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Govern CO2 removal from the ground up

Scientists and policymakers must acknowledge that carbon dioxide removal can be small in scale and still be relevant for climate policy, that it will primarily emerge ‘bottom up’, and that different methods have different governance needs.

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Bellamy, R., Geden, O. Govern CO2 removal from the ground up. Nat. Geosci. 12, 874–876 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0475-7

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