fORUM STRUCTURE

The CDRANet Policy Forum is where the policy communication work of this group takes pace, connected by workgroups, side meetings, and conferences. Over 250 high-level climate leaders and experts are part of this group, representing perspectives from across the globe.

  • CDR business leaders

  • Finance and investment leaders

  • Science and technology experts

  • Environmental advocacy leaders

  • Government policy experts (international, federal, state, local)

  • Climate change communication experts

  • More (2O stakeholder groups in all)

  • 32 countries represented

  • 200 institutions

  • Wide diversity of voices and perspectives

  • Moderated conversations

  • Expert opinions

  • Emphasis on listening and learning

benfits for The world

  • Creating new lines of peer-to-peer high level dialogue and collaboration between different leaders in this space, spanning stakeholder groups, sectors and regions.

  • Creating a truly global, multi-stakeholder framework for what CDR policy might look like—not necessarily detailed down to the nuts and bolts, but expert, diverse, and thoughtful to the point where governments at all levels can built on this and adapt policies that fit their needs.

  • Helping mainstream the conversation about CDR so it isn’t a policy sideshow, and so it is less likely to get derailed by politicians who are afraid there hasn’t been a global conversation to-date about CDR.

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HONEST DEBATE

This conversation will include a robust discussion of the many different facets of CDR, which is why we’ve invited sociologists, politicians, environmental advocacy groups, science communicators, indigenous rights groups, and more, in addition to tech companies, scientists and financers. It’s critical for all of us to develop a deeper understanding of the full dimensions of this challenge. This said, climate change skeptics aren’t welcome—including this perspective would be disruptive and distracting to the point where others would leave. This isn’t a debate about whether the earth is warming rapidly and causing huge change; it’s a debate about how to develop carbon dioxide reduction policy to help stem and reverse this change. Not everyone agrees we should do this, to be sure. But the conversation about how to do this (and understanding all the attendant pros, cons, challenges, dangers, etc.) has so far been happening at the margins, not at center stage.

Most of this debate is being done online using a highly capable community conversation tool. From this central launching point, side panels and interdisciplinary challenges will also be created, white papers will be developed along the way, and we’ll have an in-person group meeting about a year from now. Combined with this activity, we’ll catalyze policy development and outreach work from the many expert agencies who are part of this group.

Everyone in this group has been part of many panels over the years that have worked together to create expert opinions that get filed away someplace and eventually forgotten. Our goal here is to quickly develop a fuller understanding of the CDR landscape, and from this, propose a framework for action that the world can build on—not the final finished product, but a common understanding of what needs to be done, what the mileposts look like, how this work gets integrated into other climate policy, and so on. We’re hoping to create a “living” policy that is useful and usable, not a report for policymakers but a framework for common action. And we will work hard to ensure that the many organizations involved in CDRANet can continue using and developing this framework moving forward so this isn’t just a flash in the pan but a cornerstone for long term cooperation, collaboration and progress.

GOALS