Major Technology Firms To Deliver Almost $1 Billion Building Market Demand For CO2 Removal

April 13, 2023: New companies have stated $100 million to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as of an effort begun by several major tech companies to start the nascent carbon dioxide removal industry.

Autodesk, H&M Group, JPMorgan Chase, and Workday stated on Wednesday together a $100 million commitment to Frontier, a benefit company established by payment processor Stripe. That adds to the $925 million reported in April 2022 from Stripe, Alphabet, McKinsey, Meta and Shopify at the opening of Frontier.

Frontier supports its member firms’ purchase of CO2 removal via pre-purchase or offtake agreements. The aim is to spur the development of a recent industry by giving a novel source of funds that isn’t based on debt or equity investments but on product purchases before the technology is available at scale.

“We see Frontier’s developed market commitment as an important demand signal improved for the carbon removal business. It’s critical for demonstrating that there is a buyer for entrepreneurs making carbon removal solutions,” said Ryan Macpherson, the climate innovation and investment lead at Autodesk.

Stripe’s early decision to focus on carbon removal was “an effort to focus our climate function where we felt as if we could have meaningful climate impact,” said Hannah Bebbington, the strategy lead at Frontier.

“Permanent carbon removal is under-invested in and under-supported even though we know by IPCC reports that we will require billions of tons of annual capacity in the coming decades. And so, ” Frontier is an extension of work we’ve been doing in permanent carbon removal for many years,” Bebbington said.

The most delinquent report from the United Nations’ International Panel on Climate Change discusses carbon dioxide removal’s value in responding to climate change.

The IPCC emphasizes throughout the report that reducing emissions is the primary and most vital factor in mitigating the adverse outcomes of climate change. Still, it also says carbon removal technologies can help if used strategically.