The hidden politics of climate engineering
This paper identifies how governments must develop mechanisms to provide policy-relevant knowledge, clarify uncertainties and head off potential distributional impacts on climate engineering governance.
Challenges and Opportunities of Bioenergy With Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) for Communities
This paper looks at what research governance on BECCS says about policy relevant to community scale challenges and opportunities.
Negative emissions and international climate goals—learning from and about mitigation scenarios
This paper looks at less widely researched topics around NETs that include the innovation needs and rapid technological change, termination of NETs at the end of the twenty-first century or the impacts of climate change on the effectiveness of NETs.
Fixing the Climate? How Geoengineering Threatens to Undermine the SDGs and Climate Justice
This paper argues that Carbon Dioxide Removal schemes are bound to exacerbate concomitant ecological and economic global crises, deepen societal dependence on large-scale technological systems and create new spaces for profit and power for the elite.
The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
This IPCC report identifies the restoration of coastal blue carbon ecosystems as a response option to mitigate climate change through increased carbon uptake and storage.
Measuring, Modeling, Controlling the Climate? Numerical Expertise in U.S. Climate Engineering Politics
Drawing on empirical evidence from federal proceedings, this paper assesses how climate measures, models, targets, and thresholds have shaped the trajectory of geoengineering within U.S. climate policy between 1990 and 2015.
Engineering climate debt: temperature overshoot and peak-shaving as risky subprime mortgage lending
This paper argues that an 'overshoot and peak-shaving' strategy comes with a risk of escalating ‘climate debt’ and explains its position using an analogy of subprime mortgage lending.
Geoengineering, Political Legitimacy and Justice
This is the introductory article from a special issue of the journal Ethics, Policy & Environment that highlights the ethical lessons central to geoengineering research, policy and governance.
Governing geoengineering research for the Great Barrier Reef
this paper contends that while geoengineering options are worth exploring to protect the Great Barrier Reef from extreme warming conditions they require strong governance and public consultation from the outset.
Geoengineering and the blockchain: Coordinating Carbon Dioxide Removal and Solar Radiation Management to tackle future emissions
This paper proposes using a blockchain implementation of the 'polluter pays' principle, integrating CDR futures with time and volume-matched SRM orders to address emissions contractually before release.