The world is experiencing unprecedented environmental and economic challenges posed by climate change. The need to reduce carbon emissions by identifying and executing effective technologies for mitigating carbon emissions is critical. One such technology is carbon dioxide removal. In a new journal article published in PLOS Climate, June Sekera and coauthors examine two contrasting approaches […]
By Kaylee Wei With the goal of identifying global solutions to the unprecedented environmental and economic challenges that the world faces due to climate change, the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) is currently underway in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. As countries negotiate the outcomes of the conference, carbon capture and storage (CCS), a […]
In a recently published paper, June Sekera, Senior Research Fellow at BU’s Global Development Policy Center and her collaborator from The New School, Andreas Lichtenberger, reviewed the literature on carbon dioxide removal and found that the use of public funds to subsidize industrial-chemical methods is often counterproductive. The paper analyzes the flawed premises upon which […]
In an article, published in the German newspaper Handelsblatt, Subventionen für CO2-Abscheidung sind verschwendetes Geld, ECI Senior Research Fellow June Sekera dissects the premises and promises of industrial-chemical methods of carbon capture. An English version of the originally-submitted article is at: Carbon Cleanup: The Public is Paying, but Who is Profiting?
By June Sekera and Andreas Lichtenberger Assessing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Reduction from a Public Policy Perspective: A Review of the Literature, February 2020
By June Sekera and Andreas Lichtenberger Assessing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Reduction from a Public Policy Perspective: A Review of the Literature, February 2020
The U. S. House of Representative has created a “Special Committee on the Climate Crisis” and recently invited comments on its proposals for climate change mitigation. A member of Congress who is active in climate matters invited Neva Goodwin, Distinguished Fellow at the ECI and Co-Director of the Global Development And Environment Institute at Tufts […]
By June Sekera Real-World Economics Review, June 2018
By June Sekera Global Development and Environment Institute Data Brief, September 2017
By June Sekera Policy Report, Global Development and Environment Institute, September 2017