280 Earth

280 Earth is a direct air capture (DAC) company that permanently removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Originally launched in 2018 inside X, the Alphabet moonshot factory, and spun out as an independent company in 2022, it is backed by Sergey Brin, Builders VC and a $50M Series B. Its proprietary sorbent moves through a gravity-fed dual-chamber system that continuously cycles material between capturing and releasing CO2, running on low-grade industrial waste heat or clean electricity and producing fresh water as a byproduct. Its first pilot plant, in The Dalles, Oregon, captures 500 tons of CO2 per year on a site sized for more than 20,000 tons per year at full build-out, and underpins a $40M offtake agreement with the Frontier carbon removal buyer consortium (Google, Meta, Stripe, Shopify and others). 280 Earth is a hardware and carbon-removal operator; as of this profiling pass it publishes no public developer surface, API, or machine-readable contract.

280 Earth is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Climate, Carbon Removal, Direct Air Capture, and Carbon Capture.

280 Earth’s developer surface includes product news and 10 more developer resources.

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7.3/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-23 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

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Company Climate Carbon Removal Direct Air Capture Carbon Capture Sustainability Energy Climate Tech

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scored 2026-10-23 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 7.3/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 1.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.8 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.2 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Carbon Markets and Environmental Services (carbon removal, waste, mining)	undeclared	-	-	-

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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

280 Earth Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact

Contact

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Careers

Careers

News

News

LinkedIn

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Projects

Projects

SecondaryMarket

SecondaryMarket

Source (apis.yml)

aid: 280-earth
name: 280 Earth
description: 280 Earth is a direct air capture (DAC) company that permanently removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
  Originally launched in 2018 inside X, the Alphabet moonshot factory, and spun out as an independent company in 2022, it
  is backed by Sergey Brin, Builders VC and a $50M Series B. Its proprietary sorbent moves through a gravity-fed dual-chamber
  system that continuously cycles material between capturing and releasing CO2, running on low-grade industrial waste heat
  or clean electricity and producing fresh water as a byproduct. Its first pilot plant, in The Dalles, Oregon, captures 500
  tons of CO2 per year on a site sized for more than 20,000 tons per year at full build-out, and underpins a $40M offtake
  agreement with the Frontier carbon removal buyer consortium (Google, Meta, Stripe, Shopify and others). 280 Earth is a hardware
  and carbon-removal operator; as of this profiling pass it publishes no public developer surface, API, or machine-readable
  contract.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/280-earth/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://280.earth/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/logo.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pass
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-02'
modified: '2026-08-02'
tags:
- Company
- Climate
- Carbon Removal
- Direct Air Capture
- Carbon Capture
- Sustainability
- Energy
- Climate Tech
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://280.earth/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://280.earth/privacy-policy-2/
- type: Careers
  url: https://280.earth/careers/
- type: News
  url: https://280.earth/stories/
- type: Projects
  url: https://280.earth/projects/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/280earth
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/280-earth
- type: Contact
  url: mailto:info@280.earth
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/280-earth_stock/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/280-earth-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/280-earth-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-02'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v1

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