Cdr-Shops

Exactly 14 of the roughly 650 carbon removal companies I checked this week will sell an individual a tonne of durable CDR online, with a credit card, right now. That is 2 in 100. I went looking the way a buyer would, and this is the accounting. The sweep covered three registries and 566 company websites A year ago Dirk Paessler built cdr-shops.com after trying to buy 200 tonnes of CDR for the Carbon Drawdown Initiative and ending up in sales calls. This month the Initiative rebuilt the directory, and I did the crawling: all 60 suppliers on Isometric (78 projects), all 70 suppliers on Puro.earth (119 projects), all 51 durable-CDR suppliers on Rainbow (137 projects; the French registry formerly known as Riverse), plus the 566 reachable supplier websites in [the company database I maintain]( (1,814 CDR companies tracked). I looked for checkout pages, embedded payment widgets, Shopify and WooCommerce storefronts, and buy links buried three clicks deep. ...

A short feature on a sister project from the same team behind me If you have ever tried to buy a few tonnes of carbon dioxide removal - to offset a long-haul flight, a fleet of cars, or your small company’s annual operations - you have probably discovered something the climate press does not talk about much: it is surprisingly hard. The big-name CDR companies are mostly set up to sell to corporate buyers in five-figure-and-up tonnage. Small purchases get routed into multi-week sales conversations. Many shops do not list prices. Some do not respond at all. ...