The notice of intent is a preliminary first step, with further details coming. by Courtni Holness, policy advisor and Rory Jacobson, deputy director of policy Last November, Congress shook up the carbon removal field with an unprecedented investment — $3.5 billion to establish the Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs (DAC…

Policy experts and business leaders joined forces to explore what will make a successful DAC hub — On Wednesday, May 11th, Carbon180 hosted a webinar following the publication of our white paper Setting DAC on Track: Strategies for Hub Implementation, which details four categories of recommendations for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) landmark Regional Direct Air Capture (DAC) Hubs program. To successfully deploy four DAC hubs, Setting…

How to implement $3.5B in hub funding — In late 2021, Congress made a down payment on early direct air capture (DAC) projects with the passage of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which provided $3.5 billion in funding over five years to build DAC facilities through the Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs program (DAC Hubs program)…

A note from Carbon180 co-founder Noah Deich — by Noah Deich, co-founder and president I co-founded Carbon180 seven years ago when carbon removal was a little-known climate solution buried deep in an IPCC report — in fact, many people thought I was working on “carbon renewal.” Today, milestones and achievements for the field stack up nearly every week…

Forging a path for community-centered funding — by Alayna Chuney, senior policy advisor and Ugbaad Kosar, deputy director of policy Since the announcement of our Environmental Justice Initiative in 2020, we published a landmark report on equity and justice in carbon removal and have been working closely with EJ advocates and our advisory council to chart our…

How more than $1 billion was allocated — by Vanessa Suarez, senior policy advisor Federal funding for carbon removal has skyrocketed over the past few months, crossing a historic threshold — more than $1 billion within a single fiscal year — thanks to the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act (IIJA) and FY22 omnibus. These timely investments preceded the…

Our vision for legacy emissions involves the world’s largest customer — by Erin Burns, executive director There is unprecedented action on carbon removal in the US today. The bipartisan infrastructure deal of 2021 included billions of dollars for direct air capture (DAC) and forestry. The Biden Administration has reoriented existing agency efforts around carbon removal, launching the Carbon Negative Earthshot and…

We’ll need carbon removal no matter what — but not at any cost — by Anu Khan, deputy director of science and innovation Eight years ago, the IPCC first mentioned carbon removal as a necessary step for addressing the climate crisis. Soon after those words appeared in the Fifth Assessment Report, Carbon180 was founded to ensure that this little-known solution with an outsized impact…

Our proposal for an ambitious, interagency soil carbon research program — by Cristel Zoebisch, senior policy advisor, and Giana Amador, policy director and co-founder For decades, the US agriculture sector has benefited from robust public research and investment that once established the US as a global leader and helped the sector navigate economic downturns, global competition, and rapid population growth. …