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Climate Moonshot Portfolio

The Climate Moonshot Portfolio is an open-source reference architecture for large-scale climate R&D. It asks: If society spent billions on additional R&D to reduce climate risk, what should it develop? The current portfolio contains eight roughly $1B, five-year initiatives. They are starting points for review—not a package to adopt unchanged.

Low-cost energy

  • Nuclear power site-construction automation — Develop custom machines. PDF | DOCX

  • Nuclear-powered industrial processing — Use reactor heat to make things. PDF | DOCX

  • Economic fusion moonshot — Develop low-cost commercial fusion machine. PDF | DOCX

Climate understanding

  • Global climate models — Conduct experiments to improve climate models. PDF | DOCX

SAI sunlight-reflection research

  • SAI Reflectivity Plan — Illustrative 15-year plan. PDF | DOCX

  • SAI experiments — Test atmospheric processes with experiments. PDF | DOCX

  • SAI equipment — Develop and test equipment for research and future systems. PDF | DOCX

MCB sunlight-reflection research

  • MCB Reflectivity Plan — Illustrative 15-year plan. PDF | DOCX

  • MCB experiments — Determine whether MCB could reliably increase reflectivity. PDF | DOCX

  • MCB equipment — Develop automated MCB equipment & monitoring systems. PDF | DOCX

Common Framework. Shared rules cover governance, procurement, open data, independent review, safety, stage gates, and stop-work. Lower-cost analysis and design precede larger prototypes; programs advance only when evidence justifies the next step. PDF | DOCX

How to use it. Reviewers may add, delete, combine, redesign, or re-budget initiatives. This is not a request for one organization to receive ~$8B; programs can be independently adapted, competed, and funded by governments, foundations, or other public-interest funders.

European Climate Moonshot Concept Note: https://www.aplantosavetheplanet.org/europe

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