Puro.earth, the leading carbon-crediting platform for carbon dioxide removal (CDR), has issued over 1 million CO2 Removal Certificates (CORCs) since 2019. This represents 1 million tonnes of verified carbon removal. The company has played a key role in expanding the carbon removal market and advancing engineered solutions for climate action.
Reaching the first 500,000 CORCs took nearly five years, but the number doubled in just one year, reaching 1 million in Q1 2025. At this pace, Puro.earth expects to match this milestone again before the end of H1 2026.
How Does Carbon Dioxide Removal Work?
In carbon dioxide removal the CO2 from the atmosphere is pulled and stored securely in geological formations, land, oceans, or durable products. This is a natural process.
But with emissions still rising, CDR needs fast scaling up to make a better impact. There are two main types of CDR methods:
- Natural CDR: Includes afforestation, soil carbon sequestration, and ocean-based methods.
- Technological CDR: Includes Direct Air Capture (DAC), biochar, and enhanced mineralization.
Permanence is key in carbon dioxide removal. High-quality CDR credits must keep CO₂ stored for centuries or even millennia. This prevents it from being released back into the atmosphere. This is where Puro.earth is helping companies achieve their CDR milestones.
- In an EXCLUSIVE Discussion with CarbonCredits, Jan-Willem Bode, President of Puro.earth shared valuable insights on achieving this big milestone, meeting the highest environmental standards, and what’s next.
Read on…
CC: What factors contributed to the rapid growth of Puro.earth’s CO₂ Removal Certificates (CORCs) from 500,000 to over one million in just one year?
President Bode: Our growth is the result of three reinforcing factors:
- Low barrier to entry: Minimal upfront certification costs make it easy for suppliers to join the ecosystem.
- Scalable revenue model: CORC sales provide suppliers with capital to reinvest and expand operations.
- Methodology expansion: New methodologies unlock growth across multiple sectors simultaneously.
Moreover, this reaffirms the strong confidence in the market even while developments are still being made to the regulatory framework for engineering removals in general. These dynamics, combined with buyer demand, geographic diversification, and strong platform credibility, drive exponential momentum in high-integrity carbon removal.
CC: What are the implications of removing one million tonnes of CO₂ in terms of global climate goals, and how do you plan to sustain this momentum?
President Bode: Reaching one million tonnes of CO₂ removed is a significant milestone for Puro.earth and the carbon removal market as a whole. While it represents a small fraction of the reductions needed globally, it signals meaningful progress toward scaling high-integrity carbon removal in line with the Paris Agreement.
More importantly, it demonstrates that durable carbon removal is no longer a concept of the future — it’s happening now and at scale. We plan to sustain and accelerate this momentum by continuing to grow our network of high-quality suppliers, expanding access to global markets for carbon removal, and fostering strong demand from corporate buyers committed to net zero. With increasing interest from climate-forward companies and support from visionary entrepreneurs and investors, we’re on track to issue our next one million CORCs by mid-2026.
Furthermore, we are seeing several important initiatives from our partners within this context. These initiatives focus on creating more liquidity in the market in the short term and more standardization in the medium term.
CC: How does Puro.earth ensure the integrity and quality of the carbon removal credits issued through its platform?
President Bode: Puro.earth ensures the integrity and quality of its carbon removal credits through a science-based, transparent, and independently verified approach. Each CO₂ Removal Certificate (CORC) is issued according to methodologies grounded in robust quantification techniques, designed to meet the highest standards of environmental integrity.
Our methodologies are developed and continuously reviewed by an independent Advisory Board composed of leading scientists, academics, and carbon removal experts – including Advisory Board Chairman Professor Myles Allen, co-author of the Oxford Principles for Net Zero Aligned Carbon Offsetting, Oxford University. These methodologies set the criteria for what constitutes permanent, net-negative carbon removal.
Puro Registry Tracks Carbon Removal
Based on President’s insights, we explain the process further below:
The Puro Standard: Certifies suppliers that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it for at least 100 years. It then issues CORCs and records them in the transparent Puro Registry.
The Puro Registry: It is transparent and shows active CORCs and the projects behind them. When organizations retire CORCs, they use them to support net-zero or carbon neutrality claims. Each CORC represents one metric ton of long-term CO2 removal.
They use CORC100+ and CORC1000+ labels to indicate estimated storage durability in years. However, these labels only provide general guidance rather than exact retention periods. Before December 2022, all CORCs carried a single label, regardless of storage duration.
Furthermore, independent auditors verify each project every year to ensure compliance with Puro Standard’s science-based methods.
Scaling Carbon Removal with Proven Methods
Puro.earth pioneered carbon removal certification for biochar, carbonated materials, biomass storage, enhanced rock weathering, and geologically stored carbon. These methods capture CO2 using Direct Air Capture (DAC) and Bioenergy with Carbon Capture & Storage (BECCS).
Unlike traditional carbon offsets, which focus on reducing emissions, CORCs represent direct carbon removal. The Puro Registry updates its data daily. However, it only releases data from before January 2022 if both parties agree. Beneficiaries can request a delay in publication, but only for up to 12 months.
The company’s 1 million CORCs (52.13% already retired) account for 576,561 metric tons of CO2 removed. Two key methodologies drive this milestone:
- Geologically Stored Carbon (34.3%) – DACCS and BECCS offer reliable, long-term storage.
- Biochar (34.1%) – A scalable solution that locks carbon into stable materials.
The United States leads in carbon removal projects, contributing 45% of total issuances. Finland (9.87%), Bolivia (9.64%), and Brazil (9.15%) follow, along with Austria, Norway, and the UK.
Rising demand for high-impact carbon removal continues to drive growth in the CORC market, with buyers seeking scalable solutions for long-term sustainability.
Tech Giants Drive Carbon Removal Growth
CDR credits let companies and governments balance their emissions. They do this by funding projects that actively remove CO₂. CDR credits are different from traditional carbon offsets.
Microsoft, Google, and Frontier Buyers have led the early-stage carbon removal (CDR) market, according to CDR.fyi leaderboards. Their investments have reduced risks for new CDR technologies and helped suppliers scale up their operations.
- Microsoft accounted for 63% of total CDR purchase volume in 2024 to achieve carbon negativity by 2030. The tech giant secured around 5.1 million metric tons of durable CDR credits.
- Google purchased about 501 thousand tons of CDR credits, making it second to Microsoft.
- Frontier buyers—including Stripe, Shopify, and Watershed—continued to support promising carbon removal projects, collectively purchasing 667.4K tonnes of CDR credits.
Top Buyers of Puro.earth’s CORCs to Offset Emissions
The press release highlighted that Microsoft, Shopify, and Zurich Insurance purchase CORCs to reduce their carbon footprints and combat climate change.
In 2021, Nasdaq acquired a majority stake in Puro.earth. Together, they are advancing the carbon removal industry by creating new revenue streams that accelerate CDR adoption.
Experts predict that high-emission industries like aviation, concrete, steel, shipping, and chemicals will drive the next wave of demand. Some companies in these sectors have already acted.
Notably, SkiesFifty and Gigablue, a Puro.earth supplier, signed a four-year deal to buy 200,000 tonnes of carbon removal credits.
Puro.earth’s issuance of over 1 million CORCs shows strong growth and effectiveness in engineered carbon removal technologies. This milestone highlights the rising demand for reliable carbon credits. It also shows the platform’s promise to be open and responsible in the carbon market.
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Most businesses that decide to act on their net-zero targets reach the same point of friction. Buying carbon credits has meant tracking down brokers, sitting through sales calls, and requesting a quote just to learn a price, sometimes with limited proof of what you are buying.
The earnings calls that quietly reframed climate from sustainability question to operating risk.
Three earnings calls in the last 18 months tell the story without any help from a press release.
Hershey, May 2024: cocoa price exposure compresses margin, and the company attributes part of the cost shock to West African weather. Olam, July 2024: coffee climate exposure quantified in the annual report. JBS, January 2025: supply chain climate disclosures expanded materially in response to investor pressure and regulatory expectation. None of these companies issued the announcement as climate news. They issued it as financial news. The climate-linked supply chain risk did not arrive with a sustainability framing; it arrived as a P&L line.
You are probably reading this article because you suspect the same thing is happening to your business. This piece walks through what is showing up on which earnings calls, how procurement and finance leaders are quantifying the exposure, and what serious corporates are doing about it before the regulator asks.
Where climate risk has already appeared in earnings
The pattern is consistent across resource-intensive sectors. A weather event compresses supply, the price spikes, the cost flows through the income statement, and the analyst on the call asks whether the event is anomalous or structural. Increasingly, the honest answer is the second one.
Cocoa is the cleanest example. The 2023 to 2024 West African harvest fell sharply on the back of erratic rainfall and disease. Cocoa futures more than tripled. Companies with concentrated West African sourcing absorbed the cost; companies with diversified sourcing absorbed less. The exposure was not climate as ESG topic. It was climate as cost of goods.
Coffee follows the same pattern. Brazilian and Vietnamese harvests have moved on weather more sharply across the last several seasons. Roasters with long-tenor supplier relationships and origin diversification have managed the volatility; roasters with spot-market exposure have not. Wheat, sugar, palm oil, beef: the same dynamic in different commodities, a pattern the IPCC AR6 Working Group II report projects will intensify across agricultural systems through mid-century.
What this means: climate risk is no longer a footnote in the 10-K. It is a line item the CFO has to explain on the call.
The three commodity exposures that hit margin first
For most companies with material Scope 3 exposure, three exposures dominate the near-term P&L risk.
- Concentrated single-origin sourcing in a climate-vulnerable region. If your tier-one supply for any material commodity sits in one geography, you have a concentration risk that climate amplifies. Diversification across origins is the obvious hedge, but it takes years to build and requires relationships you cannot acquire by tender.
- Supplier financial fragility under climate stress. Smallholder farmers, who supply a large share of the global cocoa, coffee, and palm oil market, do not carry the balance sheets to absorb yield shocks. When yields collapse, they exit. When they exit, your supply base shrinks, and the surviving suppliers raise prices. The risk is structural, not cyclical.
- Logistics and storage exposure to extreme weather. Hurricane disruptions to Gulf shipping, drought-driven Panama Canal restrictions, flooding in European inland waterways: each of these has moved input costs in the last three years, a pattern documented in Munich Re’s natural catastrophe data. The exposure shows up as a one-quarter event in the financial press but accumulates over time on the cost line.
TCFD and ISSB disclosure changes
The disclosure architecture has now caught up with the risk. The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, whose recommendations are now embedded in the ISSB’s IFRS S2 climate standard, requires companies to disclose climate-related risks across physical and transition categories, with quantification where possible.
For physical risk specifically (the climate-linked supply chain risk you are reading about), the disclosure must address both acute exposures (extreme weather events) and chronic exposures (gradual changes in temperature, precipitation, and growing seasons). The disclosure must address the time horizon over which the risk is material, the parts of the value chain exposed, and the financial impact under different scenarios.
The CSRD imposes similar requirements under European law, with double materiality (both financial and impact materiality) embedded in the assessment. The practical effect: your auditors and your investor relations team now need a defensible answer to the climate-linked supply chain risk question, and the answer needs to be quantified.
What procurement and finance can do now
Three actions matter near-term.
Map your exposure. Most companies do not have a clear view of which tier-one and tier-two suppliers sit in which climate-vulnerable geographies. Without the map, you cannot quantify the risk, and without the quantification, you cannot disclose it credibly. The map is the foundation, and World Resources Institute climate risk research provides useful public tooling to start.
Diversify and deepen, in that order. Diversification across origins reduces concentration risk, but the deeper move is to invest in the resilience of the suppliers you already have. Regenerative practices, agroforestry, soil health interventions: these reduce yield volatility under climate stress and protect your input cost trajectory.
Embed the climate spend inside procurement, not outside it. Treating climate risk as a sustainability cost line subordinates it to the ESG budget. Treating it as a procurement and resilience investment puts it in the budget that matters, which is the cost-of-goods budget that the CFO defends quarterly.
Nature-based supply chain investments are the asset class designed for exactly this purpose. They sit inside the value chain, they reduce climate-linked supply risk, they generate verifiable Scope 3 reductions, and they produce the documentation an auditor and a regulator can both test.
If you are quantifying climate-linked supply chain risk in advance of the next earnings cycle or the next disclosure period, the carbon and sustainability experts at Carbon Credit Capital can help you map your exposure and structure a Dual-Value Model response that addresses reduction, resilience, and disclosure-readiness in a single program. Schedule a consultation.
More and more small and medium-sized businesses are hearing the same question from their larger customers: What is your carbon footprint? That question now travels down entire supply chains, and it arrives next to tender requirements, certification criteria, and rising customer expectations.
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