Malakar et al. (2026): Stories of soil and sea: Comparing narratives of land- and marine-based carbon dioxide removal for responsible deployment

Yuwan Malakar, Kerryn Brent, Talia Jeanneret, Rod McCrea, John Gardner and Andrew Lenton, IN: Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2026.104851

Large-scale removal and storage of atmospheric CO₂ in land and ocean sinks is essential to meet Paris Agreement temperature goals, yet empirical evidence on how novel carbon dioxide removal (CDR) should be deployed responsibly remains limited. Using Australia as a case study, the authors provide one of the first empirical comparisons of stakeholder expectations for the responsible deployment of marine- and land-based CDR, comparing ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) and mineral carbonation (MC) to identify where governance priorities converge and where they diverge. Guided by responsible innovation and using Q methodology, they combined two rounds of interviews with a quantitative ranking exercise involving stakeholders across three Australian states.

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