Apple’s Pledge
Apple has announced the creation of a carbon solutions fund to invest in forests and other nature-based solutions around the world to remove carbon from the atmosphere.
USDA Agriculture Innovation Agenda
The Agriculture Innovation Agenda commits to enhance carbon sequestration through soil health and forestry and capitalize on innovative technologies and practices to achieve a net reduction of the agricultural sector current carbon footprint by 2050.
Contested framings of greenhouse gas removal and its feasibility: Social and political dimensions
This paper conducts a review of the international peer-reviewed literature pertaining to the social and political dimensions of large-scale CDR, with a specific focus on two predominant approaches: BECCS and afforestation/reforestation.
Full Committee Hearing to Examine Development and Deployment of Large-Scale Carbon Dioxide Management Technologies
Archived webcast of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing to examine the development and deployment of large-scale carbon dioxide management technologies in the United States.
Buildings as a Global Carbon Sink? A Reality Check on Feasibility Limits
This commentary reflects on the capacity of global forests to supply bio-based building materials that store carbon as a climate solution.
Restoring Abandoned Farmland to Mitigate Climate Change on a Full Earth
This paper presents an overview of how carbon capture and storage on abandoned farmland can be accelerated and maximized and how emerging policy and market initiatives can facilitate adoption of farmland carbon sequestration strategies.
Managing Land-based CDR: BECCS, Forests and Carbon Sequestration
This paper proposes policy measures for integrating land-based CDR approaches - under which circumstances forest areas are best left undisturbed, managed for conservation or wood products, and how these options affect the deployment of BECCS.
The Future of (Negative) Emissions Trading in the European Union
This paper explores various design options for integrating negative emissions technologies (NETs) into the EU Emissions Trading System.
H.R. 5883 – To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an increased credit for carbon oxide sequestration for direct air capture facilities, and for other purposes.
This bill would make permanent the Section 45Q tax credit for carbon capture and sequestration systems installed at power plants and other industrial facilities and would increase a tax credit for direct air capture of carbon emissions.
The US Section 45Q Tax Credit for Carbon Oxide Sequestration: An Update
This Global CCS Institute brief focuses on the latest developments with regards to the 45Q tax credit for carbon oxide sequestration in the US, including a summary of the guidance released so far.