Monat: Juni 2020

Science-Policy Documents

Florin, Marie-Valentine; et al. (2020): lnternational governance issues on climate engineering Information for policymakers

Florin, Marie-Valentine; Rouse, Paul; Hubert, Anna-Maria; Honegger, Matthias; Reynolds, Jesse (2020): lnternational governance issues on climate engineering Information for policymakers. Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). Bern.

„Driven by questions and needs from the international policymaking community to better understand the potential benefits as well as opportunities, risks, uncertainties and other challenges of CDR and SRM, at both technical and governance levels, this report reviews and compares technologies and their potential contributions, costs, risks, uncertainties, before surveying the current legal and institutional landscape of governance regarding climate engineering.“

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Media

Legal Planet: A New Report on Governing Climate Geoengineering

„A new report on the governance of climate geoengineering — that is, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar geoengineering (or solar radiation modification, SRM) — has been released. International Governance Issues on Climate Engineering: Information for Policymakers was coordinated and issued by the International Risk Governance Center, edited by IRGC’s Marie-Valentine Florin, and commissioned by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment.“

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Media

myScience: news › wire – news in brief news 2020 News 2019 A call for better governance of climate engineering technologies

„In a study for the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment EPFL’s International Risk Governance Center (IRGC) has brought together a group of global experts to point the way forward for international policymakers grappling with the risks and benefits posed by Carbon Dioxide Removal and Solar Radiation Modification.“

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Bioenergy International: Stockholm Exergi sets target to be „climate-positive“ by 2025

„In Sweden, the Board of Directors of energy utility Stockholm Exergi AB has decided on a new sustainability objective: the business will be climate positive by 2025. The new goal can make Stockholm the world’s first climate-positive capital.
„We are investing in technologies that create negative emissions, also known as carbon sinks. We have plans for a large-scale biochar plant, and above all, we see the potential of BECCS“, says Anders Egelrud, CEO of Stockholm Exergi.“

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Science-Policy Documents

IEA Bioenergy (2020): Deployment of BECCS/U value chains

IEA Bioenergy (2020): Deployment of BECCS/U value chains. Technological pathways, policy options and business models. With assistance of Olle Olsson, Christian Bang, Malgorzata Borchers, Alena Hahn, Hannu Karjunen, Daniela Thrän, Tero Tynjälä.

„This report focuses on the potential and challenges associated with deploying BECCS systems and value chains in the near to medium term. It provides a brief overview of different technological options for capture, transport and storage of CO2, and offers insights into how BECCS business models could be set up. Furthermore the role of public policy in this setting is discussed, and how bioenergy with carbon capture and utilization (BECCU) could play a role in enabling BECCS deployment.“

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Peer-reviewed Publications

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2020): Solar Geoengineering Research Governance

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2020): Solar Geoengineering Research Governance. Proceedings of a Workshop. With assistance of Steven Kendall, Anita Eisenstadt. Washington, D.C.

„On September 10-11, 2019, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Developing a Research Agenda and Research Governance Approaches for Climate Intervention Strategies That Reflect Sunlight to Cool Earth hosted a workshop to gather a broad array of information and perspectives on the governance of research for several solar geoengineering (SG) strategies.“

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