Carbon Mitigation Initiative

Discover different strategies of using today's technologies to take the world off the path toward dramatic climate change.

Craig Arnold puts the squeeze on batteries and discusses recent findings with graduate student Christina Peabody.(Watch video)

New tool shows where emitters are today and how the distribution will evolve over the next 20 years.

Science Group	Collects data from the oceans, the atmosphere, ice cores, and the land biosphere to study how natural sources and sinks of carbon have varied in recent and ancient times, and how they will respond to future climatic change.

Storage Group	Studies potential risks of injecting CO₂ underground for permanent storage. Models of subsurface carbon dioxide behavior and laboratory studies of well cement degradation are helping the group evaluate that risk.

Capture Group	Assesses technologies for capturing CO₂ emissions from fossil fuels used in electricity, hydrogen, and synfuels production. Other research areas include studies of alternative fuel combustion, renewable energy, and energy storage.

Policy & Integration Group	Synthesizes research discoveries and explores the policy implications of carbon mitigation strategies. It also works to communicate issues of carbon and climate to industry, government, NGO's and the general public.

Over its first decade, CMI accomplished many of its original goals. More >>