Removing Carbon Dioxide Through Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement and Seaweed Cultivation
This paper examines the international and U.S. legal frameworks that apply to ocean alkalinity enhancement and seaweed cultivation.
Emergency deployment of direct air capture as a response to the climate crisis
This paper models a wartime-like crash deployment of direct air capture (DAC) as a policy response to the climate crisis, calculating funding, net CO2 removal, and climate impacts.
Net Expectations: Assessing the role of carbon dioxide removal in companies’ climate plans
This briefing aims to help investors and others interpret and assess the feasibility of the role of CDR in companies’ climate plans.
The Legal Framework for Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage in Canada
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of legal issues associated with deploying an offshore DAC system, powered by offshore wind turbines, in Canadian waters and storing the captured carbon dioxide in sub-seabed rock formations.
Removing Carbon Dioxide Through Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement: Legal Challenges and Opportunities
This paper examines the international and U.S. legal frameworks that apply to ocean alkalinity enhancement.
Hugging the Shore: Tackling Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal as a Local Governance Problem
This paper outlines some of the key local dimensions of marine CDR as currently imagined, and suggests a framework for increasing local participation in its assessment.
Fair distributions of carbon dioxide removal obligations and implications for effective national net-zero targets
This paper looks at the implications that an equity perspective could have on national and regional obligations for negative emissions and the respective timings of net-zero targets.
Not an Intractable Challenge: Geoengineering MSR in ABNJ
This book chapter examines the rules relating to marine scientific research (MSR) as they apply to
marine geoengineering taking place in areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ)
Capturing Opportunity: Law and Policy Solutions to Accelerate Engineered Carbon Removal in California
This policy brief outlines policy proposals for deploying engineered carbon removal technologies in California, including the key barriers limiting development progress and actionable solutions to overcome those barriers.
Land Use: Policies for a Net Zero UK
This report focuses on the policies to reduce land-based emissions of greenhouse gases such that around one-fifth of agricultural land in the UK is released by 2050 for actions that reduce emissions and sequester carbon.