Congressional Testimony of Ernest J. Moniz
Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing to examine the challenges and opportunities for large-scale carbon management.
Clearing the Air: A Federal RD&D Initiative and Management Plan for Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies
This report provides a set of recommendations and detailed implementation plans for a 10-year, $10.7 billion research, development, and demonstration initiative in the United States to bring new pathways for technological CDR to commercial readiness.
S.3894 – Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2020
The Growing Climate Solutions Act creates a certification program at USDA to help solve technical entry barriers to farmer and forest landowner participation in carbon credit markets.
Land Use: Policies for a Net Zero UK
This report focuses on the policies to reduce land-based emissions of greenhouse gases such that around one-fifth of agricultural land in the UK is released by 2050 for actions that reduce emissions and sequester carbon.
Biomass, afforestation and energy demand reduction: trade-offs in the route to decarbonisation
This paper explores the sensitivity of energy system decarbonization pathways to the role of afforestation and reduced energy demands as a means to lessen reliance on carbon dioxide removal.
EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: Bringing nature back into our lives
This strategy sets out new ways to implement existing legislation more effectively, new commitments, measures, targets and governance mechanisms to protect nature and reverse the degradation of ecosystems.
Southern Company Pledge
To achieve a net-zero goal emissions reduction goal by 2050, the company will incorporate negative carbon solutions including technology-based approaches such as direct air capture and nature-based solutions such as afforestation.
Royal Dutch Shell Pledge
Royal Dutch Shell plans to offset its own emissions by trapping as much carbon as its business operations cause through new carbon capture technologies or through nature-based solutions such as forestation.
Consumers Energy Pledge
Consumers Energy announced a goal to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, in part using strategies such as carbon capture and sequestration and large-scale tree planting.
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.