Human and planetary health implications of negative emissions technologies
Meeting the 1.5 °C target may require removing up to 1,000 Gtonne CO2 by 2100 with Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs). We evaluate the impacts of Direct Air Capture and Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (DACCS and BECCS), finding that removing 5.9 Gtonne/year CO2 can prevent <9·102 di...
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ftunivcantabria:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/33797 2024-09-30T14:40:47+00:00 Human and planetary health implications of negative emissions technologies Cobo Gutiérrez, Selene Galán Martín, Ángel Tulus, Victor Huijbregts, Mark A. J. Guillén Gosálbez, Gonzalo Universidad de Cantabria 2022-05-09 https://hdl.handle.net/10902/33797 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30136-7 eng eng Nature Publishing Group https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30136-7 2041-1723 https://hdl.handle.net/10902/33797 doi:10.1038/s41467-022-30136-7 Attribution 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ openAccess Nature Communications, 2022, 13, 2535 info:eu-repo/semantics/article publishedVersion 2022 ftunivcantabria https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30136-7 2024-09-18T14:19:59Z Meeting the 1.5 °C target may require removing up to 1,000 Gtonne CO2 by 2100 with Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs). We evaluate the impacts of Direct Air Capture and Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (DACCS and BECCS), finding that removing 5.9 Gtonne/year CO2 can prevent <9·102 disability-adjusted life years per million people annually, relative to a baseline without NETs. Avoiding this health burden—similar to that of Parkinson’s—can save substantial externalities (≤148 US$/tonne CO2), comparable to the NETs levelized costs. The health co-benefits of BECCS, dependent on the biomass source, can exceed those of DACCS. Although both NETs can help to operate within the climate change and ocean acidification planetary boundaries, they may lead to trade-offs between Earth-system processes. Only DACCS can avert damage to the biosphere integrity without challenging other biophysical limits (impacts ≤2% of the safe operating space). The quantified NETs co-benefits can incentivize their adoption. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 869192. Á.G.M. thanks the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities for the financial support through the Beatriz Galindo Program (BG20/00074). Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification Universidad de Cantabria: UCrea Galindo ENVELOPE(-58.500,-58.500,-61.950,-61.950) |
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Meeting the 1.5 °C target may require removing up to 1,000 Gtonne CO2 by 2100 with Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs). We evaluate the impacts of Direct Air Capture and Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (DACCS and BECCS), finding that removing 5.9 Gtonne/year CO2 can prevent <9·102 disability-adjusted life years per million people annually, relative to a baseline without NETs. Avoiding this health burden—similar to that of Parkinson’s—can save substantial externalities (≤148 US$/tonne CO2), comparable to the NETs levelized costs. The health co-benefits of BECCS, dependent on the biomass source, can exceed those of DACCS. Although both NETs can help to operate within the climate change and ocean acidification planetary boundaries, they may lead to trade-offs between Earth-system processes. Only DACCS can avert damage to the biosphere integrity without challenging other biophysical limits (impacts ≤2% of the safe operating space). The quantified NETs co-benefits can incentivize their adoption. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 869192. Á.G.M. thanks the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities for the financial support through the Beatriz Galindo Program (BG20/00074). |
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