Click on the boxes below for mission summaries, links and meetup details. You can filter by:

  • Domain – This is the broad category that the mission falls under. OpenAir domains include R&D (making things and citizen science), Advocacy (CDR policy development and activism), Activist Business Development, or ‘Biz Dev’ (supporting CDR projects, companies and general sector development), Knowledge (shows, content and activities that are educational), and Culture Making (Creative work inspired by CDR subjects).
  • Status – This tells you what stage the mission is at. Concept missions are at a planning stage of development, usually with a few people involved who are looking for co-founders and core members. In Progress missions are, well, in progress – already meeting up regularly and implementing their core activities. Completed missions have either achieved their end or are on hiatus and are not currently active.

Epiphyte: Open Direct Air Capture

Epiphyte is a miniature, stand-alone, open source direct air capture machine that was designed by a ...

The CO2municator Network

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

The California CDR Market Development Act

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

GGR Action United Kingdom

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

Unfracking

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

Massachusetts CDRLA (S.2096)

Join other OpenAir members in Massachusetts mobilizing support for the Carbon Dioxide Removal Leader...

Carbon Punk: CDR Short Fiction

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

The Nakivale Biochar Project

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

Carbon Gardener

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

Carbon Crowd

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

The Carbon Removal Challenge

The 2023 OpenAir Carbon Removal Challenge is a worldwide challenge for students to create new proces...

Collective Services

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

Air-Synth

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

CDReality

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

This Is CDR

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

CDR Horizons

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

LECCLA

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

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...