This Week in CDR - Week 47, 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 the Open Standard Carbon Removal Purchase Agreement (OSCAR) was launched, Pure DC committed £24 million to build the UK’s biggest biochar facility and CO280 successfully completed a carbon-capture field pilot at a U.S. pulp & paper mill.

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Deals and Partnerships

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Deals

• Advance market commitment Frontier has entered into an agreement with Biomass Direct Storage company Graphyte, with $250,000 prepurchase of durable carbon removal credits from Graphyte’s Arkansas project.

Partnerships

• The Open Standard Carbon Removal Purchase Agreement (OSCAR) was launched this week as a collaborative framework, providing standardized clarity and consistency in durable CDR contracting.
• Verde Agritech entered an exclusive carbon-credit partnership with UNDO Carbon to commercialise Enhanced Weathering in Brazil, leveraging glauconitic siltstone to generate durable CDR credits.
• The Saudi Water Authority (SWA) partnered with Ebb Carbon to launch the world’s first desalination decarbonization project,aiming to potentially scale to remove 85 megatonnes of CO₂ annually.

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Projects

[Image source: Pure DC]

Pure DC committed £24 million to support the development of the UK’s largest biochar facility in Wiltshire, UK. Operated by A Healthier Earth, the facility is expected to produce 11,500 tonnes/year and remove up to 18,500 tonnes/year.

CO280 successfully completed a carbon-capture field pilot at a U.S. pulp & paper mill, using modular capture units to trap biogenic CO₂, positioning for multiple projects to deliver removal by 2030.

CDR company Svante and forest owner association Södra announced that they will launch a carbon capture pilot at Sweden’s Värö site in 2026, testing solid sorbent filters to capture biogenic CO₂ and support climate goals.

Return Carbon announced a partnership with the Permian Energy Development Lab (PEDL) to establish the Trinity Campus, a DAC & storage facility in the U.S. Permian Basin in Texas, expected to capture up to 100,000-500,000 tonnes of CO₂ a year.

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Financing

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Calgary-based company Hempalta secured $2 million in funding to expand its industrial hemp and biochar carbon removal program, designed to generate approximately 100,000 verified carbon credits annually under standards such as ISO 14064-2 and Puro.earth.

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Research and Reports

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Equinor and Captura validated Captura’s Direct Ocean Removal through a joint pilot system in Hawaii and are now designing a commercial facility capable of capturing 30–50K tonnes of CO₂ annually.

Puro.earth launched the 2025 edition of its Enhanced Weathering methodology update, introducing improved quantification, sampling guidelines, modelling clarity, and stronger uncertainty management for CDR projects.

The TIDE Centre, University of Oxford, published a working paper, authored by Sebastian Manhart and Raphaël Cario, highlighting the Global South’s overlooked industrialisation opportunity in durable CDR.

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CDR.fyi Updates and Research

• Introducing OSCAR: The Open Standard Carbon Removal Agreement

This week, we published a blog post on the launch of the Open Standard Carbon Removal Purchase Agreement (OSCAR).

Developed collaboratively across the carbon removal ecosystem and shared through CDR.fyi, OSCAR provides a standardised, practical framework to bring clarity and consistency to durable CDR contracting.

OSCAR is available to download along with guidebooks, templates, and definitions to support adoption and implementation.We are also open to any input on what OSCAR‑related webinars you’d be most interested in attending next. Please share your ideas here

For further information, kindly contact us at team@cdr.fyi.

Poll of the week

In our latest poll, we're eager to hear from you: What do you think is the biggest impact of a standardized carbon removal purchase agreement like OSCAR?

• Transparency in contracts
• Market adoption & scaling
• Trust: buyers & suppliers
• Reduced friction

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