The search giant’s 50,000-tonne deal with Vaulted Deep looks modest on paper. The overlooked story is the attempt to set rules for measuring methane avoided from waste — a super-pollutant with outsized near-term warming power — and what that could mean for corporate climate ledgers, data-centre Scope 3s and the carbon removal market.
When Google announced this week that it would purchase 50,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) from Vaulted Deep by 2030, most headlines clocked the size of the buy and moved on. They shouldn’t have. Buried in the fine print is a bigger swing: Google,
