This listing includes all working papers, articles, reports, book and book chapters from our staff at the Institute around topics of carbon dioxide removal.

Publications 

• Amundson, Ronald, Holly Buck, and Kate Lajtha. “Soil Science in the Time of Climate Mitigation.” Biogeochemistry 161, no. 1 (October 1, 2022): 47–58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-022-00952-6.

• Anderegg, William R. L., Oriana S. Chegwidden, Grayson Badgley, Anna T. Trugman, Danny Cullenward, John T. Abatzoglou, Jeffrey A. Hicke, Jeremy Freeman, and Joseph J. Hamman. “Future Climate Risks from Stress, Insects and Fire across US Forests.” Ecology Letters 25, no. 6 (June 2022): 1510–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14018.

• Badgley, Grayson, Freya Chay, Oriana S. Chegwidden, Joseph J. Hamman, Jeremy Freeman, and Danny Cullenward. “California’s Forest Carbon Offsets Buffer Pool Is Severely Undercapitalized.” bioRxiv, April 29, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.27.488938.

• Buck, Holly Jean. “Mining the Air: Political Ecologies of the Circular Carbon Economy.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 5, no. 3 (September 1, 2022): 1086–1105. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211061452.

• Buck, Holly Jean, and Alexis Palumbo-Compton. “Soil Carbon Sequestration as a Climate Strategy: What Do Farmers Think?” Biogeochemistry 161, no. 1 (October 1, 2022): 59–70. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-022-00948-2. 

• Buck, Holly, Wim Carton, Jens Lund, and Nils Markusson. “Why Residual Emissions Matter Right Now.” SSRN Scholarly Paper. Rochester, NY, March 29, 2022. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4069521.

• Burns, Wil. “Marine Scientific Research for Carbon Dioxide Removal under the Law of the Sea Convention”, 75 Maine Law Review (2022) 
• Burns, Wil. “The Aspen Institute’s Guidance for Ocean-based Carbon Dioxide Removal Projects”, 17(1) Journal of Ocean Technology (2022) 
• Cooley, Sarah R., Sonja Klinsky, David R. Morrow, and Terre Satterfield. “Sociotechnical Considerations About Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal.” Annual Review of Marine Science 15, no. 1 (2023): 41–66. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-032122-113850.

• Morton, Evvan, Elisabeth Graffy, Klaus Lackner, and Brad Allenby. “Removing Carbon From the Atmosphere Must Be Part of Climate Change Policy.” Issues in Science and Technology (blog), June 10, 2021. https://issues.org/carbon-removal-technology-climate-policy-morton-graffy-lackner-allenby/.

• Nawaz, Sara, Guillaume Peterson St-Laurent, and Terre Satterfield. “Public Evaluations of Four Approaches to Ocean-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal.” Climate Policy 0, no. 0 (February 24, 2023): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2023.2179589.

• Satterfield, Terre, Sara Nawaz, and Guillaume Peterson St-Laurent. “Exploring Public Acceptability of Direct Air Carbon Capture with Storage: Climate Urgency, Moral Hazards and Perceptions of the ‘Whole versus the Parts.’” Climatic Change 176, no. 2 (2023): 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-023-03483-7

• Wil Burns, The Aspen Institute’s Guidance for Ocean-based Carbon Dioxide Removal Projects, 17(1) JOURNAL OF OCEAN TECHNOLOGY vi-vii (2022) 

Books, Book Chapters & Essays

•  "Survive of the Century". Nicholson, Simon, Trisos, Chris, and Sam Beckbessinger. 2022. Three Kids in a Trenchcoat Limited. 

• Burns, Wil, and Simon Nicholson. “Introduction: Climate Geoengineering Law and Governance.” Essay. In Climate Geoengineering Law and Governance, edited by David Dana, VI-252. Springer International Publishing, 2021. 
•  David R. Morrow Values in Climate Policy. London, U.K.: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020. 
• David R. Morrow ed. Benjamin Hale and Andrew Light. “Moral Bases of Responses to Climate Change.” Essay. In Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics. Routledge, 2019. 
• David R. Morrow, ed. J. Britt Holbrook. “Geoengineering.” Essay. In Ethics, Science, Technology, and Engineering: A Global Resource. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015. 
• Duncan McClaren, Wil Burns, Debate 9: Negative-Emission Technologies -It Would Be Irresponsible, Unethical, and Unlawful to Rely on NETs at Large Scale Instead of Mitigation, DEBATING CLIMATE LAW (Cambridge University Press, 2021) 
• Simon Nicholson, Burns, Wil, and Dana, David . Climate Geoengineering: Law and Governance. Springer International Publishing, 2021. 
• Simon Nicholson, ed. Judith Shapiro, and John-Andrew McNeish. “Carbon Removal and the Dangers of Extractivism.” Essay. In Our Hyperextractive Age: Violence and Resistance on a Shrinking Planet, 189–203. Routledge, 2021. 

• Simon Nicholson, and Thompson, Michael Thompson ed. Jason J. Blackstock and Sean Low. “Strange Bedfellows: Climate Engineering Politics in the United States.” Essay. In Geoengineering Our Climate?: Ethics, Politics, and Governance, 164–69. Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. 

• Simon Nicholson. “Intelligent Design? Unpacking Geoengineering’s Hidden Sacrifices.” The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice, 2010, 271–90. 
• Simon Nicholson. “The Promises and Perils of Geoengineering.” Worldwatch Institute: State of the World 2013, 2013, 317–31. 
• Wil Burns, The Law of Climate Carbon Dioxide Removal, LAW OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (ELI, Thomson-Reuters, 2021) 
• Wil Burns, Human Rights Dimensions of Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage: A Framework for Climate Justice in the Realm of Climate Geoengineering, CLIMATE JUSTICE: CASE STUDIES IN GLOBAL AND REGIONAL CHALLENGES (Randy Abate, ed., Environmental Law Institute Press, 2016) 
• Wil Burns, Simon Nicholson, Climate Geoengineering: Promise or Peril on a New Earth?, NEW EARTH POLITICS (Nicholson & Jinnah, eds., MIT Press, 2016)

Articles

• Wil Burns. “The Aspen Institute’s Guidance for Ocean-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal Projects.” Scrubbing the Skies: Carbon Dioxide Removal and Climate Change (blog), February 28, 2022. 
• Wil Burns. "A Trillion Trees to fight climate change sounds nice. Here’s what it misses." Indianapolis Star, December 20, 2020
• Wil Burns. "Congress passes Inflation Reduction Act: Its sweeping climate promises rely heavily on carbon capture, meaning thousands of miles of pipeline." The Conversation. August 12, 2022
• Wil Burns, "Can Kelp Help? The Potential Role of “Ocean Afforestation.” Illuminem. July 13, 2022
• Wil Burns & Toby Bryce. "States can be laboratories for climate policy," The Hill. March 17, 2022
• Wil Burns & Toby Bryce. "A Bid to Provide Market Support to Scale Durable Carbon Removal: New York’s Carbon Dioxide Removal Leadership Act." Illuminem. March 9, 2022
• Wil Burns. "Seeing the Forest for the Trees?: The Role of Afforestation and Reforestation in Combating Climate Change." American Bar Association. January 14, 2021
• Wil Burns, "The Green New Deal and Carbon Dioxide Removal Options." Energy Central. September 4, 2020
• Wil Burns & Greg H. Rau. Can we tweak marine chemistry to help stave off climate change? The Conversation. March 12, 2019.  

Reports and Special Issues

•  David R. Morrow & Simon Nicholson. "Sustainable Carbon Removal." Washington, DC: Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy, American University, 2021.
• David R Morrow, H.J. Buck, Wil. Burns, Simon Nicholson, and C. Turkaly. “Why Talk About Carbon Removal?” Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy, American University, 2020, 1–26. 
• David R. Morrow, and M.S. Thompson. “Remove, Reduce, Recycle: Clarifying the Overlap between Carbon Removal and CCUS.” Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy, American University, no. 2 (2020).