Alexandria's Climate Commitment
Alexandria gives 1% of revenue to frontier carbon removal via Stripe Climate. It's a small number. It's a real one.
What We Fund
Our contribution goes to two companies. Climeworks captures CO₂ directly from the air using geothermal energy and stores it permanently in basalt rock in Iceland. It's the most proven form of direct air capture operating at scale today.
Charm Industrial converts waste biomass into stable bio-oil and injects it deep underground into geological formations where it won't resurface. Both methods store carbon for thousands of years, not decades.
Stripe publishes verified receipts for every member business. View the receipts on Stripe Climate.
Why Frontier Carbon Removal, Not Tree Planting
Tree planting is the default climate gesture for businesses, and we understand why. It's cheap, visible, and easy to communicate. The trouble is the outcomes are uncertain. Trees burn. They get cut down. In drought years they die off. The carbon they were supposed to hold returns to the atmosphere, and the original promise goes with it.
Direct air capture and bio-oil injection don't have that problem. Once CO₂ is locked in basalt rock or injected into deep geological formations, it stays there. We're talking thousands of years, not the lifetime of a plantation.
These methods cost a lot more per tonne right now. That's the point. Early customers pay a higher price so the technology gets built and costs come down. Solar panels used to be expensive. DNA sequencing used to be expensive. Frontier removal is at the same stage, and the same dynamic applies.
Why This Page Exists
Climate commitment pages tend to exist because they convert visitors or satisfy a press checklist. This one isn't that. We didn't put this here to win a badge.
Alexandria is a library. The original Library of Alexandria was humanity's most ambitious attempt to preserve everything it knew. We're building the modern version of that, and a library needs a planet that still works in fifty years. Stripe Climate makes receipts public, so the commitment should be visible too.
We're a small company. 1% of revenue is small money. As Alexandria grows, the contribution grows with it.