In 2024, CarbonCure proudly announced a monumental milestone: More than half a million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) saved to date. Since then, that figure has surpassed 540,000 metric tons of carbon savings across 8 million truckloads of CarbonCure concrete. This is equivalent to the CO₂ that would be avoided if 125,000 gas-powered cars were removed from the road for a year. These carbon savings have also translated into millions of dollars of carbon credit revenue that we share with our concrete producer partners to incentivize their adoption of our technologies and increased production of greener concrete.
Consistent with CarbonCure’s climate-focused mission, we aim for our own business to be as sustainable as possible. For more than four years, we have been a proud member of The Climate Pledge, committing to being net zero carbon by 2040 at the latest—ten years ahead of The Paris Agreement. To achieve this, we measure our greenhouse gas emissions, implement decarbonization strategies in line with the Paris Agreement through real business changes and neutralize our operational emissions with additional, quantifiable, real, permanent and socially-beneficial carbon offsets.
In the last two years, we reduced our carbon footprint through economizing the size and spread of our HQ from two campuses to one and cutting our energy consumption by almost 80%. This has had the added co-benefit of reducing company water consumption and intracompany travel and logistics. To rebalance our remaining emissions associated with power generation, we have partnered with Bullfrog Power, a leader in decarbonizing Canada’s energy grid.
We are now actively compiling all of our operational emissions data and analyzing CarbonCure’s 2024 carbon footprint. And we soon plan to share our strategy for 2024 offsets. In the meantime, we recently neutralized our operational emissions from 2022 and 2023.
To do this, we prioritized putting our support behind solutions that, like CarbonCure, focus on carbon savings in the hard-to-decarbonize construction sector. In collaboration with Patch, we selected projects that reduce emissions and high energy requirements associated with laying asphalt by replacing hot mix asphalt with foam stabilized base (FSB) and emulsion asphalt mixtures. Use of FSB helps avoid the emissions associated with mining of virgin aggregates, trucking the virgin aggregate to the mix plant, heating the asphalt mix and trucking the mixed product at high temperatures to the job site. In addition, use of FSB reduces water consumption and land use requirements for asphalt.
Similar to VM0043 Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Methodology for CO2 Utilization in Concrete Production used by CarbonCure and its producer partners to generate high integrity carbon credits, these projects follow a Verra methodology and undergo the same rigorous third-party audits. And just as CarbonCure’s CO2 utilization technologies empower concrete producers to be part of the solution to climate change, these projects give asphalt contractors the materials they need to decarbonize their own industry.
We are proud to support projects that tackle industrial emissions head on by integrating with existing processes, enable a green transition without hurting small businesses, and train the workforce to be competitive in the green economy.
Learn more about CarbonCure’s Carbon Credit Program.
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