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.
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.
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.
Buildings as a Global Carbon Sink? A Reality Check on Feasibility Limits
This commentary reflects on the capacity of global forests to supply bio-based building materials that store carbon as a climate solution.
Managing Land-based CDR: BECCS, Forests and Carbon Sequestration
This paper proposes policy measures for integrating land-based CDR approaches - under which circumstances forest areas are best left undisturbed, managed for conservation or wood products, and how these options affect the deployment of BECCS.
Carbon Farming Schemes in Europe – Roundtable Background Document
This background document supported the Carbon Farming Schemes in Europe Roundtable that took place on October 9th, 2019, which informed the further exploration of carbon farming scheme options in Europe.
Nestle Pledge
Nestle has committed to having net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 through actions that include replanting trees and incentivizing innovation in the agriculture and forestry sectors to capture more carbon.
S.160 – An act relating to agricultural development
This bill establishes the Soil Conservation Practice and Payment for Ecosystem Services Working Group and the Vermont Forest Carbon Sequestration Working Group.
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.