Human and planetary health implications of negative emissions technologies

• Main Authors: Cobo Gutiérrez, Selene, Galán Martín, Ángel, Tulus, Victor, Huijbregts, Mark A. J., Guillén Gosálbez, Gonzalo
• Other Authors: Universidad de Cantabria
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2022
• Subjects: Galindo; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10902/33797; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30136-7

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...