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OneStopESG just published Pure DC Launches World's First Integrated Carbon Removal Platform from the Data Centre Sector Through AHE Subsidiary. Pure DC has launched an integrated carbon removal platform through its climate subsidiary A Healthier Earth (AHE), targeting hyperscalers and institutional buyers across Europe. The platform aggregates biochar projects into tranches governed by a single set of standards, with credits certified under the Isometric Standard and tracked using Mangrove Systems’ digital monitoring, reporting and verification software. Pure DC says the approach addresses fragmentation in the biochar market, where inconsistent methodologies have limited large-scale procurement. Supply comes from both AHE’s own production and partner-developed projects under centralised governance. Executives from Pure DC, Isometric and Mangrove framed the offering as infrastructure-grade carbon removal designed for hyperscale buyers. ...

Carbon Herald just published DNV Verifies Carbon Ridge Onboard Carbon Capture Achieves 98% Capture Rate. Carbon Herald reports that classification society DNV has independently verified Carbon Ridge’s onboard carbon capture technology at a 98% capture rate, a notable benchmark for maritime decarbonization. The verification by DNV, a recognized maritime certifier, lends third-party credibility to performance claims for the modular shipboard system. Carbon Ridge is targeting the shipping sector, where onboard capture is being explored as a near-term option to cut CO2 emissions from existing vessels without waiting for alternative fuels to scale. The outlet frames the result as a step toward commercial viability for retrofit-capable capture units on commercial fleets. ...

Captain Drawdown’s daily logbook on every CDR story, paper, and expert voice — so you don’t have to read them all. This week, four buyers entered the CDR market through four different financial instruments, and each instrument quietly disqualifies a different class of supplier. The buyer side is not one archetype. It is bifurcating, and the fragmentation is what’s driving the price dispersion that everyone keeps puzzling over. Start with the evidence. JPMorgan Chase extended $20M in venture debt to Charm Industrial alongside an expanded 61,500-tonne offtake, according to Charm’s announcement on LinkedIn. Venture debt is an instrument U.S. banks already understand from their tech book. It needs collateral. Charm has a pyrolyzer fleet and bio-oil injection wells, so the loan has something to attach to. That instrument quietly selects for capex-heavy operators with hard assets. A credit aggregator could not have taken this deal. ...

Carbon Brief just published Q&A: The current state of ‘carbon dioxide removal’ around the world - Carbon Brief. Carbon Brief surveys the current landscape of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) worldwide, drawing on a new assessment of how the sector is developing. The piece reports that CDR methods, ranging from afforestation and soil carbon to direct air capture and enhanced rock weathering, will need to be deployed at rates faster than the historical growth of solar power if there is to be a realistic chance of holding warming to 1.5C. It walks through the mix of approaches, the scale of current deployment, and the gap between where projects stand today and the volumes implied by 1.5C-aligned scenarios. The Q&A also touches on policy support, finance, and the role CDR plays in national climate plans. ...

Captain Drawdown’s daily logbook on every CDR story, paper, and expert voice — so you don’t have to read them all. Five numbers landed this week that, read together, form a coherent critique of how the CDR sector is talking about itself. The headline figures are real. They are also small enough that the canonical sector report now calls the gap “hard to fathom.” The critics are no longer on the outside. ...

Carbon Herald just published Skytree Secures First Commercial Deployment Of Stratus DAC System. Carbon Herald reports that Netherlands-based direct air capture developer Skytree has secured the first commercial rollout of its Stratus DAC unit. The Stratus system is designed to pull carbon dioxide from ambient air for use in downstream applications, with the company historically targeting indoor agriculture and other CO2 utilization markets in addition to permanent removal. The outlet frames the deployment as a step from pilot stage toward commercial operation for the Stratus platform. Further details on the buyer, deployment site, capture capacity and offtake terms are covered in the original article. ...

Captain Drawdown’s daily logbook on every CDR story, paper, and expert voice — so you don’t have to read them all. 9,566 tonnes of CO2, verified and issued from a single enhanced rock weathering batch on tea estates in West Bengal. That is the new high-water mark for enhanced rock weathering, the process of spreading crushed silicate rock on land so it reacts with CO2 and locks it into bicarbonate. Until last week, no ERW operator had cleared five figures in one issuance. The previous reference points were a few thousand tonnes per batch from UK and US developers like UNDO and Lithos, plus Mombak’s first Isometric-verified ERW credits out of Brazil, which Captain Drawdown covered when Mombak generated its first batch. Alt Carbon, founded by brothers Shrey and Sparsh Agarwal, just roughly tripled the category ceiling in one shot. ...

Carbon Herald just published CCUS Industry Calls For Regulatory Clarity On EU-UK ETS Linkage. Carbon Herald reports that the Carbon Capture and Storage Association (CCSA), joined by around 50 industry stakeholders spanning energy, industrial and engineering sectors, is calling on policymakers to provide clear rules on how the UK Emissions Trading System will link with the EU ETS. The signatories argue that aligned carbon markets are important for cross-border CCUS projects, shared CO2 transport and storage infrastructure, and investor confidence. The piece outlines industry concerns about regulatory fragmentation between the two jurisdictions and the risk that unresolved questions on accounting, recognition of stored CO2, and compliance could slow deployment of capture and storage projects across Europe and the UK. ...

Captain Drawdown’s daily logbook on every CDR story, paper, and expert voice — so you don’t have to read them all. The maritime decarbonization story this week is that DNV verified a 98% capture rate on a Carbon Ridge onboard unit, and shipping press, LinkedIn, and several procurement desks are quoting it as if maritime CDR just shipped. It hasn’t. The number is real. The framing is wrong. And the gap between those two facts is exactly the accounting trap that will detonate maritime MRV (measurement, reporting, verification) in 2027. ...

The operator stack is finally visible Today’s stories share one thread: carbon removal is becoming an industry with a defined shape. We can see who builds, who measures, who buys, and how many people actually work in it. That picture is smaller than the press cycle suggests, but it is more legible than it was a year ago. The Graphyte-Sumitomo deal, paired with Graphyte’s listing on Isometric, shows the stack snapping into place. Graphyte does the carbon casting. Sumitomo brings industrial offtake and capital. Isometric certifies the tonnes. Three roles, three companies, one delivered tonne. That separation of duties is what a real industry looks like. It is also what buyers have been asking for: an operator they can contract with, a registry they can audit, and a balance sheet behind both. ...