At Aircapture, we’re creating and scaling a circular carbon economy to solve what we believe to be our lifetime's most pressing challenge: the climate crisis. We supply commercial and industrial customers with clean CO2 captured from our atmosphere to radically improve the environment, our economy, and our lives. We value building a team of people who represent diverse backgrounds - be it thought, education, gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation - to reach our goals. Thank you for considering us.
As a Climate Policy & Carbon Markets Intern, you will play a key role in analyzing carbon dioxide removal (CDR) policy landscapes and carbon market mechanisms, helping inform our policy, business development, and strategic priorities. If you are looking for a research-oriented summer internship where your analysis will contribute to real-world policy and market insights, this role is for you.
This is a full time, Summer opportunity at our research and development facility in Berkeley, California.
Pay rate: $25 per hour, plus up to $400 in travel reimbursement for those relocating from outside of the Bay Area.
What You’ll Do Here- Conduct research on carbon dioxide removal (CDR) organizations, coalitions, and industry groups to understand the broader policy and ecosystem landscape
- Analyze carbon credit mechanisms and registries across voluntary and compliance markets to evaluate how different approaches apply to emerging CDR and CCU solutions
- Support internal efforts to translate carbon market insights into clear, actionable guidance for the company
- Research global climate forums, including key stakeholders, participation structures, and areas of focus
- Explore pathways for organizational participation in international climate events and working groups
- Review evolving climate policy frameworks and draft texts to identify relevant themes and opportunities for engagement
- Synthesize research into concise memos, briefings, and presentations for internal teams
- Completed Junior year or equivalent studying Environmental Policy, Public Policy, Economics, Environmental Science, or Political Science
- Strong analytical and research skills, with the ability to synthesize complex policy and market information
- Interest in carbon markets, climate policy, and carbon dioxide removal (CDR)
- Clear written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently on structured, project-based work
Aircapture strives to create a safe, inclusive, equitable and diverse workplace. Every teammate adds to who we are, diversifying our ideas, experiences and viewpoints and makes us stronger. We hope you feel welcome here.
What We Do
Aircapture’s modular, on-site technology captures climate-changing CO2 from the air, and puts it directly into our customers' production processes. The result is a greener, cleaner and cheaper product that can help their businesses go carbon neutral, or even negative. Previously, commercially available CO2 was produced and distributed only in ways that generate large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions, result in product impurities and include the often-substantial friction costs from transportation. For every tonne of delivered CO2, we estimate two or more tonnes of CO2 are emitted into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming and creating significant supply chain emissions, the cost of which are likely to materially increase. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone is not enough to avoid catastrophic climate change. Atmospheric carbon dioxide removal addresses legacy emissions and drives the development of critical, sustainable carbon-negative infrastructure. By utilizing atmospheric CO2, we can actually turn back the hands of time – reversing much of the damage that has already been done – while enabling our customers to economically build new carbon-to-value industries and alleviate energy poverty on a global scale. Our mission is to use Direct Air Capture (DAC) to help achieve these goals. DAC can be sited practically anywhere. There are no natural or technical limits to its scale, the quantity of carbon dioxide it removes is verifiable and it is cost-effective today
