Saving the Planet 2.0
Open project on climatecolab.org with the invitation for participation.
CO2-removal News
NY Times: Pulling Carbon Dioxide Out of Thin Air
„Whether streaming from the tailpipes of cars or the smokestacks of so many power plants and factories, carbon dioxide emissions keep growing around the globe.“
American Carbon Registry: Carbon Capture and Storage in Oil and Gas Reservoirs
American Carbon Registry has released a draft CCS methodology that explicitly covers direct air capture (DAC).
IISS: Strategic Comments: Geoengineering: rules needed for climate-altering science
Comments from the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Special issue „Negative Emissions Technology“, In: Process Safety and Environmental Protection
Kruger, Tim; Darton, Richard (2012): Special issue – Negative Emissions Technology. In: Process Safety and Environmental Protection 90 (6), pp. 451.
Special issue with different topics of negative emissions, e.g. biochar and ocean afforestation.
Summary: Marion Hourdequin Looks at Ethics of Solar Radiation Management
Summary of a book chapter by Marion Hourdequin publishedin 2012.
Climate engineering in 2012
Some media rank climate engineering as an important news event of 2012.
UnderwaterTimes.com: Geo-Engineering Against Climate Change: Seeding The Oceans With Iron May Not Address Carbon Emissions
„Previous estimates of cost fail to recognize the economic challenge of distributing low concentrations of iron over large areas of the ocean surface and the subsequent loss processes that result in only a small net storage of carbon per square kilometer fertilized.“
SRMGI Workshop: African Involvement in Solar Geoengineering
14.01.2013, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
„[A] half day workshop held in conjunction with the 24th Colloquium of African Geology (CAG24). The African Academy of Sciences (AAS)[nbsp]and SRMGI will be co-convening this workshop“