Is carbon removal delaying emission reductions?

W Carton, IM Hougaard, N Markusson… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dioxide removal is rapidly becoming a key focus in climate research and politics.
This is raising concerns of “moral hazard” or “mitigation deterrence,” that is, the risk that …

Evaluating climate geoengineering proposals in the context of the Paris Agreement temperature goals

MG Lawrence, S Schäfer, H Muri, V Scott… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Current mitigation efforts and existing future commitments are inadequate to accomplish the
Paris Agreement temperature goals. In light of this, research and debate are intensifying on …

[HTML][HTML] The next climate war? Statecraft, security, and weaponization in the geopolitics of a low-carbon future

BK Sovacool, C Baum, S Low - Energy Strategy Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The impacts of global climate change on international security and geopolitics could be of
historic proportion, challenging those of previous global threats such as nuclear weapons …

Solar geoengineering as part of an overall strategy for meeting the 1.5 C Paris target

DG MacMartin, KL Ricke… - … Transactions of the …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Solar geoengineering refers to deliberately reducing net radiative forcing by reflecting some
sunlight back to space, in order to reduce anthropogenic climate changes; a possible such …

Potentially dangerous consequences for biodiversity of solar geoengineering implementation and termination

CH Trisos, G Amatulli, J Gurevitch, A Robock… - Nature Ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Solar geoengineering is receiving increased policy attention as a potential tool to offset
climate warming. While climate responses to geoengineering have been studied in detail …

Solar geoengineering to reduce climate change: a review of governance proposals

JL Reynolds - Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Although solar geoengineering (alternatively 'solar radiation management'or 'solar radiation
modification') appears to offer a potentially effective, inexpensive and technologically …

[HTML][HTML] Reckless or righteous? Reviewing the sociotechnical benefits and risks of climate change geoengineering

BK Sovacool - Energy Strategy Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Geoengineering options such as negative emissions technologies (NETs) or greenhouse
gas removal (GGR) may need to contribute towards decarbonization, by removing CO 2 from …

A fate worse than warming? Stratospheric aerosol injection and global catastrophic risk

A Tang, L Kemp - Frontiers in Climate, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Injecting particles into atmosphere to reflect sunlight, stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI),
represents a potential technological solution to the threat of climate change. But could the …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond climate stabilization: Exploring the perceived sociotechnical co-impacts of carbon removal and solar geoengineering

BK Sovacool, CM Baum, S Low - Ecological Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
The scientific literature on the co-impacts of low-carbon energy systems—positive and
negative side effects—has focused intently on climate mitigation, or climate adaptation. It …

The international politics of geoengineering: The feasibility of Plan B for tackling climate change

O Corry - Security Dialogue, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Geoengineering technologies aim to make large-scale and deliberate interventions in the
climate system possible. A typical framing is that researchers are exploring a 'Plan B'in case …