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Google just did its first megaton rock-weathering deal. What stuck with me isnt the headline volume. Its that the tonne and the temperature window are not the same product. Most claim decks still treat them like they are. Dan Harburg and I sat with Connor Sendel (CCO / founding team, Terradot) on Carbon Weekly News (CWN) at Climate Week NYC. ↓ 4 things that matter if you actually buy this stuff: 1. How one land book can run two ledgers without collapsing the claim Same southern Brazil rice fields: AWD cuts methane near-term; ERW delivers permanent removal later. >200k hectares under that model. If your claim language flattens both into “2 Mt permanent,” you’re already wrong on product, window, and what you can say in public. 2. Why “net-zero warming from the first credit” is the diligence line, not the 2040 slide Methane buys a ~12-year climate-impact window (half-life / GWP-20). That covers the weathering lag so durable tonnes can land inside the window. First deliveries ~2028; permanent CDR targeted by 2040. Ask for the matching math on GWP-20 vs permanence timing - not the press line. 3. How soft costs can double ���/t without buying you more climate Rock-on-field is the hard cost. Project finance plus frequent MRV to service debt is the soft cost that can double delivered €/t with zero extra impact. This stack tries to pay for climate-impact coverage instead of paying to carry the lag. 4. Why this is not a permanence trust dressed up as an offtake Connor’s cut: both interventions are already complete when you claim. You’re not parking cash hoping future DAC gets cheap enough. Closed system vs an option on someone else’s future factory. (links in comments)

What does it take to deliver megaton-scale climate impact? Connor Sendel, Terradot’s Chief Commercial Officer, broke down the thinking behind the recently announced AWD + ERW Google deal with Adrian Wons and Dan Harburg on Carbon Weekly News (CWN). Three key features make this model different: (1) Climate benefit from day one: ERW delivers durable carbon removal over time. Pairing it with AWD adds near-term methane reductions that bridge the weathering timeline, so buyers see climate impact from day one. (2) More of each dollar funding impact: The structure keeps financing and MRV costs lean, so more capital flows to the climate interventions themselves. (3) Grounded in climate science: The project uses a temperature-over-time framework to match the timing and magnitude of methane reduction with the delivery of durable CDR. The goal is net-zero warming from the first credit and onward. The result is a project designed to deliver immediate and permanent climate impact. Connor goes deeper on the science, economics and how the model becomes globally replicable in the full conversation. 🔗 Link to the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/gncMZzyE #CarbonRemoval #EnhancedRockWeathering #ClimateFinance

Want to learn more about our ERW + AWD project and what’s ahead for Terradot? Our team will be in New York in full force, with colleagues across science, carbon projects, commercial, and finance. We’re looking forward to connecting with others working to scale carbon removal. Our CEO, James Kanoff, will also be speaking at NY Climate Week as part of Yale University's Planetary Solutions session, “Superpollutants: Levers for Corporate Action,” on Tuesday, September 22 alongside Jamey Mulligan, Claire Henly, Jessica Seddon and Anastasia O'Rourke. 🔗 Link to learn more about the event here: https://lnkd.in/eXu7zXda Reach out to us directly to connect! We’ll see you in New York! 🗽

BIG News! Today Terradot and Google are announcing the world’s first megaton scale enhanced rock weathering project, the largest ERW project ever built. The project combines methane elimination with permanent carbon removal in Brazilian rice systems. Google will purchase 1 million tonnes of near-term methane impact by 2030 and 1 million tonnes of permanent carbon removal by 2040. It is: 💸 Google's largest carbon removal purchase to date 🪨 The largest enhanced rock weathering project ever undertaken, across more than 200,000 hectares of farmland 📜 The first agreement of any kind to pair near-term methane elimination with durable carbon removal at this scale How it works: Rice farmers in Southern Brazil are adopting Alternate Wetting and Drying, an irrigation practice that periodically drains flooded paddies, cutting water use and sharply reducing methane and clearing it from the atmosphere in about a decade. In the same project we spread naturally sourced, crushed rock, which dissolves and permanently absorbs CO2 as it weathers. By the time the short-lived methane benefit expires, the long-lived carbon removal has phased in, delivering immediate & continuous climate impact. Thank you to the Google team for making this possible and to Simon Jessop at Reuters for sitting down with our CEO and Co-Founder James Kanoff to tell this story. 🔗 Link to press release here: https://lnkd.in/eV4svW9S 🔗 Link to article here: https://lnkd.in/efdf3dku

We're thrilled to welcome Francesca Poggiali to Terradot as our Head of Global Policy! Francesca brings 25 years of experience across European policymaking, corporate sustainability, and global public affairs. She built policy inside the European Commission and Parliament, led sustainability and advocacy work at Ferrero, and served as a senior global public policy leader at GS1. Across each of these roles, she's built the regulatory and market frameworks that help new ideas move from concept to mainstream adoption. At Terradot, Francesca will lead our global policy strategy engaging policymakers and market bodies, shaping the standards for permanent carbon removal, and representing Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) as the industry continues to develop. You can connect with her and the Terradot team at upcoming events including: 🇧🇪 Carbon Removal Policy Summit hosted by Carbon Gap — Brussels, Sept 16 Francesca will engage with Europe's policy community to champion durable CDR and ensure ERW has a seat at the table in the EU’s evolving regulatory framework. 🇨🇭Curated Conversations: Trade Corridors and Carbon Credits hosted by World Trade Organization (WTO) Public Forum — Geneva, Sept 17 Terradot is hosting an invite-only roundtable, bringing together researchers, project developers, buyers, and policymakers to work through how ERW integrates into regulated markets, from CRCF inclusion to the CDR–CBAM intersection. If your work touches on carbon removal policy, Francesca would love to connect! #CarbonRemoval #ClimatePolicy #EnhancedRockWeathering #CDR #ClimateTech #Terradot

Rock dust is on the move! This month the Terradot team kicked off our latest deployments on our two largest Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) projects to date: 1,000,000 tons of rock across 60,000 hectares (150,000 acres) of farmland in the US and Brazil. ERW is Earth's natural process for permanent carbon removal and Terradot is optimizing it to run faster and more efficiently at scale. Our projects are designed with industry aligned protocols, backed by reliable measurement, and built to repeatedly deliver. The same system that moved this shipment is the one that moves the next ten. Hugo Chagas Nascimento, our Head of Planning and Logistics, and Gabriella Dell Agnolo Oliveira, our Project Management Specialist, are two of the experts driving these projects forward alongside a dedicated operations team working behind the scenes to make it all a reality. Hugo brings over 15 years of supply chain experience from Bunge and Kopenhagen (Grupo CRM) to the job of getting crushed rock dust from quarry to field, on time, at volumes ERW hasn't seen before. Working alongside him, Gabriella leverages more than a decade of experience leading complex projects across healthcare, tech, and agriculture to integrate Terradot’s logistics, field, lab, land sourcing, procurement, and HSE into one orchestrated system built to run at scale. “Being onsite, watching a plan that lived in spreadsheets and schedules turn into ships docking and trucks loading is amazing. To see your team’s hard work become real and know it's going to drive climate impact is the most rewarding part of the job." Terradot is demonstrating that ERW is measurable, scalable and ready to deliver today. #CarbonRemoval #ERW #CDR #ScalingClimate #Logistics #ClimateImpact

Nosso time de Techdev esta onfire! Bora?

We're #hiring an Engineering Manager / Tech Lead in São Paulo, Brazil, to help lead our engineering team and build the tools that support Terradot's work in the field. If you're a hands-on engineering leader, enjoy building with a fast-moving team, and want your work to have a direct climate impact, we'd love to hear from you. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/djU9SPyP And a reminder: our TechDev team is on fire right now 🔥 We have 3 roles open in São Paulo,this one, plus: Data Engineer https://lnkd.in/da6afJ78 Data Scientist https://lnkd.in/dNZYPp-V

We're #hiring a Data Scientist in São Paulo, Brazil, to turn complex scientific and geospatial data into models and insights that help scale our Enhanced Rock Weathering work. If you have a strong quantitative background, enjoy solving real-world problems, and want your work to have a direct climate impact, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today or share this with your network! https://lnkd.in/dNZYPp-V

We're #hiring a Data Engineer in São Paulo, Brazil, to help build the data infrastructure behind our scientific and operational work. If you have strong Python and SQL foundations and want to work with real-world data while helping scale climate technology, we'd love to talk. Apply today or share this post with your network! 🚀 https://lnkd.in/da6afJ78