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Carbon Dioxide Removal


Ocean and Coastal CDR

Ocean based carbon dioxide removal methods include ocean alkalinization or enhancement, ocean up-welling, and enhanced kelp farming. Coastal blue carbon is the carbon captured by living coastal and marine organisms and stored in coastal ecosystems, such as salt marshes, mangroves, and seagrass beds.
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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.

S.1679 – SEA FUEL Act of 2019

2019
Proposed Legislation
This bill directs the Department of Defense to carry out a program of research, development, testing, evaluation, study, and demonstration of technologies related to blue carbon capture and direct air capture.

H.R.5435 – American Public Lands and Waters Climate Solution Act of 2019

2019
Proposed Legislation
This bill requires the National Academies of Sciences to conduct a study into how U.S. government can meet the net emission reduction targets in the bill by increasing CCUS on public lands and nature-based solutions on ocean and coastal public lands.

S. 2452: Climate Stewardship Act of 2019

2019
Proposed Legislation
This bill provides incentives for agricultural producers to carry out climate stewardship practices, to provide for increased reforestation across the United States, to establish the Coastal and Estuary Resilience Grant Program.

Opportunities for increasing ocean action in climate strategies

2019
Think Tank Report
Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Alexandre K. Magnan, Natalya D. Gallo, Dorothée Herr, Julien Rochette, Lola Vallejo, Phillip Williamson
This Policy Brief assesses 18 ocean-based measures, including some carbon dioxide removal techniques, to support climate policies and the revision of National Determined Contributions (NDCs) in the areas of mitigation and adaptation.

The ocean is key to achieving climate and societal goals: Ocean-based approaches can help close mitigation gaps

2019
Scholarly Work
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Eliza Northrop, Jane Lubchenco
This article outlines a “no-regrets to-do list” of ocean-based climate actions that could be set in motion today, including the required policy developments around the restoration of coastal and marine ecosystems and carbon storage in the seabed.

The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

2019
Scientific Report
A Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
This IPCC report identifies the restoration of coastal blue carbon ecosystems as a response option to mitigate climate change through increased carbon uptake and storage.

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.

Governing geoengineering research for the Great Barrier Reef

2019
Scholarly Work
Jan McDonald, Jeffrey McGee, Kerryn Brent, Wil Burns
this paper contends that while geoengineering options are worth exploring to protect the Great Barrier Reef from extreme warming conditions they require strong governance and public consultation from the outset.

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