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Governing Large-Scale Carbon Dioxide Removal: Are We Ready?

2018
Think Tank Report
Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative (C2G2)
This report focuses on the governance mechanisms in place that can begin to address CDR at the necessary scale as well as what governance gaps remain to deploy CDR at scale.

Carbon Removal and Solar Geoengineering: Potential implications for delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals

2018
Think Tank Report
Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative (C2G2)
This report explores the potential implications which two groups of experimental technologies aimed at managing global climate risk, known as Carbon Removal and Solar Geoengineering, could have for delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Greenhouse Gas Removal

2018
Scientific Report
Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering
This report presents the findings from an exploration of the opportunities and barriers for greenhouse gas removal methods in both a UK and global context.

Significance of Billion Tree Tsunami Afforestation Project and Legal Developments in Forest Sector of Pakistan

2018
Scholarly Work
Asif Kamal, Ma Yingjie, Ahmad Ali
This paper discusses the legal considerations of the ‘Billion Trees Tsunami Afforestation Project’ in Pakistan as related to climate change and the Bonn Challenge.

Towards an EU Regulatory Framework for Climate-Smart Agriculture: The Example of Soil Carbon Sequestration

2018
Scholarly Work
Jonathan Verschuuren
This article assesses current and proposed EU climate and environmental law, and the legal instruments associated with the Common Agricultural Policy, to see whether soil carbon sequestration is a promising example of "climate-smart agriculture."

A Clean Planet for all: A European strategic long-term vision for a prosperous, modern, competitive and climate neutral economy

2018
Policy Proposal
European Commission
This policy document outlines a vision of the economic and societal transformations required in the European Union, including the role of carbon sinks and CCS, to achieve the transition to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Towards the anticipatory governance of geoengineering: Ethics, Politics, and Governance

2018
Scholarly Work
Rider Foley, David H. Guston, Daniel Sarewitz
This paper aims to describe and apply  “anticipatory governance," which refers most directly to building the capacity to manage emerging technologies while such management is still possible, to geoengineering technologies and techniques.

Beyond carbon pricing: policy levers for negative emissions technologies

2018
Scholarly Work
Emily Cox, Neil Robert Edwards
This paper identifies a number of existing policies from four key areas – energy/transport, agriculture, sub-soil, and oceans – which will have an impact on BECCs, DAC, and Enhanced Weathering, and proposes policy that could be implemented near-term.

Prospects for a multi-stakeholder dialogue on climate engineering

2018
Scholarly Work
Ken Conca
In this paper lessons from the literature on multi-stakeholder dialogue (MSD) that are relevant to the debate on climate engineering are examined.

Mind the Gap: Marine Geoengineering and the Law of the Sea

2018
Scholarly Work
Karen N. Scott
This chapter, from the book High Seas Governance, examines the legal framework for marine geoengineering, analyzing the extent to which the modern law of the sea has responded to the gaps and challenges in the current regulatory framework.

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