BECCS Deployment: A Reality Check
This paper explores some of the questions that emerge in relation to BECCS around governance and scale.
Governing a Mirage? False Promises of Negative Emissions Technologies
This paper challenges the literature actively promoting negative emission technologies and argues that the risk of undermining ongoing mitigation efforts cannot be significantly reduced by governance design.
Agriculture and Climate Change: Policy Imperatives and Opportunities to Help Producers Meet the Challenge
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.
S.2284 – Climate Action Rebate Act of 2019
This bill places a price of $15 per metric ton on carbon dioxide that increases by $15 each year, with direct rebates provided for CCUS and direct air capture (DAC) and 5% of the revenue going to energy innovation projects in technology such as DAC.
Nestle Pledge
Nestle has committed to having net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 through actions that include replanting trees and incentivizing innovation in the agriculture and forestry sectors to capture more carbon.
Technological Carbon Removal: Recent Economic and Political Trends in the United States
This report assesses the current state of affairs surrounding technological CDR in the United States and provides concrete policy recommendations for action at the Federal level.
The importance of designing a comprehensive Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) & Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for carbon capture and storage in Japan
This paper examines whether the key roles and elements of Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) and Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) in response to long-term management are being covered in the current CCS law in Japan.
Evidence Brief: Governing Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal and Solar Radiation Modification
This briefing summarizes the latest evidence around Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) including applicable governance frameworks and other socio-political considerations.
Beyond the social cost of carbon: Negative emission technologies as a means for biophysically setting the price of carbon
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.
Capturing Leadership Policies for the US to Advance Direct Air Capture Technology
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.