Climeworks has achieved third-party certification of its carbon removal activities under the Puro Standard – claiming it is a first for the direct air capture (DAC) industry.
In collaboration with CO2 storage and mineralisation partner Carbfix, the Puro Standard methodology for geologically stored carbon was applied to the removal activities at Climeworks’ Orca facility, billed as the world’s first commercial DAC and storage plant in operation which opened earlier this month (click here).
Jan Wurzbacher, Co-founder and Co-CEO at Climeworks, said it is aiming for a gigatonne carbon removal capacity by 2050 and a pre-requisite for scale up is a strong foundation of investors, customers, suppliers and partners.
Eve Tamme, Managing Director at Climate Principles, said for traceability and transparency – and to avoid double counting – the removals certified under the standard are issued in the public Puro registry, where their complete lifecycle is recorded from issuance to retirement. She hopes to see “more carbon removal project developers following in this direction”.
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