McCormack, Phillipa C.; et al. (2020): Governance of Land-based Negative-emission Technologies to Promote Biodiversity Conservation: Lessons from Australia

McCormack, Phillipa C.; McDonald, Jan; Brent, Kerryn A. (2020): Governance of Land-based Negative-emission Technologies to Promote Biodiversity Conservation: Lessons from Australia. In Climate Law 10 (2), pp. 123–150. DOI: 10.1163/18786561-01002001. "We argue that domestic laws should be used to maximize the benefits of nets while minimizing trade-offs for biodiversity. These laws should ensure that trade-offs are, at the very least, explicit and transparent, both in terms of their implications for current biodiversity and in the context of an acceleration of climate-driven biodiversity decline." LINK

Vries, I. E. de; et al. (2020): A specialised delivery system for stratospheric sulphate aerosols (part 2): financial cost and equivalent CO2 emission

Vries, I. E. de; Janssens, M.; Hulshoff, S. J. (2020): A specialised delivery system for stratospheric sulphate aerosols (part 2): financial cost and equivalent CO2 emission. In Climatic Change. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-020-02686-6. "[T]his paper quantifies the initial and operating financial costs and initial and operating equivalent CO2 (CO2eq) emissions of the specialised aircraft-based SAI delivery system developed with relatively high-fidelity tools in part 1 of this series. We analyse an interval of operating conditions, within which we devote special attention to four injection scenarios outlined in part 1: Three scenarios where H2SO4 vapour is directly injected at several dispersion rates and one SO2 injection scenario." LINK

Neuber, Frederike; Ott, Konrad (2020): The Buying Time Argument within the Solar Radiation Management Discourse

Neuber, Frederike; Ott, Konrad (2020): The Buying Time Argument within the Solar Radiation Management Discourse. In Applied Sciences 10 (13), p. 4637. DOI: 10.3390/app10134637. "In this article, we will establish a version of the buying time argument (BTA) in favor of Sulphur Aerosol Injection (SAI) Climate Engineering (CE). The idea is not to promote the deployment of such scheme, but rather to present the strongest possible argument pro SAI in order to look at its presuppositions, implications, critical points and uncertainties." LINK

Kreuter, Judith; et al. (2020): Unveiling assumptions through interdisciplinary scrutiny: Observations from the German Priority Program on Climate Engineering (SPP 1689)

Kreuter, Judith; Matzner, Nils; Baatz, Christian; Keller, David P.; Markus, Till; Wittstock, Felix et al. (2020): Unveiling assumptions through interdisciplinary scrutiny: Observations from the German Priority Program on Climate Engineering (SPP 1689). In Climatic Change. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-020-02777-4. "We aim to illustrate how interdisciplinary exchange helps to unveil assumptions in research endeavors and why this is important for successful interdisciplinary collaborations. We therefore follow different stages of the German Priority Program on Climate Engineering (SPP 1689), which we use as an example case of a successful interdisciplinary project. SPP 1689 focused on risks, challenges, and opportunities of Climate Engineering from the perspectives of numerous disciplines." LINK

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