TY - JOUR
T1 - An earth system governance research agenda for carbon removal
AU - Low, Sean
AU - Boettcher, Miranda
AU - Asayama, Shinichiro
AU - Baum, Chad
AU - Borth, Amanda
AU - Brown, Calum
AU - Clingerman, Forrest
AU - Dauvergne, Peter
AU - De Pryck, Kari
AU - Gupta, Aarti
AU - Honegger, Matthias
AU - Lenzi, Dominic
AU - Reitsma, Renate
AU - Schenuit, Felix
AU - Scott-Buechler, Celina
AU - Valenzuela, Jose Maria
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Authors
PY - 2024/1
Y1 - 2024/1
N2 - Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) – the creation, enhancement, and upscaling of carbon sinks – has become a pillar of national and corporate commitments towards Net Zero emissions, as well as pathways towards realizing the Paris Agreement's ambitious temperature targets. In this perspective, we explore CDR as an emerging issue of Earth System Governance (ESG). We draw on the results of a workshop at the 2022 Earth System Governance conference that mapped a range of actors, activities, and issues relevant to carbon removal, and refined them into research questions spanning four intersecting areas: modeling and systems assessment, societal appraisal, policy, and innovation and industry. We filter these questions through the five lenses of the ESG framework and highlight several key ‘cross-cutting’ issues that could form the basis of an integrated ESG research agenda on CDR.
AB - Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) – the creation, enhancement, and upscaling of carbon sinks – has become a pillar of national and corporate commitments towards Net Zero emissions, as well as pathways towards realizing the Paris Agreement's ambitious temperature targets. In this perspective, we explore CDR as an emerging issue of Earth System Governance (ESG). We draw on the results of a workshop at the 2022 Earth System Governance conference that mapped a range of actors, activities, and issues relevant to carbon removal, and refined them into research questions spanning four intersecting areas: modeling and systems assessment, societal appraisal, policy, and innovation and industry. We filter these questions through the five lenses of the ESG framework and highlight several key ‘cross-cutting’ issues that could form the basis of an integrated ESG research agenda on CDR.
KW - Assessment
KW - Carbon dioxide removal
KW - Climate governance
KW - Earth system governance
KW - Innovation
KW - Policy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85184617445&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.esg.2024.100204
DO - 10.1016/j.esg.2024.100204
M3 - Article
SN - 2589-8116
VL - 19
JO - Earth System Governance
JF - Earth System Governance
M1 - 100204
ER -