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.
Negative Emissions: Priorities for Research and Policy Design
This report discusses the main technical, socio-economic and regulatory bottlenecks at a regional level, and provides direction for further research.
Fuel to the Fire: How Geoengineering Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Accelerate the Climate Crisis
This report investigates the early, ongoing, and often surprising role of the fossil fuel industry in developing, patenting, and promoting key geoengineering technologies.
Stripe’s Pledge
As part of Stripe's environmental program, the company will fully offset greenhouse gas emissions by purchasing verified carbon offsets and paying for the direct removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Policy Brief: Governing Large-Scale Carbon Dioxide Removal
This policy brief addresses the readiness of various carbon dioxide removal (CDR) techniques and the governance challenges in their deployment.
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.
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.
Opportunities for increasing ocean action in climate strategies
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.
Moral Conflicts of several “Green” terrestrial Negative Emission Technologies regarding the Human Right to Adequate Food – A Review
This paper investigates whether BECCS, afforestation/reforestation, and enhanced weathering would cause moral conflicts regarding the human right to adequate food if implemented on a scale sufficient to limit global warming “to well below 2 C”.
Technological Carbon Removal: Recent Economic and Political Trends in the United States
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.