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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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Land Use: Policies for a Net Zero UK

2020
Policy Proposal
Committee on Climate Change
This report focuses on the policies to reduce land-based emissions of greenhouse gases such that around one-fifth of agricultural land in the UK is released by 2050 for actions that reduce emissions and sequester carbon.

Biomass, afforestation and energy demand reduction: trade-offs in the route to decarbonisation

2020
Think Tank Report
UK Energy Research Centre
This paper explores the sensitivity of energy system decarbonization pathways to the role of afforestation and reduced energy demands as a means to lessen reliance on carbon dioxide removal.

EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: Bringing nature back into our lives

2020
Policy Proposal
European Commission
This strategy sets out new ways to implement existing legislation more effectively, new commitments, measures, targets and governance mechanisms to protect nature and reverse the degradation of ecosystems.

Marine Carbon Sinks in Decarbonization Pathways

2020
Scholarly Work
A. Oschlies, G. Rehder, M. Rhein
Detailed text of a mission proposal to study whether and to what extent the ocean can play a substantial role in removing and storing CO2 from the atmosphere, including the potential political and legal implications.

Southern Company Pledge

2020
Declaration
To achieve a net-zero goal emissions reduction goal by 2050, the company will incorporate negative carbon solutions including technology-based approaches such as direct air capture and nature-based solutions such as afforestation.

Royal Dutch Shell Pledge

2020
Declaration
Royal Dutch Shell plans to offset its own emissions by trapping as much carbon as its business operations cause through new carbon capture technologies or through nature-based solutions such as forestation.

Who rules climate intervention on the high seas?

2020
News/Commentary
Olive Heffernan
This article discusses how research and deployment of marine geoengineering should be governed as more field trials begin to move forward.

Consumers Energy Pledge

2020
Declaration
Consumers Energy announced a goal to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, in part using strategies such as carbon capture and sequestration and large-scale tree planting.

Danone – Horizon Organic Pledge

2020
Declaration
Horizon Organic announced a commitment to become carbon positive by 2025 using regenerative agriculture, soil sequestration, restoring prairie lands and forestlands, and evaluating and pursuing new technology.

Starbucks Pledge

2020
Declaration
Starbucks has committed to being resource positive by storing more carbon than they emit through investments in regenerative agricultural practices, reforestation, forest conservation and water replenishment in their supply chain.

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