This Week in CDR - Week 49, 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 Climeworks inaugurated the world’s largest DAC innovation facility, the Africa Carbon Removal Accelerator (ACRA) program announced that it has opened applications for its second cohort and CarbonZero.Eco unveiled its first commercial biochar plant in California.

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Deals and Partnerships

[Image source: Lithos]

Deals

Lithos Carbon has been issued 5,160 registry-certified tonnes of carbon removal, marking the largest enhanced weathering issuance to date, generated through partnerships with farmers in North Carolina, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Michigan.

Partnerships

Deep Sky partnered with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation to accelerate DAC and CDR deployment in Japan through project financing, development support, and cross-border collaboration frameworks.

Hamburg-based DAC company DACMA and Deep Sky signed a long-term agreement to co-develop DAC facilities in Canada, beginning with a DACMA unit at a Deep Sky facility with a capacity of 600 tonnes/year and targeting large-scale facilities by 2027.

Terraset partnered with Commons to launch a tax-deductible donation model channeling philanthropic capital into vetted CDR portfolios, enabling individuals to support high-impact projects while accessing charitable tax benefits

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Projects

[Image source: Climeworks]

Climeworks inaugurated its DAC Innovation Center, the world’s largest facility of its kind, to accelerate testing of next-generation DAC technologies, improve cost curves, and support rapid scale-up of modular direct air capture systems worldwide.

Regenerative agriculture startup CarbonZero.Eco unveiled its first commercial biochar plant in Colusa County, California and has signed its first major carbon credit deal with Climeworks, although no volume has been disclosed.

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Financing

Image source: Carba

CDR company Carba raised $6 million in a seed round, led by Rusheen Capital Management and Canopy Generations Fund. The funding will accelerate Carba’s technology, commercial development, and its expansion into the Asia-Pacific region.

Heirloom secured investments from the Development Bank of Japan and Chiyoda Corporation, strengthening its financial and technical foundation for scaling its limestone-based direct air capture (DAC) technology.

The Africa Carbon Removal Accelerator (ACRA) program announced that it has opened applications for its second cohort, a program designed to support CDR startups in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Research and Reports

[Image source: Pembina Institute]

Pembina Institute released a report exploring awareness of CDR technologies among 247 Canadian organizations, finding 67% of them have planned CDR purchases by 2026, while 88% have remained unengaged.

CO₂RE and ERM published a report with updated cost estimates for Greenhouse Gas Removals (GGRs) methods - noting higher costs than in 2021, driven by transport, storage, MRV burdens.

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