Around Finnish Entrepreneur’s Day, the Finnish Startup Community is highlighting Finnish startups and growth companies building solutions to some of society’s most important challenges. The idea behind the campaign is to focus on the problems entrepreneurs choose to solve and the impact those solutions could have.
Behind every company is a founder who saw a problem and decided to build a solution.
For Henrietta Moon of Carbo Culture, that problem is climate change.
Removing carbon from the atmosphere
Finland’s carbon balance illustrates the scale of the challenge. According to Statistics Finland, Finland’s net greenhouse gas emissions were around 46 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalent in 2025 (Statistics Finland, 2026), when emissions and removals from the land-use sector are included. The land-use sector, traditionally an important carbon sink, has in recent years turned into a net source of emissions.
Carbo Culture is building biochar carbon and molecules technology to decarbonise professional horticulture.
The company’s work focuses on atmospheric carbon drawdown and emissions mitigation, what Henrietta describes as one of the most tangible ways to tackle climate change.
For Henrietta, the stakes are difficult to overstate.
“We are headed to multiple degrees of warming, which would completely change ecology, food production, weather, ocean currents, human migration – everything that sustains our society.”
Carbo Culture’s technology produces biochar carbon alongside other products. Its patented reactors also produce a biogenic gas that can be used in a boiler or power engine, while capturing the exhaust can create liquid CO₂.
Building a new carbon removal industry
Carbo Culture’s ambition goes far beyond an individual technology or plant.
If Carbo Culture succeeds, she believes biochar carbon removal could become a new industry at the scale of oil and gas today.
For Henrietta, this is not only about reducing emissions. It is about developing ways to actively remove carbon from the atmosphere at the scale required to address climate change.
What needs to change in Finland?
Henrietta believes Finland needs to move away from the idea that its actions do not matter because other countries may not be doing enough.
She sees climate change becoming one of the most pressing issues of our lives and of the lives of children who will live to the end of this century.
At the same time, she believes Finland has a unique opportunity to become a technology and know-how frontrunner in solving the problem.
But, as Henrietta puts it, that will not happen on its own.
“We need to want it.”
For Carbo Culture, removing carbon from the atmosphere is a problem too important to ignore.
Entrepreneurs Build. Because Some Problems Are Too Important to Ignore.