How feasible are global forest restoration commitments?
This paper considers the relative likelihood that countries will achieve their voluntary national forest restoration commitments.
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”.
Opportunities for Carbon Dioxide Removal Within the United States Department of Agriculture
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.
Making Terrestrial Geoengineering Technologies Viable: An Opportunity for India-Canada Climate Leadership
This report makes the case that India and Canada must work together on geoengineering governance in advancement of climate goals, while seeking to collaborate on new carbon-materials industries to harness the potential of terrestrial geoengineering.
Indigeneity in Geoengineering Discourses: Some Considerations
This paper focuses on the role of indigenous peoples in the geoengineering discourse and frames the challenges with identifying indigenous consent to geoengineering activities.
Carbon Removal: Comparing Historical Federal Research Investments with the National Academies’ Recommended Future Funding Levels
The objective of this analysis is to review the historical baseline estimates of federal RD&D investment related to carbon removal and assess how they compare with the recommended future funding levels from the 2018 National Academies Report on NETs.
Global Resources Outlook 2019: Natural Resources for the Future We Want
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.
Rich man’s solution? Climate engineering discourses and the marginalization of the Global South
This article maps a lack of involvement of developing countries in the climate engineering discourse and highlights the degree to which their concerns remain insufficiently represented in politically significant scientific assessment reports.
Achievement of Paris climate goals unlikely due to time lags in the land system
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.
Potential for low-cost carbon dioxide removal through tropical reforestation
This paper analyzes the effects of a carbon price for increased CO2 removals via tropical reforestation in 90 countries.