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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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Adaptation and Carbon Removal

2020
Scholarly Work
Holly J. Buck, Jay Furhman, David R. Morrow, Daniel L. Sanchez, Frances M. Wang
This paper identifies ways to foreground adaptation in carbon removal policies and project designs and to incorporate carbon removal into adaptation efforts.

Full Committee Hearing on “Cleaning the Air: Legislation to Promote Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage”

2020
Hearings and Testimony
Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change of the Committee on Energy and Commerce
This hearing considered H.R. 1166, the "Utilizing Significant Emissions with Innovative Technologies (USE IT) Act.

Congressional Testimony of Jason Albritton, The Nature Conservancy

2020
Hearings and Testimony
Jason Albritton
Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change on "Clearing the Air: Legislation to Promote Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage."

Congressional Testimony of Sasha Mackler, Bipartisan Policy Center

2020
Hearings and Testimony
Sasha Mackler
Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change on "Clearing the Air: Legislation to Promote Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage."

Congressional Testimony of Lee Anderson, Utility Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO

2020
Hearings and Testimony
Lee Anderson
Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change on "Clearing the Air: Legislation to Promote Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage."

Negative-Emission Technologies and Patent Rights after COVID-19

2020
Scholarly Work
Joshua D. Sarnoff
This article proposes various measures that can be adopted by national governments and private funders to minimize any forthcoming worldwide conflicts that will arise over balancing innovation incentives for, and affordable access to, patented NETs.

Mapping Multi-Level Policy Incentives for Bioenergy With Carbon Capture and Storage in Sweden

2020
Scholarly Work
Mathias Fridahl, Rob Bellamy, Anders Hansson, Simon Haikola
This paper asks to what extent and how existing UN, EU, and Swedish climate policy instruments incentivize BECCS research, development, demonstration, and deployment in Sweden.

Capturing Opportunity: Law and Policy Solutions to Accelerate Engineered Carbon Removal in California

2020
Policy Proposal
Ethan N. Elkind, Ted Lamm, Katie Segal
This policy brief outlines policy proposals for deploying engineered carbon removal technologies in California, including the key barriers limiting development progress and actionable solutions to overcome those barriers.

Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage: Existing and Emerging Legal Principles

2019
Scholarly Work
Benoit Mayer
The article addresses the international legal issues surrounding the large-scale deployment of BECCS, while proposing steps to avoid detrimental impacts.

BECCS Deployment: A Reality Check

2019
Think Tank Report
Mathilde Fajardy, Alexandre Köberle, Niall Mac Dowell, Andrea Fantuzzi
This paper explores some of the questions that emerge in relation to BECCS around governance and scale.

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