What if every city in the world could plant its own forest?

By deploying our small Direct Air Capture (DAC Everywhere™) bioreactors in cities and towns around the world, we can take the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide (CO₂) out of the air as if we had planted thousands of forests around the world.

 
Climate change can seem like an insurmountable problem without a solution. The production of global greenhouse gases is exceedingly difficult to tackle; there are too many competing interests and too many stakeholders, making the problem appear impossible to fix. The scale of the problem is unprecedented and the challenges we face in attempting to solve this problem can be extremely daunting. However, without a viable global solution to fix this problem, we face a more uncertain and potentially catastrophic future. 

Our efforts to battle climate change thus far have been inadequate, disjointed and inefficient at best.  

We need a paradigm shift - 

Thinking Big by Building Small

If we change our perspective to solving this global problem at a targeted, localized level the problem no longer seems insurmountable, but solvable, with a solution that is both viable and achievable in a relatively short period of time.

“According to UN Habitat, cities consume 78 per cent of the world’s energy and produce more than 60 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions.” 

Generating power | United Nations 

A recent scientific study done at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) found that 18% of all global emissions come from just 100 cities.   

New study estimates the carbon footprints of 13,000 cities (sciencenorway.no) 

Our solution is simple. Since cities and urban areas are major producers of global greenhouse gas emissions, we plan to tackle the problem of climate change at its source. 

However, many of the current Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) projects are being built in areas where land is cheap and available, areas where little CO₂ is being generated. These projects are resource intensive, requiring large amounts of capital and land, and years of planning. Unfortunately, even after billions of dollars have been spent on such projects, having the largest DAC facility in the world still does little to address the problem of climate change on a global scale.

We believe there is a better way forward to addressing this problem at its core: thinking big by building small.

By deploying our small DAC units everywhere all at once, simultaneously and concurrently, targeting the areas with the highest emissions of CO₂ (urban areas) and deploying our bioreactors at thousands of these sites around the world, we can create a network of bioreactors spanning the globe.  We can address the problem of climate change on a systemic level; our network of bioreactors will meaningfully impact the levels of CO₂ in our air that have been skyrocketing since the Industrial Revolution.  At full global deployment, this network will dramatically reduce the CO₂ levels in our air globally with the goal of creating a global environment with negative emissions, a process that would remove more CO₂ from our air than we are generating.

We can do this.

 
Together, working with local governments and stakeholders around the world,

we can solve climate change. 

We will not be selling our bioreactors to the public or to anyone else.  Our network of bioreactors will be built, owned and operated by The Canterhill Carbon Project.  Our goal is to build, deploy, and maintain our bioreactors for the sole purpose of removing carbon dioxide from the air.

We will be working closely with local governments in cities, town and municipalities around the world to ensure optimal placement of each bioreactor. We envision our bioreactors placed on public and private buildings, rooftops, billboards throughout cities and on heavily traveled transportation routes. We plan to utilize and capitalize on existing infrastructure in order to create a network that will yield optimal results in its rate of CO₂ capture, while ensuring we can build and deploy our network safely and quickly in order to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.

We will be creating partnerships with local governments, and their national counterparts, as well as international governing bodies such as the United Nations, in order to build out this network as effectively, efficiently and quickly as possible.

• What we are doing is better because our decentralized approach is by far more effective in removing a larger quantity of CO₂ from the air by being at the source of where the most CO₂ is being produced: in densely populated and industrialized areas.
• We have a truly global solution that will have global results. In contrast, the world's largest DAC facility in Iceland will have near zero impact on CO₂ levels in China, India or South America for example.
• There is only a finite amount of CO₂ (0.04% of our atmosphere) that can be removed from any one location until it becomes progressively more difficult to remove additional CO₂ from the air. Unless placed near a carbon dioxide emitting source, large carbon dioxide removal facilities will all face this problem as they scale up their operations.
• By deploying our DAC Everywhere™ bioreactors in major population centers around the world, we can effectively remove a much larger amount of CO₂ globally at a significantly lower price.

• Our DAC Everywhere™ units work by integrating both natural and mechanical solutions into one. They will be robust by design, easy to manufacture and mass produced at a relatively low cost.
• We developed our DAC Everywhere™ units based on proven technology that works.
• A DAC Everywhere™ unit is essentially a photobioreactor utilizing the photosynthesis process to remove CO₂ from the air. Each DAC Everywhere™ unit will have the ability to remove the equivalent of dozens of mature trees worth of CO₂ from the air.
• Each unit is about the size of a mini refrigerator, taking up the equivalent space required by approximately one mature tree, thereby significantly reducing the space, time and cost requirements when compared to planting a new forest (or building a giant algae farm).
• We plan to deploy our DAC Everywhere™ technology in densely populated cities around the world, the very locations that are responsible for generating the largest amounts of CO₂ emissions, tackling the problem globally at its source where CO₂ production is at its highest.
• This is something that no one else is attempting to do on a global scale until now.