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A new industry-backed template called the OSCAR contract aims to cut legal preparation and speed up carbon-removal purchases by replacing today’s bespoke agreements with standardized terms that buyers, developers, and financiers can use to scale the emerging market. Full article >>

China is pouring its climate efforts into low-cost biological approaches like afforestation while leaving geologic CDR technologies—such as DACCS, ERW, and OAE—largely in the experimental stage despite the country’s vast theoretical storage potential and accelerating emissions goals. Full article >>

A new study suggests the world may have only about 1,460 gigatonnes of viable pore-space capacity for storing CO2—far less than long-cited estimates—raising the prospect of future storage shortages and intergenerational competition for geologic sequestration sites. Full article >>

Terradot secured a multiyear deal for Microsoft to buy 12,000 tonnes of carbon-removal credits, giving the ERW developer fresh funding to expand its large-scale scientific monitoring program in Brazil and strengthen verification of its weathering-based carbon removal. Full article >>

Kenya’s Rift Valley is emerging as a prime location for direct air capture with carbon-mineralization projects, as companies tap the region’s abundant geothermal energy and thick basalt formations to launch the first DACCM ventures outside Iceland. Full article >>

Ocean alkalinity enhancement is advancing from theory to practice as new research guidelines, more than $55 million in U.S. government grants, and a wave of startups drive early trials and develop the monitoring tools needed to verify carbon removal in the open ocean. Full article >>

A DOE-backed study finds that using waste heat from Alabama’s Farley nuclear plant to power a pilot direct-air-capture facility could remove CO2 with high efficiency, though the project’s high costs and small scale would pose hurdles for commercial viability. Full article >>

Greece’s first major CCS project will include a direct-air-capture component, as Energean’s EnEarth subsidiary prepares to store up to 1 million tonnes of CO2 a year in the Prinos offshore field using RepAir’s fully electric DAC system beginning in 2026. Full article >>

Equipment failures at major CO₂-storage sites in Norway and the U.S. — including over-reported CO2 injections at Sleipner and a monitoring-well leak at ADM’s Decatur project — highlight the need for stronger oversight and more rigorous verification as underground storage scales. Full article >>

Planetary Technologies is accelerating its ocean-alkalinity work—backed by new funding, XPRIZE recognition, and the world’s first OAE-generated carbon credits—while placing greater emphasis on community engagement after local pushback halted a U.K. pilot. Full article >>

Italian startup Limenet is accelerating its ocean-alkalinity push with new funding, a modular plant in Sicily, and fresh industry credentials—including joining the Carbon Business Council and securing verified carbon-removal sales—as it positions itself as a rising player in ocean-based CDR. Limenet's project uses limestone feedstock for OAE, rather than basalt. Full article >>

CarbonCapture Inc. has scrapped its ambitious Wyoming project amid a scramble for clean power and is now shifting its focus to Louisiana, where a new federally backed DAC hub aims to pair renewable electricity with geologic CO2 storage. Full article >>

Occidental Petroleum is building STRATOS in West Texas, a $1.3 billion direct-air-capture plant set to become the world’s largest as it aims to pull up to a million tonnes of CO2 a year from the atmosphere and sell the resulting carbon-removal credits to corporate buyers. Full article >>

A new study argues that carbon-removal plans should avoid overconfidence and instead prioritize flexible “option-rich’’ portfolios capable of adapting to uncertain futures in land use, energy supply, and technological performance. Full article >>

Enhanced rock weathering is gaining momentum in central India, where Mati Carbon has enabled more than 16,000 smallholder farmers to spread over 80,000 tonnes of basalt while building a carbon-credit business backed by major funders and recent XPRIZE recognition. Full article >>

New analytical tools—from improved soil-sample chemistry and isotope tracing to real-time bicarbonate sensors—are giving enhanced rock-weathering projects more accurate and scalable ways to verify how much CO2 they actually remove. Full article >>