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 …

Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts

HO Pörtner, RJ Scholes, A Arneth, DKA Barnes… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Earth's biodiversity and human societies face pollution, overconsumption of natural
resources, urbanization, demographic shifts, social and economic inequalities, and habitat …

Future global climate: scenario-based projections and near-term information

JY Lee, J Marotzke, G Bala, L Cao, S Corti… - Climate change 2021 …, 2021 - cambridge.org
This chapter assesses simulations of future global climate change, spanning time horizons
from the near term (2021–2040), mid-term (2041–2060), and long term (2081–2100) out to …

Unextractable fossil fuels in a 1.5° C world

D Welsby, J Price, S Pye, P Ekins - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement pledged to limit global warming to well below
2° C and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5° C relative to pre-industrial …

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Global carbon and other biogeochemical cycles and feedbacks

JG Canadell, PMS Monteiro, MH Costa… - Climate change 2021 …, 2023 - cambridge.org
It is unequivocal that the increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4)
and nitrous oxide (N2O) since the pre-industrial period are caused by human activities. The …

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 …

PRospective EnvironMental Impact asSEment (premise): A streamlined approach to producing databases for prospective life cycle assessment using integrated …

R Sacchi, T Terlouw, K Siala, A Dirnaichner… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Prospective Life Cycle Assessment (pLCA) is useful to evaluate the environmental
performance of current and emerging technologies in the future. Yet, as energy systems and …

Short-Lived Climate Forcers (Chapter 6)

S Szopa, V Naik, B Adhikary, P Artaxo, T Berntsen… - 2021 - cambridge.org
Short‑lived climate forcers (SLCFs) affect climate and are, in most cases, also air pollutants.
They include aerosols (sulphate, nitrate, ammonium, carbonaceous aerosols, mineral dust …

Biofuels, electrofuels, electric or hydrogen?: A review of current and emerging sustainable aviation systems

P Su-Ungkavatin, L Tiruta-Barna, L Hamelin - Progress in Energy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate neutrality is becoming a core long-term competitiveness asset within the aviation
industry, as demonstrated by the several innovations and targets set within that sector, prior …