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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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Negative emissions—Part 3: Innovation and upscaling

2018
Scholarly Work
Gregory F Nemet, Max W Callaghan, Felix Creutzig, Sabine Fuss, Jens Hartmann, Jérôme Hilaire, William F Lamb, Jan C Minx, Sophia Rogers, Pete Smith
This paper finds that if NETs are to be deployed at the levels required to meet 1.5 °C and 2 °C targets, then important post-R&D issues will need to be addressed, including incentives for early deployment, niche markets, scale-up, and demand.

Federal research, development, and demonstration priorities for carbon dioxide removal in the United States

2018
Scholarly Work
Daniel L Sanchez, Giana Amador, Jason Funk, Katharine J Mach
This paper presents a synthesis of research and development needs, relevant agency authority, barriers to coordination, and interventions to enhance RD&D across the federal government of the US.

Accelerating the Carbon Cycle: The Ethics of Enhanced Weathering

2017
Scholarly Work
H. Lawford-Smith, A. Currie
This article considers the ethical issues that arise (or would arise) in the large-scale deployment of enhanced weathering.

The Emissions Gap Report 2017 Chapter 7: Bridging the Gap – Carbon Dioxide Removal

2017
Scholarly Work
Pete Smith, Julio Friedmann
This chapter explores how governments can play a key role in providing the funding and incentives needed for investments in carbon dioxide removal research, development, and deployment.

Update on Climate Geoengineering in Relation to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Potential Impacts and Regulatory Framework

2016
Scientific Report
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
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.

Research priorities for negative emissions

2016
Scholarly Work
S Fuss, C D Jones, F Kraxner, G P Peters, P Smith, M Tavoni, D P van Vuuren, J G Canadell, R B Jackson, R B Jackson, J R Moreira, N Nakicenovic, A Sharifi, Y Yamagata
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.

Umweltbundesamt, Options and Proposals for the International Governance of Geoengineering

2014
Think Tank Report
Ralph Bodle, Sebastian Oberthür, Lena Donat, Gesa Homann, Stephan Sina, Elizabeth Tedsen
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.

Enhanced Chemical Weathering as a Geoengineering Strategy to Reduce Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Supply Nutrients, and Mitigate Ocean Acidification

2013
Scientific Report
Jens Hartmann, A. Joshua West, Phil Renforth, Peter Köhler, Christina L. De La Rocha, Dieter A. Wolf-Gladrow, Hans H. Dürr, Jürgen Scheffran
This scientific paper is an interdisciplinary review of enhanced weathering, the processes involved, and the applicability and risks of applying the method with a look at the legal framework for enhanced weathering.

Engineering the Climate: Geoengineering as a Challenge to International Governance

2013
Scholarly Work
David A. Wirth
This essay examines the existing international governance structures to address geoengineering and concludes that they are inadequate to the task and makes recommendations for structural adaptations in international governance to address the problem.

Exploring Negative Territory Carbon Dioxide Removal and Climate Policy Initiatives

2013
Scholarly Work
James Meadowcroft
This article explores the place for carbon dioxide removal in long term climate policy and considers nearer term policy issues.

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