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Romany Webb

@romany-webb.bsky.social
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Deputy Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. Working on climate, energy, carbon removal, methane removal, and more.

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Columbia Climate School @climate.columbia.edu · 22/09/2026
Marine CO2 removal could support climate action but faces major scientific, technical, governance challenges, finds NASEM report, whose committee members include experts @romany-webb.bsky.social of @sabincenter.bsky.social & @oceancarbon.bsky.social of @lamont.columbia.edu. ➡️ bit.ly/3UXlK4X
Underwater view of schools of fish with text A Research Strategy for Ocean-based Carbon Dioxide Removal and Sequestration, Consensus Study Report, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's release day for the new National Academies’ report on marine carbon dioxide removal! It's been a real privilege to work on this report with 19 other experts from around the world. With so many contributors, the report can cover a lot. Here are some of my key takeaways: shorturl.at/wI3CJ
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New National Academies of Sciences’ Report on Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Highlights the Need for Governance Reforms - Climate Law Blog
The new Limiting Overshoot report from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) paints a grim picture. Global warming is likely to exceed 1.5oC above pre-industrial levels within the next decade ...
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#ClimateWeekNYC is almost upon us but there is still time to register for great @sabincenter.bsky.social events like this one!
Flyer for upcoming event on challenges to renewable energy development, schedule for September 24.
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Join @sabincenter.bsky.social at Climate Week NYC. We’ve got a great line up of free events. Check out the options and register at: climate.law.columbia.edu/content/clim...
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Climate Week NYC 2026 | Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Join me at #ClimateWeekNYC for a discussion of the legal and policy tools states can, and in some cases already are, using to advance carbon dioxide removal (#CDR). Register at: events.columbia.edu/go/MindtheGap
Flyer for upcoming Climate Week NYC event titled “Mind the Gap: How States Can Advance Carbon Dioxide Removal Despite Federal Backsliding”
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
It's World Ocean Day & the 3rd World Ocean Assessment (#WOA) was just released. I enjoyed contributing to the chapter on geoengineering, covering #mCDR & #mSRM approaches.
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Join us on May 27 for a discussion of international governance of mCDR. Register at: climate.law.columbia.edu/events/mcdr-...
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Join us on April 20 for a discussion of recent developments in, and future directions for, mCDR governance under the London Convention and Protocol. Register at: buff.ly/3lFOtf9
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Spring is finally coming
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Check out this new quick guide on the international agreements that apply to #mCDR activities and how interested observers can better participate in relevant international discussions. scholarship.law.columbia.edu/sabin_climat...
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A Primer on International Agreements Relevant to Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal
This primer provides an introduction to seven international agreements relevant to marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) research activities in the ocean. Each of these agreements has implications for ...
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Local opposition to carbon capture, removal, & storage in Louisiana is driving new restrictions on development. It looks a lot like what's happened to renewable energy. What can that sector's experience tell us about what might be in store for carbon capture, removal, & storage? tinyurl.com/3djrpkup
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The Energy Wars Come to Louisiana: Carbon Capture, Removal, and Storage Projects Face New Hurdles in the Pelican State - Climate Law Blog
Until recently, Louisiana was the darling of the carbon capture, removal, and storage industry. Due to its history of oil and gas production, the state has a fairly extensive carbon dioxide pipeline n...
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Does anyone know how to contact the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social transition team? My son (6 years old) has written a letter he desperately wants to send them about pollution in the city.
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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
📗New Book Explores the Need for Climate-Compatible Infrastructure Development and the Legal Issues it Raises Deputy Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law Romany M. Webb shows why climate change is, at its core, an infrastructure challenge. 🔗
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New Book Explores the Need for Climate-Compatible Infrastructure Development and the Legal Issues it Raises - Climate Law Blog
The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) reached a disappointing conclusion on Saturday. Just a few days earlier, things had…
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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
⏰🌱Closing Soon—Applications Due November 30th! ⚖️The Sabin Center is seeking a postdoctoral research scholar to join our Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative (RELDI)! 🔗Apply before November 30th: buff.ly/sBpru1a
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Check out the Climate Law blog for an overview of my latest book and why you should read it. There really is something for everyone in there! blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...
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New Book Explores the Need for Climate-Compatible Infrastructure Development and the Legal Issues it Raises - Climate Law Blog
The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) reached a disappointing conclusion on Saturday. Just a few days earlier, things had looke...
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
It’s arrived! So excited to finally see this in print! Grab your copy now.
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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
🌎We’re Hiring! The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law is seeking a Climate Justice Fellow to contribute to work on issues related to climate justice and equity ✅Requirements: J.D. or LLM & interest in climate justice/environmental law 📅Deadline: 1/16/2026 🔗More Details: buff.ly/R2zU9i8
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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🌱The Sabin Center is seeking a postdoctoral research scholar to join our Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative! 🌬️☀️RELDI partners with communities to advance wind and solar projects, offering research and legal support to overcome renewable energy development barriers. 🔗 Visit: buff.ly/mCJTXyu
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Van Gogh at NYBG
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The @sabincenter.bsky.social is hiring for not one, but two, attorneys to join our team. For more info and to apply visit: climate.law.columbia.edu/content/jobs...
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Jobs and Internships at the Sabin Center | Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
UPCOMING EVENT: On Oct. 17, the @sabincenter.bsky.social will host a webinar on future directions in the regulation of #marineCDR under the London Convention & Protocol. Register at: tinyurl.com/3xp6uzuu
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Climate Governance under the London Convention and Protocol Webinar | Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Register below to attend the event. Once you register, the zoom link will be sent to you before the event.
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
This week, @sabincenter.bsky.social submitted comments to CARB on implementation of SB905, which requires creation of a program to advance #CDR. This is an important reminder that, even in the midst of federal backsliding, states can make progress. tinyurl.com/49x8p75c
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Information Solicitation to Advise Implementation of the Carbon Capture, Removal, Utilization, and Storage Program: Senate Bill 905 | California Air Resources Board
The California Air Resources Board (CARB or Board) is soliciting feedback to help inform its work to implement Senate Bill (SB) 905 (Caballero, Statutes of 2022). This pre-rulemaking solicitation step...
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"If we want to achieve global climate goals, we simply cannot be building out a whole lot of new fossil fuel infrastructure," Webb said. "Yet we're seeing calls to prolong the life of coal plants and build new gas plants just to support data centers." www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/a...
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New map and research expose disturbing side effects of AI industry boom: 'There are going to be challenges'
As part of the latest wave of Big Tech's spending on AI, Google announced a $9 billion investment to build a new data center campus in Virginia.
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Fall colors just starting at Minnewaska State Park
Woodland scene with green, red, and orange trees
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Today @sabincenter.bsky.social hosted a full day symposium on marine carbon dioxide removal law & policy. It was great to dive into international & domestic frameworks, the role of tribes, community engagement, & so much more. Thanks to all of our stellar speakers!
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Joseph Winters @jbwinters.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
A new report from @newclimate.bsky.social finds little corporate support for durable CO2 removal, which is needed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C. Those that are investing in the technology aren't doing so in conjunction with deep emissions cuts. @grist.org grist.org/accountabili...
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Report: Big businesses are doing carbon dioxide removal all wrong
The technology is needed to limit global warming. But corporations are supporting it in lieu of emissions reductions.
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 02/09/2025
There is still time to register & join ONC at our Queenswood Campus in #Victoria, BC to participate in @sabincenter.bsky.social's #mCDR symposium! Hear from cross-border #PNW panelists as they discuss marine #CarbonDioxide removal efforts in & around the #SalishSea. 🔗 bit.ly/4fVdxEO
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 22/08/2025
Not in New York? Come to ONC's Queenswood Campus in Victoria BC to watch the symposium live! Hear from cross-border Pacific Northwest panelists as they discuss marine #CarbonDioxide removal efforts in & around the #SalishSea, sharing insights and lessons learned. 🔗 bit.ly/4fVdxEO #mCDR 🧪
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Climate Science Legal Defense Fund @csldf.org · 20/08/2025
We've been selected as a CREDO Mobile grant recipient for the month of August! Vote now to help decide how the available funds will be divided between three progressive organizations. www.credodonations.com/organization...
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Vote for Climate Science Legal Defense Fund to help increase their grant from CREDO
Every month, CREDO donates to the progressive causes you care about most.
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Ocean Visions @oceanvisions.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Funded by Ocean Visions, a new white paper from @sabincenter.bsky.social proposes a more climate-conscious approach to how the London Convention & Protocol governs marine carbon dioxide removal. Read the press release ➡️ oceanvisions.org/rethinking-t...
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Rethinking the London Convention and Protocol Governance of MCDR in Light of New International Rulings and Landmark International Climate Agreements
A new white paper by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University proposes more climate-conscious thinking on how parties currently apply, and how they could more effectively apply, ...
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
What is the most exciting part of working on a book? Getting to see the cover design! Hopefully this will be on shelves soon.
Book cover for the Research Handbook on Climate Change and Infrastructure Law
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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
🌊📄 The Sabin Center published a new #report, International Legal Guidelines for Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Governance under the London Convention and London Protocol. Read here: scholarship.law.columbia.edu/sabin_climat... #FridayReads
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Yesterday, the Sabin Center filed not 1, not 2, but 3 (!) separate comments on EPA's proposal to repeal its GHG emissions standards for fossil fuel power plants. Thanks to the team here that contributed!
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
📣 New @sabincenter.bsky.social report on the regulation of #mCDR under the London Convention and Protocol by Korey Silverman-Roati and yours truly. 🧵 (1/6) climate.law.columbia.edu/content/inte...
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International Legal Guidelines for Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Governance under the London Convention and London Protocol | Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Join us on September 19 for a discussion of #mCDR law and policy.
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
My son this morning: Can we listen to that music from the olden days? You know, those classic songs from the early 200s. Sung by the group of girls. Turns out he was talking about Destiny's Child. Feeling ancient right now.
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Just finished this truly beautiful book. I don’t get much time to read for pleasure these days. This book made me want to find more. A poignant, yet hopeful story, with a killer twist at the end. And it’s by an Aussie! #booksky
The cover of Homecoming by Kate Morton
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
📣 NEW REPORT: Methane Removal Under the Paris Agreement. Might it be possible to remove methane from the atmosphere? What issues would that raise under the Paris Agreement? My latest report explores the nascent, but fast developing, field of methane removal. blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...
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Methane Removal Under the Paris Agreement: A New Sabin Center White Paper - Climate Law Blog
In the 2015 Paris Agreement, the international community agreed to “strengthen the global response to climate change” by limiting the “increase in global average temperatures to well below 2oC above p...
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
“when the glaciers are all gone, what do you call an island that used to be Iceland? Just … Land?” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/o...
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Opinion | The Icelandic Landscape Is Changing, and It’s Changing Us
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
📣 UPCOMING EVENT: Join us @columbiauniversity.bsky.social on Sept. 19 for a discussion of the legal & policy landscape for #mCDR in the U.S. & internationally. For those who can't make it to NYC, we'll have remote viewing sites in Seattle (WA), Newark (DE), & BC (Canada). shorturl.at/9fn5d
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Chilling on Caturday
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
BIG NEWS: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights just issued its advisory opinion on #climatechange. Key takeaways are summarized in the Sabin Center's Global Climate Litigation Database (⬇️) & in-depth analysis is coming soon. Key an eye on our Climate Law Blog shorturl.at/yoQvp
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Request for an advisory opinion on the scope of the state obligations for responding to the climate emergency - Climate Change Litigation
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
📣NEW REPORT: The 5th edition of 'Local Opposition to Renewable Energy Facilities in the U.S.' from @sabincenter.bsky.social is out now. It identifies 459 local govts that had severely restricted renewables as of the end of 2024. That's a 16% increase over 2023 levels! Read more at shorturl.at/JpZVB
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Local Laws and Lawsuits Targeting Renewables Becoming More Prevalent in the US - Climate Law Blog
While federal policy can have a significant impact on renewable energy development, local policy—and local sentiment—can be just as consequential. Between 2018-2023, at least 30% of utility-scale wind...
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Great @rollingstone.com article on the impact of Trump's "big beautiful bill" on the US clean energy transition. As I said: “This will have huge economic impacts. Renewable energy is cheaper than fossil fuel energy. Any consumer who has an energy bill should care about this.” shorturl.at/SPRA4
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Trump's Big Beautiful Bill Will Destroy America's Climate Progress
Donald Trump and Republicans are using the "Big Beautiful Bill" to roll back climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act.
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Perfect day!
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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
📄Martin Lockman, Ashwin Murthy, & Romany Webb’s report on #offshoreoil & gas decommissioning in the #USA was published! Report➡️ scholarship.law.columbia.edu/sabin_climat...
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Swimming pool cake! Maybe I’ll become a cake decorator if this climate thing doesn’t work out.
Swimming pool cake
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
An amazing piece of work by my colleague @matigre.bsky.social. If you want to understand what’s happening with climate litigation in Brazil, this is the book for you!
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Romany Webb @romany-webb.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
It’s World Ocean Day! Feels appropriate to share some photos of the ocean surrounding the coral atoll of Majuro in the Marshall Islands. Surely this is worth protecting.
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