Series The Lab | Carbon180

How Carbon Removal Succeeds

Carbon removal stands at an inflection point. In just five years, the field has seen a surge of corporate purchases, billions in federal investment, and a wave of new startups. Now, shifting political and economic conditions are reshaping the landscape.

Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs) and Carbon Removal

When most people think about climate change, carbon dioxide (CO2) comes to mind first. And for good reason: carbon dioxide is the most abundant greenhouse gas, and it stays in our atmosphere for centuries, steadily building up and driving long-term…

Noah McQueen, PhD and Peter Minor, PhD

Carbon removal and the path back to 1.5°C

A growing number of reports warn that the world is crossing over the 1.5℃ threshold set out in the Paris Agreement and into overshoot. In some contexts, “overshoot” simply means surpassing 1.5℃. However, in the parlance of the…

Dr. Sifang Chen

Reflections from a day at a DAC facility

One of the most exciting aspects about the current state of CDR is the opportunity to witness projects as they come online. It’s something I’ve heard from many stakeholders as a necessary step to believe that CDR is here and…

Ugbaad Kosar

Energy and water use for DAC

This is part one of a planned series on the environmental and resource impacts of direct air capture. Energy and water use are only part of the picture. In future installments, we will explore environmental impacts associated with CO2 pipeline…

Dr. Sifang Chen

A Carbon180 cofounder reflects on his time in Biden’s DOE

In 2022, I took a period of leave from Carbon180 to lead carbon removal implementation in the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Carbon Management. The past three years provided…

Noah Deich

Leveraging trade policy as climate policy

Members of Congress from both parties and the Biden administration agree that international trade policy is an effective, if underutilized, tool to mitigate carbon emissions abroad and at home. Though not traditionally regarded as a lever for…

John Milko

On the road to net negative, carbon removal can help speed decarbonization

Today, there is widespread agreement that we must not only immediately and aggressively decarbonize across the economy but build an accompanying carbon removal (CDR) sector to draw down CO2 from the atmosphere. Carbon removal will need to be a…

Anu Khan and Sasha Stashwick

Enhanced oil recovery has no place in the Regional DAC Hubs program

The Regional Direct Air Capture (DAC) Hubs program will be the first megaton scale deployment of carbon removal in the world, representing a 400x increase in DAC capacity. It is an immense opportunity to deploy DAC not only quickly…

Erin Burns