For a technology to move from the lab to the mass market, it needs favorable laws and clear standards. The Carbon Removal Alliance was born to be the bridge between the innovators building the machines and the policymakers writing the rules.
The Guild of the New Era
This alliance is not your typical trade association. It unites the sector’s cutting-edge companies (like Climeworks, Heirloom, Charm Industrial) and visionary corporate buyers (like Stripe) under a single banner. Their goal is clear: to translate their members’ technical expertise into concrete public policies that allow the industry to scale to gigaton levels.
The 4 Non-Negotiable Quality Criteria
To prevent the market from being flooded with “junk credits,” the Alliance only supports and advocates for solutions that meet rigorous standards:
- Permanence: CO2 must be stored for millennia (not just decades), aligning with the time fossil CO2 remains in the atmosphere.
- Additionality: Every project must prove that the removal would not have happened without its specific intervention.
- Verifiability: Use of transparent scientific methods to measure exactly how much CO2 has been removed.
- Net-Negative: The entire process must remove more CO2 than it emits during operation (accounting for the full supply chain).
Technological Neutrality
The Alliance champions a “technology-neutral” approach. They do not favor one solution over another (e.g., rocks vs. DAC machines). Instead, they advocate for policies that reward outcomes: if you can remove carbon permanently and safely according to standards, you deserve support, regardless of the method used.
Connecting with Economic Reality
Beyond climate, the Alliance positions CDR as an economic opportunity. They work to show legislators (on both sides of the political spectrum) that carbon removal is not just a cost, but a source of industrial job creation, mining zone revitalization, and national technological leadership.
