Today, Cascade Climate is introducing the ERW Data Quarry, the first-ever Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) data sharing system together with 10 leading ERW companies – Alt Carbon, Andes, Carbonaught Pty Ltd, Eion, Flux, InPlanet, Mati Carbon, Terradot, V6 Agronomy, and ZeroEx
– who have proactively committed to sharing commercial datasets as a part of this system. This is one of the first systems of its kind to proactively share commercial data for the benefit of broad scientific learning in the CDR space.
Frontier, as a leading catalytic buyer coalition in the space, has also committed to requiring dataset contributions to the ERW Data Quarry as part of recent pre-purchases and future ERW offtakes. Milkywire, another catalytic ERW buyer, will also incorporate data sharing requirements in their next major ERW purchase. These buyers are helping to signal the importance of community-wide data sharing in growing a quality ERW market.
Enhanced Rock Weathering has immense potential to deliver meaningful carbon removal and agricultural benefits–but there remain a number of open scientific questions related to carbon removal quantification and safety that will be critical to address to unlock this potential.
Providing access and visibility into the datasets of commercial ERW deployments – which cumulatively represent over 200x more area than all academic field trials combined – is critical to answer the most pressing scientific questions facing the field, and can help to jumpstart a virtuous cycle of deployment-led learning.
At Cascade, we are committed to stewarding this data sharing process to support the ERW community in advancing the most pressing scientific questions – and we hope that this data sharing system is just the beginning. In the meantime, tip your hat to the leading companies who have rolled up their sleeves, moved from talk to action, and are committing real data to advance the state of ERW science.
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Tannis Thorlakson Vilas Rao
