We at Rethinking Removals are proud to share that Cascade Climate have launched their first flagship initiative ?? “Foundations for Carbon Dioxide Removal Quantification in Enhanced Rock Weathering Deployments”??? ? ???? Congratulations to the Cascade team Dai Ellis, Vilas Rao, Hara Wang, Alison Tune, Brad Rochlin, and Rachel S. ???? ? #ERW #netzero #carbonremoval
Today, Cascade Climate is thrilled to announce the release of “Foundations for Carbon Dioxide Removal Quantification in Enhanced Rock Weathering Deployments.” This groundbreaking, community-developed “Foundations” document creates a rich touchstone to help ensure a common core of quantification rigor as the community pursues deployment-driven learning about ERW. It distills today’s best available science and considerations for quantifying each component of ERW carbon and cation fluxes. So many of you helped make this happen. “Foundations" is the culmination of an intensive community process undertaken from October 2023 through August 2024, involving 50+ academic scientists, 20+ ERW project developers and other market actors, and a range of civil society organizations. We hope that “Foundations" will prove a valuable resource to many practitioners and researchers who set out to deploy and learn about ERW in the coming years. Looking beyond this moment of publication, we are actively working with many partners to translate all the guidance and insights captured in “Foundations” into real-world practice. We aim to steer early deployments to take on the needed level of site characterization, direct measurements, and other key building blocks of quantification rigor. As a community, we cannot unlock a faster and tighter cycle of deployment-led learning without doing so.? ? All of us at Cascade would like to express our immense gratitude to all of you who contributed your time and hard-won wisdom to this outcome of a remarkable community effort. The full publication and recognition of all the many participants can be found via the link in the comments below: Jennifer Mills John Sanchez Noemma Olagaray Alison Tune Hara Wang Noah Anderson Brad Rochlin Noah Planavsky Chris Reinhard Anu Khan Freya Chay Isabel Patricia Montanez Shuang Zhang Kate Maher