Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

On the financial viability of negative emissions

  • Johannes Bednar,
  • Michael Obersteiner,
  • Fabian Wagner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09782-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 4

Abstract

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Recent publications have raised concerns regarding the actual feasibility Negative Emission Technologies (NETs). Here the authors commented on the financial viability of large-scale late century NETs and suggested that expenditure peak will occur in the end of the century, which would require massive global subsidy program.