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Projects - dr. IM (Ina) Möller

  • The politics of climate engineering. Speculative technologies to engineer the climate by enhancing the Earth's reflectivity or its capacity to absorb carbon dioxide are becoming increasingly pronounced in discussions on how to address the climate crisis. At the same time, their appearance on the scientific and political agenda raises concerns about the implications of considering still largely imaginary technologies as a part of climate policy. This project, funded by the Wageningen PostDoc talent programme, explores the interface between scientific expertise and policy making in the case of climate engineering.

  • Mitigation Deterrence through Greenhouse Gas Removal in the European Food and Land-Use System. Large-scale removals of atmospheric carbon dioxide are becoming a core element of European Union climate policy. To achieve this, the Commission envisions a central role for land-use. Yet how will these policies affect the behavior of greenhouse gas emitters like meat, dairy, pulp and paper? Could incentivizing land-based removals delay the reduction of agricultural emissions at source? In this project, I ask how large emitters in the food and land-use system are responding to EU removals policy, what this response implies for collective emissions, and how we can use this knowledge to improve the science and governance of climate change.