scholarly journals Urgent need for post-growth climate mitigation scenarios

Nature Energy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Hickel ◽  
Paul Brockway ◽  
Giorgos Kallis ◽  
Lorenz Keyßer ◽  
Manfred Lenzen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Scenarios

An open-source tool for visualization of climate mitigation scenarios: Mipplot

2021 ◽  
Vol 139 ◽  
pp. 105001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiyi Ju ◽  
Masahiro Sugiyama ◽  
Diego Silva Herran ◽  
Jiayang Wang ◽  
Akimitsu Inoue
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Open Source Tool ◽  
Mitigation Scenarios

scholarly journals Ancillary health effects of climate mitigation scenarios as drivers of policy uptake: a review of air quality, transportation and diet co-benefits modeling studies

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 113001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly M Chang ◽  
Jeremy J Hess ◽  
John M Balbus ◽  
Jonathan J Buonocore ◽  
David A Cleveland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Scenarios ◽  
Modeling Studies

scholarly journals Climate mitigation scenarios with persistent COVID-19-related energy demand changes

Nature Energy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarmo S. Kikstra ◽  
Adriano Vinca ◽  
Francesco Lovat ◽  
Benigna Boza-Kiss ◽  
Bas van Ruijven ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Demand ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Scenarios ◽  
Related Energy ◽  
Demand Changes

scholarly journals Preconditions for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Tanzania

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 6851-6875 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Hansson ◽  
Mathias Fridahl ◽  
Simon Haikola ◽  
Pius Yanda ◽  
Noah Pauline ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Carbon Capture And Storage ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Point Sources ◽  
Biomass Energy ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Scenarios ◽  
Negative Emissions ◽  
And Storage

AbstractMost mitigation scenarios compatible with a likely change of holding global warming well below 2 °C rely on negative emissions technologies (NETs). According to the integrated assessment models (IAMs) used to produce mitigation scenarios for the IPCC reports, the NET with the greatest potential to achieve negative emissions is bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS). Crucial questions arise about where the enormous quantities of biomass needed according to the IAM scenarios could feasibly be produced in a sustainable manner. Africa is attractive in the context of BECCS because of large areas that could contribute biomass energy and indications of substantial underground CO2 storage capacities. However, estimates of large biomass availability in Africa are usually based on highly aggregated datasets, and only a few studies explore future challenges or barriers for BECCS in any detail. Based on previous research and literature, this paper analyses the pre-conditions for BECCS in Tanzania by studying what we argue are the applications of BECCS, or the components of the BECCS chain, that are most feasible in the country, namely (1) as applied to domestic sugarcane-based energy production (bioethanol), and (2) with Tanzania in a producer and re-growth role in an international BECCS chain, supplying biomass or biofuels for export to developed countries. The review reveals that a prerequisite for both options is either the existence of a functional market for emissions trading and selling, making negative emissions a viable commercial investment, or sustained investment through aid programmes. Also, historically, an important barrier to the development of production capacity of liquid biofuels for export purposes has been given by ethical dilemmas following in the wake of demand for land to facilitate production of biomass, such as sugarcane and jatropha. In these cases, conflicts over access to land and mismanagement have been more of a rule than an exception. Increased production volumes of solid biomass for export to operations that demand bioenergy, be it with or without a CCS component, is likely to give rise to similar conflicts. While BECCS may well play an important role in reducing emissions in countries with high capacity to act combined with existing large point sources of biogenic CO2 emissions, it seems prudent to proceed with utmost caution when implicating BECCS deployment in least developed countries, like Tanzania.The paper argues that negative BECCS-related emissions from Tanzania should not be assumed in global climate mitigation scenarios.

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