Much negotiation over the last several months has culminated in the bipartisan infrastructure deal, signed into law as H.R.3684, the Infrastructure and Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). The $1.2 …
by Peter Minor, PhD, director of science and innovation
In discussions of promising carbon removal technologies, direct air capture (DAC) can often steal the limelight. That tracks with the industry narrative: a futuristic technology that will cheaply “solve” climate change by literally sucking CO₂ out of the air, without the…
by Maya Glicksman, policy advisor
US farms and forests hold immense potential to remove and store carbon from the atmosphere if managed with climate-smart practices. And as landowners become more interested in adopting these practices, the question remains — how can the federal government support them?
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By Erin Burns, executive director
Last Friday at COP26, Secretary Granholm announced the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Carbon Negative Shot initiative, part of President Biden’s broader climate plan. This goal — the third official DOE Earthshot — will span carbon removal solutions, from direct air capture (DAC) to soil carbon…
by Maya Glicksman, policy advisor and Courtni Holness, policy advisor
From DAC hubs to tax credits, carbon removal legislation is moving faster than ever. We’ve been monitoring it closely, and today we’re excited to roll out our new carbon removal policy tracker. …
by Danny Broberg, PhD, senior policy analyst at Bipartisan Policy Center and Lucia D. Simonelli, PhD, senior policy fellow at Carbon180
It’s an overcast day in early September, and we’re huddled in a crowd of 150 people from vastly different geographies and backgrounds just outside of Reykjavik, Iceland to witness…
by Meron Tesfaye, PhD, senior policy fellow
After spending a year digging into bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) through my fellowship at Carbon180, it’s clearer to me than ever how urgently we need to scale carbon removal. The latest IPCC report is an undeniable call to decarbonize our…
by Meron Tesfaye, PhD, senior policy fellow and Maya Glicksman, policy advisor
Trees are a key piece of the carbon removal puzzle—both as they grow and after they’re harvested. Recently, the use of wood pellets (portable, compacted sawdust) in the UK and EU’s renewable energy production portfolio has been steadily…
by Mohammed Gueye, Carbon180 intern
As a Carbon180 intern and recent architecture graduate, I see a crucial window of opportunity for climate policy and the building materials industry. Manufacturing building materials — including the brick, concrete, and steel that surrounds us — requires extremely emissions intensive processes with complex, decentralized…
Climate change already touches every corner of our lives and BIPOC, low-income, and other frontline communities are unfairly bearing the brunt of these adverse impacts. The climate crisis has highlighted the disparities across groups that continue to worsen under existing power structures and incremental climate action.
However, this crisis can…
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