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Exciting News: The Leaps by Bayer team is thrilled to present our inaugural #ImpactReport, reaffirming our commitment to investing in a brighter future. As impact investors, measuring the potential of our Leaps portfolio is a core priority. In this report, we proudly share the initial results of our portfolio’s impact evaluation, based on our custom framework, #WALY (Wellbeing Adjusted Life Years), developed in collaboration with The Happiness Research Institute. Using a standardized checklist that captures the unique benefits of each innovation, we analyzed 24 Leaps portfolio companies to assess their potential impact. Special thanks to our three portfolio companies: ReCode Therapeutics, Oerth Bio, and Apollo Agriculture for agreeing to be featured as case study portfolio companies. Dive in to learn more about the great impact potential within our Leaps portfolio:

We just purchased $3 million in carbon removal, which will remove more than 5,000 tons of CO2 from 11 organizations. This isn’t just our largest purchase to date. It’s one of the largest philanthropic purchases of carbon removal ever. Philanthropy is proving to be a growing force in closing the funding gap for CDR companies—strengthening the demand signal for carbon removal with the help of the builders and futurists who make up our donor base. Read more in our latest update 👇 https://lnkd.in/g_pX8NFx 🙏 to the companies behind this batch: Andes, Capture6, Charm Industrial, Climeworks, Heirloom, Octavia Carbon, Planetary, Spiritus, TerraFixing and Graphyte

📢 LIVE Carbon Removal Marketplace! 📊 We are excited to announce that today, at Carbon Unbound West Coast, a real-time carbon removal marketplace is now live at the conference! 🌎 The live marketplace - a joint collaboration between CDR.fyi, Carbon Unbound, Terraset and AirMiners, is aimed at unlocking open, philanthropic capital towards durable CDR. Participants can purchase CDR from the following suppliers on the marketplace: ➡ Andes ➡ Capture6 ➡ Charm Industrial ➡ Climeworks ➡ Graphyte ➡ Heirloom ➡ Octavia Carbon ➡ Planetary ➡ TerraFixing ✅ Use the link in the comment below to participate.

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. https://lnkd.in/guEaKNim Tannis Thorlakson Vilas Rao

This is #CDR History in the making! Introducing the LIVE Carbon Removal Marketplace 🤝 Join us for an interactive webinar on the 10th October to discover more; register now at https://lnkd.in/e-tJetPa. We're partnering with non-profit @Terraset to create a first-of-its-kind activation designed to unlock philanthropic capital and accelerate permanent carbon removal. On the webinar, you'll hear from… 🔷 Taylor Insley, Director of Strategic Growth, Terraset 🔷 M. Kemal A., Director, Head of Growth, Climeworks 🔷 Oliver Katz, Founder & CEO, Unbound Summits 🔷 TITO JANKOWSKI - AIRMINER, Co-Founder & CEO, AirMiners +Surprise guests! Our speakers will reveal how you can support pioneering solutions and remove carbon whilst benefiting from tax credits! We're calling on organisations and individuals to support an incredible portfolio of CDR companies at #CarbonUnboundWestCoast in San Francisco 🌉 This Zoom webinar is your chance to… 🔷 Learn about the LIVE Carbon Removal Marketplace and its game-changing potential. 🔷 Discover how YOU can make a real impact with a tax-deductible donation. 🔷 Hear about Terraset's impressive portfolio of CDR companies, including Andes, Capture6, Charm Industrial, Climeworks, Graphyte , Heirloom, Octavia Carbon, Planetary, Spiritus and TerraFixing. A special thank you to TITO JANKOWSKI - AIRMINER and the AirMiners team for planting this idea at #CarbonUnboundEastCoast earlier this year and to the incredible team at CDR.fyi and Alexander Rink for their unparalleled expertise in ever-evolving carbon markets. This is your chance to be part of the solution and network with Silicon Valley's leading CDR pioneers. Together, we can achieve gigaton-scale carbon removal. #CarbonRemoval #ClimateAction #CarbonUnbound #Terraset #GiveLively #Impact

We are excited to announce a 1000 tonne purchase agreement with a new carbon removal supplier, Andes. Andes is a microbial carbon mineralisation project, or MCM for short, working alongside farmers in the Midwestern United States. They apply microorganisms alongside crop seeds to accelerate the natural mineralization of atmospheric CO₂ in soil. These microbes grow with the crop roots resulting in stable minerals that durably and securely store carbon in the soil. Shared from Lauren Brown, Head of Carbon Removal at Klimate: "We are very excited to be working with Andes as a new partner and new CDR method for Klimate. Andes employ a robust Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) approach and we are glad to offer this high integrity method while scaling durable solutions." Said best by Gonzalo Fuenzalida-Meriz, CEO and Co-founder of Andes: "We are grateful to have the support of Klimate, a partner who believes strongly in Andes work and shares our vision of microbes' immense potential for carbon removal. They have conducted extensive due diligence on our solution and we are excited to work with them well into the future as a piece of the puzzle to grow carbon removal to gigatonne scale.” We look forward to collaborating with this novel technology as we share in the mission to accelerate efficient, scalable, carbon removal solutions! 🌍 🔗 Read more about Andes on Klimate's website here: https://lnkd.in/db7XCS5Z #carbonremoval #carbonremovalmethods #cdr #carbonmineralisation