Just Released! Roads to Removal: A nationwide report on how the United States can achieve net-zero by 2050

Roads to Removal is a national scale analysis of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) required to achieve a net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) economy in the United States by 2050. Led by researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and scientists from across the nation, the report highlights CDR opportunities in 22 geographical regions in the United States. All regions have a story. All have an opportunity. 

Learn more in the overview video below.

Roads to Removal - Overview

The report is jointly sponsored by the US Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), Advanced Research Projects Agency—Energy (ARPA-E), and Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) and ClimateWorks.

Participating author institutions include: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin’s Bureau of Economic Geology, North Carolina State University, University of California—Berkeley, Colorado State University, Indiana University, Yale University, University of New Hampshire, Iowa State University, Michigan State University and University of Pennsylvania.

Thanks to the support from Breakthrough Energy, ClimateWorks Foundation, and Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, Livermore Lab Foundation, along with our partner Climate Now, will host a series of free community symposiums in 2024 to share the science and report conclusions in Roads to Removal. 

Visit the report website, Roads2Removal.org, for more information, 2024 symposium details and to download videos, fact sheets, Executive Summary and the full report. View the press release here

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Roads to Removal authors and partners - January 2023

Roads2Removal.org  is a collaborative outreach initiative from Climate Now and the Livermore Lab Foundation, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Learn more about the Livermore Lab Foundation’s Climate Resiliency Research here