Intensifying global warming demands a faster and smarter response. We need to sustain focus on rapid decarbonization while pursuing a broader range of interventions to prevent and manage the worst effects of climate change. This holistic strategy must encompass near-term warming mitigation, large-scale durable carbon removal for climate restoration, and measures to avoid triggering irreversible tipping points.
Cascade is a philanthropy-backed nonprofit helping mobilize a comprehensive response to the climate crisis by accelerating high-potential solutions that remain on the margins of mainstream climate action. We do this by leading ambitious initiatives spanning markets, policy and science to overcome the biggest bottlenecks to progress.
Voluntary climate finance is one of the few tools we can deploy at speed to test and de-risk climate technologies, while closing three critical gaps to scale up: building the evidence base, driving down costs, and resolving real-world deployment risks.
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Meeting the climate challenge requires cutting super pollutants for near-term impact while scaling carbon removal for the long term. Cascade is expanding its work to advance this dual strategy.
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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.
Learn MoreBriding the gap between introductory ERW explainers and technical documents, this blog offers an in-depth look at ERW’s attributes as a high-integrity carbon removal pathway. While ERW has clear strengths relative to the criteria, realizing its significant potential for carbon removal and co-benefits requires addressing distinct challenges.
09/17/2025 · 12 MIN READ
We built the Weathering Potential Explorer, an interactive global map that can support successful ERW deployments by pinpointing regions where relative environmental conditions could favor rapid silicate weathering.
08/14/2025 · 2 TO 20 MIN READ
As 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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