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Your archive of Alt Carbon in the world. A collection of stories, features, and coverage from across the media — how others are seeing, questioning, and telling the story of our work. Expect outside perspectives, accountability, and a growing chorus of voices shaping the climate conversation.
Alt Carbon scores $12M seed to scale carbon removal in India
From a struggling family tea estate to an innovative climate venture, Alt Carbon has raised $12 million in a seed round as it plans to scale its carbon dioxide removal work in the South Asian…
Mitsubishi Corporation And Alt Carbon To Scale ERW Carbon Removal In South Asia
From tea gardens to carbon markets: An alt-ernative story
Fourth-generation tea planter Shrey Agarwal is experimenting with a cost-effective, scalable way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere while supporting farmers and industry…
How Can Darjeeling Tea Help Global Companies Reach Net Zero?
Swiss CDR's NextGen has partnered with Alt Carbon, an Indian company with an ingenious method of storing carbon in tea farms across Darjeeling…
Company uses mining dust to enhance carbon capture
A Darjeeling-based company is transporting basalt dust from Jharkhand and using it as an organic fertiliser to enrich soil and accelerate carbon sequestration. It has used about 500…
Brothers Rescue Darjeeling Tea with Historic Nextgen Deal to Scale Asian CDR from Plantations
The Alt Carbon project provides some of the cheapest CDR credits globally, aims to scale up to gigaton levels by 2050, and position India as a global hub for Carbon…
Frontier prepurchases from Alt Carbon
Bangalore-based carbon removal startup Alt Carbon has made history as the first India-headquartered company to receive a prepurchase agreement from the prestigious Frontier, the advance marke…
How a DTC tea brand became Shopify's partner in the fight against climate change
Shopify is committed to powering sustainable commerce by joining forces with dozens of climate entrepreneurs. Today, we're backing nine more.
Alphabet, H&M and others pay $4.5 million for carbon removal 'prepurchases'
For five of the nine startups, this funding represents an initial corporate transaction.