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Govern CO2 removal from the ground up

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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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  1. Department of Geography, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    Rob Bellamy

  2. Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Rob Bellamy & Oliver Geden

  3. German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin, Germany

    Oliver Geden

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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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