S.160 – An act relating to agricultural development
This bill establishes the Soil Conservation Practice and Payment for Ecosystem Services Working Group and the Vermont Forest Carbon Sequestration Working Group.
S. 2452: Climate Stewardship Act of 2019
This bill provides incentives for agricultural producers to carry out climate stewardship practices, to provide for increased reforestation across the United States, to establish the Coastal and Estuary Resilience Grant Program.
Opportunities for Carbon Dioxide Removal Within the United States Department of Agriculture
This paper provides an assessment of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) existing programs and organizational structure, its capacity to support research and demonstration of CDR, and recommendations for expansion of these capabilities.
Making Terrestrial Geoengineering Technologies Viable: An Opportunity for India-Canada Climate Leadership
This report makes the case that India and Canada must work together on geoengineering governance in advancement of climate goals, while seeking to collaborate on new carbon-materials industries to harness the potential of terrestrial geoengineering.
Carbon Removal: Comparing Historical Federal Research Investments with the National Academies’ Recommended Future Funding Levels
The objective of this analysis is to review the historical baseline estimates of federal RD&D investment related to carbon removal and assess how they compare with the recommended future funding levels from the 2018 National Academies Report on NETs.
Achievement of Paris climate goals unlikely due to time lags in the land system
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.
How to measure, report and verify soil carbon change to realize the potential of soil carbon sequestration for atmospheric greenhouse gas removal
This paper describes a new vision for a global framework for measurement/monitoring, reporting and verification platform of soil organic carbon sequestration.
Clearing the Air: A Federal RD&D Initiative and Management Plan for Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies
This report provides a set of recommendations and detailed implementation plans for a 10-year, $10.7 billion research, development, and demonstration initiative in the United States to bring new pathways for technological CDR to commercial readiness.
Using Renewable Portfolio Standards to Accelerate Development of Negative Emission Technologies
This article discusses how states can use Renewable Portfolio Standards to incentivize the development of negative emission technologies.
Incentivize Negative Emissions Responsibly
This article explores why nation states need to incentivize negative emissions technologies if they are to take the decarbonization of whole energy systems seriously.