Project 2030 is committed to equitable decarbonization efforts that benefit all Californians.

Our goals include supporting California’s effort to replace fossil fuels, ensuring equitable and sustainable carbon dioxide removal practices, ensuring that sequestration services are competitive and provide a public good, sustainably managing California’s significant waste biomass from AG and forestry, reducing criteria pollutants, and decarbonizing cement.

Some of the ways we envision achieving these goals include:

• Encourage the adoption of thermal batteries to decarbonize industrial heat
• Replace natural gas boilers at food processing plants in the Central Valley (primarily in AB 617 communities) with thermal batteries to significantly reduce criteria pollutants
• Create a Public Sequestration Authority to provide CO₂ geologic sequestration as a public good (i.e., at cost and with a focus on health and safety)
  • A Public Sequestration Authority should ensure that a monopoly sequestration provider focused on profits does not control sequestration services in California
• Engage with local communities to design community-informed DAC projects and community benefits plans:
  • Are there DAC hub technologies, industries, and locations communities can support for DAC projects?
  • What components do communities want to see in a community benefits plan? (Co-ownership? Revenue sharing? Advisory roles?)
• Develop a Low Carbon Cement Standard and other means for decarbonizing cement
• Design best practices to sustainably manage waste biomass: ensure waste-only biomass, no incineration, reduce criteria pollutants and GHGs, engage with local communities to explore best options.
• Develop scenarios for transporting CO₂ by rail and truck