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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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Beyond the social cost of carbon: Negative emission technologies as a means for biophysically setting the price of carbon

2019
Scholarly Work
Brian F. Snyder
The paper proposes that the cost of emerging negative-emission technologies would be an alternative means for setting a carbon price and avoid the philosophical and practical weaknesses of the social cost of carbon metric.

Opportunities for increasing ocean action in climate strategies

2019
Think Tank Report
Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Alexandre K. Magnan, Natalya D. Gallo, Dorothée Herr, Julien Rochette, Lola Vallejo, Phillip Williamson
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.

Southern Ocean Iron Fertilization: An Argument Against Commercialization but for Continued Research Amidst Lingering Uncertainty

2019
Scholarly Work
Tyler Rohr
This paper argues against attempting to commercialize ocean iron fertilization under any emerging market framework.

Govern CO2 removal from the ground up

2019
Scholarly Work
Rob Bellamy, Oliver Geden
This article argues that policymakers must acknowledge that carbon dioxide removal can be small in scale and still be relevant for climate policy, that it will primarily emerge ‘bottom up’, and that different methods have different governance needs.

The Role of Direct Air Capture in Mitigation of Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Emissions

2019
Scholarly Work
Christoph Beuttler, Louise Charles, Jan Wurzbacher
This paper discusses the potential co-benefits of Direct Air Capture, in particular in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations and suggests some policy approaches on how a climate relevant scale could be achieved.

The hidden politics of climate engineering

2019
Scholarly Work
Sikina Jinnah, Simon Nicholson
This paper identifies how governments must develop mechanisms to provide policy-relevant knowledge, clarify uncertainties and head off potential distributional impacts on climate engineering governance.

Challenges and Opportunities of Bioenergy With Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) for Communities

2019
Scholarly Work
Holly Jean Buck
This paper looks at what research governance on BECCS says about policy relevant to community scale challenges and opportunities.

Negative emissions and international climate goals—learning from and about mitigation scenarios

2019
Scholarly Work
Jérôme Hilaire, Jan C. Minx, Max W. Callaghan, Jae Edmonds, Gunnar Luderer, Gregory F. Nemet, Joeri Rogelj, Maria del Mar Zamora
This paper looks at less widely researched topics around NETs that include the innovation needs and rapid technological change, termination of NETs at the end of the twenty-first century or the impacts of climate change on the effectiveness of NETs.

Fixing the Climate? How Geoengineering Threatens to Undermine the SDGs and Climate Justice

2019
Scholarly Work
Linda Schneider
This paper argues that Carbon Dioxide Removal schemes are bound to exacerbate concomitant ecological and economic global crises, deepen societal dependence on large-scale technological systems and create new spaces for profit and power for the elite.

The ocean is key to achieving climate and societal goals: Ocean-based approaches can help close mitigation gaps

2019
Scholarly Work
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Eliza Northrop, Jane Lubchenco
This article outlines a “no-regrets to-do list” of ocean-based climate actions that could be set in motion today, including the required policy developments around the restoration of coastal and marine ecosystems and carbon storage in the seabed.

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