Our collaboration with Frontier

Frontier is the over $1 billion advance market commitment (AMC) to purchase permanent carbon removal before 2030, by McKinsey Sustainability in collaboration with fellow founders Alphabet, Meta, Shopify and Stripe.

Artist rendering of what a large-scale DAC facility that uses Carbon Engineering’s DAC technology could look like.

Artist rendering of what a large-scale DAC facility that uses Carbon Engineering’s DAC technology could look like.

Artist rendering of what a large-scale DAC facility that uses Carbon Engineering’s DAC technology could look like.

Learn more about Frontier

See how Frontier is helping to accelerate carbon removal.

To stay on a 1.5°C pathway, we need to not only reduce and avoid carbon emissions, but also permanently remove gigatons of CO2 already present in the atmosphere and ocean. This is a massive technological and business-building challenge.

Bob Sternfels, Managing Partner, McKinsey

By providing carbon removal suppliers with a strong demand signal, Frontier aims to give more entrepreneurs, scientists and operators the confidence to start building, and to do so with urgency.

Nan Ransohoff, Head of Frontier

Our Frontier and carbon removal leadership team

Mark Patel
Senior Partner
Emma Parry
Partner

ABOUT FRONTIER

A smiling Nan Ransohoff photographed against a tan wall.
Podcast

Forward Thinking on the tricky business of removing carbon from our world with Nan Ransohoff

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A leading market maker for investment in carbon removal believes that tackling climate change has to be done quickly, but that the problem is tractable.

INSIGHTS ON CARBON REMOVAL

Six circles of increasing sizes layered over one another in a paper cut out style. Each circle has a mix of carbon removal solutions represented on it including direct air capture fans, biomass carbon remediation trucks and factory storage, biochar tractor, mangroves, kelp buoys, and forest restoration. Business people walk around buildings are also interspersed though the scenes and friendly clouds float by.
Report

Carbon removals: How to scale a new gigaton industry

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CO2 removal (CDR) capacity is far from the gigaton scale needed to round out businesses’ net-zero efforts by 2050. We explore a mature CDR market’s potential and possible first-mover advantages.
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Everything you wanted to know about carbon removals but were afraid to ask
Aerial view of trees and water
CO2 removal solutions: A buyer’s perspective
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Carbon removals at the forefront of McKinsey’s inaugural Green Business Building Summit in Stockholm
Now the IPCC has recognized that carbon removals are critical to addressing climate change, it’s time to act
Now the IPCC has recognized that carbon removals are critical to addressing climate change, it’s time to act
How negative emissions can help organizations meet their climate goals
How negative emissions can help organizations meet their climate goals
Negative-emissions solutions: How they work and what businesses can gain
Negative-emissions solutions: How they work and what businesses can gain

Frontier in the news

The Verge: Can rocks absorb enough CO2 to fight climate change? These companies think so
Fast Company: This carbon removal startup sends oil back underground—and just got $53 million in contracts
CNBC: JPMorgan and H&M join tech giants in buying $1 billion of carbon dioxide removal
Rolling Stone: Silicon Valley is Spending $925 Million To Suck All the Carbon From the Air

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Accelerating the transition

Accelerating the transition

Building a net-zero world requires innovation in technology and business models, which will create growth opportunities for companies that take action.

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McKinsey Platform for Climate Technologies
McKinsey Platform for Climate Technologies
Accelerating deployment of net-zero technologies.
Sustainability
Sustainability
Innovating to net zero.