UNDO Impact Update | January 2025
A Note From Our CEO, Jim Mann
As we begin the new year, I wanted to bring you into the fold and share our vision for 2025, reinstating our mission of creating a livable planet for future generations.
One million tonnes of carbon removal isn’t enough to meaningfully move the needle on climate change. To make a real impact, we must collectively reach ten billion tonnes of durable carbon removal per year by 2050. At UNDO, we’re building the infrastructure to help make this a reality.
In the months ahead, we will continue scaling up our Canadian operations - exploring new regions, gathering statistically robust data, and openly sharing our findings in the spirit of wide-open science. As always, we’ll remain committed to engaging with the communities that power and benefit from our work.
There will be tens of thousands of tonnes of crushed silicate rock to spread, acres of land to be enriched, and thousands of samples to analyse generating tens of thousands of data points. Our pathway to megatonne and gigatonne scale will be far from smooth, as the Field Notes section below brings to life, but together we will push for continuous forward progress. Thank you for being with us on this journey.?
Did You Know??
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached 421 parts per million in 2024, the highest in human history and over 50% higher than pre-industrial levels.
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Field Notes
With January, comes frozen ground across our 27 Canadian MRV sites. As the temperature dips to -20°C in Ontario, our Measurement Team has shifted their focus to soil processing from the warmth of our labs at Queen’s University, drying, grinding and splitting approximately 2,000 samples before fieldwork ramps up again in the spring.?
It was a similar wintery scene in Scotland with our team unable to reach our Glensaugh labs for a week due to deep snow. Red weather warnings for Storm éowyn notwithstanding, the team collected 464 soil cores, pore water from eight sites and composite soil samples from a further four sites this month. Together these ensure a full breadth of data representation across our project area for a comprehensive analysis of mineral weathering and cation release, providing a scientifically robust data report.
Excitingly, the team also took delivery of two electric soil grinders which we’ll put to good use breaking down the dried soil samples to subsample them for total cation accounting, ammonium acetate wash and soil texture analysis.
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Such important work. Very much looking forward to the data results in the summer!
Environment Director at City of Kingston
3 周Great work here.