The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
This IPCC report identifies the restoration of coastal blue carbon ecosystems as a response option to mitigate climate change through increased carbon uptake and storage.
Moral Conflicts of several “Green” terrestrial Negative Emission Technologies regarding the Human Right to Adequate Food – A Review
This paper investigates whether BECCS, afforestation/reforestation, and enhanced weathering would cause moral conflicts regarding the human right to adequate food if implemented on a scale sufficient to limit global warming “to well below 2 C”.
Opportunities for Carbon Dioxide Removal Within the United States Department of Agriculture
This paper provides an assessment of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) existing programs and organizational structure, its capacity to support research and demonstration of CDR, and recommendations for expansion of these capabilities.
Measuring, Modeling, Controlling the Climate? Numerical Expertise in U.S. Climate Engineering Politics
Drawing on empirical evidence from federal proceedings, this paper assesses how climate measures, models, targets, and thresholds have shaped the trajectory of geoengineering within U.S. climate policy between 1990 and 2015.
Engineering climate debt: temperature overshoot and peak-shaving as risky subprime mortgage lending
This paper argues that an 'overshoot and peak-shaving' strategy comes with a risk of escalating ‘climate debt’ and explains its position using an analogy of subprime mortgage lending.
Making Terrestrial Geoengineering Technologies Viable: An Opportunity for India-Canada Climate Leadership
This report makes the case that India and Canada must work together on geoengineering governance in advancement of climate goals, while seeking to collaborate on new carbon-materials industries to harness the potential of terrestrial geoengineering.
Geoengineering, Political Legitimacy and Justice
This is the introductory article from a special issue of the journal Ethics, Policy & Environment that highlights the ethical lessons central to geoengineering research, policy and governance.
Indigeneity in Geoengineering Discourses: Some Considerations
This paper focuses on the role of indigenous peoples in the geoengineering discourse and frames the challenges with identifying indigenous consent to geoengineering activities.
Technological Carbon Removal: Recent Economic and Political Trends in the United States
This report assesses the current state of affairs surrounding technological CDR in the United States and provides concrete policy recommendations for action at the Federal level.
Carbon Removal: Comparing Historical Federal Research Investments with the National Academies’ Recommended Future Funding Levels
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.