Monat: Juni 2019

Peer-reviewed Publications

Horton, J.; et al. (2019): Multilateral parametric climate risk insurance: a tool to facilitate agreement about deployment of solar geoengineering?

Horton, J.; Keith, D. (2019): Multilateral parametric climate risk insurance: a tool to facilitate agreement about deployment of solar geoengineering? In: Climate Policy 19 (7), S. 820–826. DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2019.1607716.

„States will disagree about deployment of solar geoengineering, technologies that would reflect a small portion of incoming sunlight to reduce risks of climate change, and most disagreements will be grounded in conflicting interests. States that object to deployment will have many options to oppose it, so states favouring deployment will have a powerful incentive to meet their objections. Objections rooted in opposition to the anticipated unequal consequences of deployment may be met through compensation, yet climate policy is inhospitable to compensation via liability. We propose that multilateral parametric climate risk insurance might be a useful tool to facilitate agreement on solar geoengineering deployment.“

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Media

Z6MAG: Clean Energy Company Partners With Big Oil Companies: An Irony

„Carbon Engineering (CE) gets investments from Bill Gates, BHP,[nbsp]Occidental Petroleum, and Chevron amounting to $68 million. CE is a Canadian clean energy company using Direct Air Capture technology to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. The CO2 captured by the company is then processed and reproduced into fuel. In theory, with this technology, the Earth will have a fighting chance against climate change.“

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Calls

Call for Abstracts: Marine-based management of atmospheric carbon dioxide and ocean acidification

Deadline: 31. July 2019

„Ocean biology, chemistry and physics play a central role in naturally controlling oceanic/atmospheric CO2[nbsp]levels. To avoid major global climate impacts and ocean acidification, reducing CO2[nbsp]emissions is no longer sufficient; CO2[nbsp]removal from the ocean/atmosphere system is now also required. This session will explore ways of restoring, enhancing, and augmenting naturally-occurring marine processes for regulating oceanic and atmospheric CO2[nbsp]and ocean acidity levels. Specific examples include, but are not limited to: Blue Carbon, macrophyte introduction, aquaculture, permaculture, nutrient enrichment, marine BECCS, enhanced weathering, alkalinity addition, enhanced upwelling/downwelling, and chemical or physical seawater CO2[nbsp]stripping, conducted at local to global scales. In addition to technical aspects, presentations on the economic, regulatory, policy, geopolitical, governance, legal and ethical implications of the preceding are also invited.“

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