The Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy is a research center dedicated to assessing the social, legal, ethical, and political implications of carbon removal technologies and practices.
Together with traditional mitigation actions, including cutting greenhouse gas emissions, carbon removal may help the world avoid dangerous climate change impacts. There will be good and bad ways to develop and use particular carbon removal options. We know that carbon removal cannot act as a panacea or “solve” climate change. This emerging field is fraught with uncertainties, both in terms of the potential risks associated with large-scale deployment of many of these approaches as well as the ultimate potential of carbon removal. None of these technologies are yet proven to work at scale, and each raises a set of environmental and social benefits and risks that are still poorly understood. The Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy is dedicated to developing a comprehensive set of tools to assess these technologies and practices, individually and as a suite, at local, national, and global levels.
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This Carbon Removal Explainer details what carbon removal is, why it is important, and the role carbon removal has to play in climate policy. It aims to cover the most important aspects of CDR, define various technical approaches, and serve as a backgrounder and resource.
Read our End of Year Report that details recent research publications, educational resources, and collaborative events of 2019. Importantly, it also notes our plans for the year ahead.
Matthew Nisbet looks at how carbon removal has suddenly appeared on the climate policy agenda, why the entire field needs additional scrutiny, and how to build a better CDR conversation.
ICRLP Faculty Fellow Jason Funk co-authored a report on integrating nature into Nationally Determined Contributions.
Read our new report mapping the landscape of the carbon removal conversation.
Fact sheets provide educational introductions to various carbon removal technologies.
The plain English abstract project explains recent academic publications on carbon removal in ways that are more accessible to non-specialists.
