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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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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