Taskforce for Durable Existing & Emerging Policies for Carbon Storage
We are an independent, science-driven taskforce tracking and assessing policies that facilitate Paris-aligned carbon storage.
DEEP Taskforce is an independent, science-driven international taskforce established in 2026 to track and assess the compliance-based policies that make durable carbon storage real. Our scope is deliberately narrow: we cover only compliance mechanisms that mandate or directly enable geological-timescale carbon storage. This means we do not track all carbon markets, all climate policies, or all forms of carbon storage. We track what works to permanently store carbon, and the policies that require it to happen.
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Carbon Balance Initiative
Carbon Balance Initiative is an independent think tank founded at the University of Oxford, working with academia to develop evidence-based policy pathways to reach the Paris Agreement temperature goals. In partnership with world-renowned research institutions, Carbon Balance translates climate science into practical, bespoke recommendations for policymakers, with the goal of reaching geological net zero for fossil fuel and industrial sectors. Visit us at carbon-balance.earth.
Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal
The Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal is an initiative of American University’s School of International Service. It was founded in 2018 in response to growing scientific and political attention to carbon removal technologies and practices. The Institute grew out of the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment, a separate research initiative dedicated to assessing the social, ethical, political, and legal implications of emerging technologies that fall under the broad rubric of climate engineering. As independent scholars and thinkers housed at an academic institution, we bring robustness and rigor to all our work.
Arizona State University
Arizona State University is a public research university, located in Arizona, USA. ASU is force of academic and economic gravity, drawing outstanding faculty from across the globe and talented students from all 50 states and over 165 countries. It has membership in the Association of American Universities and the Carnegie Foundation’s Opportunity University designation.