Reviewer 2 does geoengineering

Steve Smith and reviewer2 debate the merits of carbon offsetting and discuss the new Oxford Offsetting Principles. 

The principles are available at https://www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/publications/reports/Oxford-Offsetting-Principles-2020.pdf

Comments and suggestions please to @reviewer2geo or @geoengineering1 or clare_nomad_geo. 

Any one who would like to be on the show as interviewer or interviewee or has a burning topic they want us to address, please let us know. 

Derek Lemoine and reviewer 2 have a lively discussion of market mechanisms and negative emissions, in particular discussing Derek's upcoming paper "Incentivising Negative Emissions Through Carbon Shares" available at https://www.nber.org/papers/w27880. 

 A free version of this and other work is available at https://www.dereklemoine.com/

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We hope you enjoy this fascinating discussion. 

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Hello and we hope you enjoy this week's edition of the podcast. We really want your feedback and ideas for the show, and please tell your friends and colleagues how useful and entertaining the podcast is as we would like to have as wide an audience as possible ! If you have a new paper that you would like to discuss, or any comments or suggestions:

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Here are links for most of the headline items we chat about this week. 

International renewable energy agency. 

IRENA (2020), A summary of Reaching zero with renewables: Eliminating CO2 emissions from industry and transport in line with the 1.5 oC climate goal, International Renewable Energy Agency, Abu Dhabi.  

https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication/2020/Sep/IRENA_ReachingZero_Summary_2020.pdf?la=en&hash=7FD100C3C26E161D6C1217B88C1FB7E847D7F08F

The hysteresis of the Antarctic Ice Sheet Nature volume 585, pages538–544(2020)

Pale Blue Dot Energy and Carbon Engineering create partnership to deploy Direct Air Capture in the UK

https://theacornproject.uk/2020/09/04/hydrogen-in-scotland-the-role-of-acorn-hydrogen-in-enabling-net-zero/ 

BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP -Think small to unlock carbon capture’s big potential 

 https://www.bcg.com/publications/2020/unlocking-carbon-captures-potential

E-FUELS IN AVIATION

https://climeworkscom.cdn.prismic.io/climeworkscom/2a98e4e8-6d4d-4509-91cb-27c5374813b1_Building+a+Truly+Sustainable+Aviation+Industry+-+Accenture+Point+of+View.pdf. Accenture report 

MCKINSEY DOES GEOENGINEERING 

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/sustainability/our-insights/driving-co2-emissions-to-zero-and-beyond-with-carbon-capture-use-and-storage#

Norway funds world’s first full-scale carbon capture and storage project

Michelle Lewis

- Sep. 21st 2020 6:27 pm ET

https://electrek.co/2020/09/21/norway-world-first-carbon-capture-storage-project/

https://twitter.com/greenSandco2 OLIVINE CARBON CAPTURE 'GREENSAND'

ALSO SEE https://projectvesta.org Capturing a trillion tonnes of excess CO2 in rock using the power of natural wave energy

THE OXFORD PRINCIPLES FOR NET ZERO ALIGNED CARBON OFFSETTING 

 https://www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/publications/reports/Oxford-Offsetting-Principles-2020.pdf

FOREST / RESTORATION

LatamList – Pachama, a carbon-offsetting marketplace, secured an additional $5M extension to its Seed round from multiple investors to fight deforestation. The round included investors such as Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, Aglaé Ventures, AirAngels, and, My Climate Journey.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/news/commission-under-fire-for-including-carbon-sinks-into-eu-climate-goals/

ALCOHOL 

https://t.co/HmUp2utZvD?amp=1 world's first carbon negative beer - Brewdog 

https://t.co/esUW8omn1c?amp=1 Based out of Brooklyn, Air Co. is making vodka using only air, water and renewable electricity. 

Melissa is an early career researcher who is driven by her ethical goals to work towards climate justice, positing SRM as a controversial yet potential route to alleviate harms caused by climate change. I urge you to read her piece in Medium which can be found here https://medium.com/@msaenger_52203/the-climate-emergency-intersectional-justice-and-the-urgency-of-solar-geoengineering-research-ae26266d7fbb 

Comments and suggestions to @reviewer2geo

or @geoengineering1

or clare_nomad_geo 

An important and enlightening discussion with Evvan Morton about diversity, inclusion and equity in the academy, with particular reference here to the field of geoengineering. 

Comments and suggestions to @reviewer2geo

All things geoengineering that caught our eye this week. We chat about lessons from the pandemic for geoengineering, California wildfires and the dystopian futures unfurling before us, methane munching bacteria, gene editing to curb GHGs, NETs in the EU ETS, the trade off between growth and age in trees (and people), more evidence doubting BECCS and news of attempts to broaden the NETs base in IAMS prior to AR6. Plus there are quite a few laughs and some useful news and tips for geoengineering folks. 

AND we have our own twitter handle now so please follow @reviewer2geo for all future episodes, news and for feedback and suggestions. We would love to here from you with comments and ideas.  

Papers discussed include: 

Holly Jean Buck 'Pandemic Politics -lessons for solar geoengineering https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-00018-1 

Forest carbon sink neutralized by pervasive growth-lifespan trade-offs R. J. W. Brienen, et al, Nature Communications volume 11, Article number: 4241 (2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17966-z 

Working Paper: The Future of (Negative) Emissions Trading in the European Union Kiel Working Papers, 2164 https://www.ifw-kiel.de/experts/ifw/wilfried-rickels/the-future-of-negative-emissions-trading-in-the-european-union-15070/

Gene Editing for the Climate: Biological Solutions for Curbing Greenhouse Emissions, Val Giddings, Robert Rozansky ,  David M. Hart September 14, 2020 https://itif.org/publications/2020/09/14/gene-editing-climate-biological-solutions-curbing-greenhouse-emissions

Managing Land‐based CDR: BECCS, Forests and Carbon Sequestration, Duncan Brack and Richard King First published: 06 September 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12827

Integrated Assessment Modeling of Carbon Removal at ICRLP https://research.american.edu/carbonremoval/2020/09/08/integrated-assessment-modeling-of-carbon-removal-at-icrlp/

Food security under high bioenergy demand toward long-term climate goals Tomoko Hasegawa, Ronald D. Sands, Thierry Brunelle, Yiyun Cui, Stefan Frank, Shinichiro Fujimori & Alexander Popp Climatic Change (2020) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02838-8

At only 17 and already published, Gideon is an impressive and unusual guest on the show. Today he discusses his paper with Andrew on the novel idea of geoengineering and the public trust doctrine. Gideon also talks about his organisation Worldward and his plans for the future particularly in climate restoration. Find the paper here https://cclr.lexxion.eu/article/cclr/2020/2/4 and Gideon on twitter @worldwardglobal 

As usual, please make any suggestions or comments @geoengineering1 or @clare_nomad_geo

Thanks and enjoy the show! 

A spirited and fascinating deep dive into Kate Dooley's paper on CDR and biodiversity. The paper explores a new framework for assessing the impacts (positive or negative) of various methods of CDR on biodiversity and ecosystems, with mixed results. You can find the paper here https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12828 

Comments and suggestions welcome as usual @geoengineering1 and @clare_nomad_geo. 

This week we chat about all the interesting articles and news items that have caught our eye...including carbfixing in Iceland, extinction rebellion at Drax, the coming of the carbon-industrial complex and the potential for DAC to be involved in making kerosene, plus much more chat and gossip than can be mentioned here. Comments and suggestions please as always to @geoengineering1 and @clare_nomad_geo