🚨 BREAKING: the world’s first megaton biochar carbon removal deal 🚨

💥 Boom! This is exactly what the world needs right now: 1,240,000 tons of CO2 removed using biochar.

🌎 And it gets better: The biochar is produced from sustainable forest waste and will deliver high-impact co-benefits to more than 250,000 people in Bolivia.

🤝 In yet another pioneering deal, Microsoft just announced the purchase of 1.24Mt of BCR over ten years from Bolivian Exomad Green.

🛡️ Every single one of these tons will be tracked through the entire lifecycle with Carbonfuture’s MRV+, raising the bar for what high-quality CDR looks like.

Many reasons to be excited about this deal but here are my top three:

1️⃣ It shows that megaton carbon removal is not just reserved to BECCS/BioCCS. Huge volumes of BCR are possible.

2️⃣ It is the first megaton deal by a company in the global South.

3️⃣ It paves the way for Exomad–already the world’s leading CDR company with 27% of all deliveries in 2024–to become, by 2027, the first company globally to deliver a megaton/year.

💚 I spent a week with the Exomad team in January touring their facilities, meeting their team, and witnessing first hand the huge impact their work has on Bolivian communities. This is EXACTLY the type of company and project we want to see scaled.

👀 In a week from now, you will be able to witness this incredible story in all its beauty. Watch this space - I am so excited for what is to come.

👏 Huge congrats to everyone involved: at Microsoft Brian Marrs, Colleen Flynn, and Courtney Fay. At Exomad Green Diego Justiniano, Francesco Guglielmi, and Marcelo Pereira Holters. And at Carbonfuture Michael Railey, Dominic Lüdin, and Hannes Junginger.

😍 To all of you out there working on biochar, I hope this news gives you the hope and inspiration you need to keep ploughing on. Scaling biochar carbon removal is hard, but possible!

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