Carbon Dioxide Removal after Paris: Incentivizing without Committing
This is a presentation from the Climate Engineering Conference 2017 (CEC17) on the Paris Agreement's Article 4.4 and Article 5.1 and carbon dioxide removal.
The Lilongwe Call for Action on Forest Landscape Restoration in Africa
Ministers of African countries and representatives gathered in Lilongwe on July 12th and 13th, 2017 for the SADC+ Ministerial Bonn Challenge Summit, hosted by the Government of Malawi and issued this ‘Call for Action.'
Uncertain liability and stagnating CCS deployment in the European Union: Is it the Member States’ turn?
This article considers that EU Member States and the industry need to cooperate closely with site‐specific agreements and give commercially reasonable meaning to the EU CCS Directive’s terms in order to facilitate deployment of the technology.
Developing a National Strategy for Climate Engineering Research in Canada
This paper argues that a national strategy for climate engineering research ought to be developed as part of Canada’s broader climate strategy.
How to govern geoengineering?
This editorial identifies the institutional and governance challenges posed by carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SRM) and the need for the global policy community to address the issues.
International Law Poses Problems for Negative Emissions Research
New international governance arrangements that manage environmental risk and potential conflicts of interests are needed to facilitate negative emissions research essential to achieving the large-scale CO2 removal implied by the Paris Agreement.
Cost-effective mitigation including negative emissions – the role of markets and MRV
This is a presentation from the Climate Engineering Conference 2017 (CEC17) on the role of markets in mitigating climate change via negative emissions.
The Need for Governance of Climate Geoengineering
This article, part of the literature accompanying the launch of the Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative, argues that policymakers need to take an ethical risk management approach to the governance of geoengineering.
S.43 – Regenerative Soils Program
This bill requires the Secretary of Natural Resources to establish a regenerative soils program whose purposes include increasing the carbon sequestration capability of Vermont soils and promoting cost-effective and healthy soil management practices.
H. 6011 – The Geoengineering Act of 2017
This bill would provide that a person seeking to engage in geoengineering activities would require a license from the director of the Department of Environmental Management.