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 …

The missing risks of climate change

J Rising, M Tedesco, F Piontek, DA Stainforth - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The risks of climate change are enormous, threatening the lives and livelihoods of millions to
billions of people. The economic consequences of many of the complex risks associated …

Comprehensive evidence implies a higher social cost of CO2

K Rennert, F Errickson, BC Prest, L Rennels… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The social cost of carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) measures the monetized value of the damages
to society caused by an incremental metric tonne of CO2 emissions and is a key metric …

Achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emission plastics by a circular carbon economy

R Meys, A Kätelhön, M Bachmann, B Winter, C Zibunas… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Mitigating life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of plastics is perceived as energy intensive
and costly. We developed a bottom-up model that represents the life cycle of 90% of global …

[HTML][HTML] Empirically grounded technology forecasts and the energy transition

R Way, MC Ives, P Mealy, JD Farmer - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
Rapidly decarbonizing the global energy system is critical for addressing climate change,
but concerns about costs have been a barrier to implementation. Most energy-economy …

Cost and emissions pathways towards net-zero climate impacts in aviation

L Dray, AW Schäfer, C Grobler, C Falter… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Aviation emissions are not on a trajectory consistent with Paris Climate Agreement goals.
We evaluate the extent to which fuel pathways—synthetic fuels from biomass, synthetic fuels …

Biophysical and economic constraints on China's natural climate solutions

N Lu, H Tian, B Fu, H Yu, S Piao, S Chen, Y Li… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Natural climate solutions (NCS) are strategies for climate mitigation in the land sector that
increase carbon storage or avoid GHG emissions. Here we estimate China's historic NCS …

Estimating a social cost of carbon for global energy consumption

A Rode, T Carleton, M Delgado, M Greenstone… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Estimates of global economic damage caused by carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions can
inform climate policy 1, 2, 3. The social cost of carbon (SCC) quantifies these damages by …

[HTML][HTML] Does carbon pricing reduce emissions? A review of ex-post analyses

JF Green - Environmental Research Letters, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Carbon pricing has been hailed as an essential component of any sensible climate policy.
Internalize the externalities, the logic goes, and polluters will change their behavior. The …

[PDF][PDF] Mitigation pathways compatible with long-term goals

K Riahi, R Schaeffer, J Arango, K Calvin, C Guivarch… - 2022 - cgspace.cgiar.org
Chapter 3 takes a long-term perspective on climate change mitigation pathways. Its focus is
on the implications of long-term targets for the required short-and medium-term system …