Navigating Stakeholder Heterogeneity in Carbon Dioxide Removal Governance

In an article recently published at Nature Reviews Clean Technology, Yuwan Malakar, Kerryn Brent, Audrey Bester, John Gardner and Will Howards have studied the extent to which the divergent interests of various CDR stakeholders influence the dynamics of their relationships. In doing so, they have determined how such dynamics can create opportunities for or barriers against CDR deployment.

Within this context, they have classified stakeholders by taking into account the role they play in the ‘CDR socio-technical system’. As a result, they have identified two main stakeholders: i) ‘niche’ players that innovate to deploy CDR; and ii) actors such as the local community and broader public, who do not contribute to CDR development but are impacted by CDR deployment.

Then, they have categorized the relationships between these actors into four groups based on their necessity, compatibility and contingency.

This framework can be used by those that carry out research, engage in policy making and deploy technologies related to CDR to gain a better understanding of the heterogeneous nature of the relationships between various stakeholders. The ability to grasp the nature of different kinds of relationships, in turn, can enable the adoption of suitable approaches depending on the specific kind of stakeholder that is involved. The determination of the presence of various kinds of relationships can also shed light upon how different stakeholders can influence the development and eventual deployment of CDR.

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