Climeworks launches third-party certified CDR services to first customers

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13.01.2023
Climeworks' Orca plant
Microsoft, Shopify and Stripe are the first corporate companies to benefit from Climework’s newly launched third-party certified carbon dioxide removal (CDR) services based on the first and only validated direct air capture and storage methodology. The services are certified by DNV, an independent quality and assurance leader, after a successful audit.

Climeworks, a pioneer in direct air capture and storage (DAC+S) technologies, today operates more than 15 projects across Europe, including Orca, the world’s only commercial DAC+S plant. Building on this traction, the company has broadened its offering to include the world’s first certification of CDR services for corporate climate leaders. 

The certification is based on a rigorous DAC+S methodology co-developed by Climeworks and Carbfix and validated by the independent quality and assurance leader DNV in 2022. DNV verifies that Climeworks CDR Services performed at Orca followed the previously validated methodology and that the removals were adequately measured and reported. Moreover, DNV confirms that the CDR allocated to a customer cannot be double-counted and matches with performed and available quantities of certified Climeworks CDR Services. This accuracy is guaranteed to the customer in two ways: via Climeworks CDR Services Delivery Note and DNV’s delivery certificate. 

Climeworks customers, Microsoft, Shopify and Stripe, are the first corporate companies to benefit from the new third-party certified CDR service. “On Climeworks’ journey to gigaton scale, providing our first corporate customers with CDR services is an exciting milestone. Scaling our operations fast is only one part of the Climeworks mission. The other part is that this scale-up follows high standards, guaranteeing our customers they can trust our CDR to be of the highest quality, meaning additional, highly durable, and safe”, says Christoph Gebald, co-CEO and co-founder of Climeworks.

Scaling operations and standards simultaneously
Delivering third-party certified CDR services is also a significant achievement for the DAC industry: DAC needs to scale drastically over the coming decades, and industry-wide standards are needed to build the trust required for this to happen. Climeworks is dedicated to showing peers, customers and policymakers committed to climate action what is possible and believes it is necessary to scale operations and standards simultaneously, not sequentially.

“To stay within the limits of the Paris Agreement, the scale-up of global DAC capacities must happen fast. To do so, we must continue to ensure trust in carbon removal, the DAC industry and the carbon market. Clear definitions and industry standards of CDR and rules on key criteria such as durability, additionality, and measurability are needed. At Climeworks, we strive for the highest integrity by setting and following stringent standards to earn this trust, and the performance of our first certified CDR services is another proof point of this. We want to lead by example and to be a reliable partner to customers and policymakers”, comments  Christophph Beuttler, Chief Climate Policy Officer at Climeworks. 

(Press release/RAN)

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