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Global Resources Outlook 2019: Natural Resources for the Future We Want

2019
Scientific Report
United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
UNEP's Global Resources Outlook highlights and supports climate policies to remove atmospheric carbon in its "Towards Sustainability" scenario, specifically policies targeted towards the deployment of BECCs, DAC, and reforestation activities.

High Level Review of a Wide Range of Proposed Marine Geoengineering Techniques

2019
Scientific Report
Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP)
This report examines a wide range of marine geoengineering techniques to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and provides a comprehensive review of the international frameworks that govern these techniques.

Achievement of Paris climate goals unlikely due to time lags in the land system

2019
Scholarly Work
Calum Brown, Peter Alexander, Ian Holman, Almut Arneth, Mark Rounsevell
This paper suggests that improved recognition of different land-system policies and lags in land-system change is necessary to identify achievable mitigation actions and avoid excessively optimistic assumptions and consequent policy failures.

Engineered CO2 Removal, Climate Restoration, and Humility

2019
Scholarly Work
Julio Friedmann
This article lays out how using engineered CDR techniques to achieve net-zero will require substantial cooperation between groups of people who commonly do not work together, including technical experts, financiers, and government officials.

Role of the ocean in climate stabilization

2019
Scholarly Work
Celina Scott-Buechler, Charles Greene
This chapter reviews the ocean’s potential role in international climate stabilization, and how ocean iron fertilization, ocean alkalinization, and the storage of carbon in the deep ocean can be used to further support such actions.

S. 6599 – Climate Leadership and Community Protect Act

2019
Enacted Legislation
State of New York
This bill enacts the New York State Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) that sets a statewide target of net zero GHG emissions by 2050 and allows for the use of offset projects to meet the last 15 percent of emission reductions.

Governing Large-Scale Carbon Dioxide Removal: Are We Ready?

2018
Think Tank Report
Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative (C2G2)
This report focuses on the governance mechanisms in place that can begin to address CDR at the necessary scale as well as what governance gaps remain to deploy CDR at scale.