CDR.fyi just published Accelerating Carbon Removal with AI. Published June 25, 2026 by Alexander Rink and Kat McNeill, this CDR.fyi piece examines AI’s double-edged role in carbon removal. It draws on two campfire sessions hosted by CDR.fyi at Carbon Unbound East Coast in New York on May 19-20, bringing together suppliers, buyers, researchers, and technology companies. The authors note that AI is driving up electricity, data-centre, and cooling demand, which may increase the need for CDR, while also offering tools that can speed up scientific work, monitoring, and verification. They flag registry, validation, and verification workflows as near-term opportunities, and argue that specialized systems often outperform general-purpose chatbots for domain tasks. ...

Carbon Herald just published The Official EU CRCF Buyers’ Club Website Is Now Live. Carbon Herald reports that the European Commission has gone live with the official website of the Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming (CRCF) Buyers’ Club. The platform is tied to the EU’s CRCF framework, which sets out rules for certifying carbon removals and carbon farming activities across member states. The Buyers’ Club is intended to connect potential purchasers with suppliers of certified removals and farming credits, aiming to build early demand under the new certification regime. The launch marks an operational step beyond the regulatory text adopted earlier in the policy cycle. ...

Heatmap News just published Funding Friday: Beyond Carbon Certification. Heatmap’s Funding Friday covers five deals across two weeks. The headline raise is Isometric, the largest carbon removal certification platform by contracted volume, which closed a $40 million Series A led by AVP to expand its methodology into low-carbon materials, renewable energy certificates, superpollutant reductions, and low-carbon fuels for shipping and aviation. The roundup follows Frontier’s $915 million carbon removal purchase commitment, which added Anthropic as a buyer. Other deals include debt financing for EV charging infrastructure, a European utility agreement for iron-air battery maker Ore Energy, a Series A for Foundation Alloy in lower-energy metals, and seed funding for a SpaceX alum building geothermal turbines. ...

Amazon’s vetted carbon credit service crossed the Atlantic this week, opening to UK companies with net-zero targets and Scope 1, 2, and 3 reporting in place. The interesting part is not the geography. It is what the portfolio reveals about how the world’s largest corporate buyer thinks about quality, and what it quietly signals about the rest of the voluntary market. The skeptic’s read on “rigorously vetted” Amazon’s pitch leans hard on a single claim: “only a small fraction of credits in the voluntary carbon market meet Amazon’s quality standards.” That is a remarkable statement from a company that is also selling those credits to other buyers. It is both a marketing line and an indictment of the market Amazon is now intermediating in. The portfolio on offer in the UK is worth scrutinising on its own terms. It includes five categories: jurisdictional REDD+ in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana (reducing tropical deforestation at the government-policy level rather than project-by-project), native reforestation, DAC, superpollutant abatement (old refrigerant destruction and rice methane), and lower-carbon fuel insets including renewable diesel for shipping. Notice what is missing. No enhanced rock weathering. No biochar. No ocean alkalinity enhancement. No BECCS (bioenergy with carbon capture and storage). No marine CDR of any kind. Amazon’s “high quality” filter, as expressed in this UK launch, points toward avoided deforestation, trees, one engineered removal pathway (DAC), and supply-chain insets. That is a narrower bet than what Frontier Climate, Microsoft, or Google have signalled through their own purchasing. ...

Carbon Herald just published Canada Backs ASEAN Carbon Capture Push With C$1.38M. Carbon Herald reports that Canada is providing C$1.38 million to assist the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in advancing large-scale carbon capture and storage capacity across the region. The funding is framed as part of Canada’s broader engagement with Southeast Asia on climate cooperation and clean technology deployment. The contribution is intended to help ASEAN member states develop the policy, technical, and infrastructure groundwork needed to scale CCS projects. Coverage positions the move alongside other international financing efforts aimed at building CCS capability in emerging markets where coal and gas remain central to power generation. ...

CDR.fyi just published ISO 14060 Draft, SBTi Corporate Net Zero Standard V2, and CDR Demand. CDR.fyi compares two newly released corporate net zero frameworks and their implications for carbon removal demand. The ISO 14060 draft lets companies use CDR to counterbalance residual emissions at any net zero target year, with residuals defined through a technical and economic feasibility test. It requires CDR purchasing to begin within five years of setting a target and scale gradually toward full counterbalancing. SBTi Corporate Net Zero Standard V2, by contrast, does not require CDR purchases until 2035, then ramps from 1% of all-scope emissions to 100% of residuals by the net zero date. Both standards require durable removals, with ISO specifying at least 100 years and SBTi referring to long-lived storage. ...

Take on a podcast episode from Reversing Climate Change, originally published Thu, 25 Ju. Listen: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reversingclimatechange/episodes/405-Does-Managed-MRV-imply-the-existence-of-Unmanaged-MRV--w-Varsha-Ramesh-Walsh--Offstream-e3l8cev TL;DR Offstream is repositioning from a DMRV (digital monitoring, reporting, verification) software vendor to “Managed measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV)” — they do the work, not just provide a dashboard. Useful naming of an under-articulated category. Walsh’s claim: the head-of-MRV in-house hire is often more expensive than outsourcing the whole function. Plausible for small biomass developers, untested at scale. Most operational data in carbon projects still passes through a human at some point — bills of lading, odometer photos, clipboard entries. Honest admission worth hearing from a vendor. Thesis: every owner of a physical asset eventually becomes a carbon project developer. Big swing; light on the path to get there. Long surveillance-capitalism tangent eats ~20% of the runtime. Skippable. Ross Kenyon hosts Varsha Ramesh Walsh, cofounder/CEO of Offstream, on episode 405 to explain why Offstream stopped trying to be pure software and embraced what Walsh calls “Managed MRV” — a services-plus-platform model targeting biomass-based durable CDR developers (biochar, lumber mills with waste streams) and increasingly 48E ITC tax-credit work. ...

Take on a podcast episode from Interchange Recharged, originally published Tue, 24 Fe. Listen: <> TL;DR Hyperscaler power demand has flipped carbon capture from a regulation-driven to a buyer-led market in ~18 months. Plausible, and consistent with the Meta/Hyperion-type deals. ION claims natural gas + capture + storage lands at ~31 kgCO2/MWh — competitive with solar+storage on a lifecycle basis. Aggressive; rests on a 0.75% methane leakage assumption that is below US field averages. Cost adder: ~$20–25/MWh for retrofits, $16–18/MWh for new builds, inclusive of transport and storage. Useful number if it holds. ION’s pitch on its amine solvent: doesn’t degrade in oxygen, so 99% capture is achievable without the usual exponential energy penalty. Worth probing. Execution risk — getting power purchase agreements to final investment decision — is now the binding constraint, not policy or tech. 45Q stayed at $85/t under the current administration. Bridget van Dorsten hosts Tim Vail, CEO of ION Clean Energy, for a fairly technical hour on post-combustion capture at natural gas plants serving AI data centers. The framing is unapologetically pro-gas-plus-capture as a “clean firm” option alongside nuclear and geothermal — if you want a skeptical take on that premise, this isn’t it, but if you want the seller’s most coherent version of the argument with actual numbers, it’s here. ...