Google Collaborates to Eliminate Superpollutants

Software company Google launched two new partnerships to eliminate superpollutants and improve the atmosphere.

 

Google Collaborates to Eliminate Superpollutants

Software company Google launched two new partnerships to eliminate superpollutants and improve the atmosphere.

Software company Google launched two new partnerships to eliminate superpollutants in the near-term and improve the atmosphere.

Google’s partnerships with Recoolit and Cool Effect are focused on eliminating more than 25,000 tons of superpollutants by 2030 — seeking to prevent warming roughly equivalent to 1 million tons of CO2 in the long-term and 3 million tons in the short-term, according to a statement

Superpollutants are gases that warm the atmosphere more potently than CO2. These partnerships seek to eliminate them in two ways: by destroying fluorinated gases from residential and commercial cooling systems in Indonesia and by destroying methane from landfills in Brazil.

If Google uses the credits from these purchases to help neutralize its emissions, they will either be matched against shorter-lived emissions or replaced with longer-lived credits as their atmospheric impact expires.

Google also recently partnered with Varaha and Charm to purchase 100,000 tons of biochar carbon removal from each company by 2030, according to a statement. These are the largest biochar carbon removal deals to date.

Google’s growing toolkit of carbon removal solutions includes enhanced rock weathering and direct air capture.

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