Video: What's Enhanced Weathering? Interview with PhD Student Veronica Furey (The Future Forest Company)

"The Future Forest Company are co-funding Veronica Furey to study her PhD, investigating enhanced weathering at the Glenaros Estate on Mull. In this video Veronica gives us a brief insight into her studies and the potential of enhanced weathering as a negative emissions technology. Enhanced weathering is a method of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through acceleration of naturally occurring rock mineralisation processes. It can lock away carbon for over 100,000 years, and is an extremely effective method of CO2 removal. The Future Forest company are conducting a pilot for enhanced weathering on the Glenaros Estate on Mull before we scale up across the UK. This will help us establish what particle size of rock we need, how long it will take it to dissolve, the effect it will have on the soil and the growth rate of trees, and the process we need to set up elsewhere. Veronica is interviewed by Flora. Flora is currently studying for her MSci in Science Communication at the University of Manchester, following her undergraduate degree in Biology. Flora's particularly concerned with environmental issues including climate change and the effects of deforestation." LINK

Video: Recording: Carbon Removal and Environmental Justice: An Equitable Path to Net-negative (Carbon 180)

"Climate change is here, affecting the lives of communities across the globe. We’ve already reached an untenable degree of warming, and cutting emissions alone won’t reduce the impacts of CO2 already trapped in the atmosphere. “Carbon removal” encompasses a variety of emerging methods to clean up those legacy emissions. The question facing the climate community today is how. This discussion takes a hard look at how to deploy carbon removal, from healthy soil practices to direct air capture, that centers the needs of communities, prioritizing engagement, safety, equity, and justice. Without just policy and broader community involvement, many carbon removal projects won’t get off the ground, slowing the clean-up of legacy emissions." LINK

Video: Talking with people outside carbon removal (Carbon Removal Updates)

"We need to remove 100 parts per million of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. That means removing about 1 trillion tons of carbon dioxide...and doing something useful with it! I've got an insatiable desire to help figure this out. The changing climate will create the first trillionaire." LINK

Session 3: Governing Climate Engineering Research, Potential Development and Deployment

Chairs: Prof. Dr. Alexander Proelß (Trier University) and Prof. Edward A. Parson, Ph.D. (Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment)

This session will consider the challenges posed by climate engineering research and development, and potential future deployment proposals, to domestic, European and international law and regulation. Descriptions and analyses of likely challenges, suggestions of specific legal, institutional, and procedural responses to address the challenges, and assessments of the relevance and competency of specific current laws, treaties, and institutions, are all welcome.

Examples of specific problems that papers in this session might address include the following:

Strategies and gaps in the regulation of climate engineering research and development
Research management and coordination
Decision-making re authorization of engineered interventions (small, medium, or large)
The boundary between state and international authority (incl. potential role of regional supranational entities such as the EU and informal ways of regulating climate engineering research)
Risk assessment and consultation
Operational control of potential future large-scale climate-engineering interventions
Linkage with other aspects of climate-change law and policy, or with laws and institutions to manage other environmental problems

Liability for damage arising in the context of climate engineering research and development (incl. aspects of compensation)

Video: What's Enhanced Weathering? Interview with PhD Student Veronica Furey (The Future Forest Company)

Video: Recording: Carbon Removal and Environmental Justice: An Equitable Path to Net-negative (Carbon 180)

Video: Talking with people outside carbon removal (Carbon Removal Updates)