Governing a Mirage? False Promises of Negative Emissions Technologies

International audience By deconstructing the discourse on the inevitability of negative emissions technologies to meet the 2°C target contained in the Paris agreement, showing in particular how this technological promise is framed as a ‘technofix’, this paper challenges the literature actively promo...

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Published in:Carbon & Climate Law Review
Main Author: Compagnon, Daniel
Other Authors: Centre Émile Durkheim (CED), Sciences Po Bordeaux - Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux (IEP Bordeaux)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2019
Subjects:
Geoengineering
Governance
Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs)
Technological promise
Economic
Climate change
[SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology
[SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science
Carbon and Climate Law Review
Online Access:https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02279735
https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2019/2/5
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Summary:International audience By deconstructing the discourse on the inevitability of negative emissions technologies to meet the 2°C target contained in the Paris agreement, showing in particular how this technological promise is framed as a ‘technofix’, this paper challenges the literature actively promoting NETs. Not only is the promise refuted by the numerous problems generated by NETs implementation, but the risk of undermining ongoing mitigation efforts cannot be significantly reduced by governance designing. Alternative pathways for effective mitigation which rely on significant societal change are both possible and meaningful.

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