Negative emissions—Part 1: Research landscape and synthesis

Minx, Jan C.; Lamb, William F.; Callaghan, Max; Fuss, Sabine; Hilaire, Jérôme; Creutzig, Felix; Amann, Thorben; Beringer, Tim; Garcia, Wagner de Oliveira; Hartmann, Jens; Khanna, Tarun; Lenzi, Dominic; Luderer, Gunnar; Nemet, Gregory F.; Rogelj, Joeri; Smith, Pete; Vicente-Vicente, José Luis; Wilcox, Jennifer; Dominguez, Maria del Mar Zamora

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“…); because negative emissions de facto allow the short‐term extension of the carbon budget; and because assessing the costs of any technology implemented half a century from now is necessarily speculative, NETs have a distinct economic advantage over more immediate emission reduction strategies (Minx et al. ). The inclusion of negative emissions in IAMs, in other words, was the direct result of a cost‐minimisation exercise (Parson ), of efforts to uphold the idea that significant mitigation is still achievable in a cost‐effective way.…”

Section: Going Into Carbon Debt: Negative Emissions As Spatiotemporalmentioning

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“…In most scenarios, between 400 and 1000 Gt CO 2 needs to be removed over the course of the 21 st century (Minx et al. ), or about 20–50% of all greenhouse gases emitted over the past 200 years or so. The technology most favoured by models to deliver these negative emissions is called Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) (Smith et al.…”

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“…Implementing BECCS would also significantly increase demands for freshwater and fertiliser use (Minx et al. ; Smith and Torn ), and would need to resolve current uncertainties pertaining to the safe and long‐term underground storage of carbon (Fuss et al. ), the level of emissions associated with land‐use change (Harper et al.…”

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“…Some scientists have argued that these concerns could largely be alleviated by relying on a “portfolio” of different technologies (Minx et al. ). Others however have concluded that the massive risks and uncertainties involved imply that proposed negative emission technologies (NETs) have “limited realistic potential” (EASAC :1) and that the political mitigation agenda should therefore “proceed on the premise that they will not work at scale” (Anderson and Peters :183).…”

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“Fixing” Climate Change by Mortgaging the Future: Negative Emissions, Spatiotemporal Fixes, and the Political Economy of Delay

Carton

2019

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Models suggest that climate change mitigation now depends on negative emissions, i.e. the large‐scale removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This assumption has been criticised in the climate policy literature for being unfeasible and unjust. This article asks how critical scholars can make sense of, and contribute to these debates. It suggests that negative emissions can be conceived of as a spatiotemporal fix that promises to defer the devaluation of fixed capital. But the negative emissions example also challenges us to broaden our conception of how the socioecological contradictions of capitalism can be “fixed”. I outline three ways in which it does this by highlighting the significance of a predominantly temporal fix, the role of hegemonic, sociopolitical interventions involving multiple actors, and the possibility of safeguarding existing production processes. I conclude that spatiotemporal fixes to climate change should be seen as part of a wider political economy of delay in devaluing carbon‐intensive accumulation processes.

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“…Third, it seeks to bring together diverse research communities through a 1 Two main types of IAMs are identified in the literature (Weyant 2017): Detailed Process IAMs provide disaggregated and detailed regional and sectoral mitigation analyses, while Cost-Benefit IAMs generate a more aggregated view of impacts and climate mitigation economics by region or sector. 2 For a detailed review of CDR approaches see Minx et al (2018). collection of deep decarbonization studies that provide a starting point for cross-disciplinary discussions of demand-side approaches.…”

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Demand-side approaches for limiting global warming to 1.5 °C

Mundaca

Ürge-Vorsatz²,

Wilson

2018

Energy Efficiency

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The Paris Climate Agreement defined an ambition of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels. This has triggered research on stringent emission reduction targets and corresponding mitigation pathways across energy economy and societal systems. Driven by methodological considerations, supply side and carbon dioxide removal options feature prominently in the emerging pathway literature, while much less attention has been given to the role of demand-side approaches. This special issue addresses this gap, and aims to broaden and strengthen the knowledge base in this key research and policy area. This editorial paper synthesizes the special issue's contributions horizontally through three shared themes we identify: policy interventions, demand-side measures, and methodological approaches. The review of articles is supplemented by insights from other relevant literature. Overall, our paper underlines that stringent demand-side policy portfolios are required to drive the pace and direction of deep decarbonization pathways and keep the 1.5°C target within reach. It confirms that insufficient attention has been paid to demand-side measures, which are found to be inextricably linked to supply-side decarbonization and able to complement supply-side measures. The paper also shows that there is an abundance of demand-side measures to limit warming to 1.5°C, but it warns that not all of these options are Bseen^or captured by current quantitative tools or progress indicators, and some remain insufficiently represented in the current policy discourse. Based on the set of papers presented in the special issue, we conclude that demand-side mitigation in line with the 1.5°C goal is possible; however, it remains enormously challenging and dependent on both innovative technologies and policies, and behavioral change. Limiting warming to 1.5°C requires, more than ever, a plurality of methods and integrated behavioral and technology approaches to better support policymaking and resulting policy interventions.

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New Metrics of Green Sorbents for CO₂Capturing

Eftaiha

Qaroush

Abu‐Daabes

et al. 2020

Advanced Sustainable Systems

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Significant progress has been made in the past decades in the capture, storage, and utilization of greenhouse gases, particularly CO2. In general, the synthesis of most of the available CO2 sorbents is not ecofriendly and can require multistep synthesis in order to prepare and/or activate, which is considered a strict violation of green chemistry principles (GCPs). Therefore, thinking of green frameworks to design chemical products and processes becomes essential to mitigate these challenges. This paper provides an in‐depth review of available green sorbents for CO2 capture with an emphasis on those prepared from biorenewable materials and ionic liquids. A new metric is presented to classify these sorbents based on their degree of compliance to the GCPs, which could be a useful tool in selection of green alternatives. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of this research topic, a wide range of literature is available in multiple areas including but not limited to chemistry and engineering. Hence, this review targets a wide range of scientists including chemists, biotechnologists, material scientists, and meteorologists, as well as green industrial corporations.

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Negative emissions—Part 1: Research landscape and synthesis

Cited by 627 publications

References 116 publications

“Fixing” Climate Change by Mortgaging the Future: Negative Emissions, Spatiotemporal Fixes, and the Political Economy of Delay

“Fixing” Climate Change by Mortgaging the Future: Negative Emissions, Spatiotemporal Fixes, and the Political Economy of Delay

Demand-side approaches for limiting global warming to 1.5 °C

New Metrics of Green Sorbents for CO₂Capturing

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“Fixing” Climate Change by Mortgaging the Future: Negative Emissions, Spatiotemporal Fixes, and the Political Economy of Delay

“Fixing” Climate Change by Mortgaging the Future: Negative Emissions, Spatiotemporal Fixes, and the Political Economy of Delay

Demand-side approaches for limiting global warming to 1.5 °C

New Metrics of Green Sorbents for CO2Capturing

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