Environmental trade-offs of direct air capture technologies in climate change mitigation toward 2100

Yang Qiu; Patrick Lamers; Vassilis Daioglou; Noah McQueen; Harmen-Sytze de Boer; Mathijs Harmsen; Jennifer Wilcox; André Bardow; Sangwon Suh

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-31146-1

Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Environmental trade-offs of direct air capture technologies in climate change mitigation toward 2100

Yang Qiu,
Patrick Lamers,
Vassilis Daioglou,
Noah McQueen,
Harmen-Sytze de Boer,
Mathijs Harmsen,
Jennifer Wilcox,
André Bardow,
Sangwon Suh

Affiliations

Yang Qiu: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Patrick Lamers: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Vassilis Daioglou: Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University
Noah McQueen: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, University of Pennsylvania
Harmen-Sytze de Boer: PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
Mathijs Harmsen: Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University
Jennifer Wilcox: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, University of Pennsylvania
André Bardow: Institute of Energy and Climate Research - Energy Systems Engineering (IEK-10), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Sangwon Suh: Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, 2400 University of California

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31146-1
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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New study concludes that environmental tradeoffs of direct air capture and sequestration technologies are linked to the energy system in which they will operate, and their deployment should not equate to a relaxation of decarbonization or resource use efficiency targets.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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