Pozo, Carlos; Galán-Martín, Ángel; Reiner, David M.; Mac Dowell, Niall; Guillén-Gosálbez, Gonzalo (2020): Equity in allocating carbon dioxide removal quotas. In Nat. Clim. Chang. DOI: 10.1038/s41558-020-0802-4.

"Drawing on existing equity frameworks, we allocate CDR quotas globally according to Responsibility, Capability and Equality principles. These quotas are then assessed in the European Union context by accounting for domestic national capacity of a portfolio of CDR options, including bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, reforestation and direct air capture. We find that quotas vary greatly across principles, from 33 to 325 GtCO₂ allocated to the European Union, and, due to biophysical limits, only a handful of countries could meet their quotas acting individually. These results support strengthening cross-border cooperation while highlighting the need to urgently deploy CDR options to mitigate the risk of failing to meet the climate targets equitably."

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Markusson, Nils, Nazmiye Balta-Ozkan, Jason Chilvers, Peter Healey, David Reiner, and Duncan McLaren. 2020: “Social Science Sequestered.” Frontiers in Climate. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2020.00002.

"Greenhouse gas removal (GGR) raises many cultural, ethical, legal, social and political issues, yet in the growing area of GGR research, humanities and social sciences (HASS) research is often marginalised, constrained and depoliticised. This global dynamic is illustrated by an analysis of the UK GGR research programme."

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"The discussion has recently taken centre stage as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the U.S. received $4 million to research geoengineering, with no confirmation as to what that might look like."

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Winsberg, Eric (2019): A modest defense of geoengineering research. [Preprint].

"This paper examines the ethics of geoengineering research--particular research regarding solar radiation management using stratospheric aerosols. It takes a broadly consequentialist approach. The goal is to estimate the expected utility of conducting the research itself."

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