"Over the third quarter of 2019, C2G convened or participated in many meetings of civil society groups, UN regional bodies, and conferences, to raise awareness about near-term governance needs and gaps with regards to the scale-up of large-scale carbon dioxide removal." LINK
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The newsletter of calendar week 47 in 2019 is now available here.
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"Observers warn the IEA’s projection is inconsistent with the world’s long-term sustainable development needs" LINK
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Wagner, Gernot, and Daniel Zizzamia. 2019. “Green Moral Hazards.” SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3486990. "When a green moral hazard is applied, its adherents attempt to wrestle with the chimera to make a political statement about the world. Thus, rather than retreating into the labyrinth of the green moral hazard and pitting technofixes against deeper systemic transformation, technofixes like geoengineering should be discussed out in the open in ways that encourage what philosopher Helen Longino labels, “transformative criticism.” Doing so would also greatly expand the attention paid to the underlying environmental problem in the first place, in essence using (solar) geoengineering to expand the broader climate conversation." LINK
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"We owe today's young activists a huge debt for sounding the alarm. Now, we need to turn their enthusiasm into an institutionalised political force, and develop a blueprint for a productive economic agenda." LINK
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