Lifetime of carbon capture and storage as a climate-change mitigation technology

The latest technologies for climate change mitigation are carbon capture and storage (CCS). Some countries are developing CCS projects, and they are currently at different stages of deployment. Despite the signing of international agreements on climate change mitigation, Russia’s efforts to develop and implement CCS technologies are quite limited. Therefore, it is vital that people are aware of the importance of carbon dioxide capture, utilization, and storage. The purpose of this article is to produce guidelines and toolkits to form a system of measures aimed at raising awareness of the Russian society on carbon dioxide capture and storage technologies. The paper discusses the key findings of several recent studies on the topic, e.g., a study focusing on the level of environmental consciousness among St. Petersburg students; a content analysis of the Russian school textbooks; a study of environmental groups in Russian social media; and an experimental study on creating eco-comics and posters as educational tools for promoting environmental awareness. A multi-level system of educational activities is proposed, including events for preschoolers, schoolchildren, students, and adults.

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The future potential for Carbon Capture and Storage in climate change mitigation – an overview from perspectives of technology, economy and risk

Journal of Cleaner Production ◽

10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.09.023 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 103 ◽

pp. 724-736 ◽

Cited By ~ 106

Author(s):

Ronald Wennersten ◽

Qie Sun ◽

Hailong Li

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Carbon Capture ◽

Climate Change Mitigation ◽

Carbon Capture And Storage ◽

The Future ◽

Future Potential ◽

And Storage ◽

Change Mitigation

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Opportunities in India for Carbon Capture and Storage as a form of climate change mitigation

Energy Procedia ◽

10.1016/j.egypro.2009.02.271 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 4527-4534 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Rudra V. Kapila ◽

R. Stuart Haszeldine

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Carbon Capture ◽

Climate Change Mitigation ◽

Carbon Capture And Storage ◽

And Storage ◽

Change Mitigation

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The Comparative Politics of Climate Change Mitigation Measures: Who Promotes Carbon Sinks and Why?

Global Environmental Politics ◽

10.1162/glep_a_00444 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 52-75 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Jo-Kristian S. Røttereng

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Comparative Politics ◽

Carbon Capture ◽

Carbon Sink ◽

Carbon Capture And Storage ◽

Forest Degradation ◽

Mitigation Measures ◽

Industrialized Countries ◽

And Storage ◽

Change Mitigation

This article presents an analysis of twenty-six industrialized countries’ support for the carbon-sequestration-based mitigation measures carbon capture and storage (CCS) and reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) during the 2007–2014 period. The article explores whether these proposed solutions to climate change share characteristics that make them feasible for reasons that can be observed in cross-national patterns. Insights from political economy, public policy, and international relations form a “triply engaged” theoretical framework. Relationships are tested using bivariate statistics and multivariate regressions. The analysis reveals that the same states show stronger support for both CCS and REDD+, and mostly for the same reasons. Proponents of such measures are generally petroleum-producing, large, and affluent, and they do not take on more ambitious mitigation targets. This article is the first to suggest that the widely different carbon-sink-based mitigation measures CCS and REDD+ may share similar political functions in similar political contexts.

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Balancing climate change mitigation and environmental protection interests in the EU Directive on carbon capture and storage

Climate Law ◽

10.1163/cl-2012-061 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 165-180 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Massimiliano Montini ◽

Emanuela Orlando

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Environmental Protection ◽

Carbon Capture ◽

Climate Change Mitigation ◽

Carbon Capture And Storage ◽

Potential Conflict ◽

Eu Directive ◽

Environmental Integrity ◽

Change Mitigation ◽

The Eu

The EU Climate and Energy Package highlights the potential contradictions between the climate change imperative of reducing GHGs emissions and the importance to maintain environmental integrity. While the package supports climate change mainstreaming, it remains to be seen to what extent it succeeds in achieving internal environmental integration between climate change mitigation and other environmentprotection objectives. Directive 2009/31/EC on the capture and geological storage of carbon dioxide (hereinafter the CCS Directive) offers a paradigmatic example of this potential conflict. One of the main regulatory challenges arising from the CCS Directive relates to finding the proper balance between the different interests involved and the not-fully-consistent objectives of environmental protection, climate change mitigation, and energy security. The present article will discuss this regulatory challenge and examine how the CCS Directive’s regulatory framework for CCS permits a combination of the various interests at stake and the giving of proper weight to concerns about environmental protection. The role that the precautionary principle in conjunction with the proportionality principle may have in balancing climate change mitigation and environment-protection interests will be considered.

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Forest Contribution to Climate Change Mitigation: Management Oriented to Carbon Capture and Storage

Climate ◽

10.3390/cli8020021 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 21 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Leonel J.R. Nunes ◽

Catarina I.R. Meireles ◽

Carlos J. Pinto Gomes ◽

Nuno M.C. Almeida Ribeiro

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Forest Management ◽

Carbon Capture ◽

Carbon Capture And Storage ◽

Carbon Sinks ◽

Weather Events ◽

Carbon Substitution ◽

Mitigate Climate Change ◽

And Storage ◽

Change Mitigation

Today, climate change is assumed by many researchers and scholars as a certainty and is presented as the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced. It is commonly accepted that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are the main cause that is accelerating the process. Therefore, it is urgent to find solutions to mitigate climate change, mainly because the intense effects have already been felt, in many cases in the form of the occurrence of extremely violent weather events. Forests are undoubtedly one of the most effective and easiest ways to provide the function of carbon sinks. However, it is essential and convenient to analyze the permanence time of this carbon in forests, because this permanence time depends directly on the forest management model used. This article aims to analyze forest management models from the perspective of carbon residence time in temperate forests, dividing the models into three types, namely carbon conservation models, carbon storage models, and carbon substitution models, according to their ability to contribute to functioning as carbon sinks, thereby contributing to the mitigation of climate change.

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