About & Mission

The California CCUS Forum exists to create a space where policymakers, scientists, industry, investors, legislators, and climate technology innovators can interact and have meaningful discussions about the barriers that need to be overcome and solutions that exist to help advance the fight against climate change.

California has a carbon removal target of 20 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent by 2030 and a 100 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent by 2045. Policymakers in the state have made clear that in addition to natural forms of carbon removal, engineered forms of carbon removal and storage will be needed for California to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045. 

The California CCUS Forum was started to fill an often overlooked but foundational part of what is needed to support the advancement and deployment of carbon removal technologies in California: the free-flowing exchange of ideas with a broad stakeholder group that has diverse areas of expertise.

The California CCUS Forum’s mission is to:

• Foster relationship building through open dialogue and a focus on finding solutions to the most critical problem facing humanity.

• Support the development of the carbon removal, carbon transport, carbon storage, and carbon utilization industries.