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Carbon Dioxide Removal


Afforestation / Reforestation

Afforestation is the conversion of abandoned and degraded agricultural lands into forests, while reforestation is the replantation of trees in deforested land. Both practices can contribute to negative emissions since the growth of additional plant sequesters atmospheric carbon dioxide and naturally sink it in their biomass and in the soil.
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The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100)

2015
Policy Proposal
The African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD)
The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) is a country-led effort to bring 100 million hectares of deforested and degraded landscapes across Africa into restoration by 2030.

The New York Declaration on Forests

2014
Declaration
Non-binding political declaration from the United Nations Climate Summit 2014 to cut natural forest loss in half by 2020, and strive to end it by 2030.

California Air Resources Board Compliance Offset Protocol U.S. Forest Projects

2014
Regulation
California Air Resources Board
The Compliance Offset Protocol U.S. Forest Projects (Forest Offset Protocol) provides requirements and methods for quantifying the net climate benefits of activities that sequester carbon on forestland.

The Emergence of the Geoengineering Debate Within the IPCC

2014
Scholarly Work
Arthur Petersen
This article looks at IPCC Assessment Reports to review how the IPCC has addressed geoengineering up to the Fifth Assessment Report in 2014.

Investigating afforestation and bioenergy CCS as climate change mitigation strategies

2014
Scholarly Work
Florian Humpenöder, Alexander Popp, Jan Philip Dietrich, David Klein, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Markus Bonsch, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Isabelle Weindl, Miodrag Stevanovic, Christoph Müller
This paper examines how different levels of a global tax on GHG emissions incentivizes afforestation and BECCS, finding that afforestation is a cost-efficient strategy at relatively low carbon prices, while BECCS becomes competitive at higher prices.

Leveraging public programmes with socio-economic and development objectives to support conservation and restoration of ecosystems : lessons learned from the Republic of Korea’s National Reforestation Programme

2014
Policy Proposal
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Korea Forest Service
This report describes the background, methodology, and implementation processes which led to the success of the National Reforestation Programme in the Republic of Korea.

Reforming the EU approach to LULUCF and the climate policy framework

2014
Scholarly Work
David Ellison, Mattias Lundblad, Hans Petersson
This paper focuses on the role of forests and other land use in the EU climate policy framework.

Initiative 20×20

2014
Policy Proposal
World Resources Institute (WRI) acting as Secretariat
Initiative 20x20 is a country-led effort to bring 20 million hectares of land in Latin America and the Caribbean into restoration by 2020.

Exploring Negative Territory Carbon Dioxide Removal and Climate Policy Initiatives

2013
Scholarly Work
James Meadowcroft
This article explores the place for carbon dioxide removal in long term climate policy and considers nearer term policy issues.

Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Parkland Forest Management Framework

2013
Policy Proposal
Philadelphia Parks and Recreation
Philadelphia’s Parks and Recreation has adopted a comprehensive parkland forest management plan that expressly recognizes the value of carbon sequestered in the city's green spaces and adopts management programs to sequester additional carbon.

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