Jaschke and Biermann (2022): The policy discourse on negative emissions, land-based technologies, and the Global South
Gregor Jaschke and Frank Biermann IN: Global Environmental Change, Volume 75, July 2022, 102550, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102550
This article analyzes the nascent policy discourse on negative emissions with a focus on land-based technologies (afforestation and reforestation, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, biochar, soil carbon sequestration). The authors conclude that this policy discourse is largely centered in the Global North (mostly in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany), with only five organizations directly linked to the Global South. While the earlier policy discourse on negative emissions was linked to a more general “geoengineering” discourse, this link has loosened in the last years. Overall, in the documents that were studied, negative emissions technologies seem to become more accepted, and parts of the discourse shift towards deployment.