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About this Event:
Join the Institute
for Carbon Removal Law and Policy for the next
event in its webinar series, “Scrubbing the Skies: The Role of Carbon Dioxide Removal in Combating Climate Change.” The series focuses on scientific, technological, legal, political, and justice-focused issues associated with carbon dioxide removal, and is
hosted by Wil Burns, Co-Director of the Institute for Carbon Removal and Policy.
In September of this year, the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) treaty under the United Nations Convention for the Law of the Sea was opened for signature.
The treaty is slated to enter into force after sixty nations ratify it. Given the fact that many ocean-based carbon dioxide removal approaches will either be deployed in the open oceans or could have impacts in these areas, the BBNJ may prove to a key regulatory
framework for the emerging industry. In this webinar, two researchers focused on the interface of the BBNJ and ocean CDR will join Simon Nicholson, Co-Chair of the Institute for Carbon Removal Law & Policy, in a roundtable discussion of the BBNJ’s potential
future role in regulating ocean CDR approaches, as well how the BBNJ will interface with other pertinent ocean regimes. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A session with webinar attendees.
Panelists:
Cymie
Payne, Associate Professor, Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University,
and Chair of the Ocean Law Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature
Wil
Burns, Co-Director, Institute for Carbon Removal Law & Policy, and Visiting Professor, Environmental Policy & Culture Program, Northwestern University
Moderator:
Simon
Nicholson, Co-Director, Institute for Carbon Removal Law & Policy
Details to access the webinar room will be sent to registered participants two days before the event, and then again two hours before the webinar is held. All
webinars are archived here on the Institute's website as well as on the Institute's YouTube channel
about a week after the webinar is conducted.
For questions about this webinar or the Institute's other activities, please email the Institute at icrlp@american.edu.
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