Amador, Giana; Jacobson, Rory; Kosar, Ugbaard; Simonelli, Lucia; Steeves, Tim; Suarez, Vanessa et al. (2020): Transition Book. Priorities for Administrative Action on Carbon Removal in 2021+. Edited by Emily Reich. Carbon180.

"The next administration will need to take bold action in 2021 and beyond to drastically and swiftly reduce emissions across all sectors of the economy. This report serves as a guide for transition teams as they explore pathways for administrative action on climate."

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Rackley, Steve (2020): Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement. A preliminary research agenda and maturation roadmap. CarbonActionNow!

"This working paper follows the NASEM approach in establishing a preliminary research agenda for ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE), and also outlines a technology maturation roadmap towards large-scale deployment. The two-fold aim of this work is, firstly, to focus R&D attention on knowledge gaps that must be closed to enable informed decisions on OAE demonstration and later deployment activity and, secondly, to identify the potential longer term, primarily non-technical barriers to impact scale OAE deployment that need to be addressed, in parallel with other early stage work, in order to provide the foundation for such deployment, if this is eventually undertaken."

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S. Julio Friedmann, Zhiyuan Fan, Zachary Byrum, Emeka Ochu, Amar Bhardwaj, and Hadia Sheerazi (2020): Levelized Cost of Carbon Abatement: An Improved Cost-Assessment Methodology for a Net-Zero Emissions World. Carbon Management Research Initiative at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. October 2020.

"This paper, from the Carbon Management Research Initiative at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, puts forward a levelized cost of carbon abatement, LCCA, an improved methodology for comparing technologies and policies based on the cost of carbon abatement."

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"President Trump last week issued an executive order that creates a council to implement the One Trillion Trees Initiative. The initiative calls for forest restoration and conservation to protect local ecosystems and to provide the carbon capture necessary to mitigate climate change. While the president’s commitment and executive order are a promising first step in necessary policymaking, it is difficult to determine what they mean in practice."

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