Stripe Climate is the easiest way to help promising permanent carbon removal technologies launch and scale. Join a growing group of ambitious businesses that are changing the course of carbon removal.
There are two ways to become an early buyer of carbon removal with Stripe Climate. All purchases are facilitated by Frontier, an advance market commitment to buy an initial $1B+ of permanent carbon removal by 2030.
In just a few clicks, direct a percentage of your revenue to help the earliest-stage carbon removal companies in Frontier’s portfolio get out of the lab and into the field. This is the right choice for businesses that (i) care primarily about catalysing the field and (ii) don’t need to buy a specific number of tons to meet a climate target.
Pre-order a specific number of tons via the Stripe Dashboard or API. Tons will be supplied from Frontier's offtake portfolio. This is the right choice for businesses that (i) need to buy a specific number of tons to meet a climate target or (ii) want to offer carbon removal to their own customers.
To prevent the most catastrophic effects of climate change, we should aim to limit global average temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, which corresponds to reducing global annual CO₂ emissions from about 40 gigatons per year as of 2018, to net zero by 2050.
To accomplish this, the world will likely need to both radically reduce the new emissions we put into the air, and remove carbon already in the atmosphere.
Existing carbon removal solutions such as reforestation and soil carbon sequestration are important, but they alone are unlikely to scale to the size of the problem. New carbon removal technologies need to be developed – ones that have the potential to be high volume and low cost by 2050 – even if they aren’t yet mature.
Today, carbon removal solutions face a chicken-and-egg problem. As early technologies, they’re more expensive, so don’t attract a critical mass of customers. But without wider adoption, they can’t scale production to become cheaper.
Early purchasers can help new carbon removal technologies get down the cost curve and up the volume curve. Experience with manufacturing learning and experience curves has shown repeatedly that deployment and scale beget improvement, a phenomenon seen across DNA sequencing, hard drive capacity, and solar panels.
This thinking shaped Stripe’s initial purchases and ultimately led us to launch Frontier, an advance market commitment (AMC) to buy carbon removal. The goal is to send a strong demand signal to researchers, entrepreneurs, and investors that there is a growing market for these technologies. We’re optimistic that we can shift the trajectory of the industry and increase the likelihood the world has the portfolio of solutions needed to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
All purchases are facilitated by Frontier, an advance market commitment to buy $1B+ of permanent carbon removal by 2030. Frontier’s in-house team of science and commercial experts, supported by 60+ external technical reviewers, sources and evaluates the most promising carbon removal technologies. Explore the growing portfolio of projects, read the criteria we use to select them, or view our open sourced project applications.
See what we look for when evaluating projects.
View our open source project applications.