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The ‘best available science’ to inform 1.5 °C policy choices

2016

News/Commentary

Glen Peters

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.

An overview of Italian participation in afforestation and reforestation projects under the Clean Development Mechanism

2016

Scholarly Work

Giulia Corradini, Lucio Brotto, Lorenzo Ciccarese, Davide Pettenella

This paper investigates the Italian afforestation/reforestation projects under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol.

Ocean Iron Fertilization and Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Food: Leveraging International and Domestic Law Protections to Enhance Access to Salmon in the Pacific Northwest

2016

Scholarly Work

Randall S. Abate

This article addresses whether indigenous communities like the Haida in the U.S. Pacific Northwest region could assert a legal right to employ OIF as a strategy to help restore a cultural food source that has been depleted due to climate change.

SB 859 – Healthy Soils Program

2016

Enacted Legislation

State of California

The legislation funded the Healthy Soils Program, which offers producers incentives to adopt GHG-reducing soil health practices and funds on-farm demonstration projects.

Governing by expertise: the contested politics of (accounting for) land-based mitigation in a new climate agreement

2016

Scholarly Work

Kate Dooley, Aarti Gupta

This article analyzes the contested politics of including (and accounting for) land-based mitigation in a post-2020 climate agreement.

Convention on Biological Diversity COP 13 Decision XIII/4

2016

International Legal Instrument

Convention on Biological Diversity

Decision adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity welcoming the Paris Agreement and in particular articles related to biodiversity.

Future Prospects for Climate Engineering within the EU Legal Order

2016

Scholarly Work

Floor Fleurke

This article explores the most significant legal parameters derived from European Union law from which a future climate engineering policy would have to arise.

The State and Future of U.S. Soils: Framework for a Federal Strategic Plan for Soil Science

2016

Scientific Report

Subcommittee on Ecological Systems, Committee on Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability of the National Science and Technology Council

This Framework aims to establish Federal soil research priorities, including in carbon sequestration, deliver information to land managers to help them implement soil conserving systems, and inform related policy development and coordination.

Towards a Law of the Mammoth? Climate Engineering in Contemporary EU Environmental Law

2016

Scholarly Work

Han Somsen

This article places climate engineering in the broader context of environmental enhancement and argues that both European law and the environment itself require acknowledging and pursuing more conscious interventions in the "natural" world.

A Critical Examination of the Climate Engineering Moral Hazard and Risk Compensation Concern

2015

Scholarly Work

Jesse L Reynolds

This article critically examines the widespread concern that research into and potential implementation of climate engineering would reduce mitigation and adaptation.

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