Cedar: Cost and carbon evaluation for climate solutions

Cedar is a platform that automates techno-economic assessment and lifecycle analysis for carbon removal projects. A significant barrier to scaling carbon removal is the difficulty of evaluating project economics and operational decisions rigorously. Cedar addresses this directly by helping developers rapidly evaluate costs, net carbon outcomes, sourcing options, feedstocks, geography, and deployment logistics. With a global, spatial view, Cedar identifies optimal conditions and builds the rigorous economic case that investors need to finance projects at scale.

A key part of making carbon removal economically viable is better accounting for the co-benefits these projects generate alongside carbon sequestration. Benefits like improved agricultural yields, soil health, and wildfire risk reduction through biomass management represent real economic value that is frequently overlooked in project evaluation. Quantifying these co-benefits opens pathways to revenue that do not depend on voluntary carbon markets, including through corporate insetting of carbon removal directly into their own operations and supply chains. Systemic research into carbon dioxide removal can also draw projects into under-invested geographies where both carbon removal and co-benefits are most potent. Cedar connects project developers and enterprises to optimal solutions.

Carbon removal has genuine potential to contribute meaningfully to climate goals. Cedar exists to make projects more effective and more economically self-sustaining, giving developers, researchers, and companies the tools to deploy carbon removal where it works best.