Google and Terradot Partner on Large-Scale Carbon Removal and Methane Abatement in Brazil

Google has signed its largest carbon removal deal to date, backing a Terradot project across 200,000 hectares in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The project combines enhanced rock weathering to pull CO2 from the air with methane abatement from rice farming. Terradot expects to generate 1 million metric tons of methane abatement credits by 2030 and another 1 million metric tons of carbon removal credits by 2040. This is one of the first big corporate deals to pair two different credit types on the same land. Enhanced rock weathering still has measurement and verification questions at scale, while methane reduction from rice paddies has a longer track record. Google's purchase is a bet that both can deliver at commercial volume. The deal is being framed as a template for future tech sector climate spending. The real test will be whether the credits are verified, delivered, and accounted for separately, since methane abatement and carbon removal have different standards for permanence and baselines.