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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yang Qiu, Patrick Lamers, Vassilis Daioglou, Noah McQueen, Harmen-Sytze de Boer, Mathijs Harmsen, Jennifer Wilcox, André Bardow, Sangwon Suh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31146-1