Climate engineering and human rights
In this Forum, three scholars discuss how climate engineering will pose novel human rights challenges, and may well force reconsideration of how human rights are applied as a guide to action.
Summary of Carbon Storage Incentives and Potential Legislation: East Sub-Basin Project
This document provides a summary of carbon storage incentives and legislation of potential relevance to the CarbonSAFE Illinois - East Sub-Basin project for commercial scale CO2 geological storage complexes.
South Korea’s Legal and Regulatory System for Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Backgrounds, Current Circumstances, and Recommendations
This paper provides a roadmap for South Korea’s CCS legal and regulatory framework, including both legislative and government agency centered proposals.
Carbon Removal in Forests and Farms in the United States
The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential for carbon removal in forests and farms in the United States, to identify needs likely to arise on the pathway to large-scale deployment, and to consider ways to begin addressing those needs.
Blurred Lines: The Ethics and Policy of Greenhouse Gas Removal at Scale
This paper proposes moving beyond classifying climate strategies as a set of discrete categories, toward a prioritization of questions of scale of both technology and decision-making in the examination of social and ethical risks.
H.R.1892 – Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018
This bill includes a provision to amend the U.S. tax code to provide a tax credit for carbon capture projects that securely store captured CO2 in geologic formations or beneficially use captured CO2.
Policy Support for Biochar: Review and Recommendations
This paper examines the role that government policy can play in accelerating production and use of biochar at commercial scale in the United States.
Governance of Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS): Accounting, Rewarding and the Paris Agreement
This paper focuses on governance aspects of BECCS with the aim to identify pragmatic ways forward for the technology.
Potential and Costs of Carbon Dioxide Removal by Enhanced Weathering of Rocks
This article provides a comprehensive assessment of the economic costs, energy requirements, technical parameterization, and global and regional carbon removal potential of enhanced weathering.
Global Climate Governance: The Politics of Terrestrial Carbon Mitigation in the Paris Agreement
This thesis analyses the contested politics of including (and accounting for) land-based mitigation in a post-2020 climate agreement, and the consequences for future mitigation pathways over the course of this century.