Butnar et al. (2024):A Review of Life Cycle Assessment Methods to Inform the Scale-Up of Carbon Dioxide Removal Interventions
Isabela Butnar, John Lynch, Sylvia Vetter, Disni Gamaralalage, Yuzhou Tang, Jon McKechnie, Spyros Foteinis, Sue Rodway-Dyer, Mirjam Röder, Samuel Sogbesan, Astley Hastings, Phil Renforth, Matthew Brander, Jo House IN: WIREs Energy and Environment, 13, https://doi.org/10.1002/wene.540
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methods are increasingly used for policy decision-making in the context of identifying and scaling up sustainable carbon dioxide removal (CDR) interventions. This article critically reviews CDR LCA case-studies through three key lenses relevant to policy decision-making on sustainable CDR scale-up, namely comparability across CDR assessments, assessment of the climatic merit of a CDR intervention, and consideration of wider CDR co-benefits and impacts.