Google has announced two new partnerships as part of its broader climate strategy that supports efforts for cleaning the atmosphere of harmful emissions.
The corporation has teamed up with Recoolit, a company addressing emissions from the refrigeration management sector, and CO2 offsets platform Cool Effect, making a multi-year purchase of 250 thousand carbon credits (when measured in CO2 equivalent at GWP100).
These credits will come from the removal of so-called superpollutants—gases that contribute to a much greater extent to atmospheric warming than carbon dioxide emissions.
In the partnership with Recoolit, the Google investment will enable the advancement of the permanent elimination of emissions originating from cooling solutions.
Technologies like air conditioners and refrigerators are powered by refrigerant gases, which are extremely damaging if released into the atmosphere.
Poor management of refrigerant waste leads to over 3 billion tonnes of CO2e reaching the atmosphere each year, and Recoolit has made it its goal to prevent this issue from happening by coordinating a network of partners that capture and destroy refrigerant debris.
Through its sustainable refrigeration operations, Recoolit also generates high-quality carbon credits, suitable for companies like Google that are on the lookout to back potent climate innovations.
On the other hand, Google’s partnership with Cool Effect will include carbon credits generated through the removal of methane emissions from landfills located in Brazil.
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The Cool Effect platform specializes in selecting high-impact carbon offset projects from around the world that adhere to scientific rigor and transparency standards, connecting them with buyers interested in addressing their carbon footprint.
The investment secured through the Google purchase will go towards one of the platform’s vetted projects that obliterates methane emissions from waste left to decompose in Brazilian landfills.
Commenting on these partnerships, Google clarified, “We believe this is a key step toward limiting near-term warming, and if we use the credits from these purchases to help neutralize Google’s emissions, we’ll either match them against shorter-lived emissions in our own footprint or replace them with longer-lived credits as their atmospheric impact expires.”
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