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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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Towards an EU Regulatory Framework for Climate-Smart Agriculture: The Example of Soil Carbon Sequestration

2018
Scholarly Work
Jonathan Verschuuren
This article assesses current and proposed EU climate and environmental law, and the legal instruments associated with the Common Agricultural Policy, to see whether soil carbon sequestration is a promising example of "climate-smart agriculture."

A Clean Planet for all: A European strategic long-term vision for a prosperous, modern, competitive and climate neutral economy

2018
Policy Proposal
European Commission
This policy document outlines a vision of the economic and societal transformations required in the European Union, including the role of carbon sinks and CCS, to achieve the transition to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Carbon Removal in Forests and Farms in the United States

2018
Think Tank Report
World Resources Institute
The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential for carbon removal in forests and farms in the United States, to identify needs likely to arise on the pathway to large-scale deployment, and to consider ways to begin addressing those needs.

HB 2182 – Greenhouse Gas Sequestration Task Force

2018
Enacted Legislation
State of Hawaii
This bill establishes the Greenhouse Gas Sequestration Task Force to identify land use practices that would promote increased greenhouse gas sequestration and develop incentives and funding mechanisms for these practices.

Negative Emissions and Land-Based Carbon Sequestration: Implications for Climate and Energy Scenarios

2018
Think Tank Report
Rocky Mountain Institute
The paper focuses on how natural climate solutions could contribute to emissions reduction goals in the United States and seeks to provide policymakers with a useful overview of how negative emissions can be incorporated into national climate policy.

Towards the anticipatory governance of geoengineering: Ethics, Politics, and Governance

2018
Scholarly Work
Rider Foley, David H. Guston, Daniel Sarewitz
This paper aims to describe and apply  “anticipatory governance," which refers most directly to building the capacity to manage emerging technologies while such management is still possible, to geoengineering technologies and techniques.

Beyond carbon pricing: policy levers for negative emissions technologies

2018
Scholarly Work
Emily Cox, Neil Robert Edwards
This paper identifies a number of existing policies from four key areas – energy/transport, agriculture, sub-soil, and oceans – which will have an impact on BECCs, DAC, and Enhanced Weathering, and proposes policy that could be implemented near-term.

Prospects for a multi-stakeholder dialogue on climate engineering

2018
Scholarly Work
Ken Conca
In this paper lessons from the literature on multi-stakeholder dialogue (MSD) that are relevant to the debate on climate engineering are examined.

Mind the Gap: Marine Geoengineering and the Law of the Sea

2018
Scholarly Work
Karen N. Scott
This chapter, from the book High Seas Governance, examines the legal framework for marine geoengineering, analyzing the extent to which the modern law of the sea has responded to the gaps and challenges in the current regulatory framework.

The politics and governance of negative emissions technologies

2018
News/Commentary
Jesse L. Reynolds
This is the introductory editorial to the debut issue of Global Sustainability which compiled seven articles on the politics and governance of negative emission technologies.

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