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Climeworks, one of the Carbon Drawdown Initiative’s portfolio companies, has established new headquarters in Calgary, Alberta. Why Calgary Alberta offers something few other jurisdictions can match: deep expertise in carbon management, established subsurface storage infrastructure, and a supportive regulatory environment for carbon capture projects. Calgary’s Energy Transition Centre (ETC) — where Climeworks is setting up — brings startups, researchers, investors, and industry leaders under one roof. It’s a deliberate choice. Alberta has decades of experience managing CO₂ underground, originally for enhanced oil recovery but increasingly for permanent geological storage. ...

Germany is building Direct Air Capture infrastructure. DACMA GmbH just broke ground on a new DAC competence center in the Port of Hamburg — and simultaneously announced a landmark order from Canadian project developer Deep Sky. The Facility The DACMA Competence Center will serve as a research, development, and testing platform for modular DAC plants. The center will: Improve technical components for CO₂ capture from ambient air Optimize operating processes for efficiency Advance new research topics with international universities Test Generation 2 DAC technology before international deployment Hamburg’s Senator for Economics, Dr. Melanie Leonhard, framed it in economic terms: “We are extracting carbon dioxide directly from the air and turning it into an opportunity for industry, value creation, and climate protection.” ...

First US ocean CDR bill introduced, WHOI’s alkalinity trial shows no marine harm, forward carbon credit deals hit $5.8B, and Sweden freezes a BECCS project. Your daily carbon removal roundup.

Origis Energy’s 500MW Swift Air Solar complex is now powering Occidental’s STRATOS Direct Air Capture facility in Texas. DAC finally gets the clean energy it needs.