Cooperative Agreement SBE30021CA3006

This two-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Multidisciplinary Activities, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), provides $200,000 to the University of California, Berkeley to study explanations for ambitious climate policy. The research will compare updated national climate targets and COVID-19 economic recovery packages across several countries to analyze the political and economic drivers of differences in climate...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program (CFDA 66.046), provides $1,000,000 in funding to the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission (SPC) to develop and update regional climate mitigation plans to address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reduction measures. Key activities include conducting public outreach, identifying high-priority programs and projects to reduce emissions across multiple sectors,...

This five-year, $622,775 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports research by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research's National Center for Atmospheric Research to generate actionable climate intervention scenarios. The research team will advance the scientific understanding of portfolio approaches combining mitigation, carbon dioxide removal, and solar radiation management strategies to limit global warming to 1.5...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop a direct air capture technology for carbon dioxide sequestration. The university will utilize industrial waste materials and a two-step mineral carbonation method to directly capture CO2 from the atmosphere and store it as a stable mineral. This has the potential to offer a low-cost solution for permanent CO2 removal on a...

The National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to the University of Chicago to develop responsible artificial intelligence systems to support effective climate change policymaking through 2026. Funded under the CFDA 47.079 International Science and Engineering program, this collaborative research between U.S. and Australian researchers aims to bridge information gaps between publicly available climate change data and actionable...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program awarded a $3,709,032 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Illinois to complete a feasibility study for a regional Direct Air Capture (DAC) hub in Florida. The key objectives are to define the DAC hub organization, select technologies, assess life cycle emissions, identify safety/regulatory requirements, and develop financing, business, and community benefits plans. Planned sub-awards include...

This $3,751,595 federal Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086), supports a feasibility study for a regional Direct Air Capture (DAC) hub in the Pueblo region of Colorado. The overall objective is to evaluate the potential to capture and store at least 1 million metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere annually, with an initial capacity of at least 50,000 metric tons. The study will be executed in two phases...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $275,000 Project Grant to Carbon Solutions LLC under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The grant will support development of a decision-support tool to identify carbon dioxide capture opportunities across the United States energy sector from 2023-2024. The tool aims to facilitate the country's transition to net-zero carbon emissions through profiling capturable CO2 streams and providing the break-even capture cost,...

The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated $1.722 million under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA #81.089) for the project "Tunable Rapid-Uptake Aminopolymer Aerogel Sorbent for Direct Air Capture of CO2 (TRAPS)." Through this cooperative agreement awarded February 16, 2021 and set to be completed by March 31, 2023, Palo Alto Research Center will develop tunable rapid-uptake...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, supports the development of a light-based, energy-generating carbon removal process. The $274,094 award to Banyu Carbon Inc. aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by sequestering or reusing captured carbon dioxide. Key objectives include improving the resistance of the proprietary photoacid catalyst to degradation and replacing expensive...