Ocean Iron Fertilization in the Context of the Kyoto Protocol and the post-Kyoto Process
This paper reviews the regulatory aspects connected to ocean iron fertilization, including its legal status and open access issues.
The Potential for Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration in Minnesota
This report assesses the potential of Minnesota lands to sequester carbon dioxide, including an analysis of existing and proposed state policies for their potential impact on carbon sequestration activities.
Net Expectations: Assessing the role of carbon dioxide removal in companies’ climate plans
This briefing aims to help investors and others interpret and assess the feasibility of the role of CDR in companies’ climate plans.
Fair-share carbon dioxide removal increases major emitter responsibility
This paper applies two common burden-sharing principles to show how CDR responsibility could be shared between regions in 1.5 °C and 2 °C mitigation pathways.
Policy framework for deep emissions reductions and carbon removals in agriculture and land use in the UK
This report's objective is to identify policy options to drive emissions reductions and carbon removal within existing agricultural systems and through changes in land use.
Delta Airlines Pledge
The airline will focus on the removal of carbon emissions from the atmosphere by investing in forestry, wetland restoration, grassland conservation, marine and soil capture, and other NETs to make its business carbon neutral.
BP Pledge
BP has pledged to reach net-zero emissions across all operations by 2050 and plans to use CCUS and natural climate sinks in the effort to achieve this goal.
Repsol Pledge
Repsol announced a commitment to net-zero emissions by 2050 and said it would use carbon capture technologies, reforestation, and natural climate solutions if it was unable to reach its goals via other means.
S. 2452: Climate Stewardship Act of 2019
This bill provides incentives for agricultural producers to carry out climate stewardship practices, to provide for increased reforestation across the United States, to establish the Coastal and Estuary Resilience Grant Program.
Moral Conflicts of several “Green” terrestrial Negative Emission Technologies regarding the Human Right to Adequate Food – A Review
This paper investigates whether BECCS, afforestation/reforestation, and enhanced weathering would cause moral conflicts regarding the human right to adequate food if implemented on a scale sufficient to limit global warming “to well below 2 C”.