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CEF Member News
Amazon
Launched the AWS Sustainability console, a free, standalone service that shows customers the carbon emissions associated with their AWS usage. This enables sustainability professionals to view this data without billing permissions. The console provides customers with estimated emissions calculated using both location-based and market-based methods, and categorizable by AWS Region, service, and emissions scope. PR »
Boeing
Signed a carbon offtake agreement with soil carbon removal company Grassroots Carbon, under which Boeing will purchase a minimum of 40,000 metric tons of verified carbon removal credits. Credits will be generated through sequestration from regenerative ranching and improved grassland management across the U.S., and tracked using one-meter deep field-level soil measurements and laboratory analysis. PR »
JPMorgan Chase
Announced a CDR agreement with carbon removal startup Graphyte, under which Graphyte will remove 60,000 metric tons over 10 years via two U.S. projects. One project, in Arkansas, dries and compresses agricultural and timber residues and sequesters them underground. A second planned project in Arizona, will dry, compress and sequester timber residues from forest thinnings, while also restoring a mining site as wildlife habitat and reducing wildfire risk in the area. PR »
Microsoft
Signed a carbon offtake agreement with North Star Carbon Solutions for 626,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide removal over 15 years. North Star will develop a new BECCS plant, in which sawmill waste biomass will be burned for energy, with the CO2 stored in a geologic storage site also owned by North Star. Commercial operation is planned for early 2029. At capacity, the plant will generate up to 90,000 tons of CDR credits per year. PR »