Summary/Abstract
This report provides a set of recommendations and detailed implementation plans for a comprehensive, 10-year, $10.7 billion research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) initiative in the United States to bring new pathways for technological carbon dioxide removal (CDR) to commercial readiness.
The CDR RD&D initiative encompasses a broad range of technological pathways and technologically-enhanced natural processes that can remove CO2 from the environment including direct air capture (DAC); technologically-enhanced carbon uptake in trees, plants, and soils; capture and isolation of CO2 in coastal and deep ocean waters; and carbon mineralization in surface and subsurface rock formations. Geologic sequestration and CO2 utilization will also be included in the CDR RD&D initiative to provide CO2 disposition options for CDR pathways such as DAC and bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS).