POLET at the 3rd International Conference on Negative CO2 Emissions: Feasible deployment of carbon capture and storage and the requirements of climate targets
Recent work from the POLET research group was presented at the 3rd International Conference on Negative CO2 Emissions from 18-21 June in Oxford, which aims to shed light on the role of of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) in climate change mitigation. In his presentation, Tsimafei Kazlou presented new research which examines the feasibility of expanding carbon capture and storage technologies fast enough to meet climate targets.
Tsimafei Kazlou discusses on-going POLET research on the feasible deployment of CCS compared to what’s needed for climate targets
According to the recent State of Carbon Dioxide Removal report, the scale up of carbon dioxide removal technologies is urgent if we are to meet the temperature goal of the Paris Agreement. Among these technologies, BECCS and DACCS have received a lot of attention from policymakers (e.g. in the European Union’s Net-Zero Industry Act) and academia (e.g. the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report). Yet, the feasibility of BECCS, DACCS, and other forms of carbon capture and storage (CCS) is also heavily debated, and the operational capacity of these technologies is still too small to meaningfully contribute to climate change mitigation.
Tim’s research contributes to closing this research gap by developing a method to analyse policy-driven, emerging technologies. He and his co-authors find that under the most optimistic yet feasible assumptions about the near-, medium-, and long-term growth of CCS, up to 600 GtCO2 can be captured and stored by the end of the century, which is lower than in the majority of the IPCC AR6 mitigation pathways. These findings can inform crafting realistic climate strategies and the method can also be applied to other policy driven emerging technologies.
Below is the title of the presentation:
Tsimafei Kazlou, Jessica Jewell, Aleh Cherp. “Feasible deployment of CCS and the requirements of climate targets”
