I first time met Katja Grothe-Eberhardt at a B-Corp CEO dinner a dark winter day in 2023. It quickly became clear that Katja and I shared two big passions: positive environmental impact and coffee - both which have been the heated discussion themes for our following catch ups: how to make improvements in quality of life. Turns out that the two objectives, carbon mitigation and good coffee find their intersection quite easily.

As CEO of Klimate, which she co-founded with Mads Emil Dalsgaard and Simon Bager, Katja has since 2020 been obsessed with finding better and more direct ways to solve the climate crisis. Direct as in directly catching CO2 from the air and store it in the ground or direct in preparing soil for an optimized carbon sequestration, to name a few among many. Klimate does this by building a digital platform to which companies can attach and together with Klimate build a model for offsetting some or all their yearly emissions. Klimate doesn’t act as the agents of carbon removal but facilitates the removal through carefully curated and trusted companies and works as a liaison that connects the emitting entities to the right sequestering entities, often a compilation of them.

Katja displays a rare degree of trustworthiness, which in my estimation is the underlying driver of environmental impact, and with Katja's big interest in specialty coffee - which only underscores this dimension - it became obvious that Klimate was the carbon capturing company Prolog had to work with.