Our Missions

The Collective's impact is driven by defined projects that are conceived and led by our members. These missions span
the domains of research & development, citizen science, policy advocacy and activist business development.

Violet

The World’s First Open-Source Direct Air Carbon Capture (DACC) Machine. It pulls carbon directly ...

U.S. Carbon Removal Action

The objectives of this mission is to advance pro-CDR policies on the federal level including the Fed...

L-NET

The Luxembourg Negative Emissions Tariff (L-NET) is a legislative mission to create a CDR demand pol...

Cyan

A miniature, open-source device that removes small amounts of CO2 from the air using simple, inexpen...

LECCLA

State legislation to decarbonize concrete through public procurement. The Low Embodied Carbon Concre...

CDR Horizons

CDR HORIZONS is an occasional Youtube series exploring cutting-edge carbon dioxide removal (CDR) res...

This Is CDR

THIS IS CDR is OpenAir’s weekly webinar series (Tuesday, 12pm EST) that explores the ever-widenin...

CDReality

CDR Reality is volunteer-driven effort to confront and correct misinformation about carbon dioxide r...

Air-Synth

Air-Synth aims to democratize carbon removal and conversion through a low-cost open-source device th...

Collective Services

We support the other OpenAir missions with technical writing and editing, video editing and transcri...

Thursday: Open Source DAC

You can join the team to help Octavia Carbon - a small direct air carbon capture innovator in Kenya ...

Carbon Crowd

Carbon Crowd will be an online platform that will host monthly collaborative challenges that aim to ...

The Prisma Network

The Prisma Network is a citizen science mission supporting the use, promotion and success of the Pri...

Carbon Gardener

A global citizen science initiative to accelerate, scale up and diversify field data collection for ...

Viridian Algae Hackers

This mission is developing a design guide for algae based CDR for fertilizer, bioplastics and other ...

The Nakivale Biochar Project

Imagine if farmers in Africa could earn more income by restoring their soil and removing carbon from...

Carbon Punk: CDR Short Fiction

Our ability to reach a future that includes carbon removal requires us to imagine it in the present....

CDRLA: State CDR Procurement Legislation

The focus of this mission is to mobilize support for the Carbon Dioxide Removal Leadership Acts, CDR...

CDR Action Germany

Diese Mission zielt darauf ab, den CDR-Fortschritt in Deutschland durch einen Fokus auf lokale Demon...

Unfracking

This mission is developing and advocating on state and federal levels for an orphan oil and gas well...

GGR Action United Kingdom

This mission focuses on accelerating locally anchored greenhouse gas removal projects with the objec...

CDR Action España

Esta misión se enfoca en acelerar proyectos de remoción de carbono anclados localmente con el obje...

The California CDR Market Development Act

This mission is mobilizing to make the Carbon Dioxide Removal Market Development Act (CDRMDA) law in...

The CO2municator Network

This mission aims to build a global network of volunteer carbon removal communicators who prepare an...