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International law poses problems for negative emissions research

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New international governance arrangements that manage environmental risk and potential conflicts of interests are needed to facilitate negative emissions research that is essential to achieving the large-scale CO2 removal implied by the Paris Agreement targets.

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K.B. was supported by a scholarship from the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of Tasmania, Australia. E.J.R. acknowledges Australian Laureate Fellowship FL120100050.

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  1. Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

    Kerryn Brent, Jeffrey McGee & Jan McDonald

  2. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

    Jeffrey McGee

  3. Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

    Jeffrey McGee & Jan McDonald

  4. Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

    Eelco J. Rohling

  5. Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK

    Eelco J. Rohling

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Brent, K., McGee, J., McDonald, J. et al. International law poses problems for negative emissions research. Nature Clim Change 8, 451–453 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0181-2

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