{"id":200,"date":"2020-11-16T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.american.edu\/carbonremoval\/?p=200"},"modified":"2020-12-20T15:48:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T20:48:46","slug":"negative-emissions-and-the-long-history-of-carbon-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.american.edu\/carbonremoval\/2020\/11\/16\/negative-emissions-and-the-long-history-of-carbon-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Negative Emissions and The Long History of Carbon Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Authors<\/strong>: Wim Carton, Adeniyi Asiyanbi, Silke Beck, Holly J. Buck, Jens F. Lund<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/wcc.671<\/p>\n<p>Prepared for the\u00a0<a class=\"c-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.carbonremoval.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"http:\/\/www.carbonremoval.info\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-43\">Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recent IPCC assessments highlight a key role for large-scale carbon removal in meeting the objectives of the Paris Agreement. This focus on removal, also referred to as negative emissions, is suggestive of novel opportunities, risks, and challenges in addressing climate change, but tends to build on the narrow techno-economic framings that characterize integrated assessment modeling. While the discussion on negative emissions bears important parallels to a wider and older literature on carbon sequestration and carbon sinks, this earlier scholarship\u2014particularly from the critical social sciences\u2014is seldom engaged with by the negative emissions research community. In this article, we survey this \u201clong history\u201d of carbon removal and seek to draw out lessons for ongoing research and the emerging public debate on negative emissions. We argue that research and policy on negative emissions should proceed not just from projections of the future, but also from an acknowledgment of past controversies, successes and failures. In particular, our review calls attention to the irreducibly political character of carbon removal imaginaries and accounting practices and urges acknowledgment of past experiences with the implementation of (small-scale) carbon sequestration projects. Our review in this way highlights the importance of seeing continuity in the carbon removal discussion and calls for more engagement with existing social science scholarship on the subject. Acknowledging continuity and embracing an interdisciplinary research agenda on carbon removal are important aspects in making climate change mitigation research more responsible, and a precondition to avoid repeating past mistakes and failures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: Wim Carton, Adeniyi Asiyanbi, Silke Beck, Holly J. Buck, Jens F. Lund https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/wcc.671 Prepared for the\u00a0Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy Recent IPCC assessments highlight a key role for large-scale carbon removal in meeting the objectives of the Paris Agreement. This focus on removal, also referred to as negative emissions, is suggestive of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.american.edu\/carbonremoval\/2020\/11\/16\/negative-emissions-and-the-long-history-of-carbon-removal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Negative Emissions and The Long History of Carbon Removal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.american.edu\/carbonremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.american.edu\/carbonremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.american.edu\/carbonremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.american.edu\/carbonremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.american.edu\/carbonremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.american.edu\/carbonremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.american.edu\/carbonremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.american.edu\/carbonremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.american.edu\/carbonremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}