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Biophysical and economic limits to negative CO2 emissions
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“A recent review 54 showed that, assuming agricultural practices and yields do not change over the twenty-first century, removing CO2 could require large amounts of land.”
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“could be controversial because of public acceptance 53 or because of their competition with food production over land and water 53,54 .”
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“If soil carbon uptake could be increased by 0.4% per year, this would contribute to achieving net zero emissions-as per the '4 per mille' initiative 17 -but this is challenging 18 .”
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“Previous reviews 18,28,[52][53][54] have shown that these pathways offer substantial CO 2 removal potential:”
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“Such large bioenergy deployments require very large commitments of land and may come with significant social impacts (e.g.food prices) and environmental impacts (e.g., land and water impacts).[22][23][24]”
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“By contrast, BECCS requires 400-2400 Mha land.22,24,35,36”
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“Another integrated assessment model, WITCH, assumes 9.9 GJ per tCO 2 for DACCS, relying on the values calculated in the DAC assessment of the American Physical Society, 8 falling well within the range of 6.7-22.7 GJ per tCO 2 reported in an overview study (Table 1).22,[30][31][32]35”
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“For example, 10 Gt CO 2 removal via BECCS might require 5-29% of the world's productive land, with lower values achieved with the use of the most productive land.22,24,[34][35][36]”
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- Authors
- Smith, P., Davis, S. J., Creutzig, F., Fuss, S., Minx, J., Gabrielle, B., Kato, E., Jackson, R. B., Cowie, A., Kriegler, E., van Vuuren, D. P., Rogelj, J., Ciais, P., Milne, J., Canadell, J. G., McCollum, D., Peters, G., Andrew, R., Krey, V., Shrestha, G., Friedlingstein, P., Gasser, T., Grübler, A., Heidug, W. K., Jonas, M., Jones, C. D., Kraxner, F., Littleton, E., Lowe, J., Moreira, J. R., Nakicenovic, N., Obersteiner, M., Patwardhan, A., Rogner, M., Rubin, E., Sharifi, A., Torvanger, A., Yamagata, Y., Edmonds, J., & Yongsung, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Aberdeen (GB)
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (DE)
- Hertie School (DE)
- Institute of Applied Energy (JP)
- Stanford University (US)
- University of New England (AU)
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (DE)
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (AT)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere (AU)
- CICERO Center for International Climate Research (NO)
- United States Global Change Research Program (US)
- University of Exeter (GB)
- King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (SA)
- Met Office (GB)
- University of East Anglia (GB)
- Universidade de São Paulo (BR)
- University of Maryland, College Park (US)
- Carnegie Mellon University (US)
- National Institute for Environmental Studies (JP)
- Joint Global Change Research Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Smith, Pete
- ORCID
- Smith, Pete
- Davis, Steven J.
- Creutzig, Felix
- Fuss, Sabine
- Minx, Jan
- Kato, Etsushi
- Jackson, Robert B.
- Cowie, Annette
- Kriegler, Elmar
- Rogelj, Joeri
- Ciais, Philippe
- Canadell, Josep G.
- McCollum, David
- Peters, Glen
- Andrew, Robbie
- Krey, Volker
- Shrestha, Gyami
- Friedlingstein, Pierre
- Gasser, Thomas
- Grübler, Arnulf
- Jonas, Matthias
- Jones, Chris D.
- Kraxner, Florian
- Littleton, Emma
- Lowe, Jason
- Moreira, José Roberto
- Obersteiner, Michael
- Patwardhan, Anand
- Rogner, Mathis
- Sharifi, Ayyoob
- Torvanger, Asbjørn
- Yamagata, Yoshiki
- Edmonds, Jae
- Venue
- Nature Climate Change
- Published
- 2015-12-07
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 42-50
- ISSN
- 1758-678X (ISSN-L)
- 1758-6798
- OpenAlex
- W2195453830
- Semantic Scholar
- be2a4ffa8710ced6c7a4cec0dbd8e0569631c348
- Cited by
- 1,440
- References
- 103
- Citations by year
- 2026: 98 · 2025: 131 · 2024: 152 · 2023: 145 · 2022: 161 · 2021: 159 · 2020: 139 · 2019: 140 · 2018: 152 · 2017: 101 · 2016: 56 · 2015: 4
- FWCI
- 252.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Climate Change (publishedVersion)
- Aberdeen University Research Archive (Aberdeen University) (submittedVersion)
- IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis) (submittedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- OPUS 4 (Zuse Institute Berlin) (submittedVersion)
- Publication Database PIK (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)) (submittedVersion)
- RUNE (Research UNE) (submittedVersion)
- UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK Government (GA01101)
- Met Office (GA01101)
- Norges Forskningsråd (236296)
- Natural Environment Research Council (NE/I03002X/1)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Physical Sciences › Chemical Engineering › Filtration and Separation › Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
- Keywords
- negative emissions technologies, biophysical limits, economic costs, 2 °C warming limit, greenhouse gas removal, land use effects, albedo, water impact, energy impacts, integrated assessment models, climate change mitigation
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