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Carbon Dioxide Removal


Direct Air Capture

Direct air capture is the technique of scrubbing carbon dioxide directly from the sky through large mechanical facilities. The technique can be used to obtain carbon for making a byproduct or fuel. Direct air capture and storage (DACS) means storing that carbon dioxide in a long-term reservoir. The two main approaches involve either (1) liquids or surfaces that chemically interact with carbon dioxide, or (2) membranes that physically trap the carbon dioxide on solid surfaces.
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Carbon Dioxide Removal After Paris

2019
Scholarly Work
Albert Lin
This article explores key issues of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) governance, such as promoting the generation of information, mainstreaming CDR into public and policy discussions, and furthering CDR development while avoiding lock-in of technology.

Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, and direct air carbon capture and storage: Examining the evidence on deployment potential and costs in the UK

2019
Think Tank Report
The UK Energy Research Centre
This paper explores the deployment potential and costs of both BECCS and DACCS in the UK, and how these might compare with other regions.

Making Negative Emissions Economically Feasible: The View from California

2018
Scholarly Work
Roger D. Aines, Sean T. McCoy
This paper identifies how amendments to California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard would create the first substantial payment system for negative emissions.

Carbon Capture and Sequestration Protocol under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard

2018
Regulation
California Air Resources Board
The protocol allows transportation fuels whose lifecycle emissions have been reduced through CCS or direct air capture to become eligible for credits under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard.

The Politics of Negative Emissions Technologies and Decarbonization in Rural Communities

2018
Scholarly Work
Holly Jean Buck
This paper analyzes prospective challenges for negative emissions through examining how decarbonization practices are evolving in one particular landscape: the Imperial Valley in southeast California, a desert landscape engineered for agriculture.

‘Slippery slope’ or ‘uphill struggle’? Broadening out expert scenarios of climate engineering research and development

2018
Scholarly Work
Rob Bellamy, Peter Healey
This article suggests that the governance challenges for climate engineering should be thought of as less of a slippery slope than an ‘uphill struggle’ and that there is a need for governance that incentivizes, rather than constrains, research.

The political economy of negative emissions technologies: consequences for international policy design

2017
Scholarly Work
Matthias Honegger, David Reiner
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.

Clearing the Air on ‘Geoengineering’ and Intellectual Property Rights Towards a framework approach

2015
Scholarly Work
Aladdin Tingling Diakun
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.

Net Expectations: Assessing the role of carbon dioxide removal in companies’ climate plans

2021
Think Tank Report
Greenpeace UK
This briefing aims to help investors and others interpret and assess the feasibility of the role of CDR in companies’ climate plans.

The European Green Deal: New opportunities to scale up carbon capture and storage

2020
Think Tank Report
Eve Tamme
This Global CCS Institute report takes a closer look at the European Green Deal and highlights three main challenges for CCS in the existing legislation.

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