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Carbon Dioxide Removal


Enhanced Weathering

Enhanced weathering is a carbon dioxide removal technique that involves spreading pulverized silicate rocks across large tracts of land to accelerate the natural process of storing carbon as carbonate compounds on land or bicarbonate at sea.
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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.

Engineered CO2 Removal, Climate Restoration, and Humility

2019
Scholarly Work
Julio Friedmann
This article lays out how using engineered CDR techniques to achieve net-zero will require substantial cooperation between groups of people who commonly do not work together, including technical experts, financiers, and government officials.

Clearing the Air: A Federal RD&D Initiative and Management Plan for Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies

2019
Think Tank Report
Energy Futures Initiative
This report provides a set of recommendations and detailed implementation plans for a 10-year, $10.7 billion research, development, and demonstration initiative in the United States to bring new pathways for technological CDR to commercial readiness.

Using Renewable Portfolio Standards to Accelerate Development of Negative Emission Technologies

2018
Scholarly Work
Anthony Chavez
This article discusses how states can use Renewable Portfolio Standards to incentivize the development of negative emission technologies.

Potential and Costs of Carbon Dioxide Removal by Enhanced Weathering of Rocks

2018
Scholarly Work
Jessica Strefler, Thorben Amann, Nico Bauer, Elmar Kriegler, Jens Hartmann
This article provides a comprehensive assessment of the economic costs, energy requirements, technical parameterization, and global and regional carbon removal potential of enhanced weathering.

Legal Pathways to Negative Emissions Technologies and Direct Air Capture of Greenhouse Gases

2018
Scholarly Work
Tracy Hester
This Article assesses the legal and policy challenges of decarbonizing the atmosphere itself through negative emission technologies and, in particular, direct air capture.

Negative Emissions Technologies and Carbon Capture and Storage to Achieve the Paris Agreement Commitments

2018
Scholarly Work
R. Stuart Haszeldine, Stephanie Flude, Gareth Johnson, Vivian Scott
This article is part of the theme issue ‘The Paris Agreement: understanding the physical and social challenges for a warming world of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels’.

Incentivize Negative Emissions Responsibly

2018
Scholarly Work
Rob Bellamy
This article explores why nation states need to incentivize negative emissions technologies if they are to take the decarbonization of whole energy systems seriously.

A Post-Paris Literature Review of Negative Emissions Technology, and Potential for Ireland

2018
Scholarly Work
Paul Price, Alwynne McGeever, Mike Jones , Barry McMullin
This report presents a comprehensive review of the existing literature on the potential forms of negative emissions technology (NET), with a particular focus on technology options suitable for deployment in Ireland.

Technological Carbon Removal in the United States

2018
Think Tank Report
James Mulligan, Gretchen Ellison, Kelly Levin, Colin McCormick
This paper explores the potential for technological carbon removal in the United States, identifies the needs likely to arise on the pathway to large-scale deployment, and considers way to begin addressing those needs.

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