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Betting on BECCS? Exploring Land-Based Negative Emissions Technologies
The workshop explored the role of negative emissions, particularly bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), in achieving the UNFCCC Paris Agreement goals. Significant deployment of BECCS is common to most Paris-compliant emissions reduction pathways, but raises important questions for policymakers.
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Supporting Healthy and Sustainable Diets: how do we get there?
At this workshop leading experts discussed what action across government, business and civil society can steer us towards healthy and sustainable diets. Spanning technologies, policies and actors, an action agenda that can unlock ambition, increase resources and continue innovation to take steps towards a healthy and sustainable diet was identified.
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Does a circular economy mean a closed world?
This expert roundtable, organised by the Trade and Agriculture Directorate of the OECD and the Energy, Environment and Resources Department at Chatham House, will identify...
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Venture Capital in Global Food Systems
This luncheon, co-organised by Chatham House’s Hoffmann Centre for Sustainable Resource Economy and 500 Startups, will bring together a small number of invitees to explore...
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Meeting the Paris Climate Targets and Beyond: Technologies for Future Food Systems
As the competition for land is set to intensify, feeding future generations while avoiding dangerous climate change will require a redesign of the current production...
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Soils & climate: from hidden depths to centre stage?
The workshop explored knowledge gaps and priorities to accelerate investment and action on soil organic carbon storage and sequestration. Decision-makers from multiple sectors, with global representation, identified constraints and solutions for scaling up investment in soil organic carbon in the context of climate-change mitigation.
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Reinventing the Plastic Bottle
Image: Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/UIG via Getty Images Watch speakers from the event Welcome remarks: Bernice Lee, Executive Director, Hoffmann Centre for Sustinable Resource...
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Soil & Climate: accelerating soil carbon science for decision-makers
Investors in both the public and private sectors face challenges in allocating resources to actions that address soil carbon. The interface between policy and science...
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Climate Leadership and Future Levers Dialogue
This second dialogue will bring together key political actors for a focused, facilitated discussion on climate leadership and future levers in climate action. Participants will...
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Land use emissions pathways to a Paris-consistent world: an exploration of the relationship between BECCS, nature-based climate solutions and food systems
There is growing interest in the role of negative emissions technologies, and in particular bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), in achieving the...