Emerging Climate Champions Award Launches for Youth-Led Climate Organizations

Are you working towards a better future for the planet? Could you use $1 million to help you fulfill your mission? Well, good news! On June 26, 2025, Lever for Change, the Enlight Foundation, and The Patchwork Collective launched the Emerging Climate Champions Award, a $25 million open call offering $1 million each to youth-led climate organizations worldwide. Recognizing that even though today’s youth will bear the burden of the adverse effects of climate change while youth-driven climate solutions receive only a fraction of a fraction of global philanthropic giving, ...

The Royal Society Meeting: Enhanced weathering with agriculture for atmospheric carbon dioxide removal

Event title: Enhanced weathering with agriculture for atmospheric carbon dioxide removal Date: November 17 - 18, 2025 Location: The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG United Kingdom Cost: Free Host organization: The Royal Society Description: This meeting will discuss advances and uncertainties in terrestrial enhanced weathering, a key carbon dioxide removal strategy for climate change mitigation. Recent discoveries and R&D investment are accelerating the prospect of large-scale EW implementation, but uncertainties remain. The ...

Verst Carbon Paves Way for ERW in African Carbon Market

Founded in 2022, Verst Carbon is a tech company that aims to involve more African countries in the carbon market, providing a platform for project development, climate education, project financing, and credit trading.

New Archive CDRXIV Captures Preprints for CDR Advancement

Recently, the climate solutions non-profit CarbonPlan announced the release of the CDRXIV, a server housing preprints and datasets pertaining to CDR.

Enhanced Weathering Alliance and Carbon Business Council Join Forces

The Enhanced Weathering Alliance (EWA) and the Carbon Business Council (CO2BC) are joining forces to streamline collaboration, reduce administrative burden, and keep participation affordable for early-stage companies. The goal of the move is to support shared efforts on policy, registries, data transparency, and commercial challenges, allowing enhanced rock weathering (ERW) stakeholders to stay informed and connected as the industry grows. Adam Wolf, co-founder of Enhanced Weathering Alliance “CO2BC is a coalition with more than 100 carbon removal companies, and ...

Carbon Business Council’s Roadmap for Enhanced Rock Weathering

As more industry players realize the importance of offsetting carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions as part of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) goal of achieving carbon net zero emissions by 2050, enhanced rock weathering (ERW) has emerged as a highly promising method of carbon removal. In March 2024, the Carbon Business Council (CO2BC) published a policy primer addressing opportunities, key challenges, and proposed policy recommendations aimed at accelerating advancement, deployment, and scaling of ERW. The primer resulted from the collaboration of thought ...

Greensmiths’ Graphite Solution: Revitalizing Soil for Sustainable Agriculture

Graphite mine tailings have the power to transform global agriculture, enhancing soil health by boosting microbial activity and reducing synthetic inputs, according to Greensmiths Inc. president Jim Montgomery

ZeroEx: Pioneering Enhanced Rock Weathering in Europe and Revolutionizing Carbon Dioxide Removal Verification Worldwide

In the quiet agricultural landscapes of western Germany, a climate tech startup is revolutionizing the application of enhanced rock weathering (ERW) as a scalable carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solution.

Mati Carbon Wins $50M Grand Prize at XPRIZE Carbon Removal Competition

On Earth Day (April 23, 2025), the XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition announced that Mati Carbon took home the $50 million grand prize for its enhanced rock weathering program.