Stripe Climate: Creating a Market for Carbon Removal
Columbia Business School Case
By mid-April 2026, the carbon removal market was tethering on the brink of collapse, after Microsoft, by far its single biggest corporate backer, announced a "pause" in its purchasing of removal credits. That made a June 2026 announcement by Frontier all the more significant, nearly doubling its prior commitment to over $1.8 billion. The announcement also came with a further development of the fund's “Advance Market Commitment” (AMC) mechanism, now morphed into a "Growth AMC" aiming to buy a significant share of a small number of companies' credits with the highest potential to scale. In this case, students will learn about carbon removal technologies, innovative financing tools to help scale them, and about voluntary corporate commitments in a challenging policy environment.
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Related:
"Making a Case for Fighting Climate Change as a Strategic Imperative" by Katie Gilbert, Columbia Business School Insights (22 April 2024).
