S.1535 – FUTURE Act
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend and modify the tax credit for carbon dioxide sequestration.
The political economy of negative emissions technologies: consequences for international policy design
This paper sees the market mechanism under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement – colloquially called ‘Sustainable Development Mechanism’ – as a possible cornerstone policy instrument to incentivize NET activities at a global scale.
The road to achieving the long-term Paris targets: energy transition and the role of direct air capture
This paper evaluates the potential role of direct air capture (DAC) in achieving the Paris Agreement temperature targets, as well as the resultant impact on policy costs and global energy consumption.
The Paris Agreement and Climate Geoengineering Governance: The Need for a Human Rights-Based Component
This paper suggests that a human rights-based approach to climate geoengineering may address the intrinsic issues of equity and justice that would necessarily arise should the world community opt to proceed down the path of climate engineering.
Update on Climate Geoengineering in Relation to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Potential Impacts and Regulatory Framework
This report provides an update, including regulatory developments, to the CBD's 2012 Technical Series No. 66: Geoengineering in Relation to the Convention on Biological Diversity report on the potential impacts of geoengineering.
Barraso-Schatz Air Capture Amendment to S.2012 – The Energy Policy Modernization Act (EPMA)
Amendment to the Energy Policy Modernization Act (EPMA) that creates a prize system at the Department of Energy to support innovative technologies that remove carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere.
Research priorities for negative emissions
This paper identifies some urgent research needs around NETs, including in governance and policy, to provide a more complete picture for reaching ambitious climate targets and the role that NETs can play in reaching them.
Clearing the Air on ‘Geoengineering’ and Intellectual Property Rights Towards a framework approach
This paper focuses on patents and trade secrets as the most relevant categories of intellectual property to climate engineering (CE), and develops a framework within which to situate IP-related concerns, specifically as related to DAC and OIF.
Umweltbundesamt, Options and Proposals for the International Governance of Geoengineering
In this research project for the German Federal Environment Agency, the Ecologic Institute develops specific proposals for the governance of the main currently discussed geoengineering concepts at the international level.
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.