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Opportunities for Carbon Dioxide Removal Within the United States Department of Agriculture

2019

Scholarly Work

Rory Jacobson, Daniel L. Sanchez

This paper provides an assessment of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) existing programs and organizational structure, its capacity to support research and demonstration of CDR, and recommendations for expansion of these capabilities.

Indigeneity in Geoengineering Discourses: Some Considerations

2019

Scholarly Work

Kyle Powys Whyte

This paper focuses on the role of indigenous peoples in the geoengineering discourse and frames the challenges with identifying indigenous consent to geoengineering activities.

Global Resources Outlook 2019: Natural Resources for the Future We Want

2019

Scientific Report

United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)

UNEP's Global Resources Outlook highlights and supports climate policies to remove atmospheric carbon in its "Towards Sustainability" scenario, specifically policies targeted towards the deployment of BECCs, DAC, and reforestation activities.

Achievement of Paris climate goals unlikely due to time lags in the land system

2019

Scholarly Work

Calum Brown, Peter Alexander, Ian Holman, Almut Arneth, Mark Rounsevell

This paper suggests that improved recognition of different land-system policies and lags in land-system change is necessary to identify achievable mitigation actions and avoid excessively optimistic assumptions and consequent policy failures.

S. 6599 – Climate Leadership and Community Protect Act

2019

Enacted Legislation

State of New York

This bill enacts the New York State Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) that sets a statewide target of net zero GHG emissions by 2050 and allows for the use of offset projects to meet the last 15 percent of emission reductions.

Governing Large-Scale Carbon Dioxide Removal: Are We Ready?

2018

Think Tank Report

Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative (C2G2)

This report focuses on the governance mechanisms in place that can begin to address CDR at the necessary scale as well as what governance gaps remain to deploy CDR at scale.

Global Climate Governance: The Politics of Terrestrial Carbon Mitigation in the Paris Agreement

2018

Scholarly Work

Kate Dooley

This thesis analyses the contested politics of including (and accounting for) land-based mitigation in a post-2020 climate agreement, and the consequences for future mitigation pathways over the course of this century.

A Clean Planet for all: A European strategic long-term vision for a prosperous, modern, competitive and climate neutral economy

2018

Policy Proposal

European Commission

This policy document outlines a vision of the economic and societal transformations required in the European Union, including the role of carbon sinks and CCS, to achieve the transition to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Negative Emissions and Land-Based Carbon Sequestration: Implications for Climate and Energy Scenarios

2018

Think Tank Report

Rocky Mountain Institute

The paper focuses on how natural climate solutions could contribute to emissions reduction goals in the United States and seeks to provide policymakers with a useful overview of how negative emissions can be incorporated into national climate policy.

Land-Based Negative Emissions: Risks for Climate Mitigation and Impacts on Sustainable Development

2017

Scholarly Work

Kate Dooley, Sivan Kartha

This paper presents a framework for assessing the risks associated with negative emissions in the context of equity and sustainable development.

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