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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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Governing Large-Scale Carbon Dioxide Removal: Are We Ready?

2018
Think Tank Report
Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative (C2G2)
This report focuses on the governance mechanisms in place that can begin to address CDR at the necessary scale as well as what governance gaps remain to deploy CDR at scale.

Carbon Removal and Solar Geoengineering: Potential implications for delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals

2018
Think Tank Report
Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative (C2G2)
This report explores the potential implications which two groups of experimental technologies aimed at managing global climate risk, known as Carbon Removal and Solar Geoengineering, could have for delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Greenhouse Gas Removal

2018
Scientific Report
Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering
This report presents the findings from an exploration of the opportunities and barriers for greenhouse gas removal methods in both a UK and global context.

Report of the International Law Commission A/73/10

2018
International Legal Instrument
International Law Commission
Text of the draft guidelines on the protection of the atmosphere and intentional large-scale modification of the atmosphere that states carbon dioxide removal activities shall be conducted with prudence and caution.

S.2350 – Forest Incentives Program Act of 2018

2018
Proposed Legislation
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) establish a program to achieve greenhouse gas emission reductions and carbon sequestration on U.S. private forest land through carbon incentives contracts and conservation easement agreements.

California Forest Carbon Plan: Managing Our Forest Landscapes in a Changing Climate

2018
Policy Proposal
Forest Climate Action Team
This plan provides multiple strategies to protect and enhance forest carbon in California, and reviews the corresponding statutory and regulatory framework to do so.

Significance of Billion Tree Tsunami Afforestation Project and Legal Developments in Forest Sector of Pakistan

2018
Scholarly Work
Asif Kamal, Ma Yingjie, Ahmad Ali
This paper discusses the legal considerations of the ‘Billion Trees Tsunami Afforestation Project’ in Pakistan as related to climate change and the Bonn Challenge.

Carbon Capture and Sequestration Protocol under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard

2018
Regulation
California Air Resources Board
The protocol allows transportation fuels whose lifecycle emissions have been reduced through CCS or direct air capture to become eligible for credits under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard.

Making Negative Emissions Economically Feasible: The View from California

2018
Scholarly Work
Roger D. Aines, Sean T. McCoy
This paper identifies how amendments to California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard would create the first substantial payment system for negative emissions.

The Ministerial Katowice Declaration on Forests for the Climate

2018
Declaration
The Ministers / the Head of Delegations attending the twenty-fourth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP24) of the UNFCCC
This declaration underscores the key role forests must play in limiting temperature rise to 1.5˚C, and highlights the role of forests in sequestering and storing carbon in the soil.

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