Why young climate activists have captured the world’s attention

Marris, Emma

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“…[1] This transition was later stated as a requirement by the 2015 Paris Agreement [2] and 2018 Katowice Climate Change Conference, [3] as well as by young climate activists in recent worldwide protests. [4] Due to these issues, the European research project ASCENT (Advanced Solid Cycles for Efficient Novel Technologies) was funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Program in 2014 (grant agreement n 608 512) and coordinated by ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development). [5] Over 48 months, ASCENT investigated three high-temperature processes for H 2 production, with precombustion carbon capture technologies based on high-temperature solid sorbents and an in situ approach.…”

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Sorption enhanced steam methane reforming by Ni/CaO/mayenite combined systems: Overview of experimental results from European research project ASCENT

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Work Package 4 (WP4) of the European research project ASCENT developed combined sorbent‐catalyst materials (CSCM) for sorption enhanced steam methane reforming (SESMR), based on nickel (Ni) and calcium oxide (CaO). This work summarizes the whole experimental study carried out in ASCENT WP4 on Ni/CaO/mayenite systems obtained from wet mixing and wet impregnation synthesis methods. Effects from Ni precursor (Ni (CH3COO)2 · 4H2O or Ni(NO3)2 · 6H2O), Ni load (from 3 wt%‐10 wt%), and free CaO load (from 0 wt%‐54 wt%) were investigated for 26 materials by means of characterizations and reforming reactivity tests in a packed‐bed microreactor (650°C, 1 atm). Thanks to comparative analyses of the results, evidence emerged about the detrimental influence of low Ni/CaO ratio on the reforming catalytic activity of solid inventories, made of CSCM or even of the raw mixing of CaO‐mayenite and Ni‐mayenite particles. Catalytic materials were active towards reforming only when derived from Ni(NO3)2 · 6H2O. Based on this, the best CSCM (with the lowest free CaO content and the highest Ni load from nickel nitrate) was chosen to further study its industrial applicability by multicycle SESMR/sorbent‐regeneration tests in a bench‐scale packed‐bed rig and attrition tests according to ASTM D5757‐11. The CSCM was stable and active for 200 cycles with regenerations in N2 at 850°C, while a progressive loss of its activity occurred with regenerations in CO2 at 925°C as the cycle number increased due to Ni sintering. Its performance in the attrition tests was comparable to that of calcined dolomite.

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Sorption enhanced steam methane reforming by Ni/CaO/mayenite combined systems: Overview of experimental results from European research project ASCENT

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“…A sustainable future cannot be without the input of the youth. Recently, the world has heard the voices of climate activist such as Greta Thunberg or Jamie Margolin (Marris, 2019). And in every corner of the world, there are young people who determine to leverage their scientific mindset into building sustainable businesses.…”

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From Children’s Literature to Sustainability Science and Youth in Scientific Research

Vuong

2019

SSRN Journal

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As the future of human development increasingly hinges on the need for sustainable education and science, this essay re-examines the imminent threats to humankind and the relevance of achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to science-technology research among today's young scientists. It also discusses some socio-political and economic challenges to achieving sustainability and argues that developing sustainability science is difficult but not impossible. The hope lies in our current efforts to build productive and creative scientific communities through nurturing youth engagement with science and the scientific mindset.

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“…lobby groups and voters) are able to affect environmental policy-making, both at the national and the international level. Examples include not only young climate activists pushing their governments to adopt more stringent greenhouse gas abatement measures, as recently described by Marris (2019), but also successful lobbies of industries as indicated by the fact that many of the countries with the largest fuel subsidies are among the oil-producing countries (Sovacool 2017; Chepeliev and van der Mensbrugghe 2020). 1 In light of these observations, it is an important next step to understand the role of lobbies for the formation and stability of international environmental agreements (IEAs).…”

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National political pressure groups and the stability of international environmental agreements

Hagen

Altamirano-Cabrera

Weikard

2020

Int Environ Agreements

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This paper examines the effects of political pressure groups (lobbies) on transboundary emissions of individual countries and on the stability of international environmental agreements to reduce emissions. We consider two types of lobbies, industry and environmentalists, and we allow for asymmetric countries to consider differences in lobby strengths to study strategic international spillovers of national lobby activities. In our model, lobby groups in countries that are non-signatories to the agreement will impact abatement of the lobby’s home country only. In contrast, lobby activities in signatory countries have spillover effects on the abatement decisions of other member countries. As lobby strength impacts abatement, it will, in turn, impact the incentives to participate in the agreement. We find that lobby activities from both lobby groups, industry and environmentalists, can have the potential to facilitate international cooperation to abate global pollution. This, however, depends on the distribution of lobby activities across countries and on whether green lobby groups have a national or international focus.

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Why young climate activists have captured the world’s attention

Cited by 86 publications

References 2 publications

Sorption enhanced steam methane reforming by Ni/CaO/mayenite combined systems: Overview of experimental results from European research project ASCENT

Sorption enhanced steam methane reforming by Ni/CaO/mayenite combined systems: Overview of experimental results from European research project ASCENT

From Children’s Literature to Sustainability Science and Youth in Scientific Research

National political pressure groups and the stability of international environmental agreements

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