Comparing extraction rates of fossil fuel producers against global climate goals

Rekker, Saphira; O’Brien, Katherine R.; Humphrey, Jacquelyn E.; Pascale, Andrew

doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0158-1

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“…17,18 Effects on the water cycle have led to increased precipitation and floods in some areas and droughts in others. 19,20 This has created massive repercussions on agriculture, industry, and livelihoods. Thus, mankind faces the dual challenges of urgently transitioning to clean decarbonized energy systems while attempting to conserve natural capital as best as possible and offset the damage already done to the environment and water resources.…”

Section: Climate Change Sustainable Development and Nuclear Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Rapid assessment of integrated nuclear cogeneration projects using multi‐criteria indices

Bhattacharyya

Khalid

2021

Intl J of Energy Research

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Nuclear power plants provide clean, carbon free, stable, reliable electricity and can offer nonelectric products and services via cogeneration operations to multiple sectors. This contributes to decarbonization of the current energy and industrial systems, supports climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts and ensures sustainable development over the long term, according to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) framework and the provisions of the Conference of Parties 21 (COP21) Paris Agreement, 2015. This work surveys the potential role of nuclear cogeneration projects in meeting these objectives based on the current technological landscape. It focuses on nuclear assisted desalination for freshwater production and electrolytic hydrogen production as the use cases and suggests an assessment framework for their holistic evaluation. New integrated metrics and multi-criteria performance indicators beyond the levelized cost of production are developed to quantify the likely multi-dimensional impacts of such projects. The use of these for screening alternatives illustrates the fact that depending on weightage given to different criteria, different technologies may appear to be better suited to deployment under given set of conditions. These metrics are expected to be useful for creation of a decision support system for deployment of nuclear cogeneration projects.

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Section: Climate Change Sustainable Development and Nuclear Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Rapid assessment of integrated nuclear cogeneration projects using multi‐criteria indices

Bhattacharyya

Khalid

2021

Intl J of Energy Research

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“…A basic approach, for example, would be to determine a 'burnable fossil fuel allowance' for fossil fuel-producing companies and countries based on the current status quo. Yet, even this basic and questionable approach would raise the issue of deciding whether such allowance should be based on reserve or production levels (Rekker et al, 2018). The use of a reserve criteria would advantage state-owned entities and countries with the largest reserves, most of which are controlled by non-democratic governments, and likely lead to reserve inflation -as seen among many OPEC members.…”

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Just cuts for fossil fuels? Supply-side carbon constraints and energy transition

2019

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Reducing greenhouse gas emissions has generally been approached through demand-side initiatives, yet there are increasing calls for supply-side interventions to curtail fossil fuel production. Pursuing energy transition through supply-side constraints would have major geopolitical and economic consequences. Depending on the criteria and instruments applied, supply cuts for fossil fuels could drastically reduce and reorient major financial flows and reshape the spatiality of energy production and consumption. Building on debates about just transitions and supply constraints, we provide a survey of emerging interventions targeting the supply of, rather than the demand for, fossil fuels. We articulate four theories of justice and criteria to prioritize cuts among fossil fuel producers, including with regard to carbon intensity, production costs, affordability, developmental efficiency and support for climate change action. We then examine seven major supply constraint instruments, their effectiveness and possible pathways to supply cuts in the coal, oil and gas sectors. We suggest that supply cuts both reflect and offer purposeful political spaces of interventions towards a ‘just’ transition away from fossil fuel production.

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“…In the past 170 years, human activities have been responsible for almost all of the rapid increase in CO 2 emissions, which has been linked to global climate change and ocean acidification (Figure 1A). 1,2 Strategies such as CO 2 capture and catalytic conversion have been proposed to mitigate CO 2 emissions. Among the latter strategy, thermocatalytic CO 2 hydrogenation 3,4 provides a wide variety of products, such as CO, methane, methanol, olefins, ethers, and aromatics, whereas the CO 2 mitigation efficiency depends on the source of H 2 ; electrocatalytic CO 2 reduction using water-derived protons is the subject of many recent studies due to its promise in the production of value-added chemicals, [5][6][7] such as syngas (CO and H 2 ), formate, alkanes, olefins, and alcohols, although it is still far from competing with conventional processes.…”

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Bimetallic-Derived Catalysts and Their Application in Simultaneous Upgrading of CO2 and Ethane

Xie

Winter

Chen

2021

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Comparing extraction rates of fossil fuel producers against global climate goals

Cited by 24 publications

References 19 publications

Rapid assessment of integrated nuclear cogeneration projects using multi‐criteria indices

Rapid assessment of integrated nuclear cogeneration projects using multi‐criteria indices

Just cuts for fossil fuels? Supply-side carbon constraints and energy transition

Bimetallic-Derived Catalysts and Their Application in Simultaneous Upgrading of CO2 and Ethane

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