<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Dear Ronal,</div><div><br><div>The practice I was talking about, and what we applied for, was gathering char for biochar purposes, and the mentions of biochar on Prime’s website were not coincidental. </div><div><br></div><div>Apologies in case I was imprecise - answering emails dueing Christmas parties is perhaps not ideal for concentration...</div><div><br></div><div>Both Prof Nurhuda and myself are very much aware of the effects of biochar. Prof Nurhuda has used biochar from  his stoves for his own garden, with great results.</div><div>Rather than lack of awareness, the issue is about which role to take in the supply chain. Prime is a wholesaler, not a retailer selling to end-users, and gathering char is a retailer/distributor type of job. Also, depending on local circumstances that I’m sure Paul can fill in on, char gathering & reselling at household level may require a granular network of gatherers/resellers, which can be rather costly, and may need a solid margin (or carbon finance kick) to avoid becoming a loss-maker. Sales may also involve transport outside the village context - many stove users do not have a garden they can use the biochar in, and larger-scale buyers are not necessarily right around the corner.</div><div><br></div><div>Despite this being somewhat outside Prime’s scope I’m interested in pilots, because I’d love to replicate this business model via one of our distributors/retailers.</div><div><br></div><div>It’s correct that I presented in New Delhi but I didn’t use slides and I’m not aware of any recording. If anyone is better informed, please let me know.</div><div><br></div><div>P.S: We have not received any emails from you recently apart from the one below, and another one sent 6:11 today. If you sent other emails, please resend :)<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Kind regards<div>Jorund Buen</div><div>CEO</div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mobile/WhatsApp: +47 932 83 350</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skype: jorundb1</span></div></div><div><a href="http://www.primestoves.com">www.primestoves.com</a></div></div><div><br>26. des. 2017 kl. 18:14 skrev Ronal W. Larson <<a href="mailto:rongretlarson@comcast.net">rongretlarson@comcast.net</a>>:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><div class="">Jorund,,  cc  list,  Paul, and Prof.  Nurhuda</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>1.  I write </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span>a)   because two messages of mine are below - on a topic that you didn’t address:  biochar.  I view biochar as about 180 degrees removed from charcoal for cooking - which I consider a horrible practice.  I hope Prime will instead focus on placing the produced char in the ground.  This fits perfectly with everything I see about another of your activities - at “Differ”, and especially about Myanmar.  A test has hopefully already occurred - and cost should not be an issue.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">       </span>and</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">       </span>b)   because I just sent a biochar (not charcoal) message very recently into the Prime corporate system as well as to Prof.  Nurhuda and yourself - asking if any of the Prime stove sales had resulted in biochar going into the ground.  I thought I had sent this two days ago.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">  </span>2.    Near the bottom of this thread are two short excerpts from items at Dr.  Julien Winter’s web site showing how biochar soil benefits are driving his new TLUD stove operation in Bangladesh.  Those cites are:  <a href="http://www.biochar-bangladesh.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2016_12_11_DhakaTribune_Akha.pdfp" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.biochar-bangladesh.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2016_12_11_DhakaTribune_Akha.pdf</a></div><div class="">and  <a href="http://www.biochar-bangladesh.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2016_06_03_TheNewNation.pdf" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">   http://www.biochar-bangladesh.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2016_06_03_TheNewNation.pdf</a></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span>The question is whether any Prime sales have similarly resulted in char going into the ground?   (There are now many thousands of examples of biochar success in the ground - but maybe only Julien’s from stove char.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">     </span>3.  I see that you presented at the recent GACC meeting in New Delhi.  Can you give a cite where we can see that?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ron</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 25, 2017, at 5:30 PM, Jorund Buen <<a href="mailto:jorund.buen@primestoves.com" class="">jorund.buen@primestoves.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Dear all,<div class="">We mentioned the potential for charcoal gathering&selling in our proposal in 2012 or 2013 to USAID/Conservancy International for a stove distribution project in North Sumatra. The project was funded, and formed the basis for our Indonesia distribution today, but that specific idea wasn’t picked up. I’d be interested in piloting it, if the context (and, yes, funding) is right.<br class=""><br class=""><div class="">Kind regards<div class="">Jorund Buen</div><div class="">CEO</div><div class=""><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Mobile/WhatsApp: +47 932 83 350</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Skype: jorundb1</span></div></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.primestoves.com/" class="">www.primestoves.com</a></div></div><div class=""><br class="">24. des. 2017 kl. 05:25 skrev Paul Anderson <<a href="mailto:psanders@ilstu.edu" class="">psanders@ilstu.edu</a>>:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">
  
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    Ron and Julien,<br class="">
    <br class="">
    Good that your did the monetary exchange rates and the conversion
    from C to CO2e to get the cost per ton.   That needs to be done with
    the raw numbers for the Deganga TLUD project in India.   I will ask
    the project implementer to make those calculations and sent them to
    me.  <br class="">
    <br class="">
    We need to build the case for the value of the char from TLUD
    stoves.   Whether sold to be burned or to be used as biochar is not
    the issue.   <br class="">
    <br class="">
    I have not heard of other TLUD projects with selling of the charcoal
    made in TLUDs.   Maybe Prime has an example???<br class="">
    <br class="">
    Paul<br class="">
    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Doc  /  Dr TLUD  /  Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
Email:  <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:psanders@ilstu.edu">psanders@ilstu.edu</a>
Skype:   paultlud    Phone: +1-309-452-7072
Website:  <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.drtlud.com/">www.drtlud.com</a></pre>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/23/2017 1:01 AM, Ronal W. Larson
      wrote:<br class="">
    </div>
    <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:A99E7BC6-7750-4F08-8737-3EB551E813F2@comcast.net" class="">
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      Stoves List:  (many on this list are also biochar list members -
      so apologies for sending this twice.)
      <div class=""><br class="">
      </div>
      <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">     </span>I
        could have used many ways to make biochar as I supported a
        French CDR (carbon dioxide removal) person, who objected to the
        way 3 organizers of a future CDR conference were describing all
        CDR approaches as “controversial".  I chose Dr.  Julien’s
        message to this list because I think it really well proves the
        beauty of char-making stoves, while also making a real positive
        statement about both biochar’s CDR’s potential.  So many thanks
        to Julien for his message a few weeks ago.</div>
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      </div>
      <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">     </span>i
        just looked up the value of  a “tk” = Taka, which is 1.2 cents.
         So the woman quoted below made $9.00 in a “few months” just in
        charcoal - but also was buying less wood.  And someone else was
        making money off increased soil productivity and less expense
        for fertilizer.  The price for her char was (at 1000 times 12
        cents) $120/tonne char.  This is about $40 tonne CO2 - and many
        CDR approaches are bragging they can get down to $100/tonne CO2.</div>
      <div class=""><br class="">
      </div>
      <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">     </span>Anyone
        on this list see why biochar (and char-making stoves) should be
        “controversial?   (This thread being about CDR
        controversiality.)<br class="">
        <div class=""><br class="">
        </div>
        <div class="">Ron</div>
        <div class=""><br class="">
          <div class=""><br class="">
            <blockquote type="cite" class="">
              <div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div>
              <br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
              <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
                margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica
                  Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"Ronal W.
                  Larson" <<a href="mailto:rongretlarson@comcast.net" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">rongretlarson@comcast.net</a>><br class="">
                </span></div>
              <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
                margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica
                  Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Fwd:
                    [CDR] [geo] EASST 2018 - CfP - The politics of
                    negative emissions</b><br class="">
                </span></div>
              <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
                margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica
                  Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">December 22,
                  2017 at 11:34:52 PM MST<br class="">
                </span></div>
              <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
                margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica
                  Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Biochar <<a href="mailto:biochar@yahoogroups.com" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">biochar@yahoogroups.com</a>><br class="">
                </span></div>
              <br class="">
              <div class="">
                <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode:
                  space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">List:
                  <div class=""><br class="">
                  </div>
                  <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I
                    suggest below that biochar proponents <u class=""><b class="">not</b></u> attend a meeting where
                    biochar will certainly be discussed.  But if anyone
                    can attend this meeting (time and place TBD),  you
                    might have a very interesting time.  I do of course
                    hope some list member will be able to submit an
                    abstract per instructions at <a href="https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6270" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6270</a></div>
                  <div class=""><br class="">
                  </div>
                  <div class="">Ron</div>
                  <div class=""><br class="">
                    <div class=""><br class="">
                      <blockquote type="cite" class="">
                        <div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div>
                        <br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
                        <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
                          margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family:
                            -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue',
                            Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From:
                            </b></span><span style="font-family:
                            -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue,
                            Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"Ronal W.
                            Larson" <<a href="mailto:rongretlarson@comcast.net" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">rongretlarson@comcast.net</a>><br class="">
                          </span></div>
                        <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
                          margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family:
                            -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue',
                            Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Subject:
                            </b></span><span style="font-family:
                            -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue,
                            Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Re:
                              [CDR] [geo] EASST 2018 - CfP - The
                              politics of negative emissions</b><br class="">
                          </span></div>
                        <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
                          margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family:
                            -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue',
                            Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Date:
                            </b></span><span style="font-family:
                            -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue,
                            Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">December
                            22, 2017 at 11:22:16 PM MST<br class="">
                          </span></div>
                        <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
                          margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family:
                            -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue',
                            Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">To:
                            </b></span><span style="font-family:
                            -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue,
                            Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Renaud de
                            RICHTER <<a href="mailto:renaud.derichter@gmail.com" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">renaud.derichter@gmail.com</a>>,
                            Carbon Dioxide Removal <<a href="mailto:CarbonDioxideRemoval@googlegroups.com" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">CarbonDioxideRemoval@googlegroups.com</a>><br class="">
                          </span></div>
                        <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
                          margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family:
                            -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue',
                            Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Cc:
                            </b></span><span style="font-family:
                            -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue,
                            Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:n.markusson@lancaster.ac.uk" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">n.markusson@lancaster.ac.uk</a>,
                            <a href="mailto:rob.bellamy@insis.ox.ac.uk" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">rob.bellamy@insis.ox.ac.uk</a>,
                            <a href="mailto:d.mclaren@lancaster.ac.uk" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">d.mclaren@lancaster.ac.uk</a>,
                            RAU greg <<a href="mailto:ghrau@sbcglobal.net" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">ghrau@sbcglobal.net</a>><br class="">
                          </span></div>
                        <br class="">
                        <div class="">
                          <div style="word-wrap: break-word;
                            -webkit-nbsp-mode: space;
                            -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">
                            <div class="">Dr.  de Richter and CDR list</div>
                            <div class=""><br class="">
                            </div>
                            <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">       </span>1.
                              Thanks for your contribution - adding the
                              word “some”.  I like your emphasis on
                              methane and N2O removal via solar towers;
                               biochar can do some of the same.</div>
                            <div class=""><br class="">
                            </div>
                            <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">       </span>2.
                               Being active on the biochar side of CDR,
                              I was very pleased to hear this past month
                              of a successful biochar operation in a
                              report on a “stoves” list by Dr. Julien
                              Winter.  His Bangladesh biochar
                              organization’s website had two articles on
                              a new stove type that both used less wood
                              and produced about 20% charcoal, which is
                              being placed in soil as biochar.  The
                              articles and a brief excerpt from each
                              are:</div>
                            <div class=""><br class="">
                            </div>
                            <div class=""><a href="http://www.biochar-bangladesh.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2016_06_03_TheNewNation.pdf" class="" moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>a.
                                 One and a half years ago:
  http://www.biochar-bangladesh.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2016_06_03_TheNewNation.pdf</a></div>
                            <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">       </span><i class="">If one household burning 3kg of
                                wood per day
                                produced 0.6kg of biochar per day, they
                                would have
                                18kg of biochar per month. For a village
                                of 500
                                households, that could amount to 108,000
                                kg biochar
                                per year. Across the landscape, the
                                people of
                                Bangladesh could become the World’s
                                largest per capita
                                sequesters of carbon. This is, as a
                                by-product of
                                cooking without cutting any additional
                                forest. </i></div>
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                            <div class=""><a href="http://www.biochar-bangladesh.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2016_12_11_DhakaTribune_Akha.pdf" class="" moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span>b.
                                  One year ago:
 http://www.biochar-bangladesh.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2016_12_11_DhakaTribune_Akha.pdf</a></div>
                            <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">       </span><i class="">In Manikganj, Monkhusi Halder
                                has been using them for a few months and
                                she sells the bio-char
                                to farmers as fertiliser, making some
                                extra cash along with dinner.
                                “I have been using this stove for the
                                last few months and sold 75kgs of
                                bio-char for Tk10 per kg,
                                reducing the cost of fuel,” Monkhusi
                                told the Dhaka Tribune while using her
                                Akha stove.
                                Khorshed Ali, a farmer in Manikganj, was
                                visibly excited about the new bio-char
                                fertiliser.</i></div>
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                            <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">       </span>These
                              articles are not emphasizing CDR - but
                              there is zero conflict with soil
                              improvements, increased food production
                              and, income generation.  And trivial
                              investment- we heard the stoves cost about
                              $20.</div>
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                            </div>
                            <div class=""><a href="http://www.biochar-international.org/network/communities" class="" moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>3.
                                   At
                                 http://www.biochar-international.org/network/communities</a> 
                              you can see the names of more than 50
                              similar regional biochar groups.   About
                              10 years ago, there was only IBI, the
                              International Biochar Initiative  (see
                              same site for its 10-year history) .  Does
                              any other CDR approach have 10% as much
                              global grassroots CDR support?   What is
                              the  evidence that biochar is “deeply
                              controversial”?  I don’t believe China is
                              finding the subject controversial;  the
                              IBI site describes a very aggressive
                              5-year plan that is well along.  China is
                              clearly the world biochar leader - and the
                              IBI headquarters has been moved there.</div>
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                            <div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">       </span>4.
                               I now find it difficult to encourage any
                              biochar supporter to attend this meeting.
                               Pity - as we need more multi-CDR meetings
                              - if the discussion is not pre-ordained to
                              prove universal “controversiality”.</div>
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                            <div class="">Ron</div>
                            <div class=""><br class="">
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                                <div class="">On Dec 22, 2017, at 1:10
                                  PM, Renaud de RICHTER <<a href="mailto:renaud.derichter@gmail.com" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">renaud.derichter@gmail.com</a>>
                                  wrote:</div>
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                                  <div dir="ltr" class="">Does not start
                                    very friendly:<br class="">
                                    <div class=""><span class="">... <i class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)" class="">Much like their
                                            taxonomic cousins,
                                            geoengineering by reflecting
                                            sunlight back into space,
                                            negative emissions ideas are
                                            also deeply controversial,
                                            potentially propping up
                                            carbon capitalism, making
                                            sweeping changes to land-use
                                            and posing significant
                                            environmental risks.</span></i>
                                        ...<br class="">
                                      </span></div>
                                    <div class="">Why not adding the
                                      word "<i class=""><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)" class=""><b class="">some</b></span></i>"
                                      just before "... <span class=""><i class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)" class="">negative emissions
                                            ideas are </span></i></span><span class=""><i class=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)" class="">also deeply
                                            controversial,..."</span></i></span></div>
                                    <div class=""><br class="">
                                      <span class=""><span class="">Nils,
                                          Rob & Duncan, there are
                                          many NETs that are not
                                          controversial, but are just
                                          not yet well known nor
                                          discussed.<br class="">
                                        </span></span></div>
                                    <div class=""><span class=""><span class=""><br class="">
                                        </span></span></div>
                                    <div class=""><span class=""><span class="">Bw, and Season's
                                          Greetings!<br class="">
                                        </span></span></div>
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                                        20:31 GMT+01:00 Greg Rau <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:ghrau@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">ghrau@sbcglobal.net</a>></span>:<br class="">
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                                                    <div class="gmail-m_1803827614254045946WordSection1"><p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><a name="m_1803827614254045946__Hlk501703479" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">Dear
                                                          all,<br class="">
                                                          <br class="">
                                                          We invite you
                                                          to submit
                                                          proposals for
                                                          papers to our
                                                          open panel<br class="">
                                                          <br class="">
                                                        </a><span class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif" class=""></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif" class="">The
                                                          politics of
                                                          negative
                                                          emissions</span></b></span><span class=""><b class="">
                                                          </b></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span class="">At <i class="">Meetings
                                                          – Making
                                                          Science,
                                                          Technology and
                                                          Society
                                                          together</i>,
                                                          EASST2018
                                                          Conference,
                                                          Lancaster, UK,
                                                          25-28 July
                                                          2018 - <a href="https://easst2018.easst.net/" target="_blank" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://easst2018.easst.net/</a></span><span class=""><br class="">
                                                          <br class="">
                                                          Convenors: <br class="">
                                                          Nils Markusson
                                                          (Lancaster
                                                          University) <a href="mailto:n.markusson@lancaster.ac.uk" target="_blank" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">n.markusson@lancaster.ac.uk</a><br class="">
                                                          Rob Bellamy
                                                          (University of
                                                          Oxford) <a href="mailto:rob.bellamy@insis.ox.ac.uk" target="_blank" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">rob.bellamy@insis.ox.ac.uk</a><br class="">
                                                          Duncan McLaren
                                                          (Lancaster
                                                          University) <a href="mailto:d.mclaren@lancaster.ac.uk" target="_blank" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">d.mclaren@lancaster.ac.uk</a><br class="">
                                                          <span style="background:yellow
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                                                          </span></span><span class="">The
                                                          Paris
                                                          Agreement on
                                                          climate change
                                                          has set out
                                                          global
                                                          commitments to
                                                          keeping global
                                                          warming well
                                                          below 2 °C
                                                          above
                                                          preindustrial
                                                          levels and to
                                                          aim for
                                                          limiting the
                                                          rise to 1.5
                                                          °C. The
                                                          Intergovernmental
                                                          Panel on
                                                          Climate Change
                                                          has concluded
                                                          that meeting
                                                          these targets
                                                          is possible –
                                                          but nearly all
                                                          of their
                                                          scenarios rely
                                                          on the
                                                          extensive
                                                          deployment of
                                                          large-scale
                                                          technologies
                                                          that remove
                                                          greenhouse
                                                          gases from the
                                                          atmosphere but
                                                          do not
                                                          currently
                                                          exist (as
                                                          complete
                                                          socio-technical
systems). Critics have argued that assumptions about when such ‘negative
                                                          emissions’
                                                          technologies
                                                          might be ready
                                                          and how they
                                                          might be
                                                          deployed at an
                                                          impactful
                                                          scale are
                                                          desperately
                                                          optimistic.
                                                        </span><span class=""><span style="background:yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%" class=""><br class="">
                                                          <br class="">
                                                          </span></span><span class="">Much
                                                          like their
                                                          taxonomic
                                                          cousins,
                                                          geoengineering
                                                          by reflecting
                                                          sunlight back
                                                          into space,
                                                          negative
                                                          emissions
                                                          ideas are also
                                                          deeply
                                                          controversial,
                                                          potentially
                                                          propping up
                                                          carbon
                                                          capitalism,
                                                          making
                                                          sweeping
                                                          changes to
                                                          land-use and
                                                          posing
                                                          significant
                                                          environmental
                                                          risks. This
                                                          panel seeks to
                                                          explore the
                                                          politics of
                                                          these
                                                          prospective
                                                          negative
                                                          emissions
                                                          technologies
                                                          and what they
                                                          imply for our
                                                          changing
                                                          relationship
                                                          with nature in
                                                          the age of the
                                                          Anthropocene.
                                                          We ask: what
                                                          political
                                                          imaginaries
                                                          and interests
                                                          are
                                                          co-produced
                                                          with negative
                                                          emissions
                                                          ideas in
                                                          climate
                                                          models,
                                                          experiments
                                                          and policies?
                                                          How might
                                                          research,
                                                          development
                                                          and deployment
                                                          of carbon
                                                          removal be
                                                          governed
                                                          responsibly
                                                          where power
                                                          relations and
socio-technical systems are co-evolving? </span><span class=""><span class="">What
                                                          are the
                                                          implications
                                                          for power,
                                                          knowledge and
                                                          politics of
                                                          (discursive)
                                                          decoupling of
                                                          carbon removal
                                                          from other
                                                          forms of
                                                          geoengineering?
                                                          </span></span><span class="">How
                                                          does negative
                                                          emissions
                                                          politics
                                                          compare to
                                                          other
                                                          technoscientific
                                                          politics? What
                                                          should our
                                                          roles as STS
                                                          scholars be
                                                          when engaging
                                                          with negative
                                                          emissions?</span><span class=""><span style="background:yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%" class="">
                                                          <br class="">
                                                          </span></span><span class=""><span style="background:yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%" class=""><br class="">
                                                          </span></span><span class="">To
                                                          submit a paper
                                                          please go to
                                                        </span><a href="https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6270" target="_blank" class="" moz-do-not-send="true"><span class="">https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/<wbr class="">easst2018/conferencesuite.php/<wbr class="">panels/6270</span><span class=""></span></a><span class=""><span style="background:yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%" class=""><br class="">
                                                          </span></span><span class="">The
                                                          call for
                                                          papers closes
                                                          at midnight
                                                          CET on 14
                                                          February,
                                                          2018.</span></p>
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