TOWING entered a strategic partnership with Thailand’s SCG Cement to apply microbial cultivation technology to SCG Cement's expanding biochar business, thereby boosting soil health and sustainable agriculture in the region.

Charm Industrial partnered with Mangrove Systems to upgrade its digital carbon removal measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) digital infrastructure.

The Carbon Business Council announced that it will convene and lead the next phase of the Enhanced Weathering Alliance (EWA), increasing coalition activity to advance enhanced weathering for climate impact and agricultural resilience.

ADM and Super6 Carbon signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to produce CDR credits through the permanent storage of captured CO₂ at ADM's carbon capture and storage (CCS) site in Decatur, Illinois.

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Financing

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Tencent announced 50 global finalists for its CarbonX 2.0 program, offering $28 million in catalytic funding to scale breakthrough climate technologies across CDR, CCUS-for-steel, utilization, and Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES).

NorthX Climate Tech invested CAD 3.4 million in 4 Canadian CDR companies (CarbonRun, Skyrenu Technologies, NULIFE Greentech, and pHathom Technologies) through its Call for CDR Innovation funding opportunity, launched earlier this year.

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Policy

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The Singapore government’s Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) launched a request for proposals for carbon credits from projects (including carbon removal) to meet its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement.

Carbonfuture published a policy brief, exploring Germany’s growing CDR landscape, breaking down how the country is integrating CDR in its net-zero strategy, funding and policy mechanisms and what early market participants can do to scale.

Research and Reports

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XPRIZE released a report with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) analyzing cost-reduction strategies from 20 carbon removal finalists, highlighting pathways to scale from kilotonnes to megatonnes over the next decade.

The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal released an insight report showing that G20 pledges on carbon removal are limited and lack credibility, urging stronger commitments for global climate goals.

Carbon Removal India Alliance (CRIA) released a whitepaper detailing how durable CDR, especially biochar and Enhanced Weathering, can jointly improve air quality, enhance soils, create rural jobs, and sequester carbon.

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Poll of the week

In our latest poll, we're eager to hear from you: Which category of durable CDR do you think is most likely to lead the way in Japan

BiCRS (BCR, BECCS, Other Biomass)
Direct Air Capture
Enhanced Weathering
mCDR

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