Per a Data Center Dynamics article, Google recently signed partnership agreements with two carbon removal firms. The tech giant is working with Recoolit and Cool Effect to remove over 25,000 tons of “super pollutants” by 2030. “Super pollutants” are gasses such as methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases that warm that atmosphere more than CO2 per ton.
Recoolit agreed to a multi-year partnership with Google, committing to purchases of 250,000 carbon credits over years. “The company generates these credits through partnerships with heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) technicians across Indonesia to ‘safely destroy’ HFCs from residential and commercial cooling systems before they are vented into the atmosphere.” Recoolit has stated that this partnership will help the company grow and expand its operations.
Cool Effect “is a carbon credit platform that supports landfills to secure financial support in the installation of systems that collect and destroy methane generated by organic material, through the use of flaring or utilizing it as a fuel”. The agreement will support Cool Effect’s Brazilian partner company Orizon Valorização de Resíduos in the installation of methane destruction equipment in a Brazilian landfill. Unlike with Recoolit, the amount of credits gained from this endeavor was not mentioned.
In a blog post on LinkedIn announcing the news, Randy Spock, carbon credits and removals lead at Google said: “If we use the credits from these purchases to help neutralize Google’s emissions, we’ll ensure they are either matched against the shorter-lived emissions in our own footprint or replaced with longer-lived credits as their atmospheric impact expires.”
