by Emily Cracknell | Nov 5, 2025
Natural CO2 removal is increasingly being claimed as anthropogenic climate mitigation. This misrepresentation is already prevalent for forests and coastal ecosystems; there is now the risk of the error reoccurring for open-ocean CO2 uptake via the biological carbon...
by Helen Bunting | Sep 23, 2025
This paper analyses controversy over a marine carbon removal trial in St Ives Bay, UK, and how place-based demonstrations contested the proposed experiment and the affected public. Based on ethnographic research with communities mobilised by local protests, we examine...
by Emily Cracknell | Aug 28, 2025
Biological carbon removal has been proposed as a ‘win-win’ for climate, sustainability and public opinion, but research on public perceptions is lacking explicit evidence on trade-offs between options. This article explores perceptions using small group deliberation...
by Helen Bunting | Jul 18, 2025
Carbon dioxide removal plays an important role in any strategy to limit global warming to well below 2 °C. Keeping abreast with the scientific evidence using rigorous evidence synthesis methods is an important prerequisite for sustainably scaling these methods. Here,...
by Emily Cracknell | May 14, 2025
As the development of nature-based solutions (NbS) increases globally, it is important to ensure that projects meet the objective of delivering benefits for biodiversity, alongside tackling societal challenges. However, this is challenging because most NbS projects do...
