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Self plug but I have seen people saying they wish they could also support Charm and other carbon removal methods. Please check out Carbon Removed[0] which offe

Self plug but I have seen people saying they wish they could also support Charm and other carbon removal methods. Please check out Carbon Removed[0] which offers negative emissions subscriptions and one-time purchases. We are partnered with Charm Industrial and Climeworks (as well as others) and aim to offer a removal portfolio. We do this for two reasons: 1) To support the progression of as many different removal methods as possible. There is no "silver bullet" when it comes to fighting the climate crisis and we will need tech based carbon removal - we're past the point that nature can do this on her own. 2) To make carbon removal more affordable - as somebody rightfully calculated, removing the average US footprint (16 tons) would cost around $16,000 purely with Climeworks and $9,600 purely with Charm. We spread the removal across expensive tech and cheaper natural methods to help lower the cost. Happy to discuss carbon removal and offer custom plans if you want to contact me directly: Email me @ "ewan at (@) carbon removed dot (.) com" * [0] https://carbonremoved.com https://carbonremoved.com

Bedon292 6y ago
I had actually been looking at things like Climeworks recently, and your service looks like an interesting portfolio. Although it is heavily weighted towards planting trees, and I think that turned me off to it initially. Do you plan to offer any larger subscription plans as self service? Your Gold subscription is only 6 tons of the average 16 ton footprint. And then a family being multiples of that. While you could make one time purchases over time, it would be nice to have more options. Even a 'make you own' plan of sorts. Specify what you want to offset annually and pay in monthly installments. Are you getting a lot of subscribers? I think one other thing that had me hesitant was only having removed 121 tons so far. Seemed pretty new and unused, and was not sure how sustainable the model was. If that makes sense. Although now I realize the numbers in my head are probably off because you are calculating the trees over time, and its only been about a year since you started, so they have a lot of time left in them. FYI the first two links in your Transparency sheet are bad, one asks for a login and one seems dead.
- kisamoto 6y ago
  Thanks for the feedback. I'm actually both happy and sad that the weighting of trees puts you off a little. Happy because it shows you know and value the active carbon removal, sad that you're a little deterred from using the product. We did initially start with a much higher weighting towards Climeworks & Charm however the high costs were not gratefully received hence why we do add a stronger weighting to cheaper forestation. To give you an idea, without forestation (and an equal split between Climeworks, Charm and Greensand) the 500kg/month plan would be $500-600/month... Our subscriber base is growing 1-5 subscribers each month and we're seeing a growing interest as people look for alternatives to carbon credits. At the moment neither founder takes a salary as all money is reinvested into developing the product, educating on carbon removal and spreading the word. Thank you for the heads up on the transparency sheet. We recently shuffled things about and I had not noticed them, I shall fix them today. If you are interested in purchasing a custom plan please feel free to email me your requirements and I shall get back to you with a price.
  - curl-up 6y ago
    Sorry if I'm missing something obvious here. You say that, without forestation, cost would be ~$1k per tonne. From the article, Stripe paid $600 per tonne. Where is this difference coming from? Did they get a 40% discount from Charm?
    - Bedon292 6y ago
      I believe that is averaged across the other three methods? If you get the subscription from Climeworks its $1200 for 1100kg. And I do assume Stripe got a first mover / bulk discount. Although greensand looks like its only $50 per ton, so maybe that is not included in the the average.
leipert 6y ago
Great work! Thank you. I see that you are structured as a GmbH in Switzerland. Does Switzerland have a similar concept to the gGmbH (German Wikipedia: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeinnützige_GmbH https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeinnützige_GmbH) which might help saving on Tax while still running a for-profit business?
- kisamoto 6y ago
  Hmm not to my knowledge but that's a really interesting structure and I will definitely see if Switzerland has something similar. Thanks for the tip!

Bedon292 6y ago

I had actually been looking at things like Climeworks recently, and your service looks like an interesting portfolio. Although it is heavily weighted towards planting trees, and I think that turned me off to it initially. Do you plan to offer any larger subscription plans as self service? Your Gold subscription is only 6 tons of the average 16 ton footprint. And then a family being multiples of that. While you could make one time purchases over time, it would be nice to have more options. Even a 'make you own' plan of sorts. Specify what you want to offset annually and pay in monthly installments. Are you getting a lot of subscribers? I think one other thing that had me hesitant was only having removed 121 tons so far. Seemed pretty new and unused, and was not sure how sustainable the model was. If that makes sense. Although now I realize the numbers in my head are probably off because you are calculating the trees over time, and its only been about a year since you started, so they have a lot of time left in them. FYI the first two links in your Transparency sheet are bad, one asks for a login and one seems dead.

kisamoto 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I'm actually both happy and sad that the weighting of trees puts you off a little. Happy because it shows you know and value the active carbon removal, sad that you're a little deterred from using the product. We did initially start with a much higher weighting towards Climeworks & Charm however the high costs were not gratefully received hence why we do add a stronger weighting to cheaper forestation. To give you an idea, without forestation (and an equal split between Climeworks, Charm and Greensand) the 500kg/month plan would be $500-600/month... Our subscriber base is growing 1-5 subscribers each month and we're seeing a growing interest as people look for alternatives to carbon credits. At the moment neither founder takes a salary as all money is reinvested into developing the product, educating on carbon removal and spreading the word. Thank you for the heads up on the transparency sheet. We recently shuffled things about and I had not noticed them, I shall fix them today. If you are interested in purchasing a custom plan please feel free to email me your requirements and I shall get back to you with a price.
- curl-up 6y ago
  Sorry if I'm missing something obvious here. You say that, without forestation, cost would be ~$1k per tonne. From the article, Stripe paid $600 per tonne. Where is this difference coming from? Did they get a 40% discount from Charm?
  - Bedon292 6y ago
    I believe that is averaged across the other three methods? If you get the subscription from Climeworks its $1200 for 1100kg. And I do assume Stripe got a first mover / bulk discount. Although greensand looks like its only $50 per ton, so maybe that is not included in the the average.

leipert 6y ago

Great work! Thank you. I see that you are structured as a GmbH in Switzerland. Does Switzerland have a similar concept to the gGmbH (German Wikipedia: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeinnützige_GmbH https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeinnützige_GmbH) which might help saving on Tax while still running a for-profit business?

kisamoto 6y ago
Hmm not to my knowledge but that's a really interesting structure and I will definitely see if Switzerland has something similar. Thanks for the tip!