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Carbon Dioxide Removal


Biochar

Biochar is a substance created when organic material like agricultural waste is burned in the absence of oxygen. That process, called pyrolysis, creates a carbon-rich product that is stable or biologically recalcitrant. By transforming biomass into biochar, the carbon in the plant material is locked up instead of being released into the atmosphere when the biomass is burned or biodegraded in soil. Biochar is added to soil to sequester carbon dioxide in the soil.
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Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration: A Research Agenda

2019
Scientific Report
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
This comprehensive National Academies of Sciences report covers all aspects of Negative Emission Technologies from fundamental science to full-scale deployment and defines the essential components of a research and development program.

Agriculture and Climate Change: Policy Imperatives and Opportunities to Help Producers Meet the Challenge

2019
Think Tank Report
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
This position paper reviews the science related to climate change mitigation and adaptation on farms in the U.S., in order to provide a sound rationale for current and future policy development and advocacy related to climate change and agriculture.

Technological Carbon Removal: Recent Economic and Political Trends in the United States

2019
Think Tank Report
Climate Advisers
This report assesses the current state of affairs surrounding technological CDR in the United States and provides concrete policy recommendations for action at the Federal level.

Carbon Removal: Comparing Historical Federal Research Investments with the National Academies’ Recommended Future Funding Levels

2019
Think Tank Report
The Bipartisan Policy Center
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.

Clearing the Air: A Federal RD&D Initiative and Management Plan for Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies

2019
Think Tank Report
Energy Futures Initiative
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.

Using Renewable Portfolio Standards to Accelerate Development of Negative Emission Technologies

2018
Scholarly Work
Anthony Chavez
This article discusses how states can use Renewable Portfolio Standards to incentivize the development of negative emission technologies.

Policy Support for Biochar: Review and Recommendations

2018
Scholarly Work
Ghasideh Pourhashem, Shih Yu Hung, Kenneth Medlock , Caroline Masiello
This paper examines the role that government policy can play in accelerating production and use of biochar at commercial scale in the United States.

Incentivize Negative Emissions Responsibly

2018
Scholarly Work
Rob Bellamy
This article explores why nation states need to incentivize negative emissions technologies if they are to take the decarbonization of whole energy systems seriously.

A Post-Paris Literature Review of Negative Emissions Technology, and Potential for Ireland

2018
Scholarly Work
Paul Price, Alwynne McGeever, Mike Jones , Barry McMullin
This report presents a comprehensive review of the existing literature on the potential forms of negative emissions technology (NET), with a particular focus on technology options suitable for deployment in Ireland.

Technological Carbon Removal in the United States

2018
Think Tank Report
James Mulligan, Gretchen Ellison, Kelly Levin, Colin McCormick
This paper explores the potential for technological carbon removal in the United States, identifies the needs likely to arise on the pathway to large-scale deployment, and considers way to begin addressing those needs.

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