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A New Plan to Capture Greenhouse Gas documents how growth-minded politicians, industrialists, and engineers have spent decades advocating for CO2 removal, at the expense of real climate solutions. Surprising stories surface: a failed “CO2 dump” experiment off the coast of Hawaii, an MIT partnership with the state-run oil giant Saudi Aramco, a campaign to deregulate pollution on the high seas, and more. Andres tells these stories in a unique style of drawing that incorporates archival research and reproduction.

In a talk celebrating the book’s release, Andres discusses the troubled history of CO2 removal and what it could mean for climate movement organizers today. Of course, he shares drawings from his book along the way.

Andres investigates topics ranging from global climate governance to attacks on the right to protest. Before joining Greenpeace USA, he spent more than four years working at the UN-backed Science Based Targets initiative where he led cross-sector climate mitigation research. During that time, Andres also became involved with the grassroots activist network Science for the People and was an artist-in-residence at Caldera Arts. His website is andreschang.com and his Instagram is @ndreschang.