Draft2:Carbon Management Challenge

The Carbon Management Challenge (CMC) is a global initiative to accelerate the deployment of carbon management technologies crucial to tackling climate change and limiting warming to 1.5° Celsius. It was was launched by President Biden in recognition of this global imperative.

DOE relevance

The Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) is playing a major role in investing more than $12 billion allocated by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law toward the research, development and commercial demonstration of carbon capture, direct air capture, and carbon conversion technologies and the buildout of carbon transport and storage infrastructure at multiple sites in multiple regions around the country.

For the U.S. government, FECM is leading the way in developing carbon management solutions.

“Thanks to the President’s leadership and bipartisan support from Congress, we now have the world’s most robust federal funding and incentives and ambitious portfolio of research, development and demonstration portfolio for carbon management,” said Brad Crabtree, DOE’s Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy and Carbon Management. “U.S. leadership on carbon management, together with our partners around the world, will play an essential role in minimizing the environmental and climate impacts of fossil fuels and industrial processes while working to achieve net-zero emissions.”   “There are some very hard-to-decarbonize sectors of the economy that we are targeting, and it is clear that both carbon capture and carbon removal are needed to meet our net-zero goals,” said Jennifer Wilcox, DOE’s Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy and Carbon Management. “Our office is central for scaling up carbon management in the U.S. and across the globe as we fight to keep the planet below 1.5° Celsius.”

Partners

Governments

• Denmark
• Netherlands
• Norway
• United Kingdom

Governments participating in the Carbon Management Challenge will announce contributing measures and specific goals at the 2023 United Nations Conference of the Parties meeting, known as COP 28, later this year in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Other groups

FECM is working closely with other U.S. government agencies to expedite this progress, and organizations across a wide spectrum of interests are supporting the Carbon Management Challenge, including the

• Clean Air Task Force
• Global CCS Institute
• Global Cement and Concrete Association
• International Energy Forum
  • IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Program

Carbon management

Carbon management refers to “carbon capture, use, and storage,” which consists of capturing carbon dioxide emissions at a source such as a power plant or industrial facility and “carbon dioxide removal,” which removes already emitted carbon directly from the atmosphere. In both approaches, the carbon is used and/or stored in a way that permanently removes it from the atmosphere.

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External links

• Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management to Play Major Role in President Biden’s Call to Action on Carbon Management
• FACT SHEET: President Biden to Catalyze Global Climate Action through the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate
• Chair’s Summary of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate Held by President Joe Biden

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