Right now, we’re asserting our largest carbon elimination buy to this point: a brand new partnership with Terradot that’s designed to ship megaton-scale local weather impression by 2030 by deploying local weather options at rice farms throughout Brazil. Via this settlement, we’ll buy 1 million metric tons CO2e (GWP 20) of methane elimination by 2030, and 1 million metric tons of everlasting carbon elimination by 2040. It’s the first publicly introduced venture to mix quick impression by means of superpollutant elimination with lasting impression by means of sturdy carbon elimination at this scale, all inside a single agricultural system.
Combining quick and lasting local weather impression
Restoring the ambiance requires confronting two challenges on distinct timelines. As highlighted by a recent UN report, it’s important to scale each short-lived superpollutant abatement and carbon elimination so as to restrict how excessive and the way lengthy temperatures spike. Within the close to time period, we are able to handle peak temperatures by means of quick cuts to emissions of short-lived superpollutants like methane, which clear shortly from the ambiance, alongside continued efforts to chop CO2. And, as a result of CO2 stays within the ambiance for hundreds of years to millennia, bringing temperatures again down in the long run would require scaled sturdy carbon elimination.
Whereas most local weather options are centered on both short- or long-term horizons, our partnership with Terradot will sort out each timelines concurrently. It can mix superpollutant elimination and carbon elimination to ship megaton-scale local weather impression by 2030 — and make it final completely.
Remodeling rice farming right into a local weather answer
Terradot will obtain this near- and long-term impression by making use of two complementary applied sciences throughout greater than 200,000 hectares of rice farms in southern Brazil. First, Terradot will assist farmers undertake Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD), an irrigation observe that periodically drains flooded paddies. This drastically reduces methane emissions for a direct burst of local weather impression. Then, Terradot will unfold naturally sourced, crushed volcanic rock throughout these very same fields. Because the rock dissolves over time, it completely removes carbon dioxide from the ambiance by means of a course of often called Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW).
Pairing these options permits every to do what it does finest. The fast-acting methane elimination buys the time wanted for the crushed rock to completely dissolve. Because the short-lived methane profit expires, the everlasting carbon elimination phases in to exchange it. Measured on a temperature-over-time basis, this mixed method ensures a web lower in warming on each time horizon.
Farmers may even profit from the venture: AWD reduces water use and lowers enter prices, whereas the crushed rock can enhance soil well being, giving native communities an financial stake within the local weather impression they generate.
Producing a replicable blueprint for scale
This method to rice farming is primed for world scale. Southern Brazil is among the most favorable locations on this planet to deploy this mannequin; its tropical soils, heat and moist local weather, and flooded rice techniques naturally speed up weathering, and basalt quarries sit near the farmland. And this venture is designed to be much more extensively replicable: first throughout the 1.5 million hectares of rice beneath cultivation in Brazil, and ultimately throughout different rice-growing areas worldwide. To look at this, we’re additionally funding analysis that can study the methane-reducing potential of AWD in numerous rice techniques internationally.
Extra broadly, our partnership with Terradot exhibits the transformative potential of mixing superpollutant elimination with carbon elimination, whether or not inside a single agricultural system or throughout disparate tasks. It’s essentially the most tangible illustration up to now of the portfolio method we detailed in our 2026 Environmental Report: pairing motion on superpollutants, which reduces warming shortly, with carbon elimination that phases in to make the temperature impression final. It unites the ambitions of the advance market commitments we’ve cofounded (Frontier and Symbiosis for carbon elimination; the Superpollutant Action Initiative for superpollutants), displaying how each pillars of atmospheric restoration will be executed collectively in a unified system.
We hope this settlement will function a template to different patrons, suppliers, and governments aiming to maximise their local weather impression. We stay up for persevering with to assist scale superpollutant elimination and carbon elimination in tandem — so we are able to put a direct and lasting dent in warming with the urgency the planet calls for.
