Weekly roundup of geoengineering news

All things geoengineering that caught our eye this week. We chat about lessons from the pandemic for geoengineering, California wildfires and the dystopian futures unfurling before us, methane munching bacteria, gene editing to curb GHGs, NETs in the EU ETS, the trade off between growth and age in trees (and people), more evidence doubting BECCS and news of attempts to broaden the NETs base in IAMS prior to AR6. Plus there are quite a few laughs and some useful news and tips for geoengineering folks.

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Papers discussed include:

Holly Jean Buck 'Pandemic Politics -lessons for solar geoengineering https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-00018-1

Forest carbon sink neutralized by pervasive growth-lifespan trade-offs R. J. W. Brienen, et al, Nature Communications volume 11, Article number: 4241 (2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17966-z

Working Paper: The Future of (Negative) Emissions Trading in the European Union Kiel Working Papers, 2164 https://www.ifw-kiel.de/experts/ifw/wilfried-rickels/the-future-of-negative-emissions-trading-in-the-european-union-15070/

Gene Editing for the Climate: Biological Solutions for Curbing Greenhouse Emissions, Val Giddings, Robert Rozansky , David M. Hart September 14, 2020 https://itif.org/publications/2020/09/14/gene-editing-climate-biological-solutions-curbing-greenhouse-emissions

Managing Land‐based CDR: BECCS, Forests and Carbon Sequestration, Duncan Brack and Richard King First published: 06 September 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12827

Integrated Assessment Modeling of Carbon Removal at ICRLP https://research.american.edu/carbonremoval/2020/09/08/integrated-assessment-modeling-of-carbon-removal-at-icrlp/

Food security under high bioenergy demand toward long-term climate goals Tomoko Hasegawa, Ronald D. Sands, Thierry Brunelle, Yiyun Cui, Stefan Frank, Shinichiro Fujimori & Alexander Popp Climatic Change (2020) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02838-8