Visioni, Daniele; MacMartin, Douglas G.; Kravitz, Ben (2021): Is Turning Down the Sun a Good Proxy for Stratospheric Sulfate Geoengineering? In Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. DOI: 10.1029/2020JD033952.

"Here we show that dimming the sun does not produce the same surface climate effects as simulating aerosols in the stratosphere."

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Zhu, Yuanzhuo; Zhang, Zhihua; Crabbe, M. James C. (2021): Extreme climate response to marine cloud brightening in the arid Sahara-Sahel-Arabian Peninsula zone. In International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management. DOI: 10.1108/IJCCSM-06-2020-0051.

"Climatic extreme events are predicted to occur more frequently and intensely and will significantly threat the living of residents in arid and semi-arid regions. Therefore, this study aims to assess climatic extremes’ response to the emerging climate change mitigation strategy using a marine cloud brightening (MCB) scheme."

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Brander, Matthew; Ascui, Francisco; Scott, Vivian; Tett, Simon (2021): Carbon accounting for negative emissions technologies. In Climate Policy, pp. 1–19. DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2021.1878009.

"Based on a systematic literature review this study identifies five distinct accounting issues related to NETs: 1. estimating total system-wide change in emissions/removals; 2. non-permanence; 3. non-equivalence of ‘no overshoot’ and ‘overshoot and removal’; 4. accounting for incentives for NETs; and 5. the temporal distribution of emissions/removals."

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Watt, Robert (2021): The fantasy of carbon offsetting. In Environmental Politics, pp. 1–20. DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2021.1877063.

"Carbon offsetting has been beset by problems and failures, and relies on the mobilisation of supportive discourses and knowledge-claims to retain a sense of credibility. Psycho-analytical ideology critique can help explain how these processes interact with questions of subjectivity. Analysis of interviews with carbon offset market practitioners suggests that identification with carbon offsetting is only partial, and that it is sustained through disavowal, through trust in the authority of the Other, and through desire for carbon offsetting’s unrealisable promises."

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