Waller et al. (2025): Responsible research and innovation of carbon removal in the UK: strategies for field trials
Laurie Waller, Emily Cox, Amy Binner, Tatiana Cantillo Garcia, Rosie Everett, Karen Henwood, Julie Ingram, Carol Morris, Kate O’Sullivan, Nick Pidgeon, Catherine Price, Mark Reed, Alessandro Silvestri and Rob Bellamy, IN: Frontiers in Climate, https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2025.1658453
Demonstrating methods for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is now a focus of research and development programmes designed to support decision making about future technology deployment. In this perspective piece, the authors outline some of the approaches to responsible research and innovation (RRI) being put to work in a UK-based programme organising field trials of various carbon removal methods. Unlike the disruptive technologies that predominate in RRI scholarship, many land-based methods for carbon removal have already been deployed, in some cases over many decades, with governance closely linked with longstanding fields of research and practice.