We identified a set of critical priority initiatives that could help overcome the most important materials-, technical-and infrastructure-related obstacles. As deployment-led innovation alone is unlikely to make DACCS economically feasible, we propose simultaneous investments into research and development, deployment and the buildout of supporting infrastructure. Further research is needed to better quantify the cost of proposed priority initiatives and their attendant research projects and to expand them to cover policy, investment, international collaboration, and recommendations for the private sector.