We launched our CORE Framework to promote a people-centered carbon removal field. We’re pushing for communities to have the capacity, information, and agency needed to influence any intervention meaningfully.
How to integrate CORE practices
into your work
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Gauge local capacity to engage with potential carbon removal interventions
Explore available financial and technical resources to support people and organizations’ early engagement with carbon removal.
- Knowledge Building and Management
- Community Benefits Mechanisms
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Build an understanding of carbon removal locally
Carbon removal encompasses a suite of practices and technologies. Partner with experts to assess what, if any, types of carbon removal meet your communities wants and needs. At this stage, you might engage in outreach to carbon removal NGOs or technical assistance groups and convene locally to share information about carbon removal’s risks and benefits.
- Knowledge Building and Management
- Community Benefits Mechanisms
- Environmental Outcomes
- Human Health
- Full System Carbon Accounting
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Outline benefits and protections for your community
When an intervention requires physical infrastructure to be built, a community has an opportunity to negotiate community benefits and risk mitigation measures with a project’s developer. At this stage, you may be inquiring about good neighbor, project labor, or community benefits agreements.
- Community Benefits Mechanisms
- Community Agency Mechanisms
- Dignified Workforce Development
- Environmental Outcomes
- Human Health
- Full System Carbon Accounting
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Participate in reviewing carbon removal interventions throughout their lifecycles
Whether it happens as a project or program, carbon removal interventions should be designed with local leadership. Ideally, at this stage, an intervention is in a scoping or site selection phase and is interested in building a working relationship with community representatives. Communities should assess and advocate for any interests in designing an intervention, selecting sites, accounting for carbon emissions across lifecycles, and long-term monitoring.
- Knowledge Building and Management
- Environmental Outcomes
- Human Health
- Full System Carbon Accounting
- Monitoring of Carbon Storage