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Building a New Carbon Economy: An Innovation Plan

2018
Think Tank Report
Carbon180
This report presents an innovation plan that outlines the contours of a new carbon economy using carbon removal technologies and identifies the social, legal, economic and political research gaps of each technology.

Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide – ICEF Roadmap 2018

2018
Think Tank Report
David Sandalow, Julio Friedmann, Colin McCormick, Sean McCoy
This roadmap explores the potential for direct air capture of carbon dioxide to contribute to climate mitigation (and provide feedstock for commercial processes).

Advancing Large Scale Carbon Management: Expansion of the 45Q Tax Credit

2018
Think Tank Report
Tim Bushman, Julio Friedmann, Joseph Hezir, Melanie Kenderdine, Alex Kizer, Ernest J. Moniz
This EFI paper provides a comprehensive overview of the opportunities for application of the expanded federal tax incentives for CCUS, as well as the additional implementation challenges facing CCUS project developers and policymakers.

Evaluating climate geoengineering proposals in the context of the Paris Agreement temperature goals

2018
Scholarly Work
Mark G. Lawrence, Stefan Schäfer, Helene Muri, Vivian Scott, Andreas Oschlies, Naomi E. Vaughan, Olivier Boucher, Hauke Schmidt, Jim Haywood, Jürgen Scheffran
This paper assesses the degree to which proposed climate geoengineering techniques could contribute significantly to achieving the Paris Agreement temperature goals and the main open socio-political and governance issues and research needs.

Grasslands may be more reliable carbon sinks than forests in California

2018
Scholarly Work
Pawlok Dass, Benjamin Z Houlton, Yingping Wang, David Warlind
This paper shows that California grasslands are a more resilient carbon sink than forests in response to 21st century changes in climate, with implications for designing climate-smart Cap and Trade offset policies.

A New Security Framework for Geoengineering

2018
Scholarly Work
Elizabeth L. Chalecki, Lisa L. Ferrari
This paper argues that modifying just war theory into “just geoengineering theory” will provide ethical standards for security decision makers as they consider whether or how geoengineering should be used.