Week 2 Edition Professor Wil Burns, Environmental Policy & Culture Program, Northwestern University In this week’s edition, I’ll highlight a new support mechanism for CDR start-ups, and two important new studies on blue carbon and anticipatory governance of greenhouse gas removal approaches. Story 1: Third Derivative (D³) CDR Cohort Launch The global climate technology accelerator, Third Derivative (D3), announced this week that it was establishing a cohort of five carbon dioxide…

Week 1 Edition Professor Wil Burns, Environmental Policy & Culture Program, Northwestern University This is the first installment of a new column that will seek to highlight “three big stories” in the realm of carbon dioxide removal each week. …

Wil Burns, Visiting Professor, Environmental Policy & Culture Program, Northwestern University — As a number of studies in recent years have concluded, the temperature objectives of the Paris Agreement can likely only be effectuated at this point by a combination of aggressive decarbonization of the global economy AND large-scale deployment of so-called carbon dioxide removal options. The lion’s share of the early…

Top Stories in Carbon Dioxide Removal in 2021 In the future, the climate community may recognize 2021 as the inflection point when carbon dioxide removal (CDR) transitioned from a niche concept to a central component of climate interventions. It thus seemed like a good time to launch an annual column on the top stories in this rapidly emerging…