11.02.2019

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Capito: Capito, Bipartisan Group Reintroduce Bill to Promote Carbon Capture Research, Development

"WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) today joined with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) to reintroduce S. 383, the Utilizing Significant Emissions with Innovative Technologies (USE IT) Act. The legislation is co-sponsored by EPW Committee Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as well as Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), and Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.). "

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11.02.2019

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Deutscher Bundestag (German Parliament): Status quo "Negative Emissions": Promotion of CO2 Extraction Technologies (German)

German press release on Negative Emissions

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29.11.2018

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C2G2: Governing large-scale carbon dioxide removal: are we ready?

"In 2015, Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agreed to limit global temperature increase to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 °C . This goal is to be operationalized in part through achievement of a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks, as stated in Article 4 of the UNFCCC’s Paris Agreement."

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12.11.2018

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C2G2: Governing Solar Radiation Modification (SRM)

"Solar Radiation Modification (SRM), also known as Solar Radiation Management, Radiation Modification Measures or Solar
Geoengineering, would aim to address a symptom of climate change by reflecting more sunlight back into space, or by
allowing more infrared radiation from Earth to escape, in order to reduce the Earth’s temperature. It includes numerous
proposed methods which differ significantly. None are ready for deployment. Solar Radiation Modification could not be a
substitute for reducing emissions, or removing atmospheric CO2."

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22.10.2018

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Deutscher Bundestag (German Parliament): Rules for Marine Geoengineering (German)

German press release on marine geoengineering

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22.10.2018

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C2G2: Janos Pasztor, Executive Director of the Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative, Former United Nations Assistant Secretary - General on Climate Change

"Embracing a New Era of Eco-civilization and Building a Community of Shared Future for Green Development"

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13.10.2018

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IPCC: Global Warming of 1.5°C

"Global Warming of 1.5°C an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty"

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08.10.2018

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IPCC: Global Warming of 1.5 °C. Summery for Policymakers

"GLOBAL WARMING OF 1.5 °C an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty."

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03.10.2018

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IPCC: Adoption of the Paris Agreement

"Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (decision 1/CP.17) Adoption of a protocol, another legal instrument, or an agreed outcome with legal force under the Convention applicable to all Parties"

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01.10.2018

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IPCC: Opening Statement by Hoesung Lee

"This is one of the most important meetings in the IPCC’s history."

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