Scaling Technological Greenhouse Gas Removal: A Global Roadmap to 2050

With our climate at a tipping point, technological greenhouse gas removals has emerged as a new frontier in the solution space. This report presents a roadmap of actions needed to scale greenhouse gas removal by 2050.

Nature-based approaches have significant potential for removals, and in many scenarios they are expected to contribute significantly to the total amount of removals. However, the scale of the removal challenge will also require significant deployments of technological GHG removals, which are the focus of this roadmap.

This roadmap illuminates a path to achieving this ambitious but critical scaled deployment of greenhouse gas removal technologies. Meeting these goals will require a strategic path accounting for actions across many stakeholders, time sensitive milestones, and complex interdependencies of deliverables. The objective of the roadmap is to work backward from the 2050 goals, to ensure a set of timed actions including urgent near-term deadlines, such that there is no “overshoot” with 2050 arriving without the necessary scaled removals in place. This document sets clear goals, outlines a path to achieving them, and serves to catalyze rapid action to enable success.