Carbon Removal Policy: Opportunities for Federal Action
This report equips policymakers with information on the legislative barriers and opportunities to make federal policies that accelerate the progress of carbon-removing enterprises.
Exploring Negative Territory Carbon Dioxide Removal and Climate Policy Initiatives
This article explores the place for carbon dioxide removal in long term climate policy and considers nearer term policy issues.
The Regulation of Geoengineering: Fifth Report of Session 2009–10
This report, written in collaboration with the U.S. House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee, examines the need for the regulation of geoengineering activities and provides an outlines of future regulatory arrangements.
Adaptation and Carbon Removal
This paper identifies ways to foreground adaptation in carbon removal policies and project designs and to incorporate carbon removal into adaptation efforts.
H.R.3607 – Fossil Energy Research and Development Act of 2019
This bill expands Department of Energy (DOE) research, development, and demonstration programs for fossil energy, including CCS, carbon utilization, and carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere.
Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration: A Research Agenda
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.
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.
Report of the International Law Commission A/73/10
Text of the draft guidelines on the protection of the atmosphere and intentional large-scale modification of the atmosphere that states carbon dioxide removal activities shall be conducted with prudence and caution.
Incentivize Negative Emissions Responsibly
This article explores why nation states need to incentivize negative emissions technologies if they are to take the decarbonization of whole energy systems seriously.
Knowledge gaps on climate-related geoengineering in relation to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
This technical briefing presents an assessment of knowledge gaps around ethics, governance, deployment and research related to geoengineering, including carbon removal technologies, and the Convention on Biological Diversity.