We already depend on Earth’s natural systems to mitigate human-caused emissions and maintain planetary balance. Interventions that enhance natural systems can bring advantages of scale and cost that will often make them among our best—and sometimes only—options to avoid deep harms that decarbonization alone cannot address. We need to accelerate our learning about these options if we seek to curb near-term warming, restore a preindustrial atmosphere, or stave off catastrophic sea-level rise and planetary tipping points.
Realizing these opportunities involves overcoming complex systemic bottlenecks. Quantifying the full impact of natural system interventions can be particularly difficult, and uncertainty around potential ecosystem impacts can cause paralysis without adequate tools and governance frameworks. Natural system interventions can offer powerful climate benefits as well as co-benefits for local economies and ecosystems; yet these benefits are often public and intangible ones, requiring creative and bold new modes of financing and public support. These interlaced challenges can leave natural system interventions at an impasse, struggling to start the learn-by-doing flywheel.
To unlock a virtuous cycle of deployment-led learning, we are piloting the first-ever ERW data sharing system, the ERW Data Quarry, that connects researchers to data from commercial ERW deployments.
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After a year-long process involving over 100 stakeholders, we produced a comprehensive technical reference on the “hows” of rigorous carbon removal quantification in an ERW deployment.
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In collaboration with the Grantham Foundation, Google, and Frontier, Cascade is excited to announce the awardees for our ERW Field Data Partnership Grants: over $1.2M in funding across 9 projects.
Learn MoreAs the EU explores enhanced rock weathering under the Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming (CRCF) we highlight four key recommendations from Foundations. A high quality methodology under the EU CRCF will send a clear signal to the market about minimum requirements for robust quantification and environmental health and safety.
06/02/2025 · 8 MIN READ
As enhanced rock weathering gains momentum as a promising carbon removal approach, we need to ensure it remains environmentally sound. The ERW-MAC helps practitioners understand potential metal accumulation risks in soils from ERW deployments using intentionally conservative assumptions.
04/30/2025 · 18 MIN READ
The purpose of this report is to introduce policy stakeholders—particularly those in the U.S. and EU—to ERW, and to highlight opportunities to further support this promising carbon removal and agricultural land management practice through both new and existing policy levers.
02/20/2025 · 10 MIN READ
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