"In 2019, CEA was hired to convene a group of leading scientists and philanthropic funders to discuss the current state of knowledge on ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE), a potentially promising carbon dioxide removal strategy. In preparation of the meeting, CEA produced a comprehensive primer highlighting the technological approaches and open questions and reviewed the known and unknown potential ecosystem implications of OAE. After a productive convening in September 2019, CEA produced a proceedings document, co-authored by attending experts. The proceedings document includes a summary of philanthropic investment opportunities discussed during the meeting."

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"Supplying more of our own biomass will cut costs and reduce supply chain risks, ensuring our biomass power generation remains viable in the long term. When combined with carbon capture it will also enable negative emissions, helping the UK on its path to net zero by 2050."

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The newsletter of calendar week 47 in 2019 is now available here.

Wagner, Gernot, and Daniel Zizzamia. 2019. “Green Moral Hazards.” SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3486990.

"‌When a green moral hazard is applied, its adherents attempt to wrestle with the chimera to make a political statement about the world. Thus, rather than retreating into the labyrinth of the green moral hazard and pitting technofixes against deeper systemic transformation, technofixes like geoengineering should be discussed out in the open in ways that encourage what philosopher Helen Longino labels, “transformative criticism.” Doing so would also greatly expand the attention paid to the underlying environmental problem in the first place, in essence using (solar) geoengineering to expand the broader climate conversation."

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