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Review of Biochar Standards: Can Biochar Contribute to Net Zero?

by Helen Bunting | Jan 31, 2024

Biochar can draw down atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions by sequestering some of the carbon dioxide for centennial or millennial bases. Several standards already exist that seek to certify biochar as a product or as a climate change mitigation method. This report...

Editorial: Decision making for net zero transformation considerations and new methodological approaches

by Emily Cracknell | Jan 22, 2024

Members of the editorial team for this special edition have been engaging in an ongoing dialogue with the Clean Air Task Force (CATF) around the dominant decision support and decision-making orthodoxy for the net zero transformation since 2020. It was and has become...

UK Net Zero policy design and deep uncertainty – The need for an alternative approach

by Admin | Oct 26, 2023

The majority of global emissions scenarios compatible with holding global warming to less than 2 °C depend on the large-scale use of Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR) technologies. Recent critiques have highlighted the concerns of building long-term climate policy on such...

Oliver Broad

by Admin | Mar 21, 2022

Senior Research Fellow, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources Oliver Broad is a Research Associate on Evaluation Framework & Synthesis Reports at the CO2RE Hub and a Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources. His work focuses on the...

Prof Michael Obersteiner

by Mikal Mast | Mar 6, 2022

Director, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford Michael Obersteiner is the lead on Decision Support Tools for CO2RE and Director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. He was previously Program Director at the International...