podcast by Nori – Carbon Removal Newsroom (30 min)
On this episode, the hosts take a look at the state of ocean CDR research governance with one of the field’s foremost experts, Wil Burns. He talks about the main international agreements that govern the seas, and experiments within them. What does existing law mean for plans to test ocean CDR? The panel also discuss the recent news of a geoengineering experiment in England that was leaked to the press.
Holly Jean Buck, Wim Carton, Jens Friis Lund, Nils Markusson IN: Nat. Clim. Chang. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01592-2
Net-zero targets imply that continuing residual emissions will be balanced by carbon dioxide removal. However, residual emissions are typically not well defined, conceptually or quantitatively. The authors analysed governments’ long-term strategies submitted to the UNFCCC to explore projections of residual emissions, including amounts and sectors.
businesswire.com, February 07, 2023 09:15 AM
„XPRIZE, the world’s leader in designing and operating incentive competitions to solve humanity’s biggest challenges, and Carbon180, the climate NGO that designs and champions equitable, science-based carbon removal policy, released a report today outlining how crucial environmental justice considerations should be integrated into the carbon removal industry moving forward. The groundbreaking report is just one initiative generated by the $100 Million XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition, the largest incentive prize in history. This new publication represents a push to center environmental justice both within the competition and the broader carbon removal industry.“
September 27-28, 2022, to be held virtually
Registration is open! This year’s conference will focus on the role of domestic law (throughout the world) in the carbon dioxide removal sector. It is organisator’s hope to bring together speakers from the corporate, government, NGO and academic sectors to explore lessons learned to date, as well as to discuss interstices in legal and regulatory frameworks, and approaches that can help to streamline governance mechanisms, while protecting the interests of all stakeholders. This event is co-convened by the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy, the Environmental Policy & Culture Program at Northwestern University, and the Pritzker School of Law at Northwestern University.
Emily Cox, Elspeth Spence, Nicholas Pidgeon IN: Public Understanding of Science, SAGE Publications (UK and US), University of Cardiff
Public perceptions of ERW and its wider social and environmental implications will be a critical factor determining its potential; the authors use six two-day deliberative workshops in England, Wales and Illinois to understand public views. Consideration of ERW deployment in tropical countries led participants to frame it from a social justice perspective, which had been much less prevalent when considering Western agricultural contexts, and generated assumptions of increased scale, which heightened concerns about detrimental social and environmental impacts.
by Susie Strife, opinion contributor
„Given the federal inaction on climate change, local governments need to step up to reduce emissions and remove legacy climate pollution from the atmosphere. In the process, cities, counties and states are uniquely positioned to help scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR) responsibly and provide a blueprint for federal action.“
The Commission is holding conversations about whether and how additional approaches could reduce the risks of a warming climate, and will recommend an integrated governance strategy. The Commission is a high-level group to address all these options in a holistic, integrated manner, free from conventional political constraints. Members include former heads of government, national ministers, directors of intergovernmental organizations, leaders of environmental groups, and academic experts.
Nijia Zhou, Mirte Boot, Conor Hickey, Sam Fankhauser, Anupama Sen, Steve Smith (Oxford Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment)
The authors present a typology of barriers to geological GGR deployment based on literature and evidence. Key barriers to deployment are the lack of inherent demand for removals, access to finance, and lack of regulatory support frameworks (e.g. for accounting, and Monitoring, Reporting and Verification). The authors identify three categories of policy interventions to address these barriers and set out three Policy Bundles to enable the scaling up of geological GGR.
on Bellona Europa.org
In the context of the EU’s Carbon Removal Certification Mechanism, Bellona suggests 3 basics that should guide the EU’s approach to CDR.
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Chad M. Baum, Sean Low IN: Risk Analysis, https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13932
In this study, the authors utilize a large and novel set of qualitative expert interview data to more deeply and systematically explore the types of risk–risk tradeoffs that may emerge from the use of 20 different climate geoengineering options, 10 that focus on carbon dioxide or greenhouse gas removal, and 10 that focus on solar radiation management and reflecting sunlight.
