Using Renewable Portfolio Standards to Accelerate Development of Negative Emission Technologies
This article discusses how states can use Renewable Portfolio Standards to incentivize the development of negative emission technologies.
Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide – ICEF Roadmap 2018
This roadmap explores the potential for direct air capture of carbon dioxide to contribute to climate mitigation (and provide feedstock for commercial processes).
Legal Pathways to Negative Emissions Technologies and Direct Air Capture of Greenhouse Gases
This Article assesses the legal and policy challenges of decarbonizing the atmosphere itself through negative emission technologies and, in particular, direct air capture.
Astana Resolution on Forest Landscape Restoration
In the Astana Resolution, ministers and country representatives from the Caucasus and Central Asia reaffirm their commitments to the Bonn Challenge global target of restoring 350 million hectares by 2030.
Carbon Dioxide Removal Geoengineering
Using case studies of BECCS and ocean fertilization CDR techniques, this article examines the capacity of current Australian law to govern CDR research.
The Paradox of Regulating Negative Emissions Technologies Under US Environmental Laws
This article explores why federal and state legislatures and agencies should explicitly declare how (or if) current environmental laws will apply to NETs and provide guidance to the public and stakeholders.
Negative emissions—Part 1: Research landscape and synthesis
This paper, part 1 of a 3 part series on NETs, clarifies the role of NETs in climate change mitigation scenarios, their ethical implications, as well as the challenges involved in bringing the various NETs to the market and scaling them up in time.
Towards an EU Regulatory Framework for Climate-Smart Agriculture: The Example of Soil Carbon Sequestration
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."
Advancing Large Scale Carbon Management: Expansion of the 45Q Tax Credit
This EFI paper provides a comprehensive overview of the opportunities for application of the expanded federal tax incentives for CCUS, as well as the additional implementation challenges facing CCUS project developers and policymakers.
Overcoming Barriers to Carbon Capture and Storage Through International Collaboration
This IEA Clean Coal Centre report reviews the barriers to CCS development and highlights the work of some key multilateral and bilateral initiatives, as well as the challenges they have faced.