Direct air capture: process technology, techno-economic and socio-political challenges

M Erans, ES Sanz-Pérez, DP Hanak… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Climate change mitigation scenarios that meet the Paris Agreement's objective of limiting
global warming usually assume an important role for carbon dioxide removal and negative …

Three decades of climate mitigation: why haven't we bent the global emissions curve?

I Stoddard, K Anderson, S Capstick… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Despite three decades of political efforts and a wealth of research on the causes and
catastrophic impacts of climate change, global carbon dioxide emissions have continued to …

From planetary to societal boundaries: an argument for collectively defined self-limitation

U Brand, B Muraca, É Pineault… - … science, practice and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The planetary boundaries concept has profoundly changed the vocabulary and
representation of global environmental issues. We bring a critical social science perspective …

Is carbon removal delaying emission reductions?

W Carton, IM Hougaard, N Markusson… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dioxide removal is rapidly becoming a key focus in climate research and politics.
This is raising concerns of “moral hazard” or “mitigation deterrence,” that is, the risk that …

An inter-model assessment of the role of direct air capture in deep mitigation pathways

G Realmonte, L Drouet, A Gambhir, J Glynn… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The feasibility of large-scale biological CO2 removal to achieve stringent climate targets
remains unclear. Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage (DACCS) offers an alternative …

Negative emissions and the long history of carbon removal

W Carton, A Asiyanbi, S Beck, HJ Buck… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent IPCC assessments highlight a key role for large‐scale carbon removal in meeting
the objectives of the Paris Agreement. This focus on removal, also referred to as negative …

Public perceptions of carbon dioxide removal in the United States and the United Kingdom

E Cox, E Spence, N Pidgeon - Nature Climate Change, 2020 - nature.com
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies may be needed to meet climate change
targets. A full understanding of public attitudes towards such approaches is currently lacking …

[HTML][HTML] Navigating the political: An analysis of political calibration of integrated assessment modelling in light of the 1.5 C goal

L Van Beek, J Oomen, M Hajer, P Pelzer… - … Science & Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Some of the most influential explorations of low-carbon transformations are conducted with
Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). The recent attempts by the IPCC to look for pathways …

The co-evolution of technological promises, modelling, policies and climate change targets

D McLaren, N Markusson - Nature Climate Change, 2020 - nature.com
The nature and framing of climate targets in international politics has changed substantially
since their early expressions in the 1980s. Here, we describe their evolution in five phases …

[HTML][HTML] Net zero and the unexplored politics of residual emissions

JF Lund, N Markusson, W Carton, HJ Buck - Energy Research & Social …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this perspective article, we call for more engagement with the unexplored politics of
residual emissions. Residual emissions are those emissions that remain at the point of net …