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.
AstraZeneca Pledge
AstraZeneca has pledged to have zero carbon emissions from operations by 2025 and ensure its entire value chain is carbon negative by 2030 with the use of a 50-million tree reforestation initiative that will be rolled out from 2020-2025.
Danone – Horizon Organic Pledge
Horizon Organic announced a commitment to become carbon positive by 2025 using regenerative agriculture, soil sequestration, restoring prairie lands and forestlands, and evaluating and pursuing new technology.
Starbucks Pledge
Starbucks has committed to being resource positive by storing more carbon than they emit through investments in regenerative agricultural practices, reforestation, forest conservation and water replenishment in their supply chain.
Apple’s Pledge
Apple has announced the creation of a carbon solutions fund to invest in forests and other nature-based solutions around the world to remove carbon from the atmosphere.
SOLVING THE CLIMATE CRISIS: The Congressional Action Plan for a Clean Energy Economy and a Healthy, Resilient, and Just America
This report lays out a framework for comprehensive congressional action on climate change and identifies the need to develop and deploy a suite of natural and technological carbon removal solutions to reduce carbon pollution as quickly as possible.
USDA Agriculture Innovation Agenda
The Agriculture Innovation Agenda commits to enhance carbon sequestration through soil health and forestry and capitalize on innovative technologies and practices to achieve a net reduction of the agricultural sector current carbon footprint by 2050.
Unconventional Mitigation: Carbon Dioxide Removal as a New Approach in EU Climate Policy
This study investigates the question of how the currently still unconventional carbon removal approach can be integrated into EU climate policy.
Contested framings of greenhouse gas removal and its feasibility: Social and political dimensions
This paper conducts a review of the international peer-reviewed literature pertaining to the social and political dimensions of large-scale CDR, with a specific focus on two predominant approaches: BECCS and afforestation/reforestation.
Congressional Testimony of Dr. S. Julio Friedmann, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University
Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing to examine the challenges and opportunities for large-scale carbon management.