Climate Engineering Under the Paris Agreement
This report examines the specific provisions of the Paris Agreement with a view to identifying where legal and policy questions in relation to climate engineering are likely to arise.
Implications of the Paris Agreement for Carbon Dioxide Removal and Solar Geoengineering
This report surveys the implications of the Paris Agreement for carbon dioxide removal (CDR).
The Paris Agreement and Climate Geoengineering Governance: The Need for a Human Rights-Based Component
This paper suggests that a human rights-based approach to climate geoengineering may address the intrinsic issues of equity and justice that would necessarily arise should the world community opt to proceed down the path of climate engineering.
Farmer perceptions, policy and reforestation in Santa Catarina, Brazil
This article evaluates three policy options for promoting reforestation, paying particular attention to the impacts on farmer livelihoods and their intrinsic willingness to restore and preserve forest cover.
Update on Climate Geoengineering in Relation to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Potential Impacts and Regulatory Framework
This report provides an update, including regulatory developments, to the CBD's 2012 Technical Series No. 66: Geoengineering in Relation to the Convention on Biological Diversity report on the potential impacts of geoengineering.
Convention on Biological Diversity COP 13 Decision XIII/14
Decision adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on climate-related geoengineering and indigenous peoples.
Convention on Biological Diversity COP 13 Decision XIII/4
Decision adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity welcoming the Paris Agreement and in particular articles related to biodiversity.
Barraso-Schatz Air Capture Amendment to S.2012 – The Energy Policy Modernization Act (EPMA)
Amendment to the Energy Policy Modernization Act (EPMA) that creates a prize system at the Department of Energy to support innovative technologies that remove carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere.
H.R. 5316, the Healthy Soils and Rangeland Solutions Act
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to establish a Carbon Sequestration Pilot Program to make grants to sequester carbon through grazing practices, restoration of degraded public lands, and the use of compost or biochar on public lands.
USDA Building Blocks for Climate Smart Agriculture and Forestry
This report outlines a set of “building blocks” to help farmers, ranchers, forestland owners, and rural communities reduce GHG emissions and increase carbon sequestration.