17.12.2019

# Political Papers

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Nisbet, Matthew C. (2019): The Carbon Removal Debate. Asking Critical Questions About Climate Change Futures

Nisbet, Matthew C. (2019): The Carbon Removal Debate. Asking Critical Questions About Climate Change Futures. Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy. School of International Service, American University. Washington, D.C.

"In this report commissioned by the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy, communication scholar Matthew Nisbet looks at how it is that carbon removal has suddenly appeared on the climate policy agenda, why the entire field needs additional scrutiny, and how to build a better carbon removal conversation."

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28.11.2019

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UCalgary News: What's wrong with geoengineering climate change?

"Researchers have been coming up with some pretty interesting ideas on how to slow down climate change. From sucking carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases out of the air, to shooting particles in the stratosphere to reduce the amount of the sun’s heat from reaching Earth. But have you ever stopped to think about the potentially negative effects these ideas may have in our quest to abate climate change?"

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24.11.2019

# New Publications

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Morrow, D.R. (2019): A Mission-Driven Research Program on Solar Geoengineering Could Promote Justice and Legitimacy

Morrow, David R (2019): “A Mission-Driven Research Program on Solar Geoengineering Could Promote Justice and Legitimacy.” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2020.1694220

"Building on the largely epistemic reasons offered by earlier commentators, this paper argues that a well-designed mission-driven research program that aims to evaluate solar geoengineering could promote justice and legitimacy, among other valuable ends."

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08.11.2019

# New Publications

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Kaplan, Leah; et al. (2019): Cooling a Warming Planet? Public Forums on limate Intervention Research

Kaplan, Leah; Nelson, John; Tomblin, David; Farooque, Mahmud; Lloyd, Jason; Neff, Mark et al. (2019): "Cooling a Warming Planet? Public Forums on limate Intervention Research." ASU Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes. Washington, DC. Available online at https://cspo.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/SRM_book_EPUB.pdf.

"CSPO and its partners, including the Expert and Citizen Assessment of Science and Technology (ECAST) network and the ASU-based PlanetWorks initiative, used participatory technology assessment (pTA), a method of determining public values and opinions to help inform up-stream decision-making, as an instrument to elicit views on the governance of SRM research. After an iterative design process with both technical experts and members of the lay public, CSPO hosted two day-long public deliberations on the governance of SRM research in Boston and Phoenix in September 2018."

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01.11.2019

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Energy Futures Initiative (2019): Clearing the Air: A Federal RD&D Initiative and Management Plan for Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies

Energy Futures Initiative (2019): Clearing the Air: A Federal RD&D Initiative and Management Plan for Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies. September 2019. https://energyfuturesinitiative.org/efi-reports.

"The report outlines a 10-year RD&D initiative to bring to commercial readiness innovative CDR technologies at gigaton scale, at technology-specific cost targets, with minimal ecological impacts."

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05.10.2019

# New Publications

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Boettcher, M. (2019): Cracking the code: how discursive structures shape climate engineering research governance

Boettcher, Miranda (2019): Cracking the code: how discursive structures shape climate engineering research governance. In: Environmental Politics 31 (2), S. 1–27. DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2019.1670987.

"I present a sociology-of-knowledge-based discourse analysis (SKAD) of a series of interviews with governance experts from the US, the UK and Germany about a proposed Code of Conduct for climate engineering research. I illustrate how – by shaping what is defined as the object(s) of governance, why governance is considered necessary, and who is assigned the authority to govern – the underlying discursive structure of a given governance debate can shape governance development."

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01.10.2019

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Call for comments: AGU position statement on climate

"We encourage our members to engage in the process by reviewing the current position statements out for review and submitting their comments via the forms linked after the draft statements. If a position statement is not listed below, it is not up for comment.

Statements up for review

  1. Position statement "Society Must Address the Growing Climate Crisis Now"; Member comment period ends: 13 October at 12:00 a.m.

  2. Position statement "Principles Towards a Data Culture of Use, Sharing, Curation, and Attribution"; Member comment period ends: 13 October at 12:00 a.m."


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17.09.2019

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GOV.UK: Over £500m new investment in green technologies for a cleaner and healthier future

"Plans for a cleaner and healthier Britain stepped up a gear today (10 September 2019), as Ministers announced more than half a billion pounds of investment in green technologies."

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16.09.2019

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Harvard University Blog: Funding for Solar Geoengineering from 2008 to 2018

Updated blog post. "As the visibility of solar geoengineering research grows, we thought it would be useful to provide a publicly accessible record of the solar geoengineering projects that have been funded over the past ten years."

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17.07.2019

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Forum for Climate Enigneering Assessment: When essential research might be a bad thing. The carbon removal research dilemma. (Blogpost)

"The UK recently adopted a legislative 2050 target for ‘net-zero’ climate-changing emissions. Other countries are also moving towards similar goals. Such targets are hugely welcome in the face of growing climate change impacts. Yet delivering ‘net-zero’ depends not only on accelerated mitigation, but also critically on the development and deployment of carbon removal techniques. This creates something of a dilemma."

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