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In January of 2022, New York Assembly member Patricia Fahy and State Senator Michelle Hinchey introduced the Carbon Dioxide Removal Leadership Act. The proposed legislation aims to use public procurement of carbon removal to help meet the state’s emissions reductions goals by purchasing enough removals to cover the state’s “hard-to-abate” sector’s by 2050- 15% of the state’s 1990 emissions.
Florian Rabitz, Marian Feist, Matthias Honegger, Joshua Horton, Sikina Jinnah, Jesse Reynolds IN: Earth System Governance, Volume 12, 100134, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2022.100134.
The authors propose a conceptual framework to explain why some technologies are more difficult to govern than others in global environmental governance. They start from the observation that some technologies pose transboundary environmental risks, some provide capacities for managing such risks, and some do both.
Richard Simon, Yörükcan Erbay, Cameron Henderson, Richard Taylor; www.climatexchange.org.uk DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7488/era/1684
This report looks at international case studies relevant to NETs projects covering DACCS and a wide range of BECCS configurations seen in current projects, and explored their applicability to deployment in Scotland.
John Barry Gallagher, Victor Shelamoff, Cayne Layton IN: ICES Journal of Marine Science, fsac011, https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsac011
Global seaweed carbon sequestration estimates are currently taken as the fraction of the net primary production (NPP) exported to the deep ocean. However, this perspective does not account for CO2 from the consumption of external subsidies.
Kianede Kleijne, Steef V.Hanssen, Lestervan Dinteren, Mark A.J.Huijbregts, Rosalievan Zelm, Heleende Coninck IN: One Earth, Volume 5, Issue 2, 168-185 pp., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2022.01.006
CO2 capture and utilization (CCU) technologies are considered promising to achieve the temperature goals. The paper investigates which CCU technologies—using atmospheric, biogenic, or fossil CO2—are Paris compatible, based on life cycle emissions and technological maturity criteria.
Gabriel G. Ojo, Alex Paurine, Metkel Yebiyo, Aaron Gillich, Issa Chaer, Titus Olaniyi IN: Proceedings of Centre for the Integrated Delivery of the Built Environment (IDoBE) on Uncertainties in the Built Environment: How can we build a resilient future in the new normal? LSBU, London, UK 21 – 23 Nov 2021 London South Bank University
This paper discusses the three main methods and the various technologies for removing CO2 from the air and combustible gas streams. It clarifies the indistinctness in the use of technology and method in the CO2 capture context. Furthermore, the paper demonstrates the energy intensiveness, financial implications and reasons as to why the technologies are not commercially being deployed for CCS using the Technology Readiness Level (TRL).
Alexander Koch and Jed O. Kaplan IN: Nature Climate Change (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01289-6
To investigate the risks to tropical forest restoration, the authors performed 221 simulations with a dynamic global vegetation model (LPJ-LMfire) driven by a range of future climate scenarios and ecophysiological responses to CO2 concentrations. They show that carbon in restored tropical forests is largely preserved under the entire range of potential future climates, regardless of assumptions they make about the potential for CO2 fertilization of photosynthesis.
Tuesday 1 March 2022; 13:00 – 17:00 CET
An international online workshop organized jointly by the IETS (Industrial Energy-Related Technologies and Systems) and IEAGHG (IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme), which are both Technology Collaboration Programmes (TCPs) under the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Fri, Mar 4, 2022 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CET
This webinar will detail a new IEAGHG Technical Report on the ‘Criteria for Depleted Reservoirs to be Developed for CO2 Storage’. The objective of this study was to specifically focus on a set of storage conditions that apply to depleted oil and gas fields. The study contractors will take the audience through their results, key findings and conclusions from the work.
This is the first progress report from Ocean Visions‘ SEA MATE, a research project exploring an electrochemical approach to sequestering more carbon in vast bodies of water.
