Inaugural Lecture – Matthew Brander

There is broad recognition that removals of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases will be required for counter-balancing emissions from hard-to-abate sectors to achieve net zero, and will also be necessary in the increasingly likely event of an emissions overshoot in order to return cumulative emissions and temperature change below target levels.

However, the term ‘removal’ is open to imprecise usage, which is likely to result in confusion over which activities policy-makers, investors and offset buyers wish to support, and what project developers and technology providers actually deliver.

This lecture explores what is meant by ‘removals’, identifying a number of sources of confusion, and offers a number of solutions.

Agenda