Carbon Sequestration

Creating Accountability for Carbon Removal Through Responsible Measurement

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Accurately measuring carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is crucial to responsibly reaching net-negative emissions. Even though there are currently no standardized ways of calculating carbon dioxide removals, governments and private companies have been making voluntary purchases of CDR project credits and using a range of methods for measuring them.  As the call for CDR grows louder … Read more

Carbon Dioxide Removal and Communities: Benefits, Negotiations, Oversight, and Enforcement

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State legislators and regulators must find ways to adequately protect communities from Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) project impacts and ensure that communities derive direct benefits from local projects. While the Biden administration often imposed strong local engagement and community benefits requirements on federally-funded clean energy projects, we can’t count on the new administration to enforce … Read more

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How climate action can lower the cost of living

Accelerating climate action will help California address the rising costs of food, electricity, and insurance. Collaborating with partners across the state, The Climate Center is working to pass laws in 2025 that hold Big Oil and corporate utilities accountable, support clean, local energy, and responsibly draw down past carbon pollution.  Right now, oil and gas … Read more

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California Climate Policy Summit 2025

Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel, 1230 J St, Sacramento, CA 95814

Join us at the fourth annual California Climate Policy Summit on Tuesday, April 22, 2025 in Sacramento. Collaborate with state decision-makers, elected officials, climate activists, environmental justice advocates, business leaders, scientists, and policy experts to build power across California in support of science-based climate policies. Learn what visionary climate leaders are doing to accelerate the … Read more

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Tell California’s leaders to stand up for climate action

Climate Rally in Sacramento

What we do in California to address the climate crisis has a ripple effect across the world. With a climate-denying, pro-oil president waging war on federal climate action, California’s climate leadership is more important than ever. The new administration is attacking federal climate progress at every level. On his first day in office, the new … Read more

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The climate imperative: As goes California, so goes the world

California has a reputation for precedent-setting climate policy, and the last year has shown us why. Thanks to the support of our generous donors, The Climate Center has been at the center of passing nation-leading, new laws. This year, together with policymakers, scientists, business leaders, local governments, activists, and others across the climate movement, we: … Read more

Categories Carbon Sequestration Clean Energy Climate Targets Community Energy Resilience Fossil Fuels
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California voters pass Prop 4, the climate bond

Bond secures $10 billion for investments in clean air, clean water, and climate resilience

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SACRAMENTO — Moments ago, the Associated Press announced that California’s Proposition 4 has passed. Prop 4 will invest $10 billion in urgent protections against extreme heat, wildfire, sea level rise, and flooding, as well as investments in clean water. The bond also includes funding for California’s farms, natural lands, and waters to build climate resilience. Baani … Read more

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Carbon Dioxide Removal: Considerations for Responsible Deployment on Land and Ocean

Side Event Room 8 in the Baku Stadium at COP 29 in Azerbaijan

The Climate Center, World Ocean Council, and ICOS-ERIC are partnering for an Official Side Event at COP 29 on responsible carbon dioxide removal (CDR). Reaching net zero and net negative requires deploying new and scaling current CDR strategies while establishing safeguards for communities and ecosystems. We heard from experts from around the world on the … Read more

Carbon Dioxide Removal and Communities: Learning From the Past, Planning for the Future

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In this third webinar of a six-part series, we heard from experts about the health and safety concerns with Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR). Panelists covered the landscape of national and California-specific issues, impacts to air quality, and risks associated with transportation and storage. This webinar will be followed by a subsequent webinar focused on community … Read more

Air, Land, Rock, Water: An Overview of Carbon Dioxide Removal Pathways

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The world is navigating the necessary transition away from polluting fuels toward clean energy, but many scientists believe we must also work to remove climate pollution that has already been dumped into the atmosphere. That’s known as carbon dioxide removal (CDR). The call for CDR is only growing stronger as new analyses find that we’re … Read more