To Educate the Public, Policy Makers, Industry, and Other Stakeholders and Build a Consensus on the Benefits of Carbon Capture Utilization Sequestration and Carbon management technologies.

In keeping with its mission to increase understanding of energy developments domestically and internationally, USEA’s Consensus Program, launched in 2008, is a cooperative program with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management to promote consensus on the need for Carbon Capture, Utilization, & Storage (CCUS) and other Carbon Management technologies to meet the world’s decarbonization goals. While dramatic progress continues to be made in developing these technologies, neither the progress achieved to date nor the full capability of CCUS and carbon management technologies is widely understood - yet it must be if they are to have a significant global impact.  The reality that much of the developing world will continue to use fossil fuels for decades to come, further underscores the need for these technologies.

These technologies also support an expanding market of opportunities for the use of CO2 and carbon byproducts in the production of cement, fertilizer, fuels and more. Deployment of CCUS and carbon management technology holds the potential for rural job creation and revitalization through the energy transition. On this global journey towards decarbonization, in addition to CCUS and Carbon Management, Consensus promotes the importance of other energy technologies surrounding Hydrogen, Energy Storage, and the Rare Earth Elements and Critical Minerals that are essential to national security, electrification, and life in the 21st century.