ACHIEVE

2025-2031

The ACHIEVE consortium supports Switzerland in its transition to net zero by working with stakeholders from society, politics, and industry to develop scientifically sound roadmaps towards this goal. ACHIEVE evaluates and implements measures to reduce emissions from hard-to-abate sectors, i.e., agriculture, waste-to-energy, cement production, and chemical industry, while accelerating the implementation of carbon capture, utilization, transport, and storage (CCUTS) and carbon dioxide removal (CDR) infrastructure. Project objectives include assessing mitigation strategies, unlocking biomass and CDR potentials, advancing circular economy approaches for industrial decarbonization, and co-designing CCUTS pathways and policy frameworks. ACHIEVE pioneers pilots to demonstrate CCUTS and CDR feasibility in Switzerland, including CO2 injection in the subsurface and biochar-based construction materials. ACHIEVE generates impact across three stages: generating systems knowledge on effective measures, identifying target knowledge for implementation, and designing transformation knowledge to guide policy and technological advancements. Key expected outcomes of ACHIEVE target emission reductions in the agri-food sector, cascaded sustainable biomass use, net-zero cross-sectorial industry roadmaps, a national CCUTS framework, and stakeholder perception and acceptance of trade-offs in net-zero transition pathways. The project is funded by the Swiss Federal Office for Energy (SFOE).