Climate Engineering Under the Paris Agreement
This report examines the specific provisions of the Paris Agreement with a view to identifying where legal and policy questions in relation to climate engineering are likely to arise.
The Public Acceptance and Legal Issues of Carbon Capture and Storage Technology in Taiwan
This paper also offers insight into how Taiwan might implement a successful CCS program through an examination of the established legal regimes in the EU and other G8 member countries.
Bioenergy Carbon Capture and Storage in Global Climate Policy: Examining the Issues
This article explores some of the legal challenges in developing the bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) industry, specifically the land-use implications, trade and economic issues and the broader environmental legal context.
The Legality of Biochar Use: Regulatory Requirements and Risk Assessment
This book chapter addresses the known potential risks from biochar production and use and the regulations and legislation applicable to biochar in selected European countries.
Update on Climate Geoengineering in Relation to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Potential Impacts and Regulatory Framework
This report provides an update, including regulatory developments, to the CBD's 2012 Technical Series No. 66: Geoengineering in Relation to the Convention on Biological Diversity report on the potential impacts of geoengineering.
Distinguishing morale hazard from moral hazard in geoengineering
This paper investigates the definitions and use of the term ‘moral hazard’, and the related (but significantly different) concept of ‘morale hazard’, in the context of geoengineering and in relevant law, economic and insurance literatures.
Barometer Rising: The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety as a Model for Holistic International Regulation of Ocean Fertilization Projects and Other Forms of Geoengineering
This note argues that there is a strong comparison between biotechnology and geoengineering, and that the current regulatory framework for biosafety can serve as a model for similar regulation of ocean fertilization.
BECCS Potential in Brazil: Achieving Negative Emissions in Ethanol and Electricity Production Based on Sugar Cane Bagasse and Other Residues
This paper assesses the potential and cost effectiveness of negative emissions in the joint production system of ethanol and electricity based on sugar cane, bagasse, and other residues in Brazil.
Convention on Biological Diversity COP 13 Decision XIII/14
Decision adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on climate-related geoengineering and indigenous peoples.
H.R. 5316, the Healthy Soils and Rangeland Solutions Act
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to establish a Carbon Sequestration Pilot Program to make grants to sequester carbon through grazing practices, restoration of degraded public lands, and the use of compost or biochar on public lands.