Monat: Oktober 2019

Peer-reviewed Publications

Jinnah, Sikina; Nicholson, Simon: The hidden politics of climate engineering

Jinnah, Sikina; Nicholson, Simon: The hidden politics of climate engineering. In Nat. Geosci., pp. 1–4. DOI: 10.1038/s41561-019-0483-7.

„Governments disagree even on the current state of climate change engineering governance, as became clear at the 2019 United Nations Environment Assembly negotiations. They must develop mechanisms to provide policy-relevant knowledge, clarify uncertainties and head off potential distributional impacts.“

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Peer-reviewed Publications

Jacobson, Mark Z. (2019): The Health and Climate Impacts of Carbon Capture and Direct Air Capture

Jacobson, Mark Z. (2019): The Health and Climate Impacts of Carbon Capture and Direct Air Capture. In Energy Environ. Sci. DOI: 10.1039/C9EE02709B.

„Data from a coal with carbon capture and use (CCU) plant and a synthetic direct air carbon capture and use (SDACCU) plant are analyzed for the equipment’s ability, alone, to reduce CO2. In both plants, natural gas turbines power the equipment.“

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Media

Carbon Brief: Guest post by Prof. Duncan McLaren: The problem with net-zero emissions targets

„However, our newly published[nbsp]research[nbsp]– based on findings from expert interviews and stakeholder deliberations – suggests that combining emissions reductions and negative emissions into a single target of reaching “net-zero” may create problems. These could include delayed emissions cuts, but also insufficient focus on developing negative emissions technologies.“

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Peer-reviewed Publications

Hulme, Mike (2019): Is it too late (to stop dangerous climate change)? An editorial

Hulme, Mike (2019): Is it too late (to stop dangerous climate change)? An editorial. In Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. DOI: 10.1002/wcc.619.

„This editorial introduces a[nbsp]WIREs Climate Change[nbsp]Special Collection of nine Opinion Articles, each answering the question, “Is it too late (to stop dangerous climate change)?” Given the rising sense of urgency—and for some despair—to arrest climate change, the nine invited authors were asked to develop their own answer to this question, or indeed to challenge its framing. What might “too late” mean? Too late for what exactly, or for whom? What effect might the language of “too late” have on the public imagination, on political discourse, and on academic research?“

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