What do we need to know to safely store CO2 beneath our shelf seas? Stakeholder workshop report
The Agile Initiative (2024)
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This report summarises the content and discussion of an Agile Initiative workshop held at the University of Oxford on March 1st 2024, discussing “what do we need to know to safely store CO2 in our UK continental shelf seas?”Regulating net zero: from groundswell to ground rules
Nature Climate Change Springer Nature 14:4 (2024) 306-308
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Following a groundswell of voluntary net-zero targets by companies, regulators are increasingly introducing mandatory rules. If governments can overcome the barriers to rigour, coherence and fairness, such mandatory ‘ground rules’ have the potential to overcome the obstructionism that holds back a just climate transition.Comment on ‘Attribution of modern Andean glacier mass loss requires successful hindcast of pre-industrial glacier changes’ by Sebastian Lüning et al.
Journal of South American Earth Sciences Elsevier 133 (2023) 104692
A review of commercialisation mechanisms for carbon dioxide removal
Frontiers in Climate Frontiers Media 4 (2023) 1101525
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The deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) needs to be scaled up to achieve net zero emission pledges. In this paper we survey the policy mechanisms currently in place globally to incentivise CDR, together with an estimate of what different mechanisms are paying per tonne of CDR, and how those costs are currently distributed. Incentive structures are grouped into three structures, market-based, public procurement, and fiscal mechanisms. We find the majority of mechanisms currently in operation are underresourced and pay too little to enable a portfolio of CDR that could support achievement of net zero. The majority of mechanisms are concentrated in market-based and fiscal structures, specifically carbon markets and subsidies. While not primarily motivated by CDR, mechanisms tend to support established afforestation and soil carbon sequestration methods. Mechanisms for geological CDR remain largely underdeveloped relative to the requirements of modelled net zero scenarios. Commercialisation pathways for CDR require suitable policies and markets throughout the projects development cycle. Discussion and investment in CDR has tended to focus on technology development. Our findings suggest that an equal or greater emphasis on policy innovation may be required if future requirements for CDR are to be met. This study can further support research and policy on the identification of incentive gaps and realistic potential for CDR globally.Net zero: science, origins, and implications
Annual Review of Environment and Resources Annual Reviews 47:1 (2022)