Pioneering Ocean-based Carbon Capture

CDR: Carbon Dioxide Removal. Also called Carbon Capture. In Swedish: ”koldioxid-infångning”.

CO2: Carbon Dioxide

Net Zero: The term is used to signify that a person or organization removes more C02 than its activities emits. In Swedish: ”Nettonoll”. To be able to claim to be Net Zero, only climate compensation projects may be used where the purchase of carbon dioxide credits means that greenhouse gases are removed from the atmosphere and stored for at least 100 years.

Carbon Neutral: This term is similar to Net Zero, but is weaker in the sense that is also allows one to credit projects that only prevents greenhouse gas emissions.

Carbon Negative: When carbon removals exceed emissions for a person or organization.

Additionality: Refers to how much of the carbon removal of a particular climate project that would have occurred anyway, had the project not taken place.

Permanence: Refers to how long carbon that has been removed from the atmosphere by some climate project will remain removed.

Awesome that you are starting! Try to automate as much as possible of your data collection so as much of the sustainability budget as possible can go to CDR.

You will report the emissions and the captures separately.

Please contact us to learn more or to receive an offer.

The activities of a generic person in the western world generates emissions around 8 tonnes yearly.

It is common for companies to only compensate for emissions related to their employees work activities.

WWF footprint calculator, Golow and Climate Hero have tools to see status of consumers and companies. And Wellfish and Goclimate have tools to automatically get your emissions based on your book keeping.

The average emissions for companies without production was 0,2 tons per employee per month according to a study by Removement in Stockholm, Sweden.

”Blue carbon” is the carbon dioxide that is captured by the world's oceans and coastal ecosystems, and thus does not stay in the atmosphere and contributes to the greenhouse effect.

This carbon is stored in the bottom sediment, often in the form of algae.

It is the aim of Arbon Earth to increase the amount of carbon stored in these habitats.

The Permanence is very high, 100 to millions of years. The biomasse and it’s carbon sink to a depth of 1000+ meters. Most of the biomass becomes buried in the sediment, remineralized and stay there for eons. A low percentage is dissolved in the water column, but since the water circulation time in the big oceans is 700-2000 year long, even the low fraction of CO2 which is dissolved in the water takes long time to reach the surface. At these depths CO2 is in liquid form which are heavier than water.

The additionality is very high. We actively increase the number of places where fast growing macroalgae can grow. This growth of biomass that is stored on the seafloor wouldn’t have happened otherwise.

We provide new income possibilities for coastal communities.

We source material as locally as we can.

Our Oceanpods provide nursing chambers for a variety of fish species, increasing the Biodiversity.

Our method mimics a natural process that has been around for millions of years.

Tree planting has fallen out of favor as a CDR method in recent years due to the complexity of such operations. To this end, we have chosen not to be involved in tree planting activities.

While it is good to take a holistic perspective, when EU lobby push that companies need to report on 1100 data points, it creates massive administration.

So we hear many sustainability managers saying most of their climate budgets are consumed by administration and climate consultants, so they have little remaining resources for emission reductions or CDR.

But of course the consulting business are riding nice on the wave of incoming business.

Best for the climate would be to focus on two values:

• Company emissions including scope 3, and

• CDR purchased (tons of CO2)

Then there would be a great effective push forward for many companies.

But we all hope that administration can be automated, so companies have resources left to get some real climate improvements going.

We work with fast growing species that uses photosynthesis to bind a lot of carbon dioxide, fast. Macro algae such as kelp is one example, bamboo is another.
We always work with local species.

Dried bamboo consist of around 50% carbon.

Dried macroalgae consist of around 28% carbon.

Yes. We release Oceanpods far away from shipping routes, normal fishing areas and islands.

We have designed the Oceanpod to not have any negative effect on sea vessels.

You receive a certificate about your tonnes.

We automatically retire the tons if not instructed to do otherwise.