Negative Emissions Programs

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Platform - Green Party US
  Section III. Ecological Sustainability
        A. Climate Change
              Negative Emissions Programs

The key policies and programs in this program should include the following:

Negative Emisions Programs

Create a Civilian Conservation Corps employing several million people in natural carbon sequestration projects that restore biospheric carbon sinks, including forests, soils, wetlands, and mangroves in the U.S. and around the world.

The corps should also work to restore and enhance public recreation and park infrastructure and to clean up hazardous waste sites.
Climate science now recognizes that warming above the 1.5ºC will significantly increase the potential onset of tipping points leading to catastrophic climate change with impacts far worse than we now witness.

To keep warming below this IPCC-recognized target, near-future radical reduction of global fossil fuel consumption coupled with negative carbon emissions will be imperative.

Further, the 2021 6th IPCC Report emphasizes that curbing methane emissions will have significant benefits in slowing down global warming.

Climate security requires negative greenhouse gas emissions and not the "net zero" goal now promoted by the U.S.

Net zero is a cover for unaccountable carbon offsets and corporate land grabbing, especially in the global South. "Net zero" is an excuse to prolong consumption of fossil fuels and emissions of CO2.

Negative carbon emissions should be the goal.
Because the carbon-storing capacity of natural carbon sequestration is uncertain, Greens also believe it is prudent to research and develop other ways of drawing carbon out of the atmosphere in order to return to the climate safety zone.

Biospheric carbon sequestration may have to be augmented by geospheric carbon sequestration.

Greens call for research and development of a solar-powered industrial acceleration of weathering that fixes carbon in the Earth's crust in the natural geological carbon cycle.