The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) state that carbon negative techniques - removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere - are essential to avoid highly dangerous global warming.  However, most carbon dioxide removal (CDR) proposals are prohibitively expensive and/or cause unacceptable environmental risks.

Through the Carbon Negative Initiative’s virtuous cascade secure carbon sequestration could reach the gigatonne per year scale by 2040.  This programme can provide safe and reliable carbon negative mitigation for historical greenhouse gas emissions and residual emissions from sectors that are difficult to decarbonize rapidly.  It can also help supply massive climate finance for community renewable energy and adaptation projects in developing economies.