Speed & Scale How Stripe (yes, the payment platform) is leading the charge for carbon removal
Oct 20, 2025
Nan Ransohoff is the Head of Climate at Stripe, pioneering efforts in carbon removal markets, including the ambitious Frontier initiative. In this engaging discussion, she breaks down the urgent need for gigatons of carbon removal to tackle climate challenges. Nan explores cutting-edge technologies like direct air capture and shares how corporate investments can drive innovation. She also discusses Stripe's commitment to enabling businesses to fund carbon removal easily, emphasizing the crucial role of government policy in scaling these efforts.
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Carbon Removal Is Nonnegotiable
- Even with major emissions cuts, some sectors will remain carbon-intensive and require removal.
- We need gigatons of carbon removal annually to meet climate goals, not just emissions reduction.
Permanence Is The Core Requirement
- Carbon removal extracts CO2 already in the atmosphere and stores it permanently.
- Permanence aims for thousands to tens of thousands of years of storage to mitigate past emissions.
What Carbon Removal Facilities Look Like
- Nan describes direct air capture as giant boxes with fans that capture CO2 and inject it underground.
- She also outlines enhanced rock weathering and biomass-to-biochar pathways as alternative approaches.