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TY - JOUR
T1 - Navigating Potential Hype and Opportunity in Governing Marine Carbon Removal
AU - Boettcher, Miranda
AU - Brent, Kerryn
AU - Buck, Holly Jean
AU - Low, Sean
AU - McLaren, Duncan
AU - Mengis, Nadine
PY - 2021/6/9
Y1 - 2021/6/9
N2 - As the technical and political challenges of land-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) approaches become more apparent, the oceans may be the new “blue” frontier for carbon drawdown strategies in climate governance. Drawing on lessons learnt from the way terrestrial carbon dioxide removal emerged, we explore increasing overall attention to marine environments and mCDR projects, and how this could manifest in four entwined knowledge systems and governance sectors. We consider how developments within and between these “frontiers” could result in different futures—where hype and over-promising around marine carbon drawdown could enable continued time-buying for the carbon economy without providing significant removals, or where reforms to modeling practices, policy development, innovation funding, and legal governance could seek co-benefits between ocean protection, economy, and climate.
AB - As the technical and political challenges of land-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) approaches become more apparent, the oceans may be the new “blue” frontier for carbon drawdown strategies in climate governance. Drawing on lessons learnt from the way terrestrial carbon dioxide removal emerged, we explore increasing overall attention to marine environments and mCDR projects, and how this could manifest in four entwined knowledge systems and governance sectors. We consider how developments within and between these “frontiers” could result in different futures—where hype and over-promising around marine carbon drawdown could enable continued time-buying for the carbon economy without providing significant removals, or where reforms to modeling practices, policy development, innovation funding, and legal governance could seek co-benefits between ocean protection, economy, and climate.
KW - marine governance
KW - carbon dioxide removal
KW - negative emissions
KW - Net Zero
KW - IPCC scenarios
KW - climate policy
KW - blue economy
KW - marine law
U2 - 10.3389/fclim.2021.664456
DO - 10.3389/fclim.2021.664456
M3 - Journal article
VL - 3
JO - Frontiers in Climate
JF - Frontiers in Climate
SN - 2624-9553
M1 - 664456
ER -