The Missing Pieces of Geoengineering Research Governance
This Article develops mechanisms to address the systemic concerns, including technological lock-in, moral hazard, and global conflict, and the physical risks of geoengineering research.
Climate Engineering Under the Paris Agreement
This report examines the specific provisions of the Paris Agreement with a view to identifying where legal and policy questions in relation to climate engineering are likely to arise.
Implications of the Paris Agreement for Carbon Dioxide Removal and Solar Geoengineering
This report surveys the implications of the Paris Agreement for carbon dioxide removal (CDR).
The Paris Agreement and Climate Geoengineering Governance: The Need for a Human Rights-Based Component
This paper suggests that a human rights-based approach to climate geoengineering may address the intrinsic issues of equity and justice that would necessarily arise should the world community opt to proceed down the path of climate engineering.
Farmer perceptions, policy and reforestation in Santa Catarina, Brazil
This article evaluates three policy options for promoting reforestation, paying particular attention to the impacts on farmer livelihoods and their intrinsic willingness to restore and preserve forest cover.
Update on Climate Geoengineering in Relation to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Potential Impacts and Regulatory Framework
This report provides an update, including regulatory developments, to the CBD's 2012 Technical Series No. 66: Geoengineering in Relation to the Convention on Biological Diversity report on the potential impacts of geoengineering.
Soil carbon sequestration potential of US croplands and grasslands: Implementing the 4 per Thousand Initiative
In this analysis, the goals of the 4 per Thousand declaration are assessed in the US context, looking for the best opportunities or “bright spots” that could be managed to implement the 4PT program.
The ‘best available science’ to inform 1.5 °C policy choices
This commentary identifies why an IPCC Special Report on 1.5 °C should focus on resolving fundamental scientific and political uncertainties, not fixate on developing unachievable mitigation pathways.
Geoengineering with seagrasses: is credit due where credit is given?
This article argues that geoengineering with seagrasses before reliable assessment methods have been established can result in overestimated carbon offsets that could lead to a net increase in emissions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
Research priorities for negative emissions
This paper identifies some urgent research needs around NETs, including in governance and policy, to provide a more complete picture for reaching ambitious climate targets and the role that NETs can play in reaching them.