International Policy/Guidance Archives - Page 11 of 52

Engineering climate debt: temperature overshoot and peak-shaving as risky subprime mortgage lending

2019

Scholarly Work

Shinichiro Asayama, Mike Hulme

This paper argues that an 'overshoot and peak-shaving' strategy comes with a risk of escalating ‘climate debt’ and explains its position using an analogy of subprime mortgage lending.

Making Terrestrial Geoengineering Technologies Viable: An Opportunity for India-Canada Climate Leadership

2019

Think Tank Report

Chaitanya Giri

This report makes the case that India and Canada must work together on geoengineering governance in advancement of climate goals, while seeking to collaborate on new carbon-materials industries to harness the potential of terrestrial geoengineering.

Geoengineering, Political Legitimacy and Justice

2019

Scholarly Work

Stephen M. Gardiner, Augustin Fragnière

This is the introductory article from a special issue of the journal Ethics, Policy & Environment that highlights the ethical lessons central to geoengineering research, policy and governance.

Indigeneity in Geoengineering Discourses: Some Considerations

2019

Scholarly Work

Kyle Powys Whyte

This paper focuses on the role of indigenous peoples in the geoengineering discourse and frames the challenges with identifying indigenous consent to geoengineering activities.

Governing geoengineering research for the Great Barrier Reef

2019

Scholarly Work

Jan McDonald, Jeffrey McGee, Kerryn Brent, Wil Burns

this paper contends that while geoengineering options are worth exploring to protect the Great Barrier Reef from extreme warming conditions they require strong governance and public consultation from the outset.

Global Resources Outlook 2019: Natural Resources for the Future We Want

2019

Scientific Report

United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)

UNEP's Global Resources Outlook highlights and supports climate policies to remove atmospheric carbon in its "Towards Sustainability" scenario, specifically policies targeted towards the deployment of BECCs, DAC, and reforestation activities.

High Level Review of a Wide Range of Proposed Marine Geoengineering Techniques

2019

Scientific Report

Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP)

This report examines a wide range of marine geoengineering techniques to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and provides a comprehensive review of the international frameworks that govern these techniques.

Rich man’s solution? Climate engineering discourses and the marginalization of the Global South

2019

Scholarly Work

Frank Biermann, Ina Möller

This article maps a lack of involvement of developing countries in the climate engineering discourse and highlights the degree to which their concerns remain insufficiently represented in politically significant scientific assessment reports.

Achievement of Paris climate goals unlikely due to time lags in the land system

2019

Scholarly Work

Calum Brown, Peter Alexander, Ian Holman, Almut Arneth, Mark Rounsevell

This paper suggests that improved recognition of different land-system policies and lags in land-system change is necessary to identify achievable mitigation actions and avoid excessively optimistic assumptions and consequent policy failures.

Geoengineering and the blockchain: Coordinating Carbon Dioxide Removal and Solar Radiation Management to tackle future emissions

2019

Scholarly Work

Andrew Lockley, Zhifu Mi, D’Maris Coffman

This paper proposes using a blockchain implementation of the 'polluter pays' principle, integrating CDR futures with time and volume-matched SRM orders to address emissions contractually before release.

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