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Overcoming Impediments to Offshore CO2 Storage: Legal Issues in the United States and Canada

2019

Scholarly Work

Romany Webb, Michael Gerrard

This article explores the legal frameworks governing sub-seabed carbon dioxide injection (offshore CCS) in U.S. and Canadian waters, particularly in the Cascadia Basin.

Fuel to the Fire: How Geoengineering Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Accelerate the Climate Crisis

2019

Think Tank Report

Center for International Environmental Law

This report investigates the early, ongoing, and often surprising role of the fossil fuel industry in developing, patenting, and promoting key geoengineering technologies.

Capturing Leadership Policies for the US to Advance Direct Air Capture Technology

2019

Think Tank Report

John Larsen, Whitney Herndon, Mikhail Grant , Peter Marsters

This is a report prepared by the Rhodium Group to asses the role of Direct Air Capture technology in the US response to climate change and identify near and medium-term policy actions to advance the deployment of Direct Air Capture technology.

Policy Brief: Governing Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal

2019

Think Tank Report

Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative (C2G)

This policy brief identifies the governance challenges around marine carbon dioxide removal.

The agricultural conundrum: encouraging climate-friendly agriculture through economic instruments in North America

2019

Scholarly Work

Emma Akrawi

This chapter from the book Environmental Fiscal Challenges for Cities and Transport evaluates California’s treatment of agriculture and the potential for a cap-and-trade offset protocol for carbon farming practices that sequester carbon in the soil.

Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration: A Research Agenda

2019

Scientific Report

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

This comprehensive National Academies of Sciences report covers all aspects of Negative Emission Technologies from fundamental science to full-scale deployment and defines the essential components of a research and development program.

Agriculture and Climate Change: Policy Imperatives and Opportunities to Help Producers Meet the Challenge

2019

Think Tank Report

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

This position paper reviews the science related to climate change mitigation and adaptation on farms in the U.S., in order to provide a sound rationale for current and future policy development and advocacy related to climate change and agriculture.

Beyond the social cost of carbon: Negative emission technologies as a means for biophysically setting the price of carbon

2019

Scholarly Work

Brian F. Snyder

The paper proposes that the cost of emerging negative-emission technologies would be an alternative means for setting a carbon price and avoid the philosophical and practical weaknesses of the social cost of carbon metric.

Opportunities for Carbon Dioxide Removal Within the United States Department of Agriculture

2019

Scholarly Work

Rory Jacobson, Daniel L. Sanchez

This paper provides an assessment of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) existing programs and organizational structure, its capacity to support research and demonstration of CDR, and recommendations for expansion of these capabilities.

Measuring, Modeling, Controlling the Climate? Numerical Expertise in U.S. Climate Engineering Politics

2019

Scholarly Work

Julia Schubert

Drawing on empirical evidence from federal proceedings, this paper assesses how climate measures, models, targets, and thresholds have shaped the trajectory of geoengineering within U.S. climate policy between 1990 and 2015.

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