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IRCR Publications

This listing includes all working papers, articles, reports, book and book chapters from our staff at the Institute around topics of carbon dioxide removal.

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  • Amundson, Ronald, Holly Buck, and Kate Lajtha. “Soil Science in the Time of Climate Mitigation.” Biogeochemistry 161, no. 1 (October 1, 2022): 47–58. .

  • Anderegg, William R. L., Oriana S. Chegwidden, Grayson Badgley, AnnaT. Trugman, Danny Cullenward, John T. Abatzoglou, JeffreyA. Hicke, Jeremy Freeman, and Joseph J. Hamman. “Future Climate Risks from Stress, Insects and Fire across US Forests.” Ecology Letters 25, no. 6 (June 2022): 1510–20. .

  • Badgley, Grayson, Freya Chay, Oriana S. Chegwidden, Joseph J. Hamman, Jeremy Freeman, and Danny Cullenward. “California’s Forest Carbon Offsets Buffer Pool Is Severely Undercapitalized.” bioRxiv, April 29, 2022. .

  • Buck, Holly Jean. “Mining the Air: Political Ecologies of the Circular Carbon Economy.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 5, no. 3 (September 1, 2022): 1086–1105. .

  • Buck, Holly Jean, and Alexis Palumbo-Compton. “Soil Carbon Sequestration as a Climate Strategy: What Do Farmers Think?” Biogeochemistry 161, no. 1 (October 1, 2022): 59–70. .

  • Buck, Holly, Wim Carton, Jens Lund, and Nils Markusson. “Why Residual Emissions Matter Right Now.” SSRN Scholarly Paper. Rochester, NY, March 29, 2022. .

  • Burns, Wil. “”, 75 Maine Law Review (2022)
  • Burns, Wil. “”, 17(1) Journal of Ocean Technology (2022)
  • Cooley, Sarah R., Sonja Klinsky, David R. Morrow, and Terre Satterfield. “Sociotechnical Considerations About Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal.” Annual Review of Marine Science 15, no. 1 (2023): 41–66. .

  • Morton, Evvan, Elisabeth Graffy, Klaus Lackner, and Brad Allenby. “Removing Carbon From the Atmosphere Must Be Part of Climate Change Policy.” Issues in Science and Technology (blog), June 10, 2021. .

  • Nawaz, Sara, Guillaume Peterson St-Laurent, and Terre Satterfield. “Public Evaluations of Four Approaches to Ocean-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal.” Climate Policy 0, no. 0 (February 24, 2023): 1–16. .

  • Satterfield, Terre, Sara Nawaz, and Guillaume Peterson St-Laurent. “Exploring Public Acceptability of Direct Air Carbon Capture with Storage: Climate Urgency, Moral Hazards and Perceptions of the ‘Whole versus the Parts.’” Climatic Change 176, no. 2 (2023): 1–21.

  • Wil Burns, The Aspen Institute’s Guidance for Ocean-based Carbon Dioxide Removal Projects, 17(1) JOURNAL OF OCEAN TECHNOLOGY vi-vii (2022)

Books,Book Chapters & Essays

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  • Burns, Wil, andSimon Nicholson. “Introduction: Climate Geoengineering Law and Governance.” Essay. InClimate Geoengineering Law and Governance, edited by David Dana, VI-252. Springer International Publishing, 2021.
  • David R.MorrowValues in Climate Policy. London, U.K.: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020.
  • David R.Morrow ed. Benjamin Hale and Andrew Light. “Moral Bases of Responses to Climate Change.” Essay. InRoutledge Companion to Environmental Ethics. Routledge, 2019.
  • David R. Morrow, ed. J. Britt Holbrook. “Geoengineering.” Essay. InEthics, Science, Technology, and Engineering: A Global Resource. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
  • Duncan McClaren, Wil Burns, Debate 9: Negative-Emission Technologies -It Would Be Irresponsible, Unethical, and Unlawful to Rely on NETs at Large Scale Instead of Mitigation, DEBATING CLIMATE LAW (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
  • Simon Nicholson, Burns, Wil, and Dana, David .Climate Geoengineering: Law and Governance. Springer International Publishing, 2021.
  • SimonNicholson, ed. Judith Shapiro, and John-Andrew McNeish. “Carbon Removal and the Dangers of Extractivism.” Essay. InOur Hyperextractive Age: Violence and Resistance on a Shrinking Planet, 189–203. Routledge, 2021.

  • Simon Nicholson,and Thompson, Michael Thompson ed. Jason J. Blackstock and Sean Low. “Strange Bedfellows: Climate Engineering Politics in the United States.” Essay. InGeoengineering Our Climate?: Ethics, Politics, and Governance, 164–69. Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

  • Simon Nicholson. “Intelligent Design? Unpacking Geoengineering’s Hidden Sacrifices.”The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice, 2010, 271–90.
  • Simon Nicholson. “The Promises and Perils of Geoengineering.”Worldwatch Institute: State of the World 2013, 2013, 317–31.
  • Wil Burns, The Law of Climate Carbon Dioxide Removal, LAW OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (ELI, Thomson-Reuters, 2021)
  • Wil Burns, Human Rights Dimensions of Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage: A Framework for Climate Justice in the Realm of Climate Geoengineering, CLIMATE JUSTICE: CASE STUDIES IN GLOBAL AND REGIONAL CHALLENGES (Randy Abate, ed., Environmental Law Institute Press, 2016)
  • Wil Burns, Simon Nicholson, Climate Geoengineering: Promise or Peril on a New Earth?, NEW EARTH POLITICS (Nicholson & Jinnah, eds., MIT Press, 2016)

Articles

  • Wil Burns. “T” Scrubbing the Skies: Carbon Dioxide Removal and Climate Change (blog), February 28, 2022.
  • Wil Burns.""Indianapolis Star, December20, 2020
  • Wil Burns.""The Conversation.August12, 2022
  • Wil Burns, Illuminem.July 13, 2022
  • Wil Burns& Toby Bryce."," The Hill.March 17, 2022
  • Wil Burns& Toby Bryce. "."Illuminem.March 9, 2022
  • Wil Burns."."American Bar Association.January14, 2021
  • Wil Burns, "."Energy Central.September 4, 2020
  • Wil Burns& Greg H. Rau.The Conversation.March 12, 2019. 

Reports and Special Issues