Our Key Takeaways from the European Climate Summit

At the beginning of the month, we attended the 2025 European Climate Summit in Lisbon. It provided us the invaluable opportunity to learn more about pivotal global developments in carbon markets. Here are 3 compelling takeaways that intersect with the value Clever provides:

1. Much discussion about nature-based solutions not being pushed aside in favor of engineered carbon removals.  Nature can do the work now while we scale engineered carbon removals.

2. Need for robust monitoring and verification of credits is imperative in order to ensure their integrity before stakeholders deploy capital.

3. European carbon removal regulation, policy, and compliance needs to support all credible carbon removal options.

Clever is positioned to support the future of the carbon markets by underpinning decision making with actionable, homogenized data allowing for stakeholder relations and proper risk-reward analysis across the market.

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🌎 It’s not all doom and gloom. Happy Earth Day!

It may not feel like it BUT our planet did have some wins this year. Here are just a few!

1. This month a reforestation startup, Mombak, secured roughly $17.8 million in funding from Santander Brasil and Brazil's development bank BNDES to restore degraded Amazon land.  Their goal is to plant 8 million trees by June 2025 and generate carbon credits for companies such as Microsoft and Google.

2. At the beginning of the year, Google partnered with Varaha to purchase 100,000 tons of carbon removal credits by 2030 through a biochar (useable organic waste) initiative capturing carbon and improving soil quality.

3. RepAir Carbon and C-Questra launched the European Union's first onshore Direct Air Capture and Storage project near Paris, France aiming to remove 100,000 tons of CO2 annually by 2030.