VERGE 22: Five New Nature-Based Solutions You Need to Know About

Five New Nature-Based Solutions You
Need to Know About
CATHERINE CHIEN
Director, Climate Market
Strategy & Investments
X, the Moonshot Factory
GAURAV SANT
Founder, SeaCycle
Professor and
Director, UCLA
ANTTI
VIHAVAINEN
CEO
Puro.Earth
DIEGO SAEZ GIL
Founder & CEO
Pachama
TROY CARTER
CEO
EarthShot Labs
MARY YAP
CEO
Lithos Carbon
MODERATOR

Mercado
Libre
A Pachama Original in Action

Make a
catalytic
investment
in nature.
▶ Meet long-term goals
▶ Low, locked-in rate
▶ High quality, independently validated
▶ Tech-enabled insights = de-risked
investment
Lock in a Fixed Price for Decades

Track and Share Progress Over Time

Planetary scale ecological restoration

Earthshot is scaling nature-based carbon
markets 100x by streamlining project
development, ecological forecasting, and
finance.

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LandOS – Automated Carbon Project Development

Biome - Revolutionizing carbon verification

State of the art carbon projections and risk analysis

$135M+ active portfolio of nature restoration projects & $1B+ pipeline
One of the world’s largest & high quality project portfolios

Earthshot Labs | Data Science for the Planet
troy@earthshot.eco

On track to capture >2,000 tons this year

Safety, transparency,
& scientific rigor
• DIVERSE FIELDS: Risky to
apply heterogenous rocks. Our
field-by-field optimization
guarantees crop yields
• DIRECT MEASUREMENT: We
don’t simulate results—we
measure them. We credit the
carbon removal after direct
measurement, not before.

ENABLING ATMOSPHERIC CO2
REMOVAL AT THE GIGATONNE SCALE

Capture &
sequester.
Direct air
capture.
Waste carbon
utilization.
Today’s solutions for carbon management present
challenges of cost, (lack of) infrastructure, and scale.
PROBLEM

SeaCycleTM: Harnessing the power of the oceans
SOLUTION
Clean.
Seawater (150x more CO2
compared to air), rocks and
electricity are the only inputs
Durable.
CO2 is converted into stable
solids and dissolved ions
permanently storing CO2
Cost-effective.
Commercial by-products: H2(g),
mineral solids, and softened
water reduce the cost of CDR
• The SeaCycle process immobilizes CO2 in the form of solid and aqueous carbonates.
• This ensures atmospheric carbon dioxide removal (CDR).
• Such storage eliminates the risk of release or leakage while generating H2: a clean fuel.

We use electricity to produce
alkalinity to
produce calcium carbonate,
magnesium hydroxide and
hydrogen as co-products
HYDROGEN (H2)
CALCIUM CARBONATE
(CaCO3)
OXYGEN (O2)
MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE
(Mg(OH)2)
PRODUCTS
SOURCE CHEMISTRY
Sources: LaPlante et al, ACS Sust Chem Eng (2021) 9:3:1073-1089
HOW IT WORKS: the (electro-)chemistry behind the
process
TECHNOLOGY
SCALABLE, HIGHLY-EFFICIENT PROCESS
1 MW-year of energy ~ 3500 tonnes of CO2 removal per year
Water molecule
Bicarbonate,
Carbonate ions
(HCO3
-
, CO3
2-)
Atmospheric CO2(g)
Cathode
Anode
CaCO3
Mg(OH)2
We use electricity to produce
acidity, and oxygen as co-
products

Los Angeles, CA Singapore
2021 Jan’23
Removed CO2 purchased by
2022: scaling to 200 kg CDR per day with two pilots
STATUS

Oerview
Multiple commercial uses at potentially
industrial volumes, fr example, in soil
improvement and wastewater
treatment. It is produced from biomass
or biowaste, through pyrolysis (heated
in the absence of oxygen). We have
suppliers currently in Scandinavia,
Germany, Australia and the United
Our carbon transformers
Bocar
A very stable, solid form of
carbon that can endure in soil for thousands of years, making it an
ideal technology for scalable carbon removal.
Permanence : 800 – 1000+ years
Biochar
Biomass heated at high temperatures
without oxygen (process known as
pyrolysis) concentrates carbon that is
sequestered for 100+ years.
Multiple uses for agricultural and
industrial purposes, such as enhancing
the quality of soils or removing
pollutants from wastewater.
Permanence
800 – 1000+ years
CORC Biochar Price Index
CORCCHAR
117.99 eur

Puro Standard
Biochar Carbonated
building
elements
Bio-based
construction
materials
Geologically
removed
carbon
Woody
biomass
burial
Enhanced
weathering
•Puro Standard is positioned as the pioneer in applying
newest science to implement new methodologies
•Our way of working is inclusive and efficient
•Enhanced Weathering methodology likely to be accepted by
Puro Advisory Board in Q4
•Raising the bar for storage duration to 100 years

How biochar removes carbon from the atmosphere?
100 years
contracted
duration
Capture
Plants absorb CO2
from the
atmosphere
Stabilization
The pyrolysis
process turns
biomass into
biochar which
stabilizes carbon in
a form that resists
decomposition
Storage
Biochar is
deposited to the
soil to improve soil
productivity or
added to products
where carbon is
sequestered
Feedstock
Biomass such as
wood chips that is
normally left to
decompose

Methodology Eligibility Criteria
The Puro
Standard
Environmental
safeguards
Net-negativity
guarantee
Sourcing of biomass
Proof of sustainable
sources
Biodiversity
Evidence to ensure no
loss of biodiversity
Local communities
Evidence to ensure no
social impact
Emission control
Limit the release of air
pollutants & GHGs
Leakage
Evidence of no
displacement of emissions
Application of biochar
Tracked end-use
applications
Local climatic
conditions
Calculations of carbon
storage permanence
Additionality
Investment analysis to
demonstrate the need
for carbon finance
Precise carbon
calculations
Lab analysis to measure
exact carbon content
Full Life Cycle Analysis
Cradle-to-grave project
emissions assessment

Choose Biochar for
Trusted carbon
removal
One of the safest, most
durable & fastest ways to
draw down carbon,
according to the IPPC
Guaranteed
duration 100+ years
Lower-cost long-term
storage with virtually no
risk of reversal
Impact beyond
carbon
Up to 12 out of the 17 UN
Sustainable Development
Goals
100+
Improves agricultural productivity
Provides additional income to small farmers
Can be used as a sorbent for water treatment
Remediates contaminated sites
Generates renewable energy
Diverts organic waste from landfill

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