Tribal Carbon Solutions

  • Combined Indigenous CDFI/CDE Might Boost Tribal Carbon Removal Efforts

    Opinion piece by Tribal Carbon Solutions journalist Mark Fogarty

  • V7 | IS1: June 2023

    MRV Can Help Bring in Social Justice as Well as CDR

  • V7 | IS2: June 2023

    Climeworks Expansion Could Lead to Tribal Opportunities

  • V7 | IS3: June 2023

    Carbon Sequestration in Oceans Presents Dangers

  • V7 | IS4: June 2023

    Transition to ‘Circular’ Carbon Economy Now Underway

  • V6 | IS1: April 2023

    Tribes Part of Model Legislation for Ocean CDR Roadmap

  • V6 | IS2: April 2023

    Possible Problems with European Soil-Based Framework

  • V6 | IS3: April 2023

    Sovereignty Key to Tribal Impact on Carbon Removal

  • V6 | IS4: April 2023

    Biomass Less Challenging to Verify in Carbon Dioxide Removal

  • V6 | IS5: April 2023

    The Carbon/Methane Balance Sheet Problem

  • V5 | IS1: March 2023

    Kenya’s “Great Carbon Valley" May Be Fertile Ground for Carbon Storage

  • V5 | IS2: March 2023

    Blue Carbon Goals: Protect Marine Carbon and Draw Down More of It

  • V5 | IS3: March 2023

    Take a Look at the Future—Now

  • V5 | IS4: March 2023

    Looking for the Gold Standard in Carbon Verification

  • V5 | IS5: March 2023

    DOE Outlines Billions of Dollars to Be Used for Carbon Management

  • V4 | IS1: February 2023

    Quantifying Enhanced Rock Weathering in Soils

  • V4 | IS2: February 2023

    Details Still Sketchy on Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs

  • V4 | IS3: February 2023

    Tribes Can Monetize Carbon Tax Credits

  • V4 | IS4: February 2023

    Oxford Study: DAC Just a Tiny Percentage of Current CDR Levels

  • V4 | IS5: February 2023

    ‘Project Bison’ DAC Plant to Start Up in Wyoming This Year

  • V4 | IS6: February 2023

    Forests and Soils Still Favored CDR Method But May Fall Short

  • V3 | IS1: January 2023

    Nations Get on Board CDR Launchpad at COP27

  • V3 | IS2: January 2023

    EFI: Market Forces Won’t Do the CDR Trick

  • V3 | IS3: January 2023

    Essay: A Vacuum Cleaner for Atmospheric Carbon

  • V3 | IS4: January 2023

    NOAA’s Carbon Dioxide Removal Task Force Gains Momentum in Developing Research Strategy

  • V3 | IS5: January 2023

    Removing Carbon by the Gigaton

  • V2 | IS1: November 2022

    How Will the CDR Industry Measure Results?

  • V2 | IS2: November 2022

    Carbon Engineering - Oxy Unit Look to Develop Modular DAC Plants

  • V2 | IS3: November 2022

    CHIPS Act Provides $1 Billion for CDR R&D

  • V1 | IS4: November 2022

    Can U.S. Handle Massive Carbon Removal Effort?

  • V2 | IS5: November 2022

    Tribes and Tribal Green Banks Eligible for $12 Billion in Greenhouse Gas Reduction Money

  • V2 | IS6: November 2022

    Tribal Input Wanted on Federal Climate Action Plan

  • V2 | IS7: November 2022

    Constraints on Tribal Opportunities in CDR

  • V1 | IS1: October 2022

    Tribes Step Up To Lead On Carbon
    Removal

  • Research Report V1 | IS2: October 2022

    Federal Funding: A Deeper Look at Several Current Opportunities

  • V1 | IS3: October 2022

    New Climate Law Explodes Direct Air Capture

  • V1 | IS4: October 2022

    Tribal Carbon Removal, Food Sovereignty Have Many Links

  • V1 | IS5: October 2022

    Carbon Entrepreneurship Is Ready
    to Boom

  • V1 | IS6: October 2022

    CHIPS Act Provides $1 Billion for
    CDR R&D

  • V1 | IS7: October 2022

    Indian Energy Loan Program Gets Supersized

Tribal Carbon Solutions

We’re proud to introduce a new supplement to our longstanding publication on ocean health in the Anthropocene, the Ocean Acidification Report. This supplement, Tribal Carbon Solutions, is designed to support Tribes and Indigenous communities, as well as their technical advisors and collaborators, as they take up an emerging class of climate solutions known as carbon removal.

Introducing Tribal Carbon Solutions

What is carbon removal? In a word, it’s cleanup: the work of cleaning up the mess already made after two centuries of unchecked fossil fuel emissions. To avoid the most catastrophic consequences, the IPCC reckons that humans can no longer rely solely on emitting less pollution, we must also clean up the greenhouse-gas mess we’ve made.

Why Tribes? Because they have an indispensable role in making sure this new field "grows up right.” Both in governance and practice, Tribes are well positioned to guide the development of what amounts to the largest restoration project in history: restoring the climate.

Will this new supplement focus solely on the ocean? No, but the ocean doesn’t care where carbon pollution comes from. The ocean’s capacity to keep making dinner will depend on working skillfully both at sea and on shore.

Brad Warren, President
Global Ocean Health/National Fisheries Conservation Center