Our Work

Prevent Pollution

Preventing pollution covers many of the emissions we already know how to stop. It brings together CATF’s carbon dioxide and methane reduction work across oil and gas, coal, waste, and agriculture with the legal and policy advocacy that turns power plant and air quality imperatives into enforceable standards. Cutting methane is the fastest way to slow the rate of warming, and it cleans the air people breathe at the same time. We have the solutions we need to make progress right now, and we’re working with governments and industry to deploy them all over the world.

Impact

CATF helped initiate the Global Methane Pledge. More than 150 countries have now committed to a 30% cut by 2030.

Focus areas

Cut Methane & Super Pollutants

Cutting methane, black carbon, and other potent pollutants at the source, where the fastest climate and health gains are.

Safeguard Air Quality

Targeting the pollution from power plants, ports, and diesel engines that damages people’s health.

Advance Clean Power

A high-energy, low-emissions future depends on abundant clean energy. Electricity generation causes roughly 40% of global energy emissions, and demand is only increasing. Our clean power portfolio focuses on expanding the suite of clean energy sources, including nuclear, fusion, geothermal, and wind and solar with storage. CATF helped coin the term “clean firm” power and brought it into the mainstream – making the case that reliability, affordability, resilience, and emissions reduction must move together to move at all. Our experts lead innovation and analysis through to policy design, commercial adoption, and global scaling.

Impact

In October 2025, after two years of CATF advocacy, Illinois lifted its decades-long ban on new nuclear plants.

Focus areas

Make More Clean Energy

Advancing the full range of clean power solutions: Nuclear, geothermal, fusion, wind, solar, and storage.

Keep the Grid Reliable

Making sure clean power is accessible, affordable, and available.

Build the Infrastructure

Expanding transmission and smart siting so clean power reaches more people faster.

Transform Complex Systems

Transforming complex systems requires multiple approaches and long-term thinking. Industry, transportation, and land are not one problem with one owner. Emissions come from a vast number of separate points, spread across markets, governments, and industry, and no single solution reaches them all. CATF works across these interconnections: crops and waste become low-carbon fuels that planes and ships can use to innovate their systems, and the factories being cleaned up are the same ones that will build carbon removal at scale. We drive innovation in cross-cutting areas such as steel, cement, and chemicals and advance cross-cutting solutions like carbon management, carbon markets, and clean hydrogen feedback systems – and we use policy advocacy and markets to drive real change within and across each system.

Opportunity

Up to 75M metric tonnes of carbon dioxide a year could be pulled from California’s air by 2045 using crop and forest waste, enough to meet the state’s entire carbon removal target without taking land from food.

Focus areas

Decarbonize Transportation

Clean fuels for the ships, planes, and trucks that get the world from point A to B.

Innovate Industry

Cleaner, better ways to make steel, cement, and chemicals – from carbon capture to low-carbon hydrogen, to electrifying processes.

Protect and Harness Land

Ensuring land use benefits people and planet – from clean energy siting to low-carbon fuel production to carbon storage.