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Principles for Thinking about Carbon Dioxide Removal in Just Climate Policy

2020
News/Commentary
David R. Morrow, Michael S. Thompson, Angela Anderson, Maya Batres, Holly J. Buck, Kate Dooley, Oliver Geden, Arunabha Ghosh, Sean Low, Augustine Njamnshi, John Noel, Olufemi O. Taiwo, Shuchi Talati, Jennifer Wilcox
This article presents four principles for thinking about CDR's role in climate policy to help ensure that CDR supports the kind of robust, abatement-focused long-term climate strategy that is essential to fair and effective implementation.

Barriers to Negative-Emissions Technologies

2020
News/Commentary
One Earth
This commentary asks: Which of the practical, economic, socio-political or ethical challenges presents the greatest barrier to the deployment of Paris Agreement-compatible NETs?

Geoengineering and Public Trust Doctrine

2020
Scholarly Work
Andrew Lockley, Gideon Futerman, D’Maris Coffman
This article considers various types of geoengineering, including carbon dioxide removal techniques, to protect public assets using the public trust doctrine and finds a compelling case for action in a variety of contexts.

What role can forests play in tackling climate change?

2020
Scholarly Work
Grantham Institute - Imperial College London
This discussion paper consolidates knowledge on the potential environmental, economic and societal benefits of using trees to reduce the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere and identifies the key policy decisions for climate-smart tree planting.

Potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands

2020
Scholarly Work
David J. Beerling, Euripides P. Kantzas, Mark R. Lomas, Peter Wade, Rafael M. Eufrasio, Phil Renforth, Binoy Sarkar, M. Grace Andrews, Rachael H. James, Christopher R. Pearce
This article identifies how the deployment of enhanced rock weathering within existing croplands offers opportunities to align agriculture and climate policy, while needing to overcome political inertia to develop regulatory and incentive frameworks.

Harvard University Pledge

2020
Declaration
The University's endowment will become greenhouse-gas neutral by 2050 by reducing and offsetting emissions with investment in technologies that remove carbon from the atmosphere.

AstraZeneca Pledge

2020
Declaration
AstraZeneca has pledged to have zero carbon emissions from operations by 2025 and ensure its entire value chain is carbon negative by 2030 with the use of a 50-million tree reforestation initiative that will be rolled out from 2020-2025.