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Carbon Dioxide Removal

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) techniques, or negative emission technologies (NETs), are a suite of natural and technological pathways to remove and sequester carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the air. Unlike carbon capture and storage, these techniques remove CO₂ directly from the atmosphere or enhance natural carbon sinks.
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SOLVING THE CLIMATE CRISIS: The Congressional Action Plan for a Clean Energy Economy and a Healthy, Resilient, and Just America

2020
Policy Proposal
Select Committee on the Climate Crisis Majority Staff
This report lays out a framework for comprehensive congressional action on climate change and identifies the need to develop and deploy a suite of natural and technological carbon removal solutions to reduce carbon pollution as quickly as possible.

USDA Agriculture Innovation Agenda

2020
Policy Proposal
United States Department of Agriculture
The Agriculture Innovation Agenda commits to enhance carbon sequestration through soil health and forestry and capitalize on innovative technologies and practices to achieve a net reduction of the agricultural sector current carbon footprint by 2050.

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.

Anticipatory Governance of Climate Engineering

2020
Scholarly Work
Daniel Barben, Nils Matzner
This article places debates about the anticipatory governance of climate engineering (CE) into the context of earlier efforts to render the governance of science, emerging technologies, and society more forward-looking, inclusive, and deliberative.

Unconventional Mitigation: Carbon Dioxide Removal as a New Approach in EU Climate Policy

2020
Scholarly Work
Oliver Geden, Felix Schenuit
This study investigates the question of how the currently still unconventional carbon removal approach can be integrated into EU climate policy.

Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS): Finding the win–wins for energy, negative emissions and ecosystem services—size matters

2020
Scholarly Work
Caspar Donnison, Robert A. Holland, Astley Hastings, Lindsay‐Marie Armstrong, Felix Eigenbrod, Gail Taylor
This paper identifies how smaller scale BECCS can be deployed to generate net welfare gains in the UK, and that landscape-scale and site-specific impacts need to be central to future BECCS policy developments.

Biochar as multi-purpose sustainable technology: experiences from projects in Tanzania

2020
Scholarly Work
Anders Hansson, Simon Haikola, Mathias Fridahl, Pius Yanda, Edmund Mabhuye, Noah Pauline
This study is as an empirical contribution to the underdeveloped literature on deployment of negative emissions technologies in least-developed countries (LDCs) in general and on biochar use in developing countries and LDCs specifically.

Contested framings of greenhouse gas removal and its feasibility: Social and political dimensions

2020
Scholarly Work
Laurie Waller, Tim Rayner, Jason Chilvers, Clair Amanda Gough, Irene Lorenzoni, Andrew Jordan, Naomi Vaughan
This paper conducts a review of the international peer-reviewed literature pertaining to the social and political dimensions of large-scale CDR, with a specific focus on two predominant approaches: BECCS and afforestation/reforestation.

Decision making in contexts of deep uncertainty – An alternative approach for long-term climate policy

2020
Scholarly Work
Mark Workman, Kate Dooley, Guy Lomax, James Maltby, Geoff Darch
This paper critically examines both the use of BECCS in mitigation scenarios and the decision making philosophy underlying the use of integrated assessment modelling to inform climate policy.

Once a Fringe Idea, Geoengineering Moves to Center Stage in Policy Arena

2020
News/Commentary
Shuchi Talati, Robert James, Wil Burns
This edited transcript from an Environmental Law Institute webinar looks at potential domestic U.S. legal governance structures and the international institutions that might be applicable to governing carbon dioxide removal.

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