mCDR Foresight Scenarios: Policy Frameworks for Marine Carbon-Dioxide Removal in 2040

Miranda Böttcher, Working Paper Research Division EU/Europe 2023/No. 02, April 2023, 35 Pages

This report outlines processes and insights from a participatory foresight workshop held in Berlin (December 2022). This workshop aimed to switch the mode of thinking about the future of mCDR policy from predictive to anticipatory: a reorientation from »navigating ‘what will be’« to »thinking through alternative ‘what ifs?’« The workshop organisers aimed to encourage the participants to engage experimentally with conceptions of the future derived from a broad field of perspectives. Additionally, the workshop was designed to help the participants explore the capacities of various policy frameworks and instruments to deal with threats and opportunities across a range of plausible futures.

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