Introducing Isometric

Averting climate disaster is the most important challenge of our generation.

Carbon markets—once considered a critical component in the fight against climate change—have struggled to gain the trust of experts and remain expensive and error-prone, despite many valiant attempts to improve.

In parallel, the new and rapidly growing market for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is trying to do things differently. CDR gives society an opportunity to build a new kind of carbon market: one where actions are verifiably durable and additional.

The growth of CDR is not optional, per scientific consensus. While the world is currently only durably removing a few kilotonnes of carbon annually, the industry needs to grow to at least 3.8 gigatonnes per year by 2050 to limit global temperature increases to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, and potentially to much larger.

Isometric exists to ensure CDR continues to scale fast, while ensuring the growth is responsible. We verify removals and publish records in a manner that is scientifically rigorous, transparent, collaborative, and incentive-aligned.

CDR is at an inflection point. Sophisticated buyers are mobilised and emerging at pace; the world’s best scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs are inventing new ways of removing carbon from the atmosphere; regulators are scrambling to keep up; financiers and insurers are looking to back winners; and the academic community is ready to commit to this cause.

There is work to be done in supporting all the actors in the CDR ecosystem. 

Isometric is a carbon removal registry, verification service, and science platform. Our mission is to avert climate disaster by ensuring CDR scales responsibly and fast.