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As usual please tell all your friends and colleagues about the show, and consider coming on as a guest or guest host. Comments and suggestions are most welcome!  [email protected]  @reviewer2geo  @geoengineering1  @clare_nomad_geo The links for articles we discussed today are below:   A World Resources Institute Report: Leveraging the Ocean's Carbon Removal Potential https://www.wri.org/blog/2020/10/ocean-carbon-dioxide-sequestration China's 2060 carbon neutrality goal will require up to 2.5 GtCO2/year of negative emissions technology deployment https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06723 Microsoft Joins Norwegian Offshore Carbon Capture Project https://www.oedigital.com/news/482431-microsoft-joins-norwegian-offshore-carbon-capture-project Carbon capture receives global push from Mitsubishi Heavy https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Environment/Carbon-capture-receives-global-push-from-Mitsubishi-Heavy UCLA receive $2.9m grant to convert carbon dioxide into concrete https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/news/ucla-receive-29m-grant-convert-carbon-dioxide-conc/ Engineering the climate: the controversial science that could cool our atmosphere https://geographical.co.uk/nature/climate Is Turning Down the Sun a Good Proxy for Stratospheric Sulfate Geoengineering?https://www.essoar.org/doi/abs/10.1002/essoar.10504448.1#.X4D7iZS4WCE.twitter  Thomas Crowther acknowledges criticsim of the trilion trees concept. In a Ted Talk Thomas Crowther: The global movement to restore nature's biodiversity Thomas Crowther: The global movement to restore nature's biodiversity Amazon Announces First Recipients of Investments from $2 Billion Climate Pledge Fund https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-announces-first-recipients-investments-2-billion-climate  Rewild to mitigate the climate crisis, urge leading scientists: Restoring degraded natural lands highly effective for carbon storage and avoiding species extinctions https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/14/re-wild-to-mitigate-the-climate-crisis-urge-leading-scientists Parametric Insurance for Solar Geoengineering: Insights from the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Financing Initiativehttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1758-5899.12864 Gates to a global empire https://navdanyainternational.org/publications/gates-to-a-global-empire/ Carbon Dioxide Removal Law.  An annotated bibliography of legal materials related to carbon dioxide removal and carbon sequestration and use. https://cdrlaw.org New Research Provides a Better Understanding of How Cirrus Clouds Form https://scitechdaily.com/new-research-provides-a-better-understanding-of-how-cirrus-clouds-form/ Carbon capture ‘moonshot’ moves closer as billions of dollars pour in (concrete)  https://grist.org/climate/carbon-capture-moonshot-moves-closer-as-billions-of-dollars-pour-in/?utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1602710510