Quality is subjective, climate impact is not

Absolute Climate is the carbon removal industry’s first quality assurance provider. Powered by an industry-wide quality standard and on-site monitoring technology, we ensure climate projects achieve their promised climate impact.

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Announcing the Absolute Carbon Standard

The Absolute Carbon Standard is a new approach to climate mitigation assessments, designed to ensure that credit claims match climate impacts


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Absolute Carbon Standard Technical Summary

The Absolute Carbon Standard (ACS) provides a comprehensive framework for evaluating the impact of any project on global emissions. It uses objective, science-based assessments to ensure carbon markets grow with measurable, gigaton-level climate outcomes.

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Anthropogenic Emissions Model Technical Summary

The Anthropogenic Emissions Model (AEM) is a universal tool that evaluates any project’s impact on global emissions by modeling emissions within the carbon cycle. Unlike traditional assessments, AEM applies consistent criteria to determine how emissions move between storage and the atmosphere, ensuring objective and comparable results.

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Solution

Not all carbon removal is created equal

There is widespread variability in the actual environmental impact of carbon removal credits. Without a clear definition of what represents one ton of carbon removed from Earth’s atmosphere, the carbon removal industry risks never developing the trust required to meet the challenges of climate change

Absolute ClimAbate Solution

Absolute Climate is standardizing the certain environmental impacts of different carbon removal approaches with an industry-wide standard and on-site monitoring technology. We ensure that 1 ton of carbon removal always = 1 ton of emissions permanently removed from the atmosphere

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Creates Clarity

Buyers can match credit purchases to specific mitigation claims

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Reduce Risk

Removes substantially more risk than just relying on registries

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Reward High-Quality

Rewards producers and buyers of high-quality credits by clearly differentiating them from credits with less certainty

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Build Trust

Credits are more likely to be issued accurately and stand up to external scrutiny

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Creates Clarity

Buyers can match credit purchases to specific mitigation claims
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Reduce Risk

Removes substantially more risk than just relying on registries
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Reward High-Quality

Rewards producers and buyers of high-quality credits by clearly differentiating them from credits with less certainty
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Build Trust

Credits are more likely to be issued accurately and stand up to external scrutiny
FOR SUPPLIERS

Give certainty to your climate impacts

Absolute Climate enables the highest quality project developers to differentiate their credits, elevate their reputation, and build enduring trust with the climate community

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Differentiate your climate impact

Carbon removal credits are seen as fungible, even though credits from different projects have dramatically varying climate impacts
Absolute Climate makes clear the direct climate impacts of a project. Differentiating the quality and certainty of impacts - making the differences obvious between a $1,000/ton credit and a $250/ton credit
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Elevate your offering

There is no carbon removal standard that elevates high-quality and high certainty projects
Absolute Climate evaluates all projects according to the same criteria and elevates the brand and reputation of high quality, high certainty projects
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Simplify operationalizing MRV

Operationalizing MRV is high friction and manual
Absolute Climate makes clear the the criteria that needs to be fulfilled, and provides the guidance and tools to reduce compliance risks while saving time, money, and energy
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Guarantee your impacts

Existing MRV partners don’t stand behind their certification 
AC guarantees our evaluation of credit quality

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“Removing billions of tons of CO2 from the atmosphere using the world's most cost-effective Direct Air Capture technology that harnesses the natural powers of limestone.”

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FOR CARBON REMOVAL BUYER

Derisk your carbon removal purchases

Absolute Climate simplifies and derisks carbon removal purchasing by empowering buyers to understand the credits they’re purchasing and how they can use them

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Know exactly what you’re buying

Carbon removal is highly technical, evolving rapidly, and expensive, making it challenging to identify what to buy, and understand what you’re getting
Absolute Climate creates clear differentiation between different types of carbon removal and credits produced, so Buyers understand exactly what climate impacts they’re purchasing
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Get 100% of what you paid for

Misaligned incentives create uncertainty of whether you received 100% of the climate impacts that you paid for
Absolute Climate deploys on-site monitoring technology and guarantees our certification of credit quality
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Mitigate the risks of buying carbon removal

There’s no market clarity on how credits should be used, and what claims you can make with purchases, leaving you open to greenwashing, reputation, and litigation risks
Absolute Climate provides certainty of how credits should be used, and what claims should be made - mitigating greenwashing, reputation, and litigation risks
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Robustly demonstrate your climate impacts

Communicating your impact to stakeholders, and defending it when needed, is technical and high friction
Absolute Climate provides the information you need to give stakeholders comprehensive evidence that climate impacts were fully realized

Ready for complete confidence in your credit claims?

FOR Buyers

Give certainty to your climate impacts

AC enables the highest quality Project Developers to differentiate their credits, elevate their reputation, and build enduring trust with the climate community.

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Clear Climate Impact

CDR is highly technical, evolving rapidly, and expensive, making it challenging to identify what to buy, and understand what you’re getting

AC creates clear differentiation between different types of CDR and credits produced, so Buyers understand exactly what climate impacts they’re purchasing
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High quality – high certainty

A lack of consistency in standards and MRV practices creates uncertainty of whether you received 100% of the climate impacts that you paid for

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Reduce risks

There’s no market clarity on how credits should be used, and what claims you can make with purchases, leaving you open to greenwashing, reputation, and litigation risks

AC provides certainty of how credits should be used, and what claims should be made - mitigating greenwashing, reputation, and litigation risks
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Absolute Cimate Guarantees

Communicating your impact to stakeholders, and defending it when needed, is technical and high friction

AC provides the information you need to give stakeholders comprehensive evidence that climate impacts were fully realized

Ready for complete confidence in your credit claims?

“Removing billions of tons of CO2 from the atmosphere using the world's most cost-effective Direct Air Capture technology that harnesses the natural powers of limestone.”

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Purpose

Voice of the Planet

For too long climate claims haven’t matched climate impacts. We believe that carbon removal can be a mission critical tool for positive climate action, but only if we can ensure that carbon removal actions result in real climate impacts. Our mission is to instill each carbon removal credit with its true climate worth, and insert the climate’s interest into the market forces driving the carbon removal industry. Bringing the trust required to grow carbon removal to gigatonne scale impact
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Voice of the Planet

For too long climate claims haven’t matched climate impacts. We believe that carbon removal can be a mission critical tool for positive climate action, but only if we can ensure that carbon removal actions result in real climate impacts. Our mission is to instill each carbon removal credit with its true climate worth, and insert the climate’s interest into the market forces driving the carbon removal industry. Bringing the trust required to grow carbon removal to gigatonne scale impact

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Questions and answers

What is a quality assurance provider?
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How do you avoid conflicts of interest?
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Are you the same as a registry?
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Does the Absolute Climate Standard apply to all carbon removal pathways? How?
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