The politics of negative emissions technologies and decarbonization in rural communities

The politics of negative emissions technologies and decarbonization in rural communities

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Technologies and practices to remove carbon from the atmosphere (‘negative emissions technologies’) will be challenging nacrack.com to scale-up.Efforts to incentivize or govern their scale-up globally risk failing if they miss the social challenges.This paper analyzes prospective challenges for negative emissions through examining how decarbonization practices are evolving in one particular landscape: the Imperial Valley in southeast California, a desert landscape engineered for industrial agriculture.

Based on semi-structured interviews and site visits, this paper examines how community actors have received, participated in, imagined or contested new energy technologies and 3m speedglas 9002nc climate practices, and draws out takeaways for negative emissions policy.