Currently, the United States ranks second internationally in terms of absolute carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions per year, exceeded only by China. Nearly 30% of these emissions come from coal- and natural gas-fired power plants. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies can potentially reduce net CO₂ emissions from power sectors; however, efforts, to date, have not been widely adopted due to high CO₂ sequestration cost (over $60 per metric ton of CO₂ captured). Electrochemical fixing of CO₂ in stable high value marketable chemical products can potentially reduce net CO₂ capture costs. Further, electrochemical systems can be powered by renewable electricity sources, thereby ensuring that no additional CO₂ is produced in the process of CO₂ removal. At present, all electrochemical-based carbon utilization technologies suffer from low product yield and rates, making them impractical for commercial applications. This poster will summarize our recent findings on CO₂ reduction obtained from a high pressure electrochemical reactor. The motivation for using a high-pressure electrochemical reactor is to overcome two major limitations: (1) the low-current density caused by low CO₂ solubility in ambient conditions; and (2) the low selectivity for CO₂ reduction caused by the competing proton reduction to hydrogen. Particularly, the poster will summarize the results on CO₂ reduction currents on Cu and Ag electrocatalysts as a function of CO₂ partial pressure, co-solvent volume fraction, inter electrode spacing, and salt concentration.