2025: Tracking RMI’s CDR Applied Innovation Roadmap Implementation (DACC, RMI)
In the first phase of this project, Cornell University researchers will create an interactive digital dashboard to track progress in direct air capture technology development. The team will work with the Rocky Mountain Institute and the Direct Air Capture Coalition to monitor key milestones and achievements in Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) from the atmosphere. Scientists will update the dashboard regularly with new data about technological advances, funding, and policy changes affecting direct air capture systems. In the project’s second phase, the team will expand the dashboard with analyses of all other types of CDR covered in the roadmap and complete a status review of global academic research on unlocking the major research barriers within each approach. By bringing together information from industry, environmental groups, and universities, researchers will help investors and policymakers make better decisions about supporting climate solutions. This project will serve as a model for tracking other CDR technologies in the future.
Cornell: Phillip Milner (Arts and Sciences/Chemistry and Chemical Biology), Tobias Hanrath (Cornell Duffield Engineering/Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
External Partners: Rocky Mountain Institute, Direct Air Capture Coalition