AUTHOR=Healey Peter , Scholes Robert , Lefale Penehuro , Yanda Pius 

TITLE=Governing Net Zero Carbon Removals to Avoid Entrenching Inequities

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Climate

VOLUME=Volume 3 - 2021

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/climate/articles/10.3389/fclim.2021.672357

DOI=10.3389/fclim.2021.672357

ISSN=2624-9553

ABSTRACT=•	Climate change embeds inequities, and risks reinforcing these in policies for remediation. In particular, with CDR in ‘Net-zero’ policies:
o	Offsets may be considered inequitable if seen to avoid or delay  reductions.
o	Offsets to emissions through technologically mature methods of CDR require natural resources at scales threatening food security;
o	Knowledge of the potential of immature CDR is largely a global north monopoly;
o	 CDR in particular environments is ill-understood and its implications for development unexamined; 
•	Robust progress can only be achieved through global agreement on: 
o	Simultaneously reduce emissions and enhance removals;
o	Equity in burden-sharing; 
o	An interdisciplinary effort led by individual jurisdictions and focused on the co-development of technologies and governance to create CDR portfolios matched to local needs.