Substantial global carbon uptake by cement carbonation
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The large amount of cement used in products to date arguably renders recarbonation a sizeable global CO2 sink which is not yet fully accounted for in climate models and mitigation plans.
“Nonetheless, the large amount of cement used in products to date, arguably renders recarbonation a sizeable global CO2 sink which is not yet fully accounted for in climate models and mitigation plans [12 -16].”
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Section 4.3 estimates that cement materials worldwide absorbed 4.50 GtC between 1930 and 2013, supporting the description of recarbonation as a sizeable global CO2 sink. The passages do not establish that this uptake is not fully accounted for in climate models or mitigation plans; searches for that point found no supporting passage. (LLM, conf=0.84)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredUp to 16 Gt CO2 was sequestered in human infrastructure as mineralized carbonates in cement between 1930 and 2013, with current rates estimated to be around 1 Gt CO2 yr-1.
“Up to 16 Gt CO 2 was sequestered in human infrastructure as mineralized carbonates in cement between 1930 and 2013, with current rates 20,21 estimated to be around 1 Gt CO 2 yr -1 .”
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- Authors
- Xi, F., Davis, S. J., Ciais, P., Crawford-Brown, D., Guan, D., Pade, C., Shi, T., Syddall, M., Lv, J., Ji, L., Bing, L., Wang, J., Wei, W., Yang, K.-H., Lagerblad, B., Galan, I., Andrade, C., Zhang, Y., & Liu, Z.
- Affiliations
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- University of East Anglia (GB)
- Danish Technological Institute (DK)
- Shenyang Jianzhu University (CN)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Shenyang Agricultural University (CN)
- Kyonggi University (KR)
- Instituto de Ciencias de La Construcción Eduardo Torroja (ES)
- Shenyang Pharmaceutical University (CN)
- California Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- Liu, Zhu
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Geoscience
- Published
- 2016-11-21
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 880-883
- ISSN
- 1752-0894 (ISSN-L)
- 1752-0908
- OpenAlex
- W2549155768
- Semantic Scholar
- 538c8d3d627c3445e263f2569a8762912cf89242
- Cited by
- 689
- References
- 50
- Citations by year
- 2026: 102 · 2025: 104 · 2024: 91 · 2023: 67 · 2022: 94 · 2021: 78 · 2020: 67 · 2019: 39 · 2018: 32 · 2017: 14 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 34.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Geoscience (publishedVersion)
- UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) (submittedVersion)
- LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (41473076, 41501605, 31100346, 51578344)
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Economic and Social Research Council (ES/K006576/1, ES/L016028/1)
- Natural Environment Research Council (NE/N00714X/1)
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association
- Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Civil and Structural Engineering › Concrete and Cement Materials Research
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
- Keywords
- cement carbonation, CO2 sequestration, carbon sink, cement industry emissions, carbon cycle, concrete waste, demolition, emission inventory, process emissions
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