Soil Remineralization, Climate Resilience, and Environmental Geochemistry: Insights from the 2024 Goldschmidt Conference
The 2024 Goldschmidt Conference took place from August 18-23 in Chicago, Illinois, and covered a broad range of topics, including innovative solutions to improving soil health, food security, and climate resilience.
Milkywire’s Climate Transformation Fund Goes Above and Beyond for Enhanced Weathering
The perennial question surrounding carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is one of funding. Until recently, this had been especially true of enhanced rock weathering (ERW), where unanswered questions surrounding efficacy and scalability stymied all but the most concerted efforts to fund ERW initiatives. Now, despite the field’s relative immaturity, there has been a windfall in investment opportunities for ERW projects and companies. In May 2024, Milkywire selected 13 projects to support, including Flux and Mati Carbon, through their Climate Transformation Fund.
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$100M XPRIZE Carbon Removal Finalists Include Enhanced Rock Weathering Teams
“The climate math is becoming clear that we will need gigaton-scale carbon removal in the coming decades to avoid the worst effects of climate change. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates the need at approximately 10 gigatonnes of net CO2 removal per year by the year 2050 in order to keep global temperature rise under 1.5 or 2C. As governments, companies, investors, and entrepreneurs make plans to meet this challenge, it is clear that we will need a range of carbon removal solutions to be proven through demonstration and deployment to complement ...
Soilicious’s Arianne Neele Nominated for World Food Prize Pioneer Award
Arianne Neele, the Co-Founder of Soilicious and a fourth generation agricultural expert, was nominated for the Top Agri-food Pioneer Award.
Recent Advances in the Tanzania Project: New partnerships and new tools
Since 2023, Remineralize the Earth has partnered with Engineers Without Borders - Tanzania (EWB-Tanzania) to produce and distribute an all natural fertilizer.
Enhanced Weathering Alliance Launches to Accelerate a Leading Carbon Removal Pathway
The following is a press release from the Enhanced Weathering Alliance.
BRUSSELS, March 21, 2024 – In an important milestone for climate innovation, the EnhancedWeathering Alliance (EWA) has been launched, bringing together top-tier companies in thepursuit of advancing enhanced weathering for carbon removal. The EWA advocates for policythat helps intensify and accelerate carbon removal deployment, to speed up and step up EW'scontribution to Europe's ambitious climate targets. Today’s launch is accompanied by therelease of an Enhanced Weathering Policy Primer ...
COP28 Presents Webinar on Advances in ERW and Biochar in India
Rock Dust Weathering and Biochar Soil Amendments Play a Key Role In India’s Global Leadership of Carbon Dioxide Removal
On December 4th, 2023, a group of climate tech experts participated in a panel discussion exploring India’s remarkable potential as a world leader in durable carbon dioxide removal (CDR). The discussion was held as part of the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) and was hosted and organized by the Carbon Removal India Alliance (CRIA). CRIA is a membership organization whose mission is to support ...
New Campaign Supporting Project to Address Food Insecurity in Tanzania
In partnership with Engineers Without Borders Tanzania, RTE is raising funds to introduce rock dust and biochar to soils in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania to improve soil fertility, crop yields, and income for farmers.
Revolutionary Carbon Capture Method Integrated into Wastewater Treatment Plants
Joachim Katchinoff and Kevin Vu of Crew Carbon
In episode #80 of Open Air’s video series, “This is CDR”, featured Joachim Katchinoff and Kevin Vu from Crew Carbon. This company approaches carbon removal through enhanced weathering in wastewater facilities. Crew Carbon's approach combines nature-based solutions with engineered processes to enhance carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and help combat climate change.
Enhanced weathering is the process of accelerating the natural weathering reactions that remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere by exposing rocks ...
The Riches of Rock Dust, by the Get Real Alliance
The Get Real Alliance has released a documentary series covering topics from founder David Munson’s book Get Real: A Positive Solution to Climate Change. The eight episodes released so far describe the carbon cycle, biochar and rock dust, as well as issues related to grasslands, forests, oceans and more.
The Get Real Alliance explains their goals as follows: “The Get Real Alliance supports rock dust remineralization of soil and wetlands, biochar additions to soil for fertility and water retention, marine wetland restoration and overall agricultural changes.”
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