Strefler, Jessica; et al. (2018): Between Scylla and Charybdis. Delayed mitigation narrows the passage between large-scale CDR and high costs
Strefler, Jessica; Bauer, Nico; Kriegler, Elmar; Popp, Alexander; Giannousakis, Anastasis; Edenhofer, Ottmar (2018): Between Scylla and Charybdis. Delayed mitigation narrows the passage between large-scale CDR and high costs. In Environ. Res. Lett. 13 (4), p.[nbsp]44015. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aab2ba.
„There are major concerns about the sustainability of large-scale deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies. It is therefore an urgent question to what extent CDR will be needed to implement the long term ambition of the Paris Agreement. Here we show that ambitious near term mitigation significantly decreases CDR requirements to keep the Paris climate targets within reach. Following the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) until 2030 makes 2 °C unachievable without CDR.“