• DOI:10.1038/NCLIMATE2870
• Corpus ID: 46321087

Biophysical and economic limits to negative CO2 emissions

@article{Smith2016BiophysicalAE,
  title={Biophysical and economic limits to negative CO2 emissions},
  author={Pete Smith and Steven J. Davis and Felix Creutzig and Sabine Fuss and Jan C. Minx and Jan C. Minx and Beno{\^i}t Gabrielle and Etsushi Kato and Robert B. Jackson and Annette L. Cowie and Elmar Kriegler and Detlef van Vuuren and Detlef P. van Vuuren and Joeri Rogelj and Joeri Rogelj and Philippe Ciais and J. Milne and Josep G. Canadell and David L. McCollum and Glen P. Peters and Robbie M. Andrew and Volker Krey and Gyami Shrestha and Pierre Friedlingstein and Thomas Gasser and Arnulf Grubler and Wolfgang K. Heidug and Matthias Jonas and Chris D. Jones and Florian Kraxner and Emma W. Littleton and Jason A. Lowe and Jos{\'e} Roberto Moreira and Nebojsa Nakicenovic and Michael Obersteiner and Anand Patwardhan and Mathis Rogner and Eddy Rubin and Ayyoob Sharifi and Asbj{\o}rn Torvanger and Yoshiki Yamagata and Jae Edmonds and Cho Yongsung},
  journal={Nature Climate Change},
  year={2016},
  volume={6},
  pages={42-50}
}

• Pete Smith, S. Davis, +40 authors Cho Yongsung
• Published 2016
• Environmental Science
• Nature Climate Change

To have a >50% chance of limiting warming below 2 °C, most recent scenarios from integrated assessment models (IAMs) require large-scale deployment of negative emissions technologies (NETs). These are technologies that result in the net removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. We quantify potential global impacts of the different NETs on various factors (such as land, greenhouse gas emissions, water, albedo, nutrients and energy) to determine the biophysical limits to, and economic costs of, their widespread application. Resource implications vary between technologies and need to be satisfactorily addressed if NETs are to have a significant role in achieving climate goals.