Month: October 2020

Low, Sean; Boettcher, Miranda (2020): Delaying decarbonization: Climate governmentalities and sociotechnical strategies from Copenhagen to Paris

Low, Sean; Boettcher, Miranda (2020): Delaying decarbonization: Climate governmentalities and sociotechnical strategies from Copenhagen to Paris. In Earth System Governance 5, p. 100073. DOI: 10.1016/j.esg.2020.100073.

“An era (2005–2015) centered around the Copenhagen Accord saw the rise of several immature sociotechnical strategies currently at play: carbon capture and storage, REDD+, next-generation biofuels, shale gas, short-lived climate pollutants, carbon dioxide removal, and solar radiation management. Through a framework grounded in governmentality studies, we point out common trends in how this seemingly disparate range of strategies is emerging, evolving, and taking effect.”

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Wang, Jing; et al. (2020): Large Chinese land carbon sink estimated from atmospheric carbon dioxide data

Wang, Jing; Feng, Liang; Palmer, Paul I.; Liu, Yi; Fang, Shuangxi; Bösch, Hartmut et al. (2020): Large Chinese land carbon sink estimated from atmospheric carbon dioxide data. In Nature 586 (7831), pp. 720–723. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2849-9.

“Here we present recently available data on the atmospheric mole fraction of CO2, measured from six sites across China during 2009 to 2016. Using these data, we estimate a mean Chinese land biosphere sink of −1.11[nbsp]±[nbsp]0.38[nbsp]petagrams of carbon per year during 2010 to 2016, equivalent to about 45 per cent of our estimate of annual Chinese anthropogenic emissions over that period.”

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Inevitable Policy Response; Vivid Economics (2020): An investor guide to negative emission technologies and the importance of land use

Inevitable Policy Response; Vivid Economics (2020): An investor guide to negative emission technologies and the importance of land use. London.

“As momentum towards net zero rises around the world, this report provides much needed transparency on the importance of land use and the role of Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs) in the transition.”

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Johansson, Daniel J.A.; et al. (2020): The role of negative carbon emissions in reaching the Paris climate targets: The impact of target formulation in integrated assessment models

Johansson, Daniel J.A.; Azar, Christian; Lehtveer, Mariliis; Peters, Glen P. (2020): The role of negative carbon emissions in reaching the Paris climate targets: The impact of target formulation in integrated assessment models. In Environ. Res. Lett. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abc3f0.

“Across two Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), we found that the amount of net-negative emissions – when global net emissions fall below zero – depends to a large extent on how the target is represented, i.e. implemented in the model.”

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