Cascade Climate
Enhanced Rock Weathering
Advancing the science, tools, and policy needed to make ERW a credible, scalable pathway for carbon removal and agricultural benefit
Explore programOur Work
Cascade is a philanthropy-backed nonprofit helping mobilize a more comprehensive response to the climate crisis by advancing 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.
Program areas
Refrigerant Management and Transition
Narrowing the finance, policy, and infrastructure gaps preventing effective refrigerant management — one of the fastest ways to slow near-term warming
Explore programCross-cutting
Policy and Market Development
SPOTLIGHT ON OUR WORK ↗
Can the right sequence unlock refrigerant recovery at scale?
Learn how Cascade is sequencing financing, policy, and markets to build practical refrigerant recovery systems in Southeast Asia.
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Spring quarry update: more data, more partners
Three new datasets are now available in the ERW Data Quarry — and two new project developers have joined the effort.
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Accounting and claims for short-lived and long-lived pollutants
Learn more about why today's climate actions must go beyond CO₂ mitigation and prioritize activities that can reduce near-term warming in the coming decades.
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Cascade announces Bedrock Initiative to unlock potential of enhanced rock weathering
Learn how the Bedrock Initiative will critically strengthen the evidence base for ERW
Learn MoreRECENT BLOGS ↗
Rock On: The ERW Data Quarry Just Doubled Its Data
Three new datasets are now available, and two more project developers have joined the effort, doubling the data available on the platform and bringing the total pipeline to 26 commitments.
03/31/2026 · 10 MIN READ
Lifecycle Refrigerant Management: Closing Critical Gaps in Global Climate Policy
Why LRM matters, what's blocking progress, and how strategic interventions can unlock immediate climate wins and build economic resilience.
02/19/2026 · 8 MIN READ
Call for Expressions of Interest: Coordinated Research Network for Enhanced Rock Weathering
Cascade is standing up a global Coordinated Research Network (CRN) of standardized ERW experimental field trials across diverse global geographies.
02/05/2026 · 5 MIN READ
Beyond GWP100: Accounting and Claims for Short-Lived and Long-Lived Climate Pollutants
Learn how Cascade is driving strong community alignment on the credibility of corporate and international credit claims, and read our latest report.
01/21/2026 · 4 MIN READ