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.
British Airways announced that it will offset the carbon emissions from all of its UK domestic flights through renewable energy, rainforest protection, and reforestation programs.
Amazon has committed to net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 and is launching a $100 million fund to restore and protect forests, wetlands, and peatlands to remove carbon from the atmosphere.
This bill creates a Healthy Soils Program within the Commission for Conservation of Soil, Water and Related Resources, which shall seek to optimize climate benefits while supporting the economic viability of agriculture in the state.
The paper proposes that the cost of emerging negative-emission technologies would be an alternative means for setting a carbon price and avoid the philosophical and practical weaknesses of the social cost of carbon metric.
This article argues that policymakers must acknowledge that carbon dioxide removal can be small in scale and still be relevant for climate policy, that it will primarily emerge ‘bottom up’, and that different methods have different governance needs.
Christoph Beuttler, Louise Charles, Jan Wurzbacher
This paper discusses the potential co-benefits of Direct Air Capture, in particular in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations and suggests some policy approaches on how a climate relevant scale could be achieved.