Project 2030 creates opportunities for shared learning by bringing together experts, practitioners, community organizations, regulators, policymakers, and staff together. We develop standalone events such as in-person events, legislative briefings, webinars or participate along with our partners, for instance, creating a CDR specific panel during a conference.
Exploring Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal
In our efforts to create shared learning opportunities, Project 2030 and AltaSea partnered to host a marine CDR (mCDR) workshop at the Port of Los Angeles.
The December 2025 event brought together policymakers and staff, environmental non-profits, community organizations, marine CDR experts, foundations, academics, innovators and CDR companies for a discussion and site tour.
Speakers included Bob Epstein (Project 2030), Terry Tamminen (AltaSea), David Koweek (Ocean Visions), Peter Minor (Absolute Climate), Sophie Chu (mCDR Business Coalition), and site tours by Equatic, Captura, Calcarea, and Hourglass Climate.
CDR Webinar Series
In 2024–2025, Project 2030 partnered with The Climate Center and California Environmental Voters to deliver a six-part shared learning webinar series for California carbon dioxide removal (CDR) stakeholders, covering the following topics:
Legislative Briefing on CDR
In our efforts to support the work on SB 643, we offered an in-person and online hybrid legislative briefing covering:
- California CDR Landscape: Policy & Industry
- The Science of CDR
- The Primary CDR approaches
- How can California meet its CDR targets
BioMass Happens: We Can Safely and Cost-Effectively Sequester Carbon
As part of The Climate Center’s annual Policy Summit in 2025, Bob Epstein conceived of a Biomass CDR focused session. He moderated a panel with Colin Murphy from the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis, Dan Ress from the Center on Race Poverty and the Environment (CRPE), Tom Hobby from Yosemite Clean Energy and Elizabeth Bettencourt from the Department of Conservation.
The panel tackled the following questions: How do we define what is waste or residual biomass? What co-benefits would it have if we converted them in a way that also delivered CDR? What exists in the current policies that enable this conversion economically? And then what can go wrong? How do we protect communities for air quality and water? If converting biomass for co-benefits and CDR is a good idea, why haven’t projects happened already? What’s missing? How do we create trust between communities and projects?
Follow this link to read the transcript of the panel.
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