Meeting Science Based Targets with Bioengineered CDR

As companies aim to reduce their carbon footprints and meet ambitious decarbonisation goals, novel carbon removal solutions (like our bioengineered CDR) offer innovative ways to address these commitments.

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTI), spearheaded by the UN Global Compact, helps companies determine emissions reductions plans in line with climate science. Specifically, SBTI asks companies to set targets to reduce emissions by at least 50% by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050. With global CO2 emissions continuing to rise, achieving these science-aligned targets requires going beyond traditional emissions cuts.

Here’s where Nellie’s carbon dioxide removal (CDR) comes in.

CDR refers to processes that actively remove and durably store CO2 from the atmosphere. Bioengineered CDR leverages biological pathways to turn captured CO2 into solid carbonates stored in soil.

Our approach can permanently store millions of tons of carbon underground each year, helping counter ongoing emissions.

What makes our bioengineered CDR especially impactful is our high additionality. Unlike some other carbon offsets that fund existing projects, our bio CDR actively removes new CO2 using our proprietary technological innovations.

This ability to durably eliminate greenhouse gases that would otherwise accumulate in the atmosphere offers true carbon negativity for maximum impact.

With bioengineered solutions like ours (that turn CO2 into biochar and biogenic aggregates), companies can address the pressing carbon reductions outlined by SBTI science-based targets.

After aggressively cutting internal emissions, high-additionality CDR like biogenic carbon removal offers a critical tool for companies to counter their remaining, stubborn-to-eliminate emissions. Drawing down legacy emissions also helps counter overall rising global CO2 levels.