Google has signed two partnerships with carbon removal firms, Recoolit and Cool Effect, to support the removal of more than 25,000 tons of ‘super pollutants’ by 2030.
Super pollutants are described as any gas that warms the atmosphere more potently than CO2 on a per-ton basis. These include methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and fluorinated gases (HFCs, HCFCs).
Recoolit, which is based out of Jakarta, Indonesia, signed a multi-year agreement with Google, which committed to a multi-year purchase of 250,000 carbon credits.
The company generates these credits through partnerships with heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) technicians across Indonesia to ‘safely destroy’ HFCs from residential and commercial cooling systems before they are vented into the atmosphere.
According to the company, the Google partnership will allow Recoolit to scale its operations tenfold and expand into other regions. The timescale of the purchases was not disclosed, but the bulk is likely to occur after 2030. DCD has contacted the company for further clarification.
Cool Effect is a nonprofit based out of Greenbrae, California. It is a carbon credit platform that supports landfills to secure financial support in the installation of systems that collect and destroy methane generated by organic material, through the use of flaring or utilizing it as a fuel.
The deal with Google will support Cool Effect’s Brazilian partner company Orizon Valorização de Resíduos to install methane destruction equipment at a landfill in Cuiabá, Brazil. The exact amount of credits generated from the project was not disclosed.
Cool Effect also backs projects engaged in reforestation, biochar, renewable energy deployment in disadvantaged communities, and soil enrichment.
In a blog post on LinkedIn announcing the news, Randy Spock, carbon credits and removals lead at Google said: “If we use the credits from these purchases to help neutralize Google’s emissions, we’ll ensure they are either matched against the shorter-lived emissions in our own footprint or replaced with longer-lived credits as their atmospheric impact expires.”
Google has backed several carbon removal programs over the past 12 months to support its decarbonization program. In February, it reported that it spent more than $100 million on carbon removals in 2024, three times more than it originally planned.
In 2025 so far, the company has inked several deals. For example, in January, the company signed an agreement with biochar firm Charm Industrial to purchase 100,000 tons worth of removal credits to be delivered through 2030. Also in January, the company backed Indian biochar startup Varaha, agreeing to purchase 100,000 tons of removals.
