Offtake Deep Dives

  • Inside Mirova’s $30M soil carbon prepurchase – its largest investment to date

    This month, Mirova announced a $30M carbon prepurchase from the Kheti soil carbon and regenerative agriculture project in northwest India. Mirova is a sustainable investment asset manager dedicated to improving the environment and reducing social inequality, according to its website. This is the asset manager’s largest carbon investment to date, and the largest known soil…

  • Louis Dreyfus Company funds major regenerative ag project in India

    In August, 2025, Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) funded a regenerative-agriculture project in Uttar Pradesh, India — among the first of its kind in the Global South. This is an insetting project within LDC’s supply chain. A few deal notes: See full article at Trellis.net, here: https://trellis.net/article/louis-dreyfus-regenerative-ag-project-india/

  • Microsoft & Climate Impact Partners Sign ARR Offtake

    In May, 2025, Microsoft announced its first carbon offtake agreement from a project in India; its largest in the Asia-Pacific region to date. A few notes on the deal: Read my full deep dive on Trellis.net, here: https://trellis.net/article/renewable-energys-scale-up-blueprint-carbon-removal

  • How Google and an Indian startup struck the largest biochar carbon removal deal ever

    In January 2025, Google announced a 100,000 tons carbon offtake agreement from a biochar project in Gujarat, India. A few notes on the deal: Read my full deep dive on Trellis.net, here: https://trellis.net/article/google-indian-startup-largest-biochar-carbon-removal-deal-ever/

  • Inside Microsoft’s Panama tropical forest carbon offtake deal

    In May of 2024, Microsoft signed a 15 year offtake agreement with project developer Ponterra for approximately 1.6 million carbon credits from a reforestation project in Panama. A few notes on the offtake: Read my full deep dive into the deal on Trellis, here: https://trellis.net/article/inside-microsofts-panama-tropical-forest-carbon-offtake-deal/

  • How Workday uses carbon offtake agreements to scale climate impact

    In early 2024, Workday signed three multi-year carbon-credit offtake agreements, committing to buy over 300,000 credits from three different project developers over a 6 year period. The offtakes were with three distinct carbon project types: forest protection, biochar removal, and methane mitigation from orphaned oil wells. The offtakes were facilitated by Patch. These offtakes were…