Lederer, Markus; Kreuter, Judith (2018): Organising the unthinkable in times of crises. Will climate engineering become the weapon of last resort in the Anthropocene? In Organization 4, 135050841875918. DOI: 10.1177/1350508418759186.

"In this article, we ask how the approaches of climate engineering – mostly highly technological approaches to address the challenge of global climate change – might be organised in the age of the Anthropocene. We understand the term ‘Anthropocene’ to be characterised by crisis, on one hand, and by promise, on the other. In particular, we aim to raise doubts on the dominant perspective on the organisation of climate engineering, which assumes these approaches to be regulated through legalistic means. Drawing an analogy to the early development stages of nuclear weapons, we point out that, instead of following a legalistic rationale, climate engineering organisation might pursue a logic of technical feasibility, political acceptance and bureaucratic momentum."

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Deadline: 02. April 2018

"ETC Group is hiring! Come join our small and dynamic team, working closely across continents on socioeconomic and ecological issues surrounding new technologies.  We are currently looking to fill 3 positions."

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Muri, Helene (2018): The role of large - scale BECCS in the pursuit of the 1.5°C target – an Earth system model perspective. In Environ. Res. Lett. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aab324.

"Here, the potential of large-scale BECCS deployment in contributing towards the 1.5ºC global warming target is evaluated using an Earth system model, as well as associated climate responses and carbon cycle feedbacks. The geographical location of the bioenergy feedstock is shown to be key to the success of such measures in the context of temperature targets. Although net negative emissions were reached sooner, by ~6 years, and scaled up, land use change emissions and reductions in forest carbon sinks outweigh these effects in one scenario."

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