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Forests and climate: impacts, mitigation, and adaptation (2021)
Protecting and restoring forests is essential for achieving both international climate
goals and sustainable development goals. Forests are simultaneously at risk from
climate change, contributing to climate change, and part of the solution to climate
change.
From moral hazard to risk-response feedback (2021)
There has been a reluctance to embrace carbon removal and solar geoengineering, partly due to the perception that these technologies represent what is widely termed a “moral hazard”: that geoengineering will prevent people from developing the will to change their personal consumption and push for changes in infrastructure, erode political will for emissions cuts, or otherwise stimulate increased carbon emissions at the social-system level of analysis. These debates over carbon removal and geoengineering echo earlier ones over climate adaptation. We argue that debates over “moral hazard” in many areas of climate policy are unhelpful and misleading. We also propose an alternative framework for dealing with the tradeoffs that motivate the appeal to “moral hazard,” which we call “risk-response feedback.”
Constraints and enablers for increasing carbon storage in the terrestrial biosphere (2021)
In this Review, we assess the negative emissions contributions of nature-based climate solutions — including reforestation, improved forest management and soil carbon sequestration — alongside their
environmental, social and governance constraints.
Rightsizing expectations for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage toward ambitious climate goals (2019)
This chapter evaluates potential constraints to bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) at very large scale and in scenarios in which global temperatures peak and then decline. It also analyzes near-term opportunities for catalyzing BECCS development, demonstration, and deployment.
Environmental justice concerns in the use of offsets (2019)
Environmental justice concerns are central to the ethics and efficacy of forest offset programs.
Climate change mitigation, air pollution, and environmental justice in California (2018)
Here we assess the air pollution and environmental justice implications of California’s cap-and-trade mitigation program through analysis of (1) the sources of air pollution in disadvantaged communities, (2) emissions-reduction offset usage under the cap-and-trade program, and (3) the relationship between reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and reductions in co-pollutant emissions.
Forest management in the Sierra Nevada provides limited carbon storage potential: an expert elicitation (2018)
Applying expert elicitation for the Sierra Nevada, we evaluate subjective probabilistic estimates of trends in aboveground forest carbon for different management scenarios toward the goal of maximizing carbon stored, while also considering implications for wildfire risk.
Net-zero emissions energy systems (2018)
We examine barriers and opportunities associated with these difficult-to-decarbonize services and processes (such as long-distance freight transport, air travel, highly reliable electricity, and steel and cement manufacturing), including possible technological solutions and research and development priorities.
Unprecedented rates of land-use transformation in modelled climate change mitigation pathways (2018)
While these assumed CDR deployments—multi-gigatonne yearly CDR from the atmosphere through bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and afforestation/reforestation—keep ambitious temperature targets in reach, the associated rates of land-use transformation have not been evaluated. Here, we view implied integrated-assessment-model land-use conversion rates within a historical context.
Near-term deployment of carbon capture and sequestration from biorefineries in the United States (2018)
Here, we evaluate low-cost, commercially ready CO₂ capture opportunities for existing ethanol biorefineries in the United States. The analysis combines process engineering, spatial optimization, and lifecycle assessment to consider the technical, economic, and institutional feasibility of near-term carbon capture and sequestration (CCS).
Geospatial analysis of near-term potential for carbon-negative bioenergy in the United States (2018)
This study leverages biomass production data and site-specific injection and storage capacity estimates at high spatial resolution to assess the near-term deployment opportunities for BECCS in the United States.
The global overlap of bioenergy and carbon sequestration potential (2018)
Here, we examine the BECCS opportunity that exists in regions overlapping storage basins.
Managing cropland and rangeland for climate mitigation: an expert elicitation on soil carbon in California (2018)
Here, we summarize the results of an elicitation of soil science and carbon cycle experts aiming to characterize understanding of current SCF in California’s cropland and rangeland, and how it may respond to alternative management practices over time.
Federal research, development, and demonstration priorities for carbon dioxide removal in the United States (2018)
Here, we present a synthesis of research and developement needs, relevant agency authority, barriers to coordination, and interventions to enhance RD&D across the federal government of the US.
Forest offsets partner climate change mitigation with conservation (2017)
We evaluate California's forest offset program – the first‐ever legally enforceable “compliance” offset program for existing forests – to determine whether offsets (1) provide additional emissions reductions that would not have occurred without the program (called “additionality”) and (2) yield other benefits.
Rightsizing carbon dioxide removal (2017)
Here, we focus on rightsizing the expectations from carbon dioxide removal (CDR).

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