What to Know About 5 Big Plans for US Carbon Removal

Image credit: Dave Gardner Creative / National Forest Foundation. Article by Haley Leslie-Bole, Katie Lebling and Elizabeth Bridgwater. World Resources Institute – February 8, 2022. 

WRI predicted that 2020 would be the year carbon removal took off in the United States, and indeed, the past few years have seen significant increases in federal spending — from almost nothing before 2020 to more than $80 million in research, development and demonstration (RD&D) in FY2021, along with rising corporate investment and the launch of a number of new carbon removal companies. But the coming years are set to far surpass any previous year’s investment from both public and private sectors, and accelerated implementation of carbon dioxide removal projects is likely to follow. […]

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