Run to Remove
A fun and healthy way to fight against climate change by removing CO2 from the atmosphere!
Who We Are
We’re Excited to Launch The Run to Remove Initiative
Run to Remove is a partnership between Klimate and the Negative Emissions Platform (NEP). Klimate is a Copenhagen-based start-up helping responsible companies secure access to vetted carbon removal projects.
NEP is a Brussels-based association for the CDR industry, whose mission is to promote and support the development of this critically important industry.
How It Works
How Does It Work?
Sign up
Sign up for a running race anywhere in the world & join team ‘Run to Remove’–we’ll even send you a t-shirt.
Get sponored
Get your friends and family to sponsor you & send NEP the money you collect.
Fund removals
100% of these funds will be invested into high quality, vetted carbon dioxide removals and a proof of purchase.
What Should You Tell Your Friends About CDR?
CDR is an amazing thing! Tell your friends about it to get them excited about sponsoring you.
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There is no net zero without CDR
We can reduce our emissions to almost zero, but we’ll always emit at least a little CO2. CDR removes those little “residual” emissions from the air to prevent us from continuing to make our climate worse.
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We can remove historical CO2 from the air
If we stopped emitting CO2 entirely today, we would still have many hundreds of billions of tonnes of excess CO2 in the atmosphere - “historical emissions”, heating our planet and acidifying our oceans.
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Multiple ways to remove CO2 from the air can also boost other sustainability goals
We can remove CO2 from the atmosphere in so many ways: growing more forests, interrupting the decomposition of biomass, reacting it with rocks and other substances to turn it into minerals, or just sucking it out of the air! Some can boost biodiversity, water retention, or create green jobs around the world.
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CDR offers hope about the climate
Most CDR projects remain too expensive today for the average consumer. But as we improve these methods, it will become easier and cheaper to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, and we won’t just be able to limit the damage from climate change. We’ll be able to actually make it better.
What will you be buying?
You will be investing into a “Run to Remove” fund which pools money raised by runners participating in the initiative. On a race-to-race (when a significant number of participants run in the same race) or a half yearly basis, this pooled money is invested into a portfolio of high quality carbon removal projects through Klimate.
All projects are vetted by 300-data-point Klimate’s due diligence process, optimised to support highly permanent solutions which remove carbon for 100+ years in need of scaling, as they are necessary in the fight against climate change.
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Direct Air Capture
Bio-oil
Enhanced Rock Weathering
Biochar
Carbon Mineralisation
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Reforestation
Soil Carbon Sequestration
Coastal Blue Carbon (Mangrove restoration)
In the registry, participants can read about the projects invested in and track the portfolios as Klimate procures, allocates, and ultimately retires the credits.
Join us
Sign up here to stay updated on the Run to Remove community
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Make a contribution to BANK DETAILS XYZ. Or, write to us at runtoremove@negative-emissions.org to learn more about the process.
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Just email us at runtoremove@negative-emissions.org with “Run to Remove” in the subject line and we’ll get back to you with instructions about how to buy your T-shirt and to arrange for delivery or pickup. We’ll only charge you what it costs us.