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Negative emissions—Part 2: C osts, potentials and side
effects
Sabine F uss 1 , 11 , William F Lamb 1 , Max W Call aghan 1 , 2 ,J
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er ˆ
ome Hilaire 1 , 5 , F elix Creutzig 1 , 3 ,T h o r b e n
Amann 4 ,T i mB e r i n g e r
1 , Wagner de Oliveira Ga rcia 4 , Jens Har tman n 4 , Tar un K hann a 1 , Gunna r
Lud ere r 5 , Greg ory F Nem et 6 ,J o e r i R o g e l j
7 , 8 ,P e t e S m i t h
9 ,J o s ´
eL u i sV i c e n t e V i c e n t e
1 , Jennife r Wilcox 10 ,
Maria de l Ma r Zam ora Domingu ez 1 and Jan C M inx 1 , 2
1 Mercator Research Institut e on Glob al Com mon s an d Climate C hange, To rgauer Straß e 12–15, EURE F Cam pus #19, 10829 Berlin,
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2 Schoo l of E arth and E nvi ron ment , Un iversit y of L eeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, Un it ed Kin gdom
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5 Pot sdam In stitu te fo r Clim ate Impact Research, D-14473 P otsdam, German y
6 La Follett e Schoo l of P ublic Affairs, University of Wiscon sin–Ma dison , 1225 Observat ory D rive, Madison , WI 53706, Un ited Stat es of
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Abstr act
The m ost rece nt IPCC assessme nt ha s shown an im portant role f or negative em issions t ech nologies
(NETs) in limiting global warming to 2 ◦ C cost-effe ctively. H owever, a bottom-up, systematic ,
reproducible , and transpa rent litera ture assessme nt of the diffe rent options to remove CO 2 from the
atmosphere is currently missing. In part 1 of this thre e-part review on NETs, we assemble a
compr ehensive set o f the relevant lit erature so far p ublished , focusing on seven techno logi es:
bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), a fforestation and re forest ation, direct air carbon
capture and storage (DACCS), enhanc ed weathering , o cean fertilisation, biochar, and soil carbon
sequestratio n. In this part, p art 2 of the review , we present estimates of co sts, potenti als, and
side-eff ects for the se te chn ologies, an d qua lify them with the auth ors ’ assessment. Part 3 reviews the
innov ation and scaling challenges that must be a ddre ssed to rea lise NETs deployme nt as a viable
climat e mitigation strate gy. Ba sed on a systematic re view of the l iterature , our be st estimate s for
sustainable global NET potentials in 2050 are 0.5–3.6 GtCO 2 yr −1 for afforestation and reforestation,
0.5–5 GtCO 2 yr −1 for BECCS, 0.5–2 GtCO 2 yr −1 for biochar, 2–4 GtCO 2 yr −1 for enhanced
weathe ring, 0.5– 5 GtCO 2 yr −1 for DACCS, and up to 5 GtCO 2 yr −1 for soil ca rbon seque stration.
Costs vary wid ely across the technolo gies, as do their permanency and cumul ative po tentials beyo nd
2050. It is unlikely that a single N ET will be able to sustainably meet the rates of carbon uptake
described in integrated assessmen t pathways consistent with 1.5 ◦ Co fg l o b a lw a r m i n g .
1. Introduc tion
The Paris goal of holding global w arming ‘ well below
2 ◦ C ’ and t o ‘ pursue eff orts ’ t ol i m i ti tt o1 . 5 ◦ Ci m p l y
a stark ly limited remaining CO 2 budget (IPCC 2013 ,
2014b ,R o g e l j et al 2016 ). Considering the lack of deep,
near-term decarbonisat ion, negative emission t ech-
nologies (hereafter referred to as NE Ts) will evidently
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need to play a progressively more important role in cli-
mate stabilizat ion strat egies (Rogelj et al 2015a , Luderer
et al 2013 ).
Studies applying global I ntegrated Assessment
Models (IA Ms) have highlighted the strat egic and
lon g- ter m impo rtan ce of CDR for co st-e ffecti vel y lim -
iting global w arming to 2 ◦ C( K r i e g l e r et al 2014 ), the
key technology being Bioenergy with Carbon Captu re
and Storage 12 (BECCS) (Fuss et al 2014 ,C l a r k e et al
2014 ) 13 .R o g e l j et al ( 2018 ) analyse t he most recent and
comprehensive set of 1.5 ◦ C scenarios, which remove
about 15 Gt CO 2 yr −1 (median, 3–31 f ull range) by 2100
through BECC S. This corresponds t o 175 (median,
54–404 full range) EJ yr −1 of bioenergy . Such large
amounts of bioenergy can however imply t rade-offs
with other land-based policy goals such as biodiver-
sity conservation and food production (e.g. K raxner
et al ( 2013 ), see Creutzig ( 2016 ) f or a discussion of
the associated v iews). Recently , aff orestation and ref or-
estation hav e been added to many of t he IAMs, which
explicitly model the land use sector or are coupled to
large-scale, geographically explicit land use models (e.g.
Humpen ¨
oder et al 2014 ,C a l v i n et al 2014 ).
However, in order to p erform a high-qu ality int e-
grated assessment of NETs, a characterizat ion of the
different opt ions is needed. A variet y of reviews on
NET t echnologies hav e tak en on this t ask over the
years (Smith et al 2016a , Nat ional A cademy of Sci-
ences 2015 ,C a l d e c o t t et al 2015 ,L e n t o n 2014 , 2010 ,
McGlashan et al 2012 ,M c L a r e n 2012 , Vaughan and
Lento n 2011 , The R oyal Society 2009 ). From the
approximately 3000 articles on NET t echnologies and
measures identified by Minx et al ( 2017 ), more t han 200
are classified as review articles. However, the available
assessments have three short comings: first , they insuf-
ficiently bridge the divide between st rategic ev idence
fro m lon g- term cli ma te ch an ge miti ga tio n mode ls an d
the technological and inst itut ional bott om-up ev idence
from the engineering and social science disciplines
(Minx et al 2018 ). Second, the assessment of t he
enti re NETs por tfoli o has been very frag men ted so
far, with only one publicat ion assessing a f ull set of
options (Friends of the Earth 2011 ), and other impor-
tant eff orts missing out t echnologies such as biochar
and soil carbon seq uestrat ion (Nat ional A cademy of
Sciences 2015 ). Third, none of the available N ETs and
geoengineering assessments prov ide a sy stemat ic, com-
prehensive and t ransparent analy sis root ed in a formal
review methodology .
As in th e two com pan ion pape rs to this pi ece
(Nemet et al 2018 ,M i n x et al 2018 ), our review is
12 Although the ter m stor age might imply accumula tion for futur e
use, we use it h ere int erchan geabl y with t he term ‘ sequestrat ion ’ in
accordance wi th th e l iterature reviewed.
13 Notable e xce pti ons ar e M ar cuc ci et al ( 2017 ), C hen and Tavo ni
( 2013 )a n dS t r e fl e r et al ( 2018b ) f or DAC CS an d Strefl er et al ( 2018a )
for t errestrial en han ced weat herin g. St refler et al ( 2018b )c o m b i n e d
three NETs (AR , BECCS a nd DACCS) for the fir st time .
form al ize d ac cor din g to standa rd s ystem ati c revie w
procedures (such as those more freq uently employed
in the medical and social sciences): (1) a search q uery
is defin ed for ea ch NET to tr an spa re ntl y iden tify
the relevant literat ure; (2) st udies are then individ-
ually excluded according to pre-defined eligibilit y
criteria; (3) q ualitat ive and quantit ative ev idence is
extract ed and synt hesized f rom the final document
set ( see the support ing informat ion (SI) available
at stacks.iop.org/E RL/13/063002/ mmedia for the full
protocol). Such a procedure is necessary to ensure
reproducibility, avoid syst ematic omissions or biases in
literatu re selection and t o deal wit h a rapidly expanding
base of knowledge (Minx et al 2017 ).
This paper is divided int o two main parts. The
first section proceeds w ith a review of low-st abilization
scenarios from the I AM lit erature, examining t he
role of negat ive emissions in t he mitigat ion port fo-
lio and the magnit udes of CO 2 t hat would b e removed
from t he atmosphere. The second p art comprises our
bottom- up revie w of individual NETs techn olog ies
and options, with a particular focus on magnitudes,
cos ts and side -effe cts—bo th neg ative (e.g . com peti-
tion for land, biodiversit y loss or increased ocean
acidification) and positive (e.g. healt h benefits from
reduced air pollut ion, reduced ocean acidificat ion,
energy access—part icularly of f-grid). While t he sce-
nario lit erature in t he past has most ly incorporated
ne gati ve em iss io ns in th e for m of BECCS an d affo res ta-
tion and reforest ation, we here consider a larger
range of negativ e emissions options, including bioch ar,
enhanced weathering, ocean f ertiliz ation , direct air car-
bon capture and st orage, soil carbon sequestrat ion and
some furt her options wit h smaller literature b ases.
2. Scenario evidenc e on the role of negative
emissions
The IPCC ’ s Fift h Assessment report highlighted a
potentially import ant role for NE Ts in k eeping global
temperature rise below 2 ◦ C with a probability greater
than 66% (I PCC 2014a ,C l a r k e et al 2014 ). More
recently t he ambition of the P aris Agreement n ot
only to keep warming w ell below 2 ◦ C, but to pur-
sue further effo rts to lim it warmin g to below 1.5 ◦ C
(UNFCCC 2015 ) has push ed NETs into the spotlig ht
of discussions on v iable mitigat ion pathways (Hulme
2016 , Peters 2016 ,R o g e l j et al 2015a , Hallegat te et al
2016 , Luderer et al 2013 ). A series of high lev el com-
mentaries and recent art icles f urther elev ated the issu e
and emphasized the controversial nature of NE Ts
dep loym en ts featured i n lon g-te rm mitig ati on sce-
narios (Geden 2015 ,A n d e r s o n 2015 , A nderson and
Peters 2016 , Gasser et al 2015 , Pet ers and Geden 2017 ,
Loma x et al 2015 , Williamson 2016 ,P a r s o n 2017 ,
Field and Mach 2017 ). We engage with t his d iscus-
sion directly, including it s ethical foundat ions, in part 1
of the rev iew series ( Minx et al 2018 ).
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In this section we review publicly available data
from multi-model inter comparison studies 14 in order
to un der stan d the r ole o f NETs i n cli mate c han ge miti-
gation (Riahi et al 2015 ,K r i e g l e r et al 2015 ,G E A 2012 ,
Riah i et al 2017 , van Vuuren et al 2017a ,K r i e g l e r
et al 2013b , 2016b ). We supplement this dat a with
furt her scenario ev idence on the 1.5 ◦ C limit (Lud-
erer et al 2013 ,R o g e l j et al 2015a , 2013a , 2013b ,
2018 ). Hence t he comprehensiveness and t ransparency
of our review in this section is relat ed t o pooling
the ava ila ble data from r ece nt studies . Whi le man y of
the recent IAM scenarios include negat ive emissions,
we only systematically rev iew t he lit erature t hat give
sufficient import ance to NETs, i.e. where NETs are
mentioned in abstract, k eywords or tit le. Important ly,
the v ast majority of mitigation scenarios considered
here only feat ures negative emissions via bioenergy
with carbon capture and st orage ( BECC S). We int er-
pret this ev idence as a lower-bound est imate of neg ativ e
emission potentials in t hese models, sin ce the in troduc-
tion of additional NETs seems to c onsistently increase
cumulativ e NE Ts deployment (C hen and Tav oni 2013 ,
Humpen ¨
oder et al 2014 , Marcucci et al 2017 ).
2.1. Understa nding the role of ne gative emissions f or
achieving al ternative long -term climate goa ls
The carbon budget has been established in IPCC AR 5 as
a fundament al concept to underst and human-induced
(long-term) warming. It is defined as the cumu lative
amount of net CO 2 emissions that can be released whi le
still limiting warming w ith a specific minimum proba-
bili ty to be low a give n tempe ra ture thr esh old (IPCC
2013 , 2014b ,R o g e l j et al 2016 ). In principle, gross
CO 2 emissions can be larger than t he carbon bud-
g e ta sl o n ga st h e ya r es i m u l t a n e o u s l yc o m p e n s a t e d b y
negative emissions (figure 1 )( K r i e g l e r et al 2014 ,R i a h i
et al 2015 ,E o m et al 2015 , van Vuuren et al 2013 ,
van Vuuren and Riahi 2011 , van Vuuren et al 2007 ,
Azar et al 2006 , 2010 ). Yet the geophy sical limits of
negative emissions are currently not well underst ood
(Roge lj and Knutti 2016 ), al thou gh the y are sta rtin g
to be ex plored more rigorously (Keller et al 2018 ). A
recent study asserts t hat the carbon budgets associ-
ated wit h the Paris Agreement t emperature goals can
be revised upwards from AR5 estimates (Millar et al
2017 ). This discussion is still new and u nresolved. In
the absence of a broader body of evidence we maintain
the es tima tes fro m th e IPCC AR5 (IPCC 2014b ).
Looking across the av ailable scenario ev idence,
two major purposes of negat ive emissions in climate
cha ng e mitig atio n can be ide ntifi ed: first, NETs ar e
deployed in scenarios f or biophysical reasons, because
the carbon budget consist ent with a given t empera-
ture t arget is exceeded (van Vuuren et al 2007 ,v a n
Vuuren and Riahi 2011 ,C l a r k e et al 2014 ). The ‘ pay-
back ’ for t his temporary ex ceedance is the required
amount of cumulat ive net negative emissions, i.e. the
total globa l net r emo val of ca rbon d ioxi de fr om the
atmosphere towards t he end of the 21st cent ury when
NETs draw global emission lev els below zero ( Blan-
for d et al 2014 ,K r i e g l e r et al 2013a ). Compensation
of excess positive emissions by negative emissions can
com e with a penal ty (or ‘ interest ’ ), because t he cooling
from net negat ive anthropogenic emissions may only
offs et part of the warming f rom earlier posit ive emis-
sions (Zick feld et al 2016 ). Second, negative emissions
are deployed in scenarios for intersect oral compensa-
tion , i.e. to o ffset r esi dua l emi ssi ons that are di ffic ult
to miti ga te, such as tran spo rtati on —esp eci all y emis -
sions from aircraft—and industrial emissions (R ogelj
et al 2015a ), or non-C O 2 GHGs f rom agriculture (Ger-
naat et al 2015 ). This occurs particularly in the second
half of t he 21st cent ury when high carbon prices are
realized in integrat ed assessment models. In figure 2
this can be obs erve d when the tota l rem oval of CO 2
by NE Ts—henceforth referred to as gross negative
emissions—is much larger than cumulativ e net neg-
ative emissions (K riegler et al 2013a , van V uuren and
Riah i 2011 ,K r e y et al 2014a , van Vuuren et al 2013 ).
It is important t o note that in some scenarios NE Ts
are predominantly deployed because they are econom-
ica lly attracti ve (Aza r et al 2006 ,L u c k o w et al 2010 ,
Lemoine et al 2012 ), while in others they are biophysi-
cally requ ired. For inst ance, some scenarios show t hat
with immediate st rengthening of climat e p olicies it is
still possible t o limit warming to b elow 2 ◦ Cw i t h o u t
NETs (Krieg ler et al 2014 ) . Howev er, f urt her delay of
action or the t ighter 1.5 ◦ Cc l i m a t e g o a lr e n d e r s N E T s
indispensable in t he currently av ailable scenarios.
Figure 3 provides an overv iew of emission pathway s
for ac hi evi ng alter nati ve cl ima te targ ets an d the r ole o f
negative emissions t herein (Panel A ). Scen ari o eviden ce
available on t he 1.5 ◦ C warming limit remains c ompar-
atively limit ed. For IPCC AR5, evidence f rom only two
models was available (L uderer et al 2013 ,R o g e l j et al
2015a , 2013a , 2013b ). We complement these st udies
with more recent 1.5 ◦ C scenarios that span a variet y of
socio-economic conditions (R ogelj et al 2018 ).
Temperature ov ershoot is a t ypical feature in avail-
able 1.5 ◦ C scenarios alt hough the current scenario
literatu re has not specifically f ocused on av oiding it 15 .
All available scenarios hence show net negative cumu-
lati ve emi ssi on s budgets fo r the se co nd half of the 21st
century (2050–2100) (Rogelj et al 2015a , 2018 )o re v e n
in t he longer run until 2300 (Akimoto et al 2017 ).
14 LIMITS ( https ://tntc at.iia sa.a c.at/ LIMI TSDB / ), AMPERE
( https :// tntcat. iia sa. ac. at/A MPER EDB/ ), RoSE ( www.ros e-
proj ect.or g/d atabas e ) provide resul ts fo r hu ndreds of scenar-
ios from roughly a dozen of models in the a bsence of e xplic it
inf ormat ion on N ETs in t he even larg er I PCC scen ario dat abase
( htt ps://tn tcat. iiasa.ac.at/AR5DB/ ). We also include t he SSP scenar-
ios ( htt ps://tn tcat. iiasa.ac.at/SspDb / ). A descr iption of the mode ls
that produced t he scenarios analysed in t his section is available in
the SI.
15 Azar et al ( 2013 ) repor ted that their IAM is unable to pro duc e
a1 . 5
◦ C sce nario without overshoot. A working pap er by Holz
et al ( 2017 ) sugges ts that it could be possibl e although the y oper ate
a system dynam ics model t hat allows for very rapid decarbo nisatio n
and use a climate model that allows for a large carbon budget.
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Figur e 1. Positive and n egative CO 2 emissio n compo nen ts f or reachin g altern ati ve tem perature goals. Basic descripti ve stat istics of
the underlying data is provided un der th e bar plot; m ore detailed data is availab le in the SI. Values in th e row labelled ‘ path way s ’
indicat e th e number of available in dividual pat hway s. Those i n the rows ‘ models ’ and ‘ scenario s ’ indic ate the nu mber of av ail able
indi vidual models ( see SI for m odel descript ion ) an d scen arios. Import ant n ot e: median values fo r gross n egati ve C O 2 emission s can
be con siderab ly lower w hen a l arger ensembl e of scen arios is con sidered, as can b e seen in figure 3 . Yet n ot all emissio n cat egories were
ava ila ble from all mod ell ing tea ms (e.g . gross p osi tive emis sions f rom foss il fue ls and i ndus try and net land -us e change ), s o we had
t ot a k eas m a l l e r s a m p l e( s e et a b l e S 1 6i nS I ) .I nt h e f o l l o w i n gp a r a g r a p h so ft h i s s e c t i o no ns c e n a r i o sh o w e v e r ,w ef o c u so nn e g a t i v e
emission s a nd so we use t he more com plete dat aset f rom fi gure 3 .
Box 1. Defin ing climate policy scenarios in terms of warming limits.
We analy ze the role of negat ive emissio ns for keeping t emperat ure rise b elow alternat ive wa rmin g thresh olds—n amely 1.5 ◦ C, 2 ◦ Ca n d
3 ◦ C. F or thi s purpose w e defin e scenari os i n terms of a min imu m pro bability (usually 66%; sometim es 50%) for t emperature rise not
to exceed a cert ain warmin g th resho ld ( Rogelj et al 2016 ), as conven tion ally do ne in th e literat ure (Rogelj et al 2015a , L uderer et al
2013 ,R o g e l j et al 2011 ,C l a r k e et al 2014 ):
∙ 1.5 ◦ Cs c e n a r i o s : Scenario s wi th a probab ili ty greater t han 50% of revertin g warm in g belo w 1 .5 ◦ C by 2100.
∙ Likel y 2 ◦ Cs c e n a r i o s : Scenarios that keep warm ing belo w 2 ◦ C with a greater than 66% probability throughout the 21st century.
∙ Medi um 2 ◦ Cs c e n a r i o s : Scenario s th at keep warmi ng b elow 2 ◦ C with a gre ater than 50% probability throughout the 21st century.
Most of the scenarios t hat meet th is criter ion in troduce adequate climate policies after an in itial delay (delayed action scenarios).
∙ Likel y 3 ◦ Cs c e n a r i o s : Scenarios that keep warm ing belo w 3 ◦ C with a greater than 66% probability throughout the 21st century.
For m ost scenari o st udies t he reduced-f orm carbo n- cycle an d clim ate mo del MAG ICC was u sed in a prob abi list ic setup to determi ne
implied warming levels (Meinshausen et al 2011 ,R o g e l j et al 2012 , Schaeffe r et al 2015 ). Wh ile some of t hese scen ario catego ries are
more i n line w ith t he Paris A greemen t l on g-term t emperature go al, th ey do n ot represent a fo rmal i nt erpretati on o f the UN FCC C
tempe ra ture goa l.
All these 1.5 ◦ C scenarios are f undamentally depen-
dent on t he global-scale av ailability of NETs (figure 3 ).
Scenarios that rest rict 16 the availabilit y of N ETs sub-
stan tial ly often r esul t in model in fea sibi lity (Ludere r
et al 2013 ). Howev er, recent structured ex plorations of
various socioeconomic context s, the so-called Shared
Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) (R iahi et al 2017 ,
O ’ Neil l et al 2017 ), have shown t hat NE Ts use
can be r es tric ted to som e deg ree in 1.5 ◦ Cs c e n a r -
ios if specific socioeconomic conditions are met ,
such as low energy demand, sustainable consump-
tion patt erns and high crop yield improvements (SSP1)
(Rogelj et al 2018 ).
Tran siti on pathwa ys limiti ng cl ima te chan ge to
1.5 ◦ C are consistent ly charact erized by sharp imme-
diate reduct ions of net C O 2 emissions (3%– 7% yr −1
on average bet ween 2030 and 2050, tak ing 2030 as
a reference) t hat lead t o a fully decarbonized world
(net zero emissions globally) bet ween 2046 and 2056
(15th and 85t h percentiles), with a sustained period of
annual net negat ive emissions 17 ranging b etween 1.3–
29 GtCO 2 yr −1 during t he second half of the centu ry.
In general, NETs deployment throughout this period
is large-scale in currently available scenarios. By 2050
NETs deployment is already between 5 GtC O 2 yr −1 and
15 GtCO 2 yr −1 in most scenarios. The associat ed scale-
up of NETs bet ween 2030 and 2050 therefore takes
p l a c em u c hm o r es w i f t l yt h a ni nm o s t2 ◦ Cs c e n a r i o s ,
removing an addit ional 0.1– 0.8 GtCO 2 every y ear on
average. Total N ETs deploy ment across the 21st cen-
tury is associated with a cumulativ e removal of carbon
of 150– 1180 GtCO 2 .
16 Typical restrict ions imposed are t he un availabilit y of CC S and a
restrict ion o f th e ann ual bio energy pot enti al to 100 E J (Krey et al
2014b , Luderer et al 2013 ,C l a r k e et al 2014 ).
17 Plea se note tha t this analys is only cons ide rs gro ss nega tive emi s-
sions f rom BECC S as tho se from AR are n ot available in the datasets.
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(a) (b)
Figur e 2. The role of negativ e emiss ions in c limate change mitigation. T he graph juxtapos es emis sion reduc tions from conventional
mitigation technologi es (pa nel A) wi th the remova l of ca rbon di ox ide via negative emissions technologies (panel B) in an exemplar y
scenario consist ent wit h a 66% chan ce of keeping warmin g below 2 ◦ C relative to a b aseline scenario. G lobal emission levels t urn net
negati ve toward s (hatched blue area ) the end of the century to compensa te for ear lier car bon budge t overs hoot. Cumulativ e gross
negat ive em ission s represented b y th e enti re b lue area. The exem plary scenario s ‘ busin ess as usual ’ and ‘ below 2 ◦ C ’ we re cons tru cted
using data from the LIMITS dat abase ( https: //tntc at.iia sa.ac .at/ LIMIT SDB / ). They corresp ond to the LIMITS-RefPol and LIMITS-
RefPol-450 scenarios produced with the MESSAGE model. Gross positive and negative CO 2 emissions from land-use changes labelled
as ‘ land use ’ (b ott om grey shaded area) an d ‘ aff orestat ion /refo restati on ’ ( bo tto m bl ue shaded a rea) w ere in ferred from net la nd-use
chang es emissions by using data in fi gure SI13 in Popp et al ( 2017 ). This man ual edit was done to accoun t for current affore station
and reforesta tio n ef fort s an d different iate betw een negat ive em issio ns fro m land-use chan ges and o th er NE Ts.
Our ranges describe the stat istics of an ensem-
ble of opportunity, which has not b een designed
to span all possible outcomes in t erms of NETs
deployment. I t mostly represent s dy namics t hat are
considered cost-ef fectiv e by models in absence of
particular societ al preferences. The ranges t hus repre-
sent characteristics of the currently av ailable literat ure.
Additional research needs to confirm that t hese can
also be interpreted as requirements in a more formal
sense.
Compa re d to 1.5 ◦ C sce na rio s, the l iter atur e on the
role of NE Ts in 2 ◦ C scenarios is much more mat ure
and rooted in a series of int er-model comparison exer-
cises ( Riahi et al 2015 ,K r i e g l e r et al 2013b ,K r e y et al
2014b ,K r i e g l e r et al 2016b , 2016a , 2014 ,F u s s et al
2014 ,T a v o n i a n d S o c o l o w 2013 ,K r i e g l e r et al 2013a ,
van Vuuren et al 2013 ). These have been summarized
in IPCC AR5 (Cla rke et al 2014 ). In 2 ◦ C scenarios
NETs are primarily deployed f or limit ing overshoot
in atmospheric concent rations rather than t empera-
tures (Ri ah i et al 2015 ,B l a n f o r d et al 2014 ,T a v o n i
and Socolow 2013 , van Vuuren et al 2013 ). While this
still leads to a significant reduction in t he probabil-
ity of re ach in g the long -ter m clima te goal (Sch aeffe r
et al 2015 ,R i a h i et al 2015 ,E o m et al 2015 ), tem-
perature overshoot carries additional risks associat ed
with hi gh er le vels of warmi ng and the resulti ng impa cts
and climate feedback s that could occur (van Vuuren
et al 2013 , Solomon et al 2009 , Friedlingstein et al
2006 ,C l a r k e et al 2014 ).
In gen er al, 2 ◦ C scenarios feat ure much more flex-
ibility in NETs deployment, covering a w ide range
from zero to levels comparable with higher bound
deployments in 1.5 ◦ C scenarios. Hence, it is impor-
tant t o highlight that w hile many 2 ◦ C scenarios deploy
NETs at large scale, there are also scenarios that do
not d eploy NETs at all, or at very low levels ( e.g.
Eom et al 2015 ,K r i e g l e r et al 2014 , L uderer et al
2013 ,R i a h i et al 2015 ,R o g e l j et al 2013a )—an aspect
that is often sidelined in discussions but is crucial
for understanding the policy option space (Eden-
hofer and K owarsch 2015 ,M i n x et al 2017 ). For 2 ◦ C
scenarios feat uring NETs deploy ment, it also points
towards a strong economic rationale w ithin models,
as towards t he end of t he 21st century NETs become
economically attract ive if a t emporary ov ershoot of t he
CO 2 budget is allowed, or if residual GHG emissions
from o the r sec tor s are h ig hl y expen si ve to m itig ate
(Kriegler et al 2013b ,K r e y et al 2014a ,K r i e g l e r et al
2014 ).
In the 2 ◦ Cs c e n a r i o s
18 with immediate implemen-
tation of climate policy and no additional t echnological
constraints, net CO 2 emission reductions between 2030
and 2050 take place a t an average rate of 1%–4%
p e ry e a r( R i a h i et al 2015 ). After 2080 more than
two thirds of t hese 2 ◦ C scenarios have completed
the decarbonisation of the world economy, i.e. t hey
18 Here we account for b oth likely 2 ◦ Ca n dm e d i u m 2 ◦ Cs c e n a r i o s .
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(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Figur e 3. The rol e o f negati ve em ission s for ach ievin g alt ernat ive l ong -term clim ate go als. Cl imat e goals are in dicated w ith b lue shades.
The more stringe nt the cli mate goal, the d ark er the blue colour . Net CO 2 emissions are display ed in panel ( a ) (top-le ft). Ri bbons
indicate the 15th and 85t h percentiles for each climat e goal. The o riginal RCP s and the SSP2–2.6 marker scenarios are provided for
orienta tion purp oses. The boxplots in pane ls ( b )–( d ) provi de the same s tatisti cs. The range betwe en the mi nimum a nd max imum
values is indicated with a vertical solid lin e. The range between the 15t h and 85th percentiles is indicated by a blue-filled rectangle.
The median is shown with a so lid h orizon tal line whereas the mean is indicat ed b y a white point . NETs deploymen ts in 2030, 2050
and 2100 are sh own in panel ( b ). Cumulative gros s n egative CO 2 emissions b etween 2011 an d 2100 are shown in pan el ( c ). Annu all y
averaged gross n egati ve CO 2 emissio ns b etween 2030 an d 2050 are displayed in pan el ( d ) . Descripti ve stat isti cs o f th e underly ing data
are pro vided un der panel ( d ) an d more detailed data is availab le in t he SI. Stati stical dif ferences b etween fi gures 1 and 3 arise b ecause
a few modelling teams did not report all variables n ecessary to plot figure 1 ( i.e. gro ss positi ve emission s from fo ssil fuel an d industry,
net lan d-use emi ssion s). A descri ptio n o f the m odels is pro vided in th e SI.
transition from net positive to net negative CO 2 emis-
sions (Rogelj et al 2015b ) .W h i l et h e r ea r es o m e
scenarios available wit hout net negativ e emissions at
the end of the century , most scenarios feature c onsid-
erable NETs deployment ranging from 5 GtCO 2 yr −1
to 21 GtCO 2 yr −1 at the e nd of th e 21st ce ntury . Thes e
annual deployment ranges are theref ore not mu ch
lower than for 1.5 ◦ C scenarios. In 2 ◦ C scenarios
with limited or no negative emissions (labelled wit h
‘ limited bioenergy ’ or ‘ no CCS/BECCS ’ ), decarboni-
sation (including fossil fuel phase-out) occurs more
rapidly t han in the most cost -efficient 2 ◦ C scenarios
(full portfolio), but at a higher overall cost (K riegler
et al 2014 ,K r e y et al 2014a ,R i a h i et al 2015 , Luderer
et al 2014 ). For instance, Luderer et al ( 2013 )—based
on the RE MIN D model—show that mit igation costs
defined as the rat io of discounted 19 and aggregated
19 Ludere r et al ( 2013 ) ap pli ed a discou nt rate of 5% to both con-
sumptio n losses an d GDP.
consumption losses ov er discounted and aggregated
GDP increase from 1.4% t o 1.9% if BEC CS (as t he only
explicit N ETs option in the model) is limit ed, and t o
2.3% in the absence of BECCS in 2 ◦ C scenarios. L im-
iting BE CCS in 1.5 ◦ C scenarios increases costs from
2.3%–4.1%, while the absence of BECCS mak es the sce-
narios infeasible. Similarly, multi-model results from
EMF27 highlight the most significant cost mark-up for
imposed t echnology const raints when CC S remains
absent and bioenergy is limited to 100EJ (Kriegler
et al 2014 ). O ne key reason for the larger cost mark-ups
could b e the constraint s imposed on t he NETs d eploy-
ment pot entials in the scenarios. Klein et al ( 2014 )
show that the negat ive emissions value of biomass tends
to dominate over it s energy value in low st abilization
scenarios.
Low energy demand traject ories ( low energy
intensit y) with more aggressive energy savings are
an import ant option f or providing f urther flex ibil-
ity in 2 ◦ C sce na ri os for ac hi evin g the c li mate g oa l
with lower negative emissions deployments (figure 4 )
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(a) (c)
(d)
(b)
Figur e 4. Negative em issions h ave a distinct role in 2 ◦ C scenarios dep ending on the technological options an d policy timin g.
Technological o ptions an d policy t iming are in dicated with various colours ( dar k blue for full tec hnological portfolio, light blue for
low energy int ensit y, green for lim ited b iomass an d n o CCS/BE CCS, an d red fo r delay action un til 2030). Th e cases f ull po rtfolio , low
energy int ensity an d limit ed bio mass or n o CCS/BE CCS assum e climate actio n from 2010 o nward. Net CO 2 emissio ns are displayed
in panel ( a ) (top-left). R ibbons ind ica te the 15th and 85th per ce ntile s for ea ch pathway ca tegor y. The or igina l RCP-2.6 (a lso call ed
RCP-3PD) and the SSP2 –2.6 marke r sce narios are provid ed for orientation purp oses . The boxplots in panels ( b )–( d )p r o v i d e t h es a m e
statistics. The range b etween the minimum and m aximum values is in dicated with a vertical solid line. The range between the 15t h and
85th percentiles is indicated by a blue-filled rectangle. The median is shown with a solid horizontal line where as t he mean is indicated
by a whit e point. NE Ts deployment s in 2030, 2050 an d 2100 are shown in pan el ( b ). Cumulative gr oss negative CO 2 emissi on s bet ween
2011 and 2100 are sho wn in pan el ( c ). Annually averaged gross negative CO 2 em issions bet ween 2030 and 2050 are displayed in panel
( d ). Basic descriptive statist ics of t he underlying data are provided un der panel ( d ), an d mo re detailed dat a is available in t he SI. 2 ◦ C
scenarios include bot h likely 2.0 ◦ Ca n d m e d i u m2 . 0 ◦ C scenario s. A descri ptio n of the m odels is pro vided in the SI.
(Rogelj et al 2013b ,K r e y et al 2014a ,E o m et
al 2015 ). I n particular, gross cumulative negat ive
emissions deployment (290– 760 GtCO 2 )t e n d st ob e
lower in these scenarios driven by lower deployment
ra tes (0–7 GtCO 2 yr −1 ) and upscaling (0– 0.3 of addi-
tional Gt CO 2 yr −1 ) bet ween 2030 and 2050. Furt her
del ay i n ade quate g lo bal c lim ate ac tion s wiftl y l ocks
2 ◦ C pathways wit h NE Ts in, including delayed action
until 2030 (as implied by current NDC ambitions).
Like most 1.5 ◦ C scenarios, these 2 ◦ C pat hways can no
longer be achieved without any or even lim it ed am ounts
of NE Ts (figure 5 )( L u d e r e r et al 2013 ,R i a h i et al 2015 ).
Deployment and upscaling rates also increasingly mir-
ror those seen in the available 1.5 ◦ Cs c e n a r i o s .
The CO 2 remov al ranges presented in this rev iew
are much wider than those reported in (C larke et al
2014 )a n d( R o g e l j et al 2015a ). The u nderlying scenar-
ios are almost exclusiv ely assuming middle-of-t he-road
and do not consider sy stematically socio-economic
variations in future conditions. Here, such variations
are c onsidered via t he new shared socio-economic
pathways (SSPs) (Riahi et al 2017 ,O ’ Neill et al 2017 ,
Rog elj et al 2018 ). One important insight from this new
evidence is that the role and importance of N ETs in cli-
mate change mitigat ion scenarios depends crucially on
socio-economic developments (Riahi et al 2017 ,B a u e r
et al 2017 ,P o p p et al 2017 , v an Vuuren et al 2017b ,
Rog elj et al 2018 ). For optimistic st orylines f ollowing
a sustainability narrat ive (SSP1). NE Ts requirements
can be subst antially lower than in middle of the road
scenarios (SSP2) (R iahi et al 2017 ,R o g e l j et al 2018 ).
Conversely , the dependence on NETs increases in sce-
narios characterized by high energy demand and a
strong preference for using f ossil f uels (SSP5). For
instance, to keep global warming below 1.5 ◦ Ct h e
required cumulative remov al of carbon over t he 21st
century can decrease by up t o 67% in an SSP1 scenario,
but increase b y up to 32% in an SSP5 scenario (bot h
compared to SSP2 scenarios). Lik ewise, scenarios char-
acterized by st rong regional rivalries across the world
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Figur e 5. Mod el feasi bility for d iffe rent cl imate p olicy sc enar ios . Sc enar ios diffe r with r es pe ct to the clima te pol icy ambition, the ti ming
of climate polic y and the as sumptions of the av ailable technology p ortfolio. All sc enarios sha re the sa me exogenous socio-e conomic
ass umptions for GDP, population and energy dema nd. ‘ Man y ’ mean s that less t han 50% of the model runs were f easible w hereas
‘ some ’ m eans th at less t han 33% of t he model run s were feasibl e. Data co me from RE MIN D model runs ( Luderer et al 2013 ). 2 ◦ C
scenarios include b oth likely 2 ◦ Ca n dm e d i u m 2 ◦ Cs c e n a r i o s .
(SSP3), or strong inequalit y within and between world
regions (SSP4), would feat ure dif ferent N ETs req uire-
ments. Bey ond discussions of how to organize climate
and energy policies with regard to negativ e emissions
(Peters and Geden 2017 ), it is t herefore also crucial to
start a discussion on how t he general development tra-
jectory affect ing consumption patterns, energy demand
and internat ional cooperation can b e changed in light
of its impact on NE Ts reliance to achieve st ringent
climate objectiv es.
While the vast majorit y of st udies f eature BE CC S
as the only explic it NET in the portfo lio , a num-
ber of s tudie s exami ne the r ole othe r NETs, ofte n in
small port folios of t wo NE Ts t hat include BE CCS.
These st udies look ed at aff orestat ion and reforesta-
tion (AR) (Humpen ¨
oder et al 2014 ,K r e i d e n w e i s et al
2016 ,T a v o n i et al 2007 , E dmonds et al 2013 , R eilly
et al 2012 ,P o p p et al 2017 ,R o s e et al 2012 ,C a l v i n
et al 2014 ), enhanced weat hering (EW) and d irect
air carbon capture and storage (DACC S) (Marcucci
et al 2017 , C hen and Tav oni 2013 , St refler et al
2018b ). The IAM community is currently invest igat-
ing the role of larger NETs port folios including A R,
BECCS, D ACCS and EW.
The IAM liter ature o n AR h as no w becom e sub-
stantial. I t shows an av erage cumulativ e potent ial
for AR over the 21 st cen tury and acros s model s
ranging f rom 200–860 GtCO 2 (Humpen ¨
oder et al
2014 , Kreidenweis et al 2016 , R ao and Riahi 2006 ,
Calvi n et al 2014 ,T a v o n i et al 2007 , Edmonds et al
2013 , R eilly et al 2012 ) .T h eu p p e r e n do ft h er a n g e
is computed by models that include endogenous
technological change (Humpen ¨
oder et al 2014 ,K r e i -
denweis et al 2016 , Edmonds et al 2013 ). Yet it is
interesting to note t hat a model t hat does not consider
this e ffect, but inc lude s the i mpa cts of cl ima te chan ge
on crop yields, still report s estimates up t o 650 GtCO 2
(Reilly et al 2012 ). The lower end of the range of
results is associated w ith modelling constraints (e.g.
limits on bioenergy production or t he availability of
BECC S). Maximum annual deployments over t he 21st
century range between 0.5–10 Gt CO 2 (Humpen ¨
oder
et al 2014 ,P o p p et al 2017 , R eilly et al 2012 ). A com-
mon find ing to al l the sele cted studies i s the low cost of
implementing AR compared to t hat of ot her NETs. For
instance, St rengers et al ( 2008 ) estimat ed t hat about
50% of the potent ial would be available at costs below
55 US $ /tCO 2 , while Humpen ¨
oder et al ( 2014 )n o t e
that A R starts at carbon price as low as 6 US $ /tCO 2 .I n
ter ms of po li cy co sts, AR ca n dec re ase the c os ts of m it-
igating climate change by about US $ 3 trillion (Tavoni
et al 2007 ).
Chen and T avoni ( 2013 ), Marcucci et al ( 2017 )a n d
Strefler et al ( 2018b ) provide the only assessments of
DACC S in a full-fledged integrat ed assessment model.
They find that DACCS may only be profit able for very
stringent climate policies. DACCS is only phased in
after 2065, but t hen scales up rapidly t o annual removal
rates of 35–40 Gt CO 2 yr −1 by th e en d of the c entur y.
The av ailability of DA CCS in model runs eliminates
sharp emission reductions in the short-t erm and com-
pensates these delay ed reductions v ia large amounts of
net negativ e emissions towards t he end of the cen-
tury . Despite the relat ively short application period
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the cumulativ e remov al is large-scale, up t o about
500 GtCO 2 , and hence is associated w ith a sharp declin e
of atmospheric C O 2 concent rations. Uncertainty sur-
rounding t he development and implement ation costs
of this t echnology currently remains a major barrier
(see section 3.3 ). Finally, St refler et al ( 2018a ) assess t he
tech no -ec ono mic pote nti al for lan d-ba sed enha nce d
weathering at about 5 Gt CO 2 for bot h basalt and fos-
teri te. Addin g it to the tech no log y portfo li o reduce s
the car bon pr ice (S trefl er et al 2018a ). Because EW
does not compete wit h BECC S, this technology might
be part icularly valuable if ot her NE Ts options are
limited.
In sum, a common p icture of NET port folios seems
to emerge from t he integrat ed assessment evidence.
Adding a second NE T to the mit igation port fo-
lio increases the negative emission potentials while
reducing mitigation cost s. In scenarios produced by
inter-temporal optimizat ion frameworks t hat hav e per-
fect knowledge of f uture technological availabilit y and
costs, t hese benefit s accrue at the expense of weak -
ened incentiv es for short -term emission reduct ions.
We address t he issue of pot ential moral hazard in
paper 1 of this series (Minx et al 2017a ). Additionally,
thes e res ults sugg est tha t expan din g the NETs po rtfol io
can hedge against risks associat ed with t he large-scale
deployment of BE CCS (e.g. biodiversit y loss and food
price increase). Finally, the levels and timing of NETs
depl oyme nts diffe rs ac ros s techn olo gie s, as wou ld be
expected.
3. Potentials, costs and im plica tions of
large-sc ale NET deploym ent
Whether NET s perform at the levels of d eployment
envisioned in int egrated assessment scenarios depends
on three crucial feat ures: their biophysical pot entials f or
carbon sequest ration (including storage and it s perma-
nence), t heir economic cost s, and t he social, economic,
and environment al side-ef fects of their deploy ment—
which in turn may pose limitations o n pot entials
and costs 20 . E xisting assessment s suggest that NE Ts
range widely along these dimensions (Roy al Societ y
2009 , National Academy of Sciences 2015 )a n dt h a t
20 Eviden tly, fo r any n iche t echn olog y to ach ieve wide-scale adop-
tio n, b asic research and develo pmen t n eeds to take place, and a
specific set of political and inst itutional conditions must exist to gen-
erate deman d. W e review N ET s along th ese lin es in paper 3 o f thi s
series (N emet et al 2018 ).
21 Cost est ima tes co me i n a vari ety of differen t f orms, i ncludi ng (1)
estab lishm ent o r capit al cost s (e. g. t he cost of con vertin g lan d use
to forestr y, or insta lli ng a dir ec t air captur e unit); ( 2) oppor tunity
costs (e.g. the l ost revenue from compet ing lan d u ses, principal ly
agricult ure); (3) the carbon price required t o deploy a NE T at a given
scale; (4) the no rmaliz ed average carbon price required to sequester a
unit of car bon for a given NET. C lear ly (4) is the most de sir able cost
unit for tec hnology c ompar ison, but it is rar ely repor ted and often
derived f rom widely varyin g assumption s. In the fo llowin g, we will
make s ure to highlight which cos t type we are p utting forth in orde r
to avoid inducing ina ppr opr iate compa ris ons.
large-scale d eployment will indeed hav e non-t rivial
impacts on water use, land foot prints and nut rient
use (Smith et al 2016a ). In this sect ion we proceed
with an e xha ustive r evie w of the b ottom -up li ter a-
ture on sev en NETs. We aim to be transparent and
comprehensive in our select ion of lit erature (see SI ).
Where global deployment potentials or costs exist f or
a given NE T, they are reported in t he text and t ran-
scribed int o the SI . This dat a is used t o present ranges
visually, and forms t he basis of o ur synthetic compar-
ison between dif ferent technology options. A variety
of drivers may explain differences bet ween reported
ranges, including st udy met hodology (e.g. empirical
res ear ch, model lin g), scope (tech no log y type, system
boundaries), and const raints (e.g. social, environmen-
tal). Where possible we group cost s and potentials by
these drivers, t hereby explaining the w ide differences
that can be observed between st udies. Finally, each NET
is assessed by a subset of authors w ith the correspond-
ing ex pertise. They mak e an overall judgement of a cost
and p otent ial range f or each t echnology, tak ing int o
account our current understanding of t he literat ure
and social, economic and environment al const raints to
deployment 21 .
3.1. Bioener gy wit h carb on capt ure and s tor age
(BECCS)
The concept of BEC CS rests on the premise that
bioenergy can be prov ided wit h zero or at least l ow
carbon emissions, i.e. about as much addit ional CO 2
is sequest ered above baseline when growing additional
biomass as f eedstock, as is released during its combus-
tion or other energy conversion processes. I f the latter
emissions are then also captured and stored (e.g. in
geological format ions), it is effectiv ely taken out of the
carbon cycle and t he syst em generat es negative emis-
sions (Creut zig 2016 ,C r e u t z i g et al 2015 ,S m i t h et al
2013 , 2014 ). As sect ion 2 has show n, B ECC S feat ures
prominently in the IA M scenario lit erature and has
been subject to considerable scrut iny since t he IPCC ’ s
Fifth Assessment Report ( AR5) in 2014 (Fuss et al
2014 , Anderson and P eters 2016 ). I n this sect ion, we
provide a comprehensive ov erview of t he literature on
global potentials and cost s, and some k ey side-effects
of BEC CS are considered.
In this assessment, we focus on bioenergy as well
as geological storage p otentials as l imiting f actors and
consider cost s and addit ional aspect s from t he liter-
ature on the entire BECC S chain in order to keep
this multi-t echnology review manageable. There is a
lot of additi on al liter atur e, for ex amp le, rele van t to
the CCS com pon en t of BECCS . This co ver s man y
specific t echnological aspect s related t o the capt ure,
tra nsp or tatio n an d stor ag e com po ne nts. A re cen t com-
prehensive review of this literat ure is provided in
Bui et al ( 2018 ).
Global bi oenergy pot enti als : The av ailability of
biomass and land is seen as t he fundamental lim-
iting f actor, st ructuring discussions about BE CC S
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0
2500
% of Studies
5000
7500
10000
2005
Aquifers
[4 studies]
Coal beds
[5 studies]
100 75 50 25 0
DNG
[4 studies]
DOF
[3 studies]
DOG
[4 studies]
To t a l
[4 studies]
2010
Publication Y ear
Sink
2015
0
Bioenergy
Crops
[15 studies]
500
1000
1500
100
Cost [US$(201 1)/tCO2] T otal Storage Potential [Gt CO2]
Bioenergy Potential [EJ/year]
200
300
400
BECCS - Costs
CO2 Storage Potential
Bioenergy Potential
Forestry
[7 studies]
Residues
[7 studies]
W aste
[2 studies]
To t a l
[10 studies]
Resource
Figur e 6. Costs and pote ntials for BECCS . The heat bar panel for costs is shade d acc ording to the prop ortion of the ra nges over lap ping
at each cost value (studies are depicted as lin es plo tted b y the year of publication , or as dot s where o nly a sin gle estimat e was availab le).
The heat bar p anels dep icting negative e missi ons potentials a re shad ed accor ding to the prop ortion of studie s whose max imum
esti mate (dep icte d as d ots) is gre ate r or equal to ea ch potential val ue. Where no maxi mum estima te was av ail able , the e stima te was
take n. For B ECCS, we show bioene rgy potentia ls cate goris ed by fee ds tock, and storage pote ntials by sink (DNG: Dep lete d natur al gas
field s, DOG: Dep lete d oil fields , DOG: De ple ted oil and gas ). Estimate s and r anges a t the top and bottom end of the d istr ibution a re
labelled; th e data can be furth er explored i n our onlin e supporting material availab le at h ttps: //mcc-apsis.git hub .io/N ETs-review/ .
T echnology development and transfer
Employment
Market opportunities
Economic diversification
Direct GHG emission substitution
Displacement of activities or land uses
Biodiversity
Soil and water
Use of fertilizers with – impacts on soil and water
Deforestation or forest degradation
Health impacts
Food security
T otal No.
Studies
Impact
40
56
24
46
48
82
44
65
74
33
63
43
39
04 0
T echnological
Economic
Environmental
Social and Health
Impact Category
No. of Studies
Figur e 7. Distribut ion studies discussing negat ive an d positive impacts f or key side-effects. Adapted from Rob ledo-Abad et al ( 2017 ).
potentials (K rey et al 2014a ,S m i t h et al 2016a ,
Cre utzi g et al 2015 ). 1 EJ of biomass ty pically y ields
around 0.02–0.05 GtCO 2 worth of negativ e emissions.
Total bioenergy p otent ial estimates f or 2050 range
from 60– 1548 EJ yr −1 . Est imates at t he lower-end of
this range (Krax ner and Nordst r ¨
om 2015 ,S e a r l e a n d
Malins 2015 , Smith et al 2012 ) all provide minimum
esti mate s of around 60 EJ yr −1 . Bioenergy crop deploy-
ment is limited by land allocation for natural parks
(Kraxner and Nordstr ¨
om 2015 ,F i e l d et al 2008 (a 2030
estimate)), or when deployed only on degraded (Wick e
et al 2011 , Nijsen et al 2012 ) or marginal land (Searle
and Malins 2015 ), which will lead to lower yields. Ot her
conservative estimates for 2050 consider only residues,
either immediately available (Smith et al 2012 )o ri n
line with 2050 est imates (Tokimatsu et al 2017 ).
Potent ials increase as deploy ment constraint s are
relaxed to include more productive land, w ith mini-
mum potentials of 130 and 160 EJ yr −1 and maximum
estimates of 216 and 267 EJ yr −1 (Beringer et al 2011 ,
Rog ner et al 2012 ) and similar est imates f or 2055
(Popp et al 2014 ,K l e i n et al 2014 ). Higher estimat es
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are characterized by more limited cropland expansion
and lower natu re conservation crit eria.
The g ro up of optimi stic es tima tes star t at a roun d
350 EJ yr −1 (Cornelissen et al 2012 ,F i s c h e r a n d
Sch ra tten ho lz er 2001 , Smeets et al 2007 ). Although
Cornelissen ’ s ca lc ulati on s are limi ted to rai n- fed ag ri -
culture, and apply a food-first principle, they still
estimate 340 EJ available/yr by 2050. This is partly
due to their inclusion of algae as a feedstock , which
contributes 90 EJ yr −1 to the ir estima te an d the us e
of fert ilizers over a relat ively large deployment area
(673 Mha). Fischer and Schrattenholzer ( 2001 ) assume
limited agricultural land expansion due to increasing
yields. Bioenergy crops here are d eployed on grassland
rather than constrained to marginal or degraded lands
as in the more conservat ive est imates above. Smeets
et al ( 2007 ) prov ide t he most opt imistic est imates
between 370– 1500 EJ yr −1 .M u c ho ft h i sp o t e n t i a l
(215–1272 EJ yr −1 ) comes f rom dedicated bioenergy
crops and the wide range reported reflects dif ferent
factor yield increases (2.9 vs 4.6), area av ailable f or
deployment (729 Mha and 3585 Mha respectively) and
rai nfe d vs ir rig ate d agr icul ture. S mith ( 2012 )p r o v i d e s
an estimate of biospheric capacity of 727.5 EJ y r −1 over
all veget ated land (11 000 Mha). R ogner et al ( 2012 )
assess a t heoretical bioenergy potent ial of 793 EJ yr −1
if all aboveground net p rimary production (NPP)
that is not u sed f or food, feed or fiber is dev oted to
bioenergy production.
Bioenergy est imates f rom dedicated crops off er
wide di scr epa nc ies , fro m cons erva tive esti mate s of
approximately 20 EJ yr −1 (Erb et al 2012a ,T h r
¨
an et al
2010 , Hakala et al 2008 , N ijsen et al 2012 ,B e r i n g e r
et al 2011 ), to middle ranges of 70– 180 (Erb et al
2012b , Yamamoto et al 2000 , Hoogwijk et al 2009 ,
Cornelissen et al 2012 ,B e r i n g e r et al 2011 ,T h r
¨
an et
al 2010 ,R o g n e r et al 2012 ) to high estimates above
200 EJ yr −1 (Hoogwijk et al 2005 , Smeet s et al 2007 ,
Cornelissen et al 2012 ). Variance depends largely on
available land and yields (Dornburg et al 2010 ,B o y s e n
et al 2017 ), which in turn can be driven by assump-
tions regarding fut ure population and diet (Haberl
et al 2011 , Hakala et al 2008 ), biodiv ersity and con-
servation restrict ions (Erb et al 2012a ,B e r i n g e r et al
2011 ,P o p p et al 2011 ), or land q ualit y and t echnology
improvements (Smeets et al 2007 ). Hakala ’ sl o we s t i -
mate s us e cur ren t glob al stati stic s ra ther tha n proj ec ted
yiel ds to accoun t for s oci al an d in stituti ona l con di-
tions, and they further reduce their estimates when
considering global af fluent diets ( Hakala et al 2008 ).
High est imates are derived f rom scenarios of large-
scale deployment on abandoned agricultural land,
where yield f actor increases are f ar higher t han on
marginal lands (Smeet s et al 2007 , Hoogwijk et al
2009 ). Higher est imates are commonly grounded in
economic analysis, inv olving factors such as tech-
nological change to improv e y ields, w hereas lower
estimates focus on ecological and biophysical concerns
and nat ural limit s to sustainable bioenergy deployment
(Creutz ig 2016 ).
Est imates for f orestry -sourced bioenergy range
from 38–165 EJ yr −1 (Smeet s and Faaij 2007 ,L a u r i
et al 2014 , Smeet s et al 2007 , Cornelissen et al 2012 ,
Rog ner et al 2012 ) .T h eo n l y e s t i m a t ea b o v e2 0 0E Jy r
−1
comes from an aggressive deployment of af forestat ion
and ref orestation activit ies. Smeets ’ cent ral estimat e
sees f orests being deployed on 292 Mha of l and, while
Oberst einer et al ( 2006 ) ’ s lower deployment scenario
starts at 290 Mha and goes up to 660 Mha for t he
extreme estimate o f 1250 EJ yr −1 . By co ntr ast, th e
lowest estimat e comes f rom t he application of strict
sustainability criteria that ex cludes consideration of
protected, inaccessible and undist urbed forest s, as well
as non-commercial species and traditional-use biom ass
resources (Cornelissen et al 2012 ).
Although not fully assessed here, algae has been
proposed as an alternat ive source of biomass f or
BECCS. Due to its hi gh photo synth eti c effici enc y and
high yields (Moreira and P ires 2016 ), its capacit y
to co-produce prot ein and it s potent ial to decrease
land competit ion (Beal et al 2018 ), algae may
address some of the sust ainability concerns raised by
BECCS.
Global stor age potentials. The second major f actor
that could restrict BECCS deployment is the availabil-
ity of storage. There is litt le doubt in t he lit erature
that t here is, in principle, sufficient potential avail-
able across t he globe to geologically store vast amounts
of CO 2 permanent ly, as required by many 1.5 ◦ Ca n d
2 ◦ C scenarios (Dooley 2013 ). Yet in indiv idual regions
there could be storage bott lenecks t hat would limit
the BE CCS potent ial in that region (Calv in et al 2009 ,
Edmon ds et al 2007 , Dooley 2013 ).
Global estimates of tot al storage potent ial span
a massive range—f rom 320 (Koide et al 1993 )t o
50 000 GtCO 2 (Hendriks and Blok 1995 ). Global esti-
mates using t op down approaches grow as more
storage options are considered. The low est imate of
320 GtCO 2 conservat ively assumes that 1 % of all sed-
imentary basins might be suit able for storage (Koide
et al 1993 ). This m ore th an do ubles (to 777 GtCO 2 )
when proven depleted oil and gas reserv es are included
(Ormerod et al 1993 ), then roughly doubles again to
2065 GtCO 2 (Hendriks and Blok 1995 )w h e nc o n s i d e r -
ing undiscov ered oil and gas reserves. The assessment
increases dramat ically to over 50 000 GtCO 2 when
other trapping mechanisms allow s torage t o occur
in aquifers with out a structural trap (Hend riks and
Blok 1995 ). Later estimat es make use of more d etailed
informat ion from regional and national st udies t o
ge ne rate g lo bal e sti mate s (Se lo sse a nd Ric ci 2017 , Doo-
ley 2013 ). Dooley ’ s estimat e of theoret ical capacit y
is in the same order of magnitude (35 000 GtC O 2 ),
but is significant ly reduced by phy sical and practi-
cal constraint s to 13 500, 3900 and 290 GtCO 2 of
effec tive , prac tica l, and m atch ed poten tia l wor ldwid e,
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respectively 22 . The effectiv e capacity estimate is in line
with esti mate s reach ed by inte gra ting global IEA GHG
data wi th data fro m natio nal an d site speci fic esti -
mate s, and other sour ces such as Tota l Petroleu m
System and t he United St ates Geological Survey for
a total potential of 10 000 Gt CO 2 (Selosse and Ricci
2017 ).
Global estimat es f or depleted oil and gas fields range
from 458 (O rmerod et al 1993 ) to 923 GtCO 2 (IEA
Greenhouse Gas R & D Programme 2000 ) ( IE A Green-
house G as R & D Programme 2000 ). This relatively
narrow range lik ely results from t horough documen-
tation of st ructures during ex ploration and ex traction.
Des pite w ide d iffer en ce s in to tal p ote nti als , the br oad
studies w ith break downs provide a narrower range of
458–801 for oil and gas fi elds (Hendriks and Blok
1995 , Selosse and Ricci 2017 ,O r m e r o d et al 1993 ).
IEA GH G esti mate s are base d on a detai led data base
of 155 geological provinces ( IE A Greenhouse Gas
R & D Programme 2000 ). R egional assessments provide
insight int o the geographical distribution of resources.
North American estimates range f rom 4 0 (Dooley
et al 2005 ) to 136 GtCO 2 (Wright et al 2013 ). The low
esti ma te only con sid ers the CO 2 seque str atio n pote n-
tial of depleted gas fields and oil fields with enhanced
oil recovery ( EOR ). European estimat es range f rom
the effe cti ve capa ci ty evalua ted by the Ge oCa pac ity
project of 20 Gt CO 2 (V angkilde-Pedersen et al 2008 )
to 280 GtCO 2 (Hendrik s and Blok 1995 ). The latter
esti ma te can likel y be a ttrib uted to the form er So viet
Union nations, which Selosse and Ricci ( 2017 )e s t i m a t e
have 277 GtCO 2 of capacity . Estimat es that ex clude
this reg io n cluste r are between 20 and 60 GtCO 2
(Vangkilde-Pedersen et al 2008 , 2009 ,I E AG H G 2005 ,
Selosse and R icci 2017 ). Lower estimat es exclude some
countries and present eff ective capacities wit h site-
specific inf ormation. Middle E astern estimat es range
from 208 (Selosse and Ricci 2017 ) to 250 GtCO 2 (Hen-
driks and Blok 1995 ), but on ly EOR estima tes were
found at national or site specific levels ( Jaju et al 2016 ,
Movagharnejad et al 2012 ,M o r t e n s e n et al 2016 ,H a s -
sani et al 2016 ).
Estimat es of t he storage pot ential of coal beds
range from 60 (Gale and Freund 2001 ,G a l e 2004 )t o
700 GtCO 2 (Kuuskraa et al 1992 ). Lower estimates con-
sider the economic const raints (Dooley et al 2005 )o f
10 high pot ential countries, while a more comprehen-
sive assessment of 24 count ries expands the potent ial
to 487 GtCO 2 (Godec et al 2014 ). Kuuskraa et al
( 1992 ) ’ s estimate appears to be based on theoretical
analysis by the authors leading to a higher range. The
early estimat e of 150 Gt CO 2 considers few count ries
and subsequent regional est imates have rev ised this
22 The typ es of pote ntial c orr esp ond to es timates of capac ity incre as -
ingly constrained by p hysical (theoretical), technical (effective),
regulat ory , eco no mic (pract ical) barriers as w ell as det ailed m atch ing
with large CO 2 sources (ma tched) ( Bradshaw et al 2007 ,B a c h u et al
2007 ).
upward. In North America, estimates have increased
from 47 GtCO 2 (IEA GHG 1998 ,G a l e 2004 )t o
65–120 GtCO 2 (Godec et al 2014 , Dooley et al 2005 ,
Wright et al 2013 ). Lower-end estimates tend to con-
sider specific basins wit h high pot ential and f avorable
market condit ions while higher est imates reflect t heo-
reti cal g loba l potenti als .
Most of the potential and variabilit y in est i-
mate s co mes fro m esti ma tes of poten tia ls in aqui fers .
Hendrik ’ s broad estimat e of 200– 50 000 Gt CO 2 cov-
ers all other estimates in the literature. The lower-end
considers aquif ers only with a structural trap, while
the high end integrat es other t rapping mechanisms
allowing much wider deployment 23 . Ear ly estim ate s
are ex plicitly conserv ative, but it is unclear whet her
they are c onsidering structural t raps in their const raints
(Koide et al 1993 ). Altho ugh the 50 000 estim ate is
expl ici tly the or etic al, reg io na l es tima tes h ave pr ovi ded
support t o it. High pot entials have been estimated
for Nort h America (Dooley et al 2005 ,W r i g h t et al
2013 ), China (Li et al 2009 )a n dO E C DE u r o p e
(IEA GHG 2005 ).
Costs. Cost estimat es through t he entire literat ure
range f rom US $ 15–400/t CO 2 . Est imates t hat cover
BECC S generally est imate prices of bet ween US $ 30
and 400/tC O 2 (Luckow et al 2010 , Koornneef et al
2012 ,A r a s t o et al 2014 ). However, most sources f ocus
on a specific source for C O 2 capt ure. Many papers
expl ore the po ten tial of cap ture fro m ethan ol ferm en -
tat ion and find ranges of US $ 20 t o 175/tC O 2 (de Visser
et al 2011 , Fabbri et al 2011 ,F o r n e l l et al 2013 ,L a u d e
et al 2011 ,M
¨
ollersten et al 2004 , Johnson et al 2014 ,
Roch edo et al 2016 ). Low v alues w ithin t he st udies
represent deployment in the most suit able plants wit h
easy access to abundant biomass and short dist ances
to storage sites. C aptu ring CO 2 emissions f rom both
ethanol ferment ation and cogenerat ion unit s increases
costs (US $ 40–120 vs US $ 180–200/tC O 2 avoided)
but also increases avoidance pot ential (Laude et al
2011 ). Combustion BECC S has higher cost s ranging
fro m US $ 88 to US $ 288/t CO 2 (Akgul et al 2014 ,A l -
Qayim et al 2015 ,K
¨
arki et al 2013 ). Low estimates
in combust ion come f rom utilizing oxy -fuel t echnolo-
gies ( Al-Qayim et al 2015 ,K
¨
arki et al 2013 ). The
lowe st estim ate for th is tech nol ogy group (US $ 14–
77/tCO 2 avoided) c omes from a variation of oxy- fuel
combustion that is still unproven (A banades et al
2011 ). Biomass gasification technologies are estimated
between US $ 30 t o US $ 6/t CO 2 (Gough and Upham
2011 ,R h o d e sa n dK e i t h 2005 , Sanchez and C all-
away 2016 ). However, R anjan prov ides much more
pessimistic estimat es of US $ 150–400/t CO 2 avoided,
but these might be due to ex tremely l arge land
requirement s f or the product ion of biomass. The cost
23 Structural traps ref er t o geol ogical st ructures capable of retain -
ing h ydrocarbons, sealed st ructurally b y a fault or fold (IPC C
2005 ) . Fo r an o verview o f trappin g mech anism s see (Bradsh aw et al
2007 ).
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of CO 2 av oidance via BEC CS ut ilizing black liq uor pro-
duced by pulp and paper mills has been est imated to
range b etween US $ 20 and US $ 70/tCO 2 when using
recovery boilers (Onarheim et al 2015 ,M
¨
ollersten
et al 2004 )a n d U S $ 20–55 when using gasification
tech nol ogi es (M ¨
ollersten et al 2006 , 2004 ). Other
technologies have been estimat ed at US $ 86– 167/tCO 2
avoided (Carbo et al 2011 )a n dU S $ 20–40/ tCO 2 (John-
son et al 2014 ) for BioSNG and biomass FT diesel,
respectively.
Low cost estimates typically st art with a coal-CC S
configuration and assume biomass fuel costs lower than
those of coal, as at least partially available, e.g. in the
US-Midwest. T ransport costs of b iomass are included
in some (e.g. Sanchez and C allaway 2016 )b u tn o ta l l
studies. I mportantly, biomass is nearly always assumed
to be produced at zero lif e-cycle emissions. But life-
cycle emissions related to direct or indirect land use
pose a 10%– 30% efficiency penalt y on carbon abat e-
ment, and hence on costs of negativ e emissions, even in
the optimist ic cases where biomass is d erived f rom cel-
lulosic sources or dedicat ed bioenergy crops. It may also
be relevant t o price in indirect ext ernalities, mediated
via land mark ets, e.g. on f ood market s, ecosystem ser-
vices, and liv elihoods ( see below). This is a contentious
exercise with litt le agreement and large p arameter
uncertainties.
Side effec ts. Side effects can be broadly cat-
egorized int o climat e effect s induced by biomass
provision, resource needs, and broader env ironmental
an d susta ina bil ity effects trans mitte d via th e co uple d
land-energy sy stem ( Creut zig et al 2015 ,R o b l e d o -
Abad et al 2017 ). An ex haustive and comprehensiv e
literature review of 1175 publications on side effect s
and sustainable development contributions of bioen-
ergy published in a recent study revealed that side
effect s can be in general b oth positive and negative;
howe ver , neg ative e ffects are more o ften o bser ved
in the lit erature in social and environment al dimen-
sions, whereas positiv e eff ects are more often observed
in economic and technological dimensions (R obledo-
Abad et al 2017 ).
Climat e effect s belong t o the cat egories of direct
land use change, indirect land use change, and albedo
effect s. Land use change emissions include those f rom
change in previous use, such as def orestat ion, and
changes in global land use induced by economic
market s. These are generally high f or first-generat ion
biofuels, such as corn et hanol, which are deriv ed from
food mark ets; while ov erall emissions are still rele-
vant but in lower ranges f or bioenergy f rom cellulosic
or woody sources, and from f ood waste and f orest
residues (Plevin et al 2010 ,S m i t h et al 2016a ) 24 .( S o m e
24 Altho ugh achievable scales are not clear y et, there is also research
on third-ge ner ation biofuels, de rive d from algal biomass (B renna n
and Owende 2010 ) with t he potential to enhan ce yields by improv-
ing microalgal b iology through genetic or metabolic engineering
(Tandon and J in 2017 ).
specific albeit relativ ely low-yield choices can gener-
ate carbon-negat ive b ioenergy, see Tilman et al 2006 ).
Low emissions also translate int o a significant ef fi-
ciency loss in bioenergy for climat e mitigation or f or
BECC S as negativ e emissions t echnologies. Calcula-
tion of indi rec t land use effects is subje ct to para mete r
and structura l mode l cho ice rather than ac coun ting
only and leads to considerable uncert ainty in estimates
and abateme nt effe cts (Ple vin et al 2010 , 2014 ).
The global albedo effects of cultivatin g biom ass for
bioenergy are also relev ant and vary wit h geograph-
ical locat ion. Higher lat itudes, w here biomass might
replace reflect ive snow cov er, are more prone to an
albe do e ffect th at o ffsets clima te m itig ati on (Brig ht et al
2015 ). Land u se and land cover change forcing ranges
fro m − 0.06 to − 0.29 W m −2 by 2070 depending on
assu mptio ns regar din g future cro p yield gro wth and
whether climat e policy favors aff orestat ion or bioenergy
crops (Jones et al 2015 ).
Requ ired resources may include f ertilizer u se
(whic h in tur n lead to G HG em issi on s and must be fac-
t o r e di n )a n dw a t e ru s e .I f 1 7 0 E J y r
−1 were produced
by a 2 ◦ C-compliant BECCS infrastructure by 2100,
the water foot print would amount to 59.5 km 3 /GtCO 2
by 2100 (Smit h 2016 ), which corresponds t o 1.5% of
global y early freshwat er withdrawals.
Bioenergy is conf ronted with substant ial con-
cerns regarding competition for land, including impact
on food prices, biodiversit y, wat er and nutrients
(Williamson 2016 ,S m i t h et al 2013 ,H a b e r l 2015 ,
Robled o-Abad et al 2017 ,E d e n h o f e r et al 2013 ). A
major concern is t he ef fect that large-scale deployment
poses on food securit y. A lthough many studies apply
a food-first principle t o limit deploy ment, increased
land competition could lead to increased global food
prices (Popp et al 2011 , R eilly et al 2012 ) and regional
resource shortages (M ¨
uller et al 2008 ). Some biofu-
els ( such as corn ethanol) impact food prices, but
othe rs that do not direc tly compete with foo d (such
as sugarcane) hav e a lower impact—yet of ten t hese
price impacts are dwarf ed by exogenous fact ors like
economic growt h (Zilberman et al 2013 ,R o b e r t sa n d
Schlenker 2010 , Timilsina et al 2012 ). These con-
cerns can be alleviated by limiting deployment to
mar gi nal land, but this i s often associ ate d with detri -
mental impacts on biodiversity (Dale et al 2010 ,W i e n s
et al 2011 ). C onversely, deploy ment on degraded
lands could contribute to prot ection f rom erosion and
soil rest oration (L emus and Lal 2005 ).
More than 1 billion small-holder f armers could
also be direct ly or indirect ly subject ed to changing
agricultural practices and bioenergy sy stems, both pos-
itively and negat ively (Mutopo et al 2011 ,C r e u t z i g
et al 2013 ). BE CC S has t he pot ential to increase and
diversify rural income, but also at the risk of displac-
ing small-holders or exposing t hem to the volatility of
world markets (Buck 2016 ). C urrent practice is com-
monly not concurrent wit h livelihood concerns; inst ead
research points t o the global commodificat ion of
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a local energy supplement and t he consolidation of cor-
porate power in agribusiness and energy sectors ( Borras
and Franco 2010 ,R i s t et al 2010 ). Case study analy-
ses demonstrate that while some local actors are likely
to profit from bioenergy deployment schemes, ot h-
er s, often star tin g from an insti tution al ly disadva nta ged
position, can lose out (Creut zig et al 2013 , Schoneveld
et al 2010 ). Distributional issues are hence a crucial
dimension in designing the gov ernance of bioenergy
(Hunsberge r et al 2014 ).
CCS poses its own set of risk s. Ov erpressure could
lea d to the po lluti on o f potable w ater , to sei smi c acti vity
or to leaks, which could not only rapidly reverse pos-
itive mit igation eff ects, but cause env ironmental and
hea lth da ma ge at the le akag e si tes (H oll oway 2009 ,
National Academy of Sciences 2015 ,S m i t h et al 2016a ,
Bruckner et al 2014 ).
Per manenc e and s atur atio n . I n principle, once the
CO 2 removed from the atmosphere via BE CC S is geo-
logically stored, it is one of the NE T options that is less
vulnerable to reversal. Most important ly, stored CO 2 is
not subject to f urther management decisions lik e other
land-based NE Ts. While leak age can be an issue, it is not
widely perceived as a major hurdle to safe and perma-
nent storage. Moreover, there is significant research on
monitoring and verificat ion as well as on leak det ection
and remediation (Bui et al 2018 ). However, consider-
able concerns with BE CCS are associat ed with its level
of eff ectiveness, which can be compromised by sig-
nificant amounts of emissions from i ndirect land-use
change (Plev in et al 2010 ).
Author s ’ assessment . Overall, by 2050 we see
BECCS at costs of US $ 100–200/tCO 2 that ac crue in ter
ali a fro m th e nec ess ity to g uar an tee li mi ted s usta ina bil-
ity and land-use carbon cycle effects, and which will
require high management intensity on a c ase-by-case
basis. Our estimate of 2050 potentials ranges is 0.5–
5G t C O
2 (considering here a technological potential
that remains cognizant of other sust ainability aims). As
for all land-intensiv e options, we remain conserv ative
in our suggested values as t hey refer to mid-cent ury
where population pressures are highest according to
recent project ions ( Samir and L utz 2017 ). A range of
5GtCO 2 and possibly higher req uires global land gov-
ernance, integrating multiple land u se concerns for t he
global common good.
3.2 . Affore station and refore station (A R)
Affor esta tio n refe rs to pl an tin g trees on la nd that h as
not been af forest ed in recent hist ory ( a reference value
of at least 50 years is commonly used). R eforest ation,
on the other hand, ref ers to the replant ing of trees
on more recently deforested land (I PCC 2000 ). Neg-
ative emissions can arise f rom b oth pract ices, as the
growth of additional biomass sequesters C O 2 from the
atmosphere. T he distinction between af forest ation and
refo re stati on is often no t clea n in the li tera ture an d we
therefore c ategorize them jointly .
Global s equestr ation potent ials an d c osts . Out of
12 prev ious assessments of dif ferent NE Ts, seven of fer
yearly potentials at either mid-century or 2100. The
2050 range is 0.5–7 GtCO 2 yr −1 (Lenton 2014 ), which
encompasses the ranges given in earlier assessment s
(Fri en ds of the Earth 2011 ,M c L a r e n 2012 ,L e n t o n
2010 ). In 2100, this range widens t o 1–12 Gt CO 2 yr −1 ,
covering the ranges given by Smith et al ( 2016a ),
the N ational Academy of Sciences ( 2015 ) and Lent on
( 2010 , 2014 ). In addition, some assessments give poten-
tials in cumulative terms wit h the lowest 2100 estimate
of 80 Gt CO 2 coming f rom t he O xford Univ ersity ’ s
Stranded Asset s Programme (C aldecott et al 2015 )a n d
the hi gh est estim ate bei ng the upper e nd of the IPCC
AR5 range with 260 GtCO 2 (IPCC 2014a ). There is
high agreement on the maximal costs of AR being
around US $ 100/ton of sequest ered CO 2 and less agree-
ment on t he lower-end of t he range, wit h the N ational
Academy of Sciences ( 2015 )q u o t i n g U S $ 1a n d t h e r e s t
being in a range of US $ 18–20/ ton CO 2 .T h e R o y a l
Society Report ( 2009 ) does acknowledge AR as an
option to remove carbon, but does not give pot entials.
Their assessment point s t o ‘ low costs ’ as well.
Takin g the sys tema tica lly sco ped li tera ture (see
sec tion 3.2.1) i nto ac coun t, the uppe r end of the
2100 sequestrat ion potential remains at just above
12 GtCO 2 yr −1 in 2100. The lower-end is slight ly more
con serva tive at 0.54 GtCO 2 yr −1 (Liu et al 2016 ) 25 .N e w
estimates from I ntegrat ed Assessment Modeling com-
bined with more detailed bot tom-up land use models
give a range of 5.83–9.56 GtCO 2 yr −1 in 2100 when
2580 Mha are afforested (Kreidenweis et al 2016 ), with
a lower potential of 3.53 GtCO 2 yr −1 for a ffor esta -
tion of 1489 Mha at a carbon price of US $ 24/tCO 2
(Humpen ¨
oder et al 2014 ). Earth System Modeling
mimicking t he afforestat ion rates in an R CP4.5 path-
way finds 6.64 GtCO 2 yr −1 in 2100 (Sonnt ag et al 2016 ).
Houghton et al ( 2015 ) estimat e that about 500 Mha
could be available f or the re-establishment of the
world ’ s tropical forest s on lands previously f orested but
not currently used productively. This would sequester
at least 3 .7 GtCO 2 annually for decades, ev en though
they raise t he important c aveat t hat forest s need both
time t o grow and will event ually suffer from sat uration
and thus assume a linear decline in productivity from
3.7 GtCO 2 in 2065 t o 0 by 2095. Earlier estimates lie
in between 0.47 and 4.88 GtC O 2 yr −1 by 2100 (Sohn-
gen and Mendelsohn 2003 , Cannell 2002 , Canadell
and R aupach 2008 ,S t r e n g e r s et al 2008 ,v a nM i n -
nen et al 2008 ,T h o m s o n et al 2008 ) wit h est imates
depending on various assumptions, most not ably t he
amount of land av ailable. For example, many st ud-
ies assume that only abandoned or low-product ivit y
land can b e used for AR. For example, Thomson et al
( 2008 ) use an area of 120 Mha o f unproductiv e land
25 Assumin g th at Liu et al ( 2016 ) provide a 2100 po tent ial, which
seems likely, but the main body of their article is in Chinese.
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Afforestation and Reforestation - Costs Afforestation and Reforestation - Potentials
Publication Y ear Publication Y ear
1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
Cost [US$(201 1)/tCO2]
Sequestration Potential [Gt CO2/year]
200
150
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50
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8
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100 75 50 25 0
Figur e 8. Costs and po tentia ls for affor esta tion. The he atbar d istr ibution of lite ra ture es timate s in eac h panel ar e calc ula ted as in
figur e 6 , w ith in dividual publicat ion cost ran ges represent ed b y li nes (co sts pan el); and m aximum estimat es o f neg ative emissi ons
potent ial plott ed by publication year (potent ials panel). Afforest ation potenti als are const rained to glob al studies for t he y ear 2050 (or
proximate to 2050, e.g. Houghton et al 2015 ). Cost estimates include bot h regional and global st udies. Est imates and r anges at th e
top and bottom e nd of the d istr ibuti on are l abel led ; the data can be fur ther ex plor ed in our online su pp orti ng ma ter ial avai lable at
htt ps://mcc-apsis.gi thub .io/N ETs-review / .
arriving at a maximum pot ential of 1.14 GtC O 2 yr −1
by 2100, while van Minnen et al ( 2008 ) start fro m
abandoned land of 831 Mha t hus also having higher
maximum potentials (4.88 GtC O 2 yr −1 by 2100). 2050
potentials range f rom 0 .44 GtC O 2 yr −1 (v an Minnen
et al 2008 )t o6 . 1 6 G t C O
2 yr −1 (Dixon et al 1994 ).
A number of p ublications u sing dif ferent met hodolo-
gie s fall in betwee n those (Br own et al 1995 ,K a i s e r
2000 ,K a r n o s k y et al 2003 , Nilsson and Schopfhaus er
1995 ,T h o m s o n et al 2008 ). Ben ´
ıtez et al ( 2007 )
use a 20 year t ime f rame to arrive at a sequest ra-
tion potential of 1 .3 GtCO 2 yr −1 . (Richards and St okes
2004 ) re vie w olde r liter atur e an d find th at m ore th an
7G t C O
2 could be sequestered y early for decades (IPCC
2000 ,N o r d h a u s 1991 , Sedjo and Solomon 1991 ,S o h n -
gen and Mendelsohn 2003 ). Griscom et al ( 2017 )
assess a w ider set of c onservation, rest oration, and
improved land management act ions that increase car-
bon storage and/or avoid GHG emissions across global
forests, wet lands, grasslands, and agricultural lands.
The max imum potential of the A R component of
the se actio ns is 17.9 GtCO 2 , where all grazing land in
forested ecoregions is reforested—howev er t his w ould
require s ubstantial global diet ary shift s away from
grass-fed beef. N ote that it is not possible f rom the
studies ident ified t o conclude w hether diff erent mod-
eling and est imation techniq ues lead t o systemat ically
higher or lower pot entials.
Global cost s range between US $ 2a n d
US $ 150/tCO 2 for the s cope d artic les (Humpe n ¨
oder
et al 2014 , Richards and Stok es 2004 ,S o h n g e na n d
Mendelsohn 2003 ,B r o w n et al 1995 ). This range
inc lude s almos t no estim ates from the In teg rate d
Assessment Modeling lit erature for 2100 and is mostly
base d on bottom -up estim ate s a nd es tabli shm ent
costs. As more IAM literature becomes available for
sequest ration through AR (as is happening now),
the upp er ra ng e can be expe cte d to sh ift upwa rds . In
addition, conserving forest s as long-term sinks will
still r equir e ma nag em ent after th e actua l affo re statio n
process, an additional cost that is of ten not tak en into
account in t he reviewed est imates.
Richards and Stok es ( 2004 ) provide an ove rview of
AR cost studies f rom t he 1990s and early 2000s, identi-
fying substantially lower cost s in developing compared
to indust rialized countries. This is in line wit h our
observations f rom t he scoped lit erature: most of t he
cost st udies originat e in the USA , Aust ralia, Canada,
or are global st udies. There are only few cost st udies
in L atin America, t wo for India, none for Sout heast
Asia and none for A frica. O ut of the full sample of the
scoped lit erature, 17% present cost est imates. Mult i-
ple facto rs ma y drive d iffer en ce s in cost- effec tive ne ss
between regions, such as yield rates, land prices, trans-
action costs, and reporting differences. Many more
studies based in dev eloping countries would be needed
to cl ari fy the se di ffer en ce s. In a ddi tion , es tim ate s diffe r
in methodology and scope. For inst ance they may be
the (exogenous) prices at which a potential was cal-
cula ted, or the botto m-up es tabli shm en t co sts for a
pre-specified seq uest ration target, or the cost at which
AR becomes profit able, or a combination of these. This
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has to be borne in mind as a major cav eat when exam-
ining the cost ranges across regions. For those studies
that follow an opt imization approach, t he cost range
is US $ 10–237/tC O 2 . Bottom- up studies r elyi ng on the
valuation of the diff erent cost components range f rom
US $ 0.1–15/tC O 2 . Those that use opportunity costs
correspond to a range of US $ 3– 160, but are obviously
very locat ion-specific. Studies rely ing on reviews of pre-
vious literat ure, where it is impossible t o track down
the ty pe of cost s surv eyed, lie betw een US $ 7.50 and 50.
Side effec ts. A wide v ariety of biophysical, social
and economic side-effect s are considered in the AR
lite ra ture. One of the most prom in en t issue s from a
climate perspective is albedo change, which finds signif-
icant attent ion particularly in global studies (Anderson
et al 2011 , Arora and M ontenegro 2011 , Be tts et al
2007 ,J a c k s o n et al 2008 ,W a n g et al 2014 ). There is
high agreement t hat t he low albedo of b oreal f orests
renders AR in high latit udes counterproductiv e, accel-
erating local warming and speeding ice and snow
cover loss; similarly , t emperate A R has uncertain or
net neutral benefits for global temperature reduction,
par ticula rly if substituti ng for r ela tively hi gh albed o
agricultural land uses. T ropical AR, due t o higher pro-
ducti vity, mo der ate albe do effe cts, an d its pote ntia l
to generate evaporat ive cooling, i.e. the local cool-
in g effect re sul tin g fro m evap otr ans pir ati on , holds the
greatest potent ial for net temperature reduction—up
to thr ee tim es tha t of bor eal for ests pe r unit o f lan d
area, according t o Arora and Montenegro ( 2011 ). A
second major consideration is the association between
AR and biodiversity . The literat ure is currently lack ing
a comprehensive rev iew on this t opic, which is pre-
dominantly invest igated on a case st udy basis, with
ensuing variet y in terms of local syst em conditions.
Nonetheless, af forest ation using native species is gen-
erally regarded as superior compared to plantations for
habi tat quali ty and spe cie s divers ity (Ha ll et al 2012 ,
McKinley et al 2011 ); and although t hey may per-
form less well in terms of carbon sequest ration, div erse
afforest ation plots are less v ulnerable t o climatic per-
turba tion s (Loc atel li et al 2015 )a n dp r o v i d eag r e a t e r
variety of subsist ence products and serv ices, enhancing
local management and accept ability ( D ´
ıaz et al 2009 ,
Locatelli et al 2015 ,V e n t e r et al 2012 ).
Other issues addressed w ere local livelihoods, par-
ticularly for developing and middle-income regions
(whic h are in evita bly matter s of des ign , owner shi p and
appropriate pay ments in aff orestat ion schemes) (Gr eve
et al 2013 , Locatelli et al 2015 , R enner et al 2008 );
AR eff ects on soil organic carbon, for which L aganiere
et al ( 2010 ) provide a meta-analysis of v arying s pecies
and site conditions; and q uestions of broader resource
limits t o large-scale A R schemes, including nut ri-
ent cyc ling and wat er consumption (Deng et al
2017 ,J a c k s o n et al 2005 ,S m i t ha n dT o r n 2013 ).
Per manenc e and s atur atio n . Biogenic C O 2 stor-
age has a much shorter permanence than C O 2 stored
in geological format ions. Forest sinks saturate within a
period of decades t o centuries, compared to t housands
of y ears f or geological storage (Smit h et al 2016b );
forests are also subject to natural and human distur-
b a n c e s ,e . g .d r o u g h t ,f o r e s tfi r e sa n dp e s t s( p o t e n t i a l l y
exacerbated by climat e change), or sudden reversals
in land use. These issues req uire careful forest manage-
men t lo ng after th e ac tual affor es tatio n p ro ces s, m aking
AR a less att ractive NE Ts option over time. Ult imately,
total l on g-te rm affore stati on (stor ag e) poten tia l is con -
strained by land area, so new land will need to be freed
up for addi tion al ne gati ve emi ssio ns in the 22nd c en -
tury , for instance by shif ting global diet s away from
meat products (R ¨
o ¨
os et al 2017 ,G r i s c o m et al 2017 ).
Upscaling . Although AR d oes not inv olve ramping
up large infrast ructures lik e BE CCS ( see section 3.1 )
and DACCS (see sectio n 3.3 ) , t h ep a c ea tw h i c hr e m o v a l
will be taking pl ace wi ll stil l be sl ow, as forests n eed to
gr ow to thei r full poten tia l. Upsca lin g and diffus ion
will be analyzed and discussed in more detail in Nemet
et al ( 2018 ).
Author s ’ assessment. Albedo effectiv ely constrains
afforest ation as a mitigat ion strat egy to t he tropics—
and w ithin these regions it will hav e to compet e with
agriculture and ot her sectors for land (particularly
unde r a portfo lio o f NETs). T he es tima te by Ho ughto n
et al ( 2015 ) for a total area of 500 Mha of marginal
lan d in the tropi cs is there fore a feas ible , yet am bi-
tious boundary limit for global aff orestat ion. Not e
that an earlier study by Zomer et al ( 2008 )f o u n d
only 760 Mha of globally available land t hat satisfied
UNFCC C accounting conditions. The 500 Mha c on-
straint constitut es approximat ely 3.6 Gt CO 2 yr −1 of
carbon removal by 2050, albeit declining to 0 by the
end of t he century (Houghton et al 2015 ). Under t hese
conditions (marginal land in the global South), cost s
will tend towards t he lower-end of the global range,
likely not exceeding US $ 5–50/tCO 2 ,w i t ht h ec a v e a t
that ver y fe w cost studies e xist for tropic al countr ie s in
the past decade (Ben ´
ıtez and O bersteiner 2006 , Torres
et al 2010 ).
3.3. D irec t air carbon c apture an d stor age (DAC CS)
Direct air CO 2 capt ure and st orage, also k nown as CO 2
capture from ambient air, comprises sev eral distinct
tech no log ie s to remo ve dilute CO 2 fr om the s urro und-
ing atmosphere.
There is a plethora of diff erent mat erials and pro-
cesses under investigat ion. M ost attempt s have focused
on hydrox ide sorbent s, such as calcium hydroxide.
More recently a st ream of research on solid mat eri-
als has emerged, mostly involving amines. Engineering
problems inv olve enlarging the contact surface t o
increase CO 2 wit hdrawal and dealing wit h moisture.
A key issue is the energy needed. This includes t he
energy for releasing CO 2 f rom the sorbent , regener-
ating t he sorbent, for fans and pumping, as well as
for pressurizing the CO 2 for t ransportat ion. For exam-
ple, t emperatures great er than 700 ◦ C are req uired t o
separate CO 2 from th e cal cium comp oun d and to
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0
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500
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1000
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DACCS - Costs
Figur e 9. Cost s for direct air capture. The heatbar distrib utio n of literature estimates are calculated as in figure 6 for costs only, with
indiv idu al public ation c ost range s repr es ente d by lines . No l iter atur e estimate s for potentia ls ex ist, but are often imp lic itly ass umed to
be unlimite d. Es timate s and ra nges at the top and bottom e nd of the dis tributi on ar e labell ed; the data can be fur ther exp lore d in our
online supportin g m aterial available at h tt ps://mcc-apsis.git hub .io/N ETs-review/ .
regenerate calcium hydrox ide. Readers int erest ed in the
specific processes, mat erials and opt ions are referred to
(Sanz-P ´
erez et al 2016 , Barka katy et al 2017 ).
Potentia l and costs. Generally, pot entials remain
largely ignored, in part because they are implicitly
assumed t o be unlimited. Yet , many of the av ailable
NETs assessment have prov ided estimat es—most rang-
ing somewhere between 10–15 Gt CO 2 annually in 2100
(Fuss 2017 ,S m i t h et al 2016a ,M c L a r e n 2012 , Nat ional
Academy of Sciences 2015 ) with some seeing much
higher potent ials beyond 40 GtCO 2 (Lenton 2014 ). Th e
limited evidence f rom long-term mitigat ion scenarios
are at the higher end of this range ( i.e. 40 GtC O 2 )b y
end of the cent ury (C hen and T avoni 2013 ). However,
potentials have not been systemat ically invest igated,
an d some c riti ca l perspe ctive s voic e doubts o n the
scalability of DAC CS (Prit chard et al 2015 ).
Most of t he d iscussion around DA CCS pot ential
has b een dominated by cost considerations as the k ey
par ame ter deter mi nin g the via bili ty of the te ch nol ogy.
A recent st udy by Sanz-P ´
erez et al ( 2016 ) has rev iewed
the ava il able lite ra ture comp reh en sive ly an d provide s
much o f the b asi s ass oci ated with th e DACCS co sts
presented here.
Costs of DACCS in cur mainl y from (1) capital
investment , ( 2) energy costs of capt ure and operation,
(3) energy costs of regenerat ion, ( 4) sorbent l oss and
maintenance. Additional costs occur f or CO 2 com-
pression, t ransportat ion and storage and are similar
to th os e studi ed in the CCS lite ra ture. H owe ver , a
main difference is that DA CCS can be deployed prox -
ima te to sto ra ge faci liti es , and c an be c o-l oca ted with
attra ctive s ites fo r ren ewa ble ener gy, thus mi nim izi ng
transport and grid cost s (Goldberg et al 2013 ). Depend-
ing on locat ion and grid demand, there may exist
opportunities w here renewable energy is abundant and
cost-competit ive and accessed direct ly thereby circum-
venting the grid. Giv en t he energy requ irements of
DACC S, coupling these plants with cheap renewable
energy could be a method of bringing down the oper-
atin g cos ts of the pl an t. It is im por tan t to n ote th at
if DAC CS is powered with coal, t he C O 2 emissions
from fueli ng th e plant woul d be gre ater than the CO 2
captured (N ational A cademy of Sciences 2015 ).
A ss h o w ni nt a b l e 1 , in general, cost estimat es range
fro m US $ 30- $ 1000/tCO 2 (Sanz-P ´
erez et al 2016 ), see
also figure 9 . It is difficult to compare the costs of DAC
rep orted in the lite ratur e due to thei r differi ng bound-
ary condit ions in addition t o the fact t hat many of the
re por ted es tim ates a re th e cos ts of CO 2 capture and not
the costs of capt uring the av oided CO 2 .M o r es p e c i f -
ically, a significant amount of t hermal energy is of ten
required for DAC due to the requirement of strong
binding of the capt ure material b ecause of the ext reme
dilution of atmospheric CO 2 . The use of natural gas to
provide the thermal requirement s for regenerating the
capture mat erial, results in C O 2 emi tted in to the a tmo -
sphere. Hence, if a DA C plant is designed t o capture
on the order of 1 Mt C O 2 yr −1 , it may ulti mate ly avoid
only a fract ion of this due to the emissions generated
from th e use o f natur al ga s to pro vid e ene rg y to th e
plant. The use of renewable energy or in t he case of
Climeworks, low-grade waste heat—prov ided the sep-
aration process allows, for DAC will lead to the greatest
impacts since t he maximum amount of CO 2 will be
captured and avoided. For example, House et al 2007
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Table 1. Cos t estima tes of compl ete 26 D ACCS syste ms r ep orte d in the lite ra ture , concentr ate d fr om 400 ppm to 9 8 + %p u r i t y
27 .
Cost
[US $ (2011)/tCO 2 ]
Assumpt ion s Referen ces
< 140 ∙ 1/3 cost capital and m ainten ance
∙ 2/3 cost c ar bon-neu tra l elec tri city + natura l gas
∙ Sodium hydroxide solvent approach followed by causticization and calcin ation
∙ Effi cient heat exch ange
∙ Contactor d esign based on cooling tower technology
Keith et al 2006
∼ 600 ∙ Mod eli ng Carbon Eng inee ri ng ’ s approach
∙ Potassi um hydroxide s olvent app roac h follo wed b y causticizat ion and calcinat ion
∙ Con vent ion al con tacto r design based on po stcom bust ion CO 2 capture
APS Rep ort 2011
∼ 1000 ∙ Theore tical estimate based upon minimum work calcula tions combing with
second- law ef ficien cies ran gin g betw een 2%–5% and energ y cost est imat es rang ing
betw een 80–103 $ /MWh f or natural gas, excluding capital cost s
House et al 2011
< 500 ∙ 2nd-law efficien cy of 10%
∙ Contactor d esign based on cooling tower technology
∙ Inexp ensiv e contactor s, i.e. $ 0.5 M to captu re 1 tCO 2 /day
Simo n et al 2011
∼ 300 ∙ Contactor d esign based on cooling tower technology
∙ Plas tics in pla ce of sta inles s steel for contac tor pac king
Zeman 2014
60–190 ∙ Captur e base d on solid sorbents ra ther than s olvents for CO 2 capture
∙ Estima te doe s not inclu de c ompr ess ion for transp ort
∙ Temperature vacuum swin g adsorption process
Sinh a et al 2017
600 ∙ Captur e base d on solid sorbents ra ther than s olvents for CO 2 capture
∙ Amine-functionalized solid sorbents
∙ Temperature and vacuum swin g adsorption process
Climewor ks
www.climewor ks.c om/
n/a ∙ Cap ture b ase d on solid sorbents ra ther than s olvents for CO 2 capture
∙ Hum idity sw in g adsorpt ion process
∙ Conce ntrati ng to 3%–5 % puri ty only
Lackner 2009
provide a range of energy required for DA C bet ween
500–800 kJ molCO 2 . For many processes, this consist s
of a combination of elect ricity for fans and pumps and
thermal energy for regenerat ion of t he captu re mat erial.
Based on a carbon intensity of 490 g CO 2 per kWh f or
natur al g as, le ads to emi ssi ons of 0.7–1 .2 MtCO 2 yr −1 ,
resulting in CO 2 avoided of 0.3 MtC O 2 p e ry e a ri n
the best case and net emissions of 0.2 Mt CO 2 yr −1 in
t h ew o r s t - c a s es c e n a r i o . I ft h ec o s to fC O
2 capture is
$ 200/tCO 2 , t his scenario w ould lead to a lower-bound
avoided costs of C O 2 capture of $ 600/tC O 2 .T h e r e -
fore, depending on how one chooses t o provide energy
to the D AC plant will u ltimat ely determine t he cost of
avoiding CO 2 in the atm os phe re .
Low-cost est imates t end to come f rom s ources
closer to indust ry (Ishimot o et al 2017 ), but they
also often do not include all cost component s and
are th er efor e diffi cult to c omp are . The upp er rang e
esti ma te of US $ 1000/tCO 2 is derived from t hermody-
namic considerations without an explicit conside ration
of a particular technology. For inst ance, Ranjan and
Herzog ( 2011 ) arg ue that such ther mod yna mic con-
26 Comple te indica tes , contac tor, rege ner ation, a nd compre ss ion,
rea dy for pipeline tr anspor t; appr oximate cost of CO 2 tr ansp orta tion
via pipel ine is US $ 2.2- $ 8.9/ton ne CO 2 per 250 km of dedicat ed
pipeline, range capt urin g a capacity o f 3–10 MtC O 2 yr −1 for onshor e
and o ffsh ore pipelin es. (IPC C 2005 ); storage cos ts range d ue to the
heterogen eity o f th e reservoir, 7–13 2011 USD/tC O 2 (USDOE 2014 ).
27 With the exce pti on of Lackne r et al ( 1999 )w h e r e t h ee n dp r o d u c t
is 3%–5% for algae cultivation application s.
side rati on s rule out esti mate s below US $ 500. These
calculations include costs for capture and regenera-
tion . Som e judg e suc h hig h cost e stim ate s as mo re
reliable (Socolow et al 2011 ); they are also pro-
posed more frequ ently as outcomes in t he av ailable
scientific assessment s(Nat ional Academy of Sciences
2015 ,S m i t h et al 2016a ,C a l d e c o t t et al 2015 ,
McLaren 2012 ).
Socolow and colleagues (Socolow et al 2011 )u s e d
a simplified f actored est imation approach consist-
ing of t he dominant pieces of eq uipment u sed in a
solvent-based separation process. They focused on a
two-loop hydrox ide-carbonate sy stem, similar to t hat
which has been proposed by the first DACCS study b y
(Lackner et al 1999 ), and relying on processes also
used in the pulp industry. Under opt imistic techno-
logical assumpt ions f or this process they obt ain costs
of US $ 600/tCO 2 . They a lso point out that in the early
stages of deployment cost s are lik ely to be subst an-
tially higher. About 30% of the costs originat e from
aC O
2 -penalty as the process is heat ed by nat ural gas
combustion. This a k ey source for efficiency improve-
ment and cost reduction.
Using the APS estimate as benchmark , a num-
ber of opt ions might reduce costs. Mazzot ti et al
( 2013 ) inve sti ga te optim iza tio n at the fron t-e nd that
amo ng st othe r effects i ncr ea se the frac tio n of CO 2 cap-
tured. That could reduce cost s by 10%–20% down t o
around US $ 520/t CO 2 .A n o t h e rs t u d yb yZ e m a n( 2014 )
furt her op timized the d esign by APS and M azzott i
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(e.g. substituting certain stainless steel components for
pla stic s), to obtain abo ut US $ 310/tCO 2 .
Holmes and K eith ( 2012 ), asso cia ted with the a ir
captu re company Carb on Engineering, suggest ed a
cooling tower design, w here air flows orthogonal to
a downward flowing hyd roxide solution. Holmes et al
( 2013 ) pres en ted the n a pro totype wi th > 1000 hours of
operation, validat ing the cross-flow contact or design.
However, the authors and t heir company did not dis-
close t he costs and energy requirement s of regen erati on,
whic h are estim ated to be substan tial . As a compar i-
son, A PS calculations would result in ca. US $ 230/tC O 2
(neglecting CO 2 -penalties if heated by nat ural gas, and
neglecting storage costs ).
An alternat ive d esign is based on solid sorbent s
(specifically: anionic-ex change resin) ( Lackner 2009 ).
Solid sorbent sy stems might be cheaper as l ess energy
is req uired for regenerat ion. A preliminary calcu-
lati on yie lds esti mate s of US $ 200/tC O 2 , cos ts that
could decrease down t o US $ 30/tCO 2 with tec hn olo gi-
cal devel opm en t. It is impo rta nt to note that the desi re d
CO 2 application requires very low purity CO 2 ,i . e .3 % –
5%, which means the captu re t echnology may be wea kly
binding with an elegant regenerat ion approach such as
humidity swing. In the sit uations in w hich high-purit y
(i.e. 95%) CO 2 is req uired as a chemical feedst ock,
a weak -binding l ow-cost approach would likely not
be feasible. A n alternate solid sorbent system based on
amines with porous oxide support s found US $ 95/t CO 2
but excluding capit al cost s (Kulkarni and Sholl 2012 ).
A similar approach, based on monolithic honeycombs
finds similarly p lausible costs of around US $ 100/ tCO 2
(Sakwa-Nov ak et al 2016 ). Again, all of t hese cost s are
not tak ing into account the avoided emissions, but are
reflective of only cost s of capturing C O 2 .
Wastewater t reatment is being explored as a means
to captur e amb ien t CO 2 .H u a n g et al ( 2016 )d e m o n -
strated a moistu re-driven c apture process via an
ion-exchange resin and subseq uent microbial elect ro-
chemical carbon capture, capable of a capture ef ficiency
of 0.40 g C O 2 g −1 of chemical ox ygen demand (CO D)
or biochemical oxygen demand (BO D). Assuming an
average BOD of 0.35 and 0 .5 g L −1 for d om esti c and
industrial wast ewater, respectiv ely, global pot ential f or
CO 2 storage v ia wastewat er treatment is est imated at
220 MtCO 2 per year (Sat o et al 2013 ). This figure is
based on numbers reported for wastewat er trea ted in 55
of 181 countries, including the North America, South
America, most European nations, C hina, Japan, India,
South Korea, and t he Russian Federation. This figure
does not reflect the amount of wastewat er generated,
and it is estimated t hat while high-income countries
trea t 70% of the wa stewa ter gen er ated , this drops to
28%–38% f or middle-income count ries and as low as
8% f or low-income countries. Further, only 37% of t he
data reported could be considered recent (2008– 2012).
Thus, though t he global est imate provided abov e is
non-conservativ e and defines a theoret ical u pper-limit
based on best -available current wastewater t reatment
data, the amount of treatabl e wastewater is expected to
be much larger, resulting in a great er theoret ical global
capacity. Yet , this greater upper-bound remains limit ed
by the financial const raints.
With in the field of Indus tria l ecolo gy the re is sup-
port to capture and store CO 2 in mat erials, such as
polymers, rat her than undergrou nd ( Meylan et al 2015 ,
Barbarossa et al 2014 ,B r i n g e z u 2014 ). A significant
breakt hrough was the proof t hat CO 2 f rom ambient air
can be conv erted to met hanol (K othandaraman et al
2016 ) .H o w e v e ri fm e t h a n o li su s e da saf u e l ,t h i sp r o c e s s
is at best carbon neutral, not carbon negative. Concerns
are t hat above ground st orage of C O 2 in polymers may
be substa ntia lly less th an tha t of CO 2 underground in
add itio n to th e po tenti al n atur e of sh or ter ti mes cal es of
CO 2 storage in mat erials.
In a modeling stu dy with mass production and
technological learning, cost floor estimates of US $ 60/
tCO 2 were found f or 2029, and possibly even lower
with time (Nem et and Brand t 2012 ).
Side effect s. The literat ure has so f ar not dis-
cuss ed side -effe cts syste mati cal ly. Whi le the ph ysi cal
scale would be impressive if DAC CS were deployed at
relevant GtC O 2 scales, limited land resources are not
much of a concern (Keith 2009 ,L a c k n e r et al 2012 )
nor is st orage capacit y (de C oninck and Benson 2014 )
(see section on BE CCS). Howev er, geological storage
is as soc iate d with a string of side-e ffects , as d esc ribe d
in t he section on BE CCS. In the case of solvent-based
separation for DAC CS, t he use of potassium hydrox-
ide (Holmes and K eith 2012 ) is well-studied and have
been used for industrial applications (e.g. pulp and
pape r industr y) for dec ades with mi nim al wastewa-
ter produced. Solid wast e build-up in the recovery
cycles of these separation processes will have similar
environmental implicat ions and disposal guidelines as
the reclaimer waste in convent ional amine scrubbing
operations.
Per manenc e and satur atio n. The implicit under-
standing of the l iterature is that DAC CS can be
scaled-up solely subject to t echnological learning but
not subject to biophy sical const raints. DA CCS has,
with the ex ception of one small plant (Magill 2017 ),
not been deployed, and hence has y et to receive t he
same level of scrutiny as other technologies. C urrently
its biggest stat ed drawback is the cost ; there is a wide
range of estimates wit h several import ant publica-
tions emphasizing t he high end. A plet hora of more
cost-eff ectiv e and more conventional opt ions exist;
howe ver , the exam ples o f photo volta ics a nd batte rie s
(Kittn er et al 2017 ,C r e u t z i g et al 2017 )h a v ed e m o n -
strated t hat an order of magnitude in costs can be
bridged wit hin one or tw o decades via manuf acturing
scale; and DACC S potentially could also be produced
at high volumes.
Permanence and sat uration is most ly subject to
geological storage underground, s imilar t o those noted
in t he section on BE CCS. Building a DACCS plant that
captures 1 MtC O 2 yr −1 , requires a significant surface
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Figure 10. Costs and p otentia ls for enha nce d wea theri ng and oce an alka lin isation. The heat-b ar distribution o f literature estimat es
in each pan el are calculat ed as in figure 6 , wit h individ ual publication cost ranges represe nted by lines (costs panels); and maximum
esti mates of negativ e e miss ions pote ntial plotted by p ublica tion yea r (potential s p anels ). All e stima tes a re globa l. Note that publi shed
number s only consid er inorganic se qu estr atio n e ffec ts, neglec ting any additi onal pote ntial of biomass p rod ucti on inc re ase by improv e-
ment of soil con ditions and provision of geogenic nutrients. This is an important and remaining in formation gap . E stimates and
range s at the top and bottom end of the distr ibutio n are labell ed ; the data can be further exp lor ed in our online su ppo rting mater ial
available at h ttps://m cc-apsis.git hub. io/NE Ts-review/ .
area for the cont actor alone—on the order of 3 8 000 m 2
for 75% capture. The materials and labor to build such
an operation would be significant , mak ing t he siting
of DAC CS plant s of significant scale in remot e loca-
tions challenging. As discussed p reviously, t he energy
demands due t o pressure drop considerations and
material regenerat ion requ irements, C O 2 -f ree energy
sources will be essential for DA CCS t o be considered a
NET. Hence, a caref ul approach to the siting of DACC S
plants is needed.
Author s ’ assessment . Based upon our l iterature
review, it appears t hat a first-of -a-kind plant may be on
the o rde r of US $ 600–1000/tCO 2 initially, but t hat as
advances are recognized through the building of more
plants, this cost may decrease to US $ 100-300/t CO 2 .F o r
instance, C limeworks has built the first commercial-
scale DACC S plant and suggest s current cost s on the
order of US $ 600/ tCO 2 with anti cipa ted co sts of n th
plants being on the order of US $ 200/t CO 2 28 .C o s t s a r e
initially high because of the up-front expenses of sour c-
ing supply chains and resolving infrast ructures issues,
and b ecause of lack of ex perience wit h the t echnology.
It is also important to note that since the regenera-
tion approach of Climework s is based upon low-grade
waste h eat, the co st of CO 2 capture is similar t o that
of CO 2 av oided.
Our judgement on potent ial is 0 .5– 5 GtCO 2 yr −1 by
2050. Main constraints may be st orage and unexpect ed
28 www.climewor ks.c om/our-te chnology/ .
environmental side-ef fects, as well as moderate land
demand. Howev er, if t hese constraints can be prov en
unjustified or can be overcome, pot entials of up t o
40 GtCO 2 m a yb ep o s s i b l eb yt h ee n do ft h ec e n t u r y .
3.4. En hanc ed w eather ing (terres tri al and ocean)
Weathering is t he natural process of rock decomposi-
tion via chemical and physical proce sses. I t is cont rolled
by temperat ure, reactiv e surf ace area, interactions
with biota and water solution composit ion. Enhanced
weathering (E W) aims to art ificially st imulate one or
more of these v ariables to speed up rock deco mposit ion
while increasing the cation release t o produce alkalinity
and ge oge nic nutrien ts. This pur pos eful accel era tion
of biogeochemical cy cling transf orms the process of
weathering from geological to humanly relevant time
scales by f avoring chemical reactions that hav e t he
potential to seq uester relevant amount s of atmospheric
CO 2 . This is done by grinding selected rock mat erial
into r ock powde r with a sui table gr ain size di stributi on
to faci lita te a ma ximum r ea ctive sur face a rea . In addi-
tion to the us e of na tural ro cks, so me autho rs re por t
the use of ot her materials like mine wast e material
(Power et al 2013 ), concrete (Yamasaki et al 2002 )
or alk aline waste (Morales-Florez et al 2011 ).
Besides being a CDR st rategy , EW can ameliorat e
soil and act as a long-term nut rients source (L eonar-
dos et al 1987 ,N k o u a t h i o et al 2008 ). Many t ropical
regions have nutrient poor soils, e.g. ox isols and ult i-
sol s and due to their hi gh pre cip itati on rates an d
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temperature represent areas of high potential for E W
implementation. Considering t he world ’ so x i s o la r e a
and an application rate of 900 t k m −2 , similar t o lim-
ing rates at Brazilian C errado (L opes 1996 ), a total
amount of 8 Gt of rock mat erial would be needed to
cover the world ’ s oxisol area. For comparison, world
lime production f rom 2005–2014 averaged 0.34 Gt yr −1
(Corathers 2015 ). A ccording to St refler et al ( 2018a )t h e
annual application of 3 Gt yr −1 basalt might seq uester
1G t C O
2 yr −1 .
Ocean alkalinisat ion (or ocean liming) considers
the ad diti on of alkal ini ty, e.g. via Ca(OH) 2 to m ar in e
areas t o locally increase the CO 2 bufferin g cap aci ty
of the ocean (Gonz ´
alez and Ily ina 2016 ,R e n f o r t h
and Henderson 2017 ). While not strictly a weathering
method, it is a furt her t echnology being incorporat ed
in this sect ion as similar geochemical principles apply.
Atmospheric carbon can be sequestered via E W
in an inorganic or organic f orm. Inorganic C is
sequest ered t hrough the product ion of alk alinity
(bicarbonate and carbonat e ions) while anions are
counterbalanced by the release of cations f rom the
rock products . If t he solution is supersat urated with
respect to a chemical element , precipit ation of sec-
ondary minerals can occur, for example, in t he
form of carbonate minerals (Manning and R en-
for th 2013 ,P o w e r et al 2013 ,W a s h b o u r n e et al
2012 ). Organi c C is sequestered when CO 2 is
reduced and incorporated in biomass and addi-
tional carbon seq uestrat ion potent ial can be expect ed
from t he release of rock derived geogenic nutrient s
(i.e. potassium, phosphorus, several micronutrients)
enhancing biomass production abov e previously
limiting condit ions (Hart mann et al 2013 ).
T h em e t h o do f E Wc a nb ea p p l i e dt od i f f e r e n t E a r t h
compartments lik e soils (and also mining wast e rock)
(Hartmann and K empe 2008 ,K
¨
ohler et al 2010 ,M a n -
ning and R enfort h 2013 ,R e n f o r t h 2012 ,T a y l o r et al
2016 ,t e nB e r g e et al 2012 ,W i l s o n et al 2009 ), the open
ocean ( Hauck et al 2016 ,H o u s e et al 2007 ,K
¨
ohler
et al 2013 ), and coast al zones ( Hangx and Spiers 2009 ,
Montserrat et al 2017 ). The chemical weat hering of t he
rock powd er mat erial in different E arth compart ments
is concept ually the same and involves the release of
cations, nut rients lik e phosphorus or silica, and pro-
duction of alkalinit y, for example as bicarbonate 29 .
The largest research gap is missing field ex peri-
ments that consider real scales, which evaluate the full
impact of EW on biogeochemical cycles, biomass and
carbon st ocks in the soils, and t he plants. Mineral dis-
solution kinet ics in the soil-ecosystem of applied rock
products cont aining f resh surf ace areas and a wide
range of grain sizes should be included in studies. The
fie ld reacti on kine tics wi ll be diffe ren t from la bora -
tory studies, which may not consider all eff ects like
29 A mod el re action for the minera l Forste rite is: Mg 2 SiO 4 + 4CO 2
+ 4H
2 O ⇒ 2Mg 2+ + 4H C O
3 − + H 4 SiO 4 .
the freshness of rock surfaces, topography, groundw a-
ter t able variation, soil profile het erogeneity , grain size
and unsaturat ed hydraulic conductiv ity v ariations. In
addition, the grain surf ace evolut ion is essential, also
with respect t o clay mineral production or mineral-
root int eraction, to underst and the element release
patte rn s and poten tia l for plan ts to uti liz e those relea se d
elements.
Areas in which biomass is under nutrient limi-
tatio n co ndi tio ns are th e mo st a ttrac tive targe ts for
implementing E W (Garcia et al 2018 ). Rock prod-
uct weath er ing proc ess es mig ht supply nutr ien ts to the
environment, which potent ially can increase biomass
production (Anda et al 2015 , 2012 ,d ’ Hotman and Vil-
liers 1961 , Hartmann et al 2013 , St refler et al 2018a ).
Nevert heless, studies q uantify ing the effect s on biomass
increase due extra geogenic nutrient input or soil ame-
lioration b y EW are scarce. Only a sufficient amount
of field studies and data collection on nutrient appli-
cation rates for certain climat e-soil-plant condit ions
could enable t he development of management plans
to opti mi ze CO 2 sequest ration via additional biomass
growth.
Sequest rat ion pot enti als and cos ts. The reported
seque str atio n poten tia l con si der s theor eti cal (Ha ng x
and Spiers 2009 , Hartmann and Kempe 2008 ,M a n -
ning and Renf orth 2013 ,R e n f o r t h 2012 ,R e n f o r t h et al
2011 ), and observat ional assessment s (Morales-Florez
et al 2011 ,W i l s o n et al 2009 ,H o u s e et al 2007 ),
as well as regional t o global scale model assessments
(Hangx and Spiers 2009 ,H a u c k et al 2016 ,H o u s e et al
2007 ,K
¨
ohler et al 2010 ,T a y l o r et al 2016 ,K
¨
ohler et al
2013 , Strefler et al 2018a ) and plot -scale experiment s
(Mont serrat et al 2017 ,t e nB e r g e et al 2012 ). Reported
potentials range widely (see figure 10 ), depending on
the compartment type assessed, such as local soils,
coastal zones, or t he open ocean. The highest report ed
regional sequest ration potent ial is 88.1 Gt CO 2 yr −1 for
spreading pulverized rock over a v ery large surface area
in t he tropics (Taylor et al 2016 ). C onsidering crop-
land areas only , the pot ential carbon remov al might
be 95 GtCO 2 yr −1 for duni te and 4.9 GtCO 2 yr −1 fo r
basalt (Strefler et al 2018a ). Ot her assessments for land
application range bet ween these estimation appr oach es
and are highly uncertain d ue to a variet y of assump-
tions and unk nown parameter ranges in the applied
upscaling procedures, which still need t o be verified by
field experiments. A global C O 2 seques tra tion potenti al
of organic b iomass increase due t o geogenic nutrient
fertilizat ion and improved soil conditions is not avail-
able , due to mi ssin g upscal ing stud ies, a nd th ere fore
are not represent ed in figure 8 .
Costs are closely related t o t he chosen technol-
ogy for rock grinding, mat erial t ransport and the rock
source (Hart mann et al 2013 ,R e n f o r t h 2012 ,S t r e -
fler et al 2018a ). A s cost s are relat ed to applicat ion
site c ha rac ter isti cs and purp ose ( for exa mp le, wh eth er
inorganic or organic seq uestrat ion is f avored), most
reported back of the envelope calculations found in
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lite ra ture ar e hi gh ly unc erta in . They r an ge for in or -
ganic CO 2 seq uest ration from US $ 15– 40/tC O 2 to US $
3460/tCO 2 (K ¨
ohler et al 2010 ,S c h u i l i n ga n dK r i -
jgsman 2006 ,T a y l o r et al 2016 ). Renforth ( 2012 )
conducted a regional cost assessment for implementing
inorganic E W in t he UK , reporting operat ional costs
applying mafic 30 rocks being US $ 70–578/ tCO 2 and
for ul tram afi c 31 rocks being US $ 24– 123/tCO 2 .T h e s e
numbers can be taken as a reference f or global appli-
cation, c onsidering the relat ive cost lev els of regional
economies. Variables like depth of rock extract ion,
technical, economic, socio-environment al driv ers, and
transport impact the costs of EW. Transportation
costs depend on the means of t ransportation, with
the ch ea pest co sts for i nla nd water way an d lar ge
ship distribution (US $ 0.0016/t rock/k m) and the most
expensive f or road transport done b y heavy vehicles
(US $ 0.07936/t rock/ km) (Renfort h 2012 ). This high-
lig hts tha t in fras tructur al cond itio ns are re leva nt for
implementation and global cost est imates, which are
normally not considered in global assessments.
A detailed global cost assessment (Strefler et al
2018a ) points out t hat EW is a competit ive option
for carbon diox ide remov al at US $ 60/tC O 2 −1 for
dunite and US $ 200/tCO 2 −1 for b asalt. The upper
global limit of inorganic C O 2 seq uestrat ion including
forested areas (Taylor et al 2016 ) might be only reached
if very cost-int ensive spreading by planes is considered.
The potent ial of other more u nconventional t ech-
nologies like dirigibles or slurry pipelines were not
studied so f ar. No st udy explicitly ident ifies t he cost-
effect iveness of sites globally and spat ially-explicitly at
a hig h sp ati al re sol utio n. The c osts c han ge for d iffer -
ent rock sources and f or the considered region (St refler
et al 2018a ), and estimat es for organic CO 2 seq uestra-
tion via the fertilizat ion eff ect are missing for diff erent
types of biomass, as f or ex ample af forestat ion or bioen-
ergy purposes, which demand optimizat ion of the
soil f or the best seq uestration potent ial.
The amount of rock products to be moved, given
the above scenario of t ropical soil in t he introduction
of this section (8 Gt rock/y ear) is comparable to the
amount of coal mining and transport (I EA 2017 )a n d
appears t o be low if compared t o the 2010 ’ sg l o b a l
material consumpt ion (biomass, f ossils, and minerals)
o f7 0G t p e ry e a r( K r a u s m a n n et al 2017 ). A detailed
spatially ex plicit global analysis suggests t hat in humid
and tropical areas about 80% and 95% of the applica ble
crop areas for EW are within a distance of 300 km
from potent ial source rocks, respectively (St refler et al
2018a ).
Application costs and pot entials based on tech-
nological c onsiderations of ocean liming, ocean E W
30 A rock that has high magnes ium and iron silic ate mine ra ls con-
cent ratio n.
31 A rock which is r ich in magnesium and iron silicat e minerals
but with very lo w silica con ten t. The low silica con ten t infl uences
weath ering rat es i n a posit ive way .
or electrochemical weat hering are less researched.
A recent rev iew s uggests t he potential for Oc ean
Alkali ni zati on to be between 100 MtCO 2 yr −1 and
10 GtCO 2 yr −1 with cos ts rang in g betwee n US $ 14 to
more t han US $ 500/tC O 2 (Renf orth and Henderson
2017 ).
Side effec ts. The assessment on side ef fects of EW is
complex and challenging as t hey depend on ex changed
matte r betwe en di ffer en t com par tme nts of the Ea rth
System (Hart mann et al 2013 ,T a y l o r et al 2016 ,t e n
Berge et al 2012 ). The main fact ors controlling the side
effect s are: rock powder source, soil, ecosystem and
climate charact eristics. Application to soils alt ers t he
soil physical and chemist ry properties, wit h impacts
on groundwater, river water, and coastal zone wat er.
In addit ion, the released mat erial and changes in soil
properties influence ecosystems and biomass carbon
con ten ts. Appli ca tion in the coa sta l zo ne an d the o pen
ocean impacts t he marine water chemistry and ecosys-
tems .
The main side effect s of land application are an
increase in wat er pH (K ¨
ohler et al 2013 ,T a y l o r et al
2016 ), t he release of heavy metals (e.g. Ni and Cr) in
case of inappropriate material use, the release of plant
nutrient s l ike K, C a, Mg, P, and Si (Hart mann et al
2013 ), as well as hydrological soil property changes,
which could be designed to be favorable depending
o nt h ee c o s y s t e m .R e s p i r a b l ep a r t i c l es i z e sw h i c hm a y
contain asbest os-related minerals need to be avoided
(Schuiling and K rijgsman 2006 ,T a y l o r et al 2016 )b y
appropriate application procedures (e.g. wat er based
slur application).
K ¨
ohler et al ( 2010 ) point out the complexit y of
pre dic tin g the im pa ct of m in er al disso luti on r ate s on
the carbon cycle due to changes in dissolved inor-
ganic carbon and tot al alkalinit y. Hartmann et al
( 2013 )a n dT a y l o r et al ( 2016 ) emphasize t he additional
potential f or improved C O 2 drawn-down by marine
diatoms due t o the increased land-to-ocean silica fluxes
and enhanced alkalinit y fluxes, increasing t he oceans
aragonite sat uration stat e 32 .T a y l o r et al (Taylor et al
2016 ) p oint out t he potent ial increase in atmospheric
CO 2 drawdown by coupling EW wit h AR.
EW application in the open ocean is less researc hed,
and Hauck et al ( 2016 )a n dK
¨
ohler et al ( 2013 )f o u n d
tha t the e ffic ie ncy of the m etho d is close ly rela ted to th e
rock powder part icle size. K ¨
ohler et al ( 2013 )r e c o m -
mend a max imum particle size of 1 𝜇 m to prev ent early
sedimentation, b ut this would demand high energy
costs for grinding rock product s (Strefler et al 2018a ).
The change in regional export production of organic
matter is supposed to be less t han 10% . Relea se of heav y
meta ls fro m ultra ma fic roc k produc ts like Ni and Cr
32 The ara gonite satur ation state ( ASS) is obtained by the prod uct
of d issolv ed ca lcium and carbonate ions in seawate r divid ed by the
aragonite solubility in sea water. If ASS is higher or lowe r than one se a
water is respectively o ver- or un dersa t urated wi th resp ect to ara gon ite.
If ASS is e qual to one, the se a water solu tion is satu rate d.
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is a po tenti al neg ati ve side effect and a detail ed study
on the marine biology relat ed impacts and risks to its
ecosystems is missing (K ¨
ohler et al 2013 ). Mont serrat
et al ( 2017 ) simulat ed, b ased on laboratory experi-
ments, coastal zone conditions f or E W using olivine
dominated rock powder. They confirmed an increase
in Mg 2+ , Si, t otal alkalinit y, and dissolved inorganic
carbon, Fe 2+ ,a n d N i
2+ in the aqueous solut ion con-
centrat ions. A better comprehension of heav y met al
ecotoxicological ef fect s on coastal environment s for
large-scale applicat ion of oliv ine is missing.
Per manenc e and s atur atio n. The seq uestered CO 2
by EW on land can be st ored in sev eral pools. In the soil
pore solution and groundwater, it remains first as dis-
solved inorganic carbon (or alk alinity ). If t he solution
gets s uper satur ated , carbon ate min era ls can preci pitate
in the soil ( Manning and R enfort h 2013 )a n dm e a n
r e s i d e n c e t i m e sc a nb e i nt h eo r d e ro f1 0
6 year s or mor e
(Wilson et al 2009 ). I f carbonate precipitation does not
occur in the land system, and t he solution is trans-
ported to the ocean by rivers, the dissolved weat hering
prod ucts would be stor ed as o cea n alka lin ity (Taylo r
et al 2016 ,K
¨
ohler et al 2010 , Hartmann et al 2013 ,
Manning and R enfort h 2013 ).
The fer tili za tion effect of re lea sed nutrie nts can
cause addit ional biomass p roduction, and t he fat e of
this additional carbon pool would be comparable to
tha t re por ted in the se cti on for a ffor es tatio n, so il ca r-
bon and b ioenergy. Hence these methods ar e c onn ected
and other land-based NETs could rely on EW to create
the optimal soil and nutrient supply conditions. How-
ever, t his connection is not t o be found in the literat ure
(at a global scale) at the t ime of publication.
Author s ’ assessment. So far, publications on t er-
restrial EW are mainly comprised of model stu dies or
theo re tica l discuss ion s. The a fore me ntio ne d rese ar ch
gaps leave large uncert ainties in t he potential to
sequest er CO 2 , which can only be overcome by field
studies because of t he manifold influencing param-
eters and their int erdependencies, which can, so f ar,
only be roughly considered in models. Current pub-
lished est imates of C O 2 removal pot entials and costs
should be seen as boundary values, while more pro gress
is evident considering t he cost est imation (Strefler et al
2018a ).
The largest CO 2 p e n a l t ya sw e l la sc o s t sa r ec r e -
ated f rom the energy demand of rock grinding (St refler
et al 2018a ). The penalty will decrease significantly in
the future due to the exp ecte d tra nsi tion to r ene wable
energies and technological advances (N apier-Munn
2015 ). If prices for f ertilizers rise, and resources are
expected to decrease (Manning 2015 ), the EW side
eff ect of geogenic nutrient release and soil ameliora-
tion potent ial may become one of the strong suit s of
this tech no log y, potenti all y ma king it a valua ble as set
in global agriculture (v an Straaten 2006 ) , irrespec-
tive of its pote nti al to seques ter CO 2 into a lka lin ity.
Including t hese aspects in det ailed techno-enonomic
ass ess men ts ma y re nde r EW mor e attr acti ve (Str efle r
et al 2018a ). Accordingly, t he cost range of our
assessment is US $ 50– 200/tC O 2 for a poten tia l of 2–
4G t C O
2 yr −1 from 2050, excluding biological storage.
The cost range is high due to economies of scale
and highly variable cost -incurring parameters like
source rock propert ies, transport dist ances and field
application technology .
Ocean alkalinization has been disc ussed o nly in very
few glo bal mode lli ng studies. Gi ven re sults are abs tract
and p rovide upper limit s. The cost s can only b e esti-
mated aft er clarification of how alkalinit y is produced
and distributed at the global scale.
3.5. Ocean fertiliza tion
Ocean fert ilization (O F) is based on the effect of bio-
logical production increase, w hich is macro- (Harrison
2017 ,M a t e a r 2004 ) or micronutrient (Gnanadesikan
et al 2003 , Rav en and Falk owski 1999 ) limit ed, by
deliberately adding nut rients to t he upper ocean wat ers.
Efficiency of t he method is determined by t he chemi-
cal f orm of t he added nutrient (Harrison 2017 ,M a t e a r
2004 ). Oft en, iron is the limiting nutrient in the ocean,
so that de libe rate iron fer tili sati on is well disc uss ed
(Strong et al 2009b , Mark els and B arber 2001 ). The
algal b loom resulting from artificial O F leads t o car-
bon fixation and subsequent sediment sequest ration,
or sequest ration on shorter time scales in t he water
column. D ue to the low iron req uirement of phyto-
plankt on, t he ratio of CO 2 upt ake per iron applicat ion
is high (2600–26600 C per added amount of Fe, de Baar
et al 2008 ). The increase in the biological production
(phytoplank ton) w ould reach a maximum unt il fu rther
nutrients become limited (Markels and Barber 2001 ).
K ¨
ohler et al ( 2013 )a n dH a u c k et al ( 2016 )p r o -
pose d a coupl ing OF with EW, beca use the s tudied
mineral olivine releases iron and silicic acid during
dissolution. However, slow dissolution reactions and
the sinking of the part icles remain a limiting factor
(Hauck et al 2016 ). OF can also be achiev ed by artificial
upwelling of nutrient -rich deep ocean wat er (Oschlies
et al 2010 ). Some early work authors doubt t hat OF
is f easible due t o the large area needed to sequest er
substantial amounts of CO 2 (Zeebe 2005 ).
Sequest rat ion pot enti als and c ost s. Differ en t fac -
tors cont rol the at mospheric C O 2 uptake and stor ag e
by OF, lik e durat ion of the experiment (Jin et al
2008 ), carbon ex port (Bak ker et al 2005 ), changes in
mixing layer d epth (Bozec et al 2005 ), mixing, lat-
eral and vertical transport (Jin et al 2008 , J oos et al
1991 ), and win d speed (Bakker et al 2001 ). The
global at mospheric CO 2 d r a w nd o w np o t e n t i a l sw e r e
obtained from model simulations based on experi-
mental data. The obtained v alues can be divided in
three main approaches: modelled C O 2 seq uestrat ion,
process-based/experiment al result s and literat ure est i-
mates. The ov erall report ed minimum s equestrat ion
value for OF is 1.52 × 10 5 tCO 2 yr −1 (Bakke r et al
2001 ) for a spatially constraint field experiment w hile
the maximum reported v alue is 9.8 × 10 10 tCO 2 yr −1
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Figure 11. Costs and pote ntials for oce an ferti lizatio n. The heat bar di str ibution of liter atur e estima tes in each panel is cal cul ated as
in figure 6 , with individual publicat ion cost ranges represen ted by lin es (costs pan el); and maximu m estimat es of negat ive emissi ons
pote ntial pl otted by p ublic ation ye ar (potentia ls panel). Estimate s a nd ra nges at the top a nd bottom e nd of the d istr ibution a re labe lle d;
the data can be f urther explored in our on line support ing material available at ht tps://mcc-apsis. gith ub.io /NE Ts-review/ .
(Oschlies 2009 ) using a modelling approach (see also
figure 11 ). The l atter c onsider u pscaling local experi-
mental process t o global b oundaries in order to predict
the po ten tia l CO 2 sequestr ati on. Di ffer en t auth ors
point out t he low efficiency of OF in general (Rem-
bauville et al 2018 ,A u m o n t a n dB o p p 2006 ,J i n
et al 2008 , Zahariev et al 2008 , Zeebe 2005 )o rt h a t O F
efficiency has a high degree of uncertainty (A umont
and Bopp 2006 ).
Ocean f ertilizat ion cost s depend on nutrient pro-
duction and it s delivery to t he application area ( Jones
2014 ). The cost s range f rom US $ 2/ t CO 2 (Boyd and
Denman 2008 )t o U S $ 457/tC O 2 (Harrison 2013 ). A
detailed economic analyses for macronutrient appli-
cation reports US $ 20/ tCO 2 (Jones 2014 ), whereas
Harrison ( 2013 ) det ails that costs are much higher
due to t he overestimat ion of seq uestrat ion capacity and
underestimation of logist ic costs.
Side effect s. OF is expected to alter local t o regional
food cycles by st imulating phyt oplankt on production,
which is the food cycle ’ s b asis. L ong-term reductions
in ocean product ivity could also occur (Matear 2004 ,
Denman 2008 ) and a more rapid increase in ocean
acidity (C ao and Caldeira 2010 ) due to fast CO 2
dissolution and dissociation int o bicarbonate and car-
bonate ions (Denman 2008 ). I mpacts on the f ood
cycle would be unpredict able (St rong et al 2009a ).
Ext ensive blooms may cause anoxia (Matear 2004 ,
Russell et al 2012 , Sarmient o and Orr 1991 )i n t h e
surface ocean due t o the remineralizat ion of sink-
ing organic mat ter and probable toxic algal blooms
(Bertram 2010 ,T r i c k et al 2010 ). Deep wat er oxygen
decline, as a potent ial side ef fect, has been observed
in t he Baltic sea due t o anthropogenic nit rate inputs
(Matear 2004 ). Nut rient (iron, silica or phosphate)
inputs pot entially cause a shif t in ecosyst em production
from an iron-limit ed system t o a phosphate-limited,
nitrogen-limited or a silicat e-limited system, d epend-
ing on t he location (Bertram 2010 ,M a t e a r 2004 ). An
increase in t he production of f urther greenhouse gases
may occur, including N 2 O (Bertram 2010 ,M a t e a r
2004 , Cullen and Boyd 2008 ,D e n m a n 2008 )o rC H
4
(Bertram 2010 ,M a t e a r 2004 , Sarmiento and Orr 1991 ,
Cullen and Boyd 2008 ).
Per manenc e and sat urat ion . Ocea n CO 2 perma-
nence is rather controv ersial and depends on whet her
the ca rbo n rema ins dis sol ved in th e diffe re nt oce an
layers (s hort-term pool) or if it sediment s as organic
carbon to the ocean abyssal plains, or to ot her
ocean compart ments as long-term pool. A uthors like
Williams and Druff el ( 1987 ) in Mark els and Barber
( 2001 ) suggest residence times of sinking carbon to t he
deep waters being around 1600 years, or millennia in
the deep ocean ( Jones 2014 ), while Aumont and Bopp
( 2006 ) state that the sequeste re d carbo n is rap idly re-
exposed to t he atmosphere af ter cessat ion of OF, due
to the low fina l sedi men tati on rate (only 10%–2 5%)
(Zeebe 2005 ).
Author s ’ assessment. The high recycling rate of
organic carbon that s tores t he CO 2 leads t o very low
overall potent ials t o sequest er C O 2 on a longer t ime
scale. This meager ef ficiency as a NET, combined
with wide impacts on ecosystems, e.g. food web dis-
turbances, suggests t hat OF is not a v iable negative
emissions strategy w hen performed with sust ainabil-
ity issues under considerat ion (St rong et al 2009a ),
particularly when compared t o alternativ e port folio
options.
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0 0
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2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016
Cost [US$(201 1)/tCO2]
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Publication Y ear Publication Y ear
100 75 50 25 0
Sequestration Potential [Gt CO2/year]
Biochar - Costs Biochar - Potentials
Figure 12. Cost s and potentials for b iochar. The heat bar distribution of l i terature est imat es in each panel are calculated as in figure
6 , with indi vidual publ icatio n cost ran ges represen ted by lines (co sts panel ); and maxi mum estim ates of nega tive emi ssion s poten ti al
plotte d b y public ation year (pote ntials panel ). All estimate s ar e globa l. Estima tes and ra nges at the top and bottom end of the di stri bution
are lab elled; the data can be f urther explored in o ur onlin e supportin g m aterial available at htt ps://mcc-apsis.gi thub .io/N ETs-review / .
3.6. Biochar
Biochar is obtained from pyrolysis, i.e. t he thermal
degradation of organic mat erial in t he absence of oxy-
gen. A dded to s oils, biochar is a means to increase soil
carbon stock s as well as improv e soil f ertility and ot her
ecosystem propert ies.
Potentials and costs. Recent assessments est i-
mate th at th e use of bioch ar coul d se queste r betwe en
0.6 GtCO 2 yr −1 and 11.9 GtCO 2 yr −1 , largely depend-
ing on t he availability of biomass f or biochar
production (see figure 12 ). Lenton ( 2010 )c a l c u l a t e d
CO 2 removal rates of 2.8–3.3 Gt CO 2 yr −1 if all f elling
losses from f orestry, 50% of currently unused crop
residues, and burned biomass from shif ting cultiv ation
fires were used to produce biochar. Lee et al ( 2010 )
finds an ev en higher pot ential of 11.9 GtCO 2 yr −1 by
assuming that more than 80% of all currently harvested
biomass is conv erted int o biochar. The author revised
thi s estim ate to 6.1 GtCO 2 yr −1 in a later publicat ion
(Lee and Day 2013 ) based o n the as sum ptio n that the
worlds annual unused waste biomass cont ains only
about 12.1 GtCO 2 yr −1 . Accountin g on ly for the use
of late stov er as a feedst ock for biochar, Robert s et al
( 2010 ) estimate achievable annual carbon sequestration
around 0.7 GtC O 2 yr −1 .
Higher GHG mitigation pot entials are generally
found in studi es of future bio cha r applica tion s risi ng
from 1–1.8 Gt CO 2 yr −1 in 2030 (Lomax et al 2015 ,
Paustian et al 2016 , Prat t and Moran 2010 ,G r i s c o m
et al 2017 ), 1.8–4.8 GtCO 2 yr −1 in 2050 (Powell and
Lento n 2012 ,S m i t h 2016 , Moore et al 2010 ), and 2.6–
4.8 GtCO 2 yr −1 in 2100 (Woolf et al 2010 ). A batement
cos t esti mate s vary si gn ifi can tly. While some stud -
ies suggest t hat CO 2 prices bet ween less t han US $ 30
and 50/tC O 2 are sufficient for economically viable
biochar application (L omax et al 2015 ,R o b e r t s et al
2010 ), other est imates reach US $ 60–120/t CO 2 (Shack-
ley et al 2011 ,M c G l a s h a n et al 2012 ,S m i t h 2016 ),
especially for dedicat ed f eedstock s, highlighting the
potential import ance of w aste feedst ock f or commer-
cially v iable biochar p rojects. Currently , high b iochar
prices prev ents its large-scale application (V ochozka
et al 2016 ,D i c k i n s o n et al 2015 ).
Side effec ts. A meta-analy sis by Jeff ery et al ( 2011 )
indicates that crop productiv ity increases by 10% on
average f ollowing biochar s oil amendment , but yield
effect s ranged between positive and negative with dif -
ferent soil types, environment al, and management
conditions. Further eff ects of biochar amendments
include l ower emissions of N 2 Oa n dC H
4 ,w h e r e l o w e r
CH 4 emissions were measured especially on flooded
soils (Kammann et al 2017 ). Biochar can also have a
pos itive e ffec t on the so il ’ s wat er balance. On t emperate
soils, a 16% reduct ion in wat er losses was measured,
whic h at the sa me ti me re duce d the ne ga tive effec ts
of soil dryness on microbial abundances by up to
80% (Bamminger et al 2016 ). However , the effects
of high biochar application rates which change the
microbial composit ion of t he soil are still unknown
(Jiang et al 2016 ). Furt hermore, increased p lant growt h
due to bi oc har ma y lea d to a lo wer defe ns e effe c-
tiven es s of the g en es rel ated to th e defe ns e of the
plants, thus increasing the vulnerability against insects,
pathogens and drought (Viger et al 2015 ). Large-scale
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biochar application can also darken the soil sur-
face, decrease surface albedo and hence change the
land surface radiat ion balance, although application
rate s would ne ed to be extrem e for such an effe ct
to occur. A recent st udy in Mediterranean agricul-
tural lan ds cape s found that the albe do effect ca n
reduce biochar ’ s mit igation potent ial by up to ∼ 30%
during periods of high solar irradiance (Bozzi et al
2015 ). Fine biochar particles may also be released into
the atmosphere during p roduction, t ransportat ion and
distribution by win d. These black carbon aerosols can
reduce air q uality and cause a positive direct and indi-
rect radiat ive forcing which would fu rther reduces t he
net mit igation effect of biochar application (Ravi et al
2016 , Genesio et al 2016 ).
Per manenc e an d satur ation . The most import ant
property of biochar w ith regard to climat e prot ection
is its s tabi lity in the so il. In o rde r to ac hie ve effec tive
and long-term carbon storage, biochar should remain
in the soil for as long as possible. L aboratory t ests and
other observ ations indicate cent ennial scale t urnover
of biochar (Wang et al 2016 ). However, depending on
soil t ype and b iochar p roduction temperature, results
may vary bet ween a f ew decades and several centu ries
(Fang et al 2014 ). Lower residence times occur under
hig he r tempe ra ture typica l for tropi cal and sub-tr opi cal
regions (Zimmermann et al 2012 ) and acidic soils
(Sheng et al 2016 ).
Author s ’ assessment. Large-scale trials of biochar
addition to agricultural soils under field condit ions
are st ill missing. Feasibility , long-t erm mit igation
pote nti als , side -effe cts, a nd trad e-o ffs the re for e rema in
largely unk nown. Furthermore, available global est i-
mates of b iochar CO 2 seq uestrat ion potent ials do not
yet account for t he complex, site-dependent effects
of biochar applications that differ on w ith biochar
types, soil t ypes, environment al, and management con-
ditions highlighted by recent laborat ory analysis. I n
our opinion, a lower range of 0.3–2 GtC O 2 yr −1 by
2050 seems plausible given the limited availabilit y of
biomass realist ically av ailable f or the production of
biochar. For comparison, the World ’ s total biomass
harvest on cropland and in forest s in 2000 amounted
to 0.4 GtCO 2 yr −1 (Haber l et al 2007 ). The wide range
of cost estimat es reflects the underly ing uncert ain-
ties regarding f eedstock availabilit y as w ell as biochar
production technologies and application st rategies.
Economic benefit s f rom higher y ields may of fset
some costs of biochar application. Because there is
no experience wit h large-scale production and use
of biochar, cost estimates remain inherent ly uncer-
tain. Against this back ground, mean ranges of biochar
costs bet ween US $ 90/tC O 2 and US $ 120/t CO 2 based
on literature review s (see f or example (Smith 2016 ))
should be regarded as first rough estimat es. I ntroduc-
ing biochar carbon offset methods to carbon trading
markets t o furt her of fset cost s may also be com-
plicated because s oil carbon is difficult to measure,
especially over large areas.
3.7. S oil car bon s equestr ation
Soil carbon sequest ration (SC S) occurs when land
management change increases t he soil organic carbon
content, resulting in a net removal of C O 2 from th e
atmosphere. Since the lev el of carbon in t he soil is
a balance of carbon input s (e.g. from litt er, residues,
roots, manure) and carbon losses (mostly t hrough res-
piration, increased by soil dist urbance), pract ices that
either increase inputs, or reduce losses can promote
SCS.
Potentials a nd costs. Of the 22 arti cle s (Ba tje s 1998 ,
Benbi 2013 ,C o n a n t 2011 ,H e n d e r s o n et al 2015 ,L a l
2003b , 2003a , 2004a , 2004c , 2004b , 2010 , 2011 , 2013 ,
Lassalett a and A guilera 2015 ,L o r e n z a n d L a l 2014 ,
Powlson et al 2014 , Salati et al 2010 ,S m i t h 2012 , 2016 ,
Sommer and Bossio 2014 ,M i n a s n y et al 2017 ,M e t -
tin g et al 2001 ,S m i t h et al 2008 ) that included global
technical potent ials for SC S, 16 provided minimum-
maximum ranges, and six provided best estimat es
witho ut a rang e. All estima tes are ‘ bottom -up ’ and
are cal culate d by multiplyin g a per-a rea sequestr atio n
pote ntia l for each practic e with an area over whi ch the
practice could be applied.
Most of the var ia tion con tributi ng to the lar ge vari -
ation in estimat es arises f rom the area assumed to be
available, with the estimates at t he high end of t he
ranges assuming that e.g. all cropland and grassland
area are amenable to SCS. L ower est imates assume co n-
straints (e.g. not all grassland is mana ged, degr aded land
excluded etc (Smit h et al 2008 )).
Amon g the hi gh estim ate s of ma ximum po ten tial
(six articles, wit h around or above 7 GtCO 2 yr −1 ), five
are the top end of wide ranges (Lal 2003b , 2010 , 2013 ,
2011 ,M i n a s n y et al 2017 ), though the mea n of the
ranges are also above 7 GtCO 2 yr −1 . T he other high
esti mate (Batj es 1998 ) was not est imated in the paper,
but was aggregat ing estimates f rom ot her pap ers ( figure
13 ).
Ten of the glo bal estim ates of poten tial are at the low
end of the range as t hey consider individual pract ices.
For indiv idual pract ices applied globally, t he techni-
cal potentials are 1.47– 2.93 GtCO 2 yr −1 for croplands,
0.73–1.47 GtCO 2 yr −1 for des er tific ati on contr ol (Lal
2004b ), 3.6 GtCO 2 yr −1 in dryland ecosyst ems (Lal
2004a ), 1.47–3.67 GtCO 2 yr −1 for reclamat ion of agri-
cultural soils (Benbi 2013 ), 0.4–0.6 Gt CO 2 yr −1 for
no tillage in croplands (Powlson et al 2014 ), 0.51–
1.25 GtCO 2 yr −1 for degraded land rest oration (Salati
et al 2010 ), 4–8 GtCO 2 yr −1 for a gr o-fo re stry (Lore nz
and Lal 2014 ), 1.1– 2.5 GtCO 2 yr −1 thro ugh for estr y
and agricult ure (Conant 2011 ), 3.3–6.7 GtCO 2 yr −1 in
croplands (Zomer et al 2017 ), 1.36– 2.71 GtCO 2 yr −1
for croplands and p astures (Sommer and Bossio
2014 ) and 0.15 and 0 .20 GtC O 2 yr −1 for gr az in g opti -
mization and plant ing of legumes in grazing l and,
respectively (Henderson et al 2015 ).
The remainder of the estimat es of maximum
potential (seven art icles: (Lal 2003a , 2004c , L assaletta
and Aguilera 2015 , Mettin g et al 2001 ,S m i t h 2012 ,
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Figure 13. Cost s and potentials for soil carbon sequestration. The heat bar distribution of lit erature estimates in each panel are
calculated as in fi gure 6 , with individual publication cost ranges represe nted by lines (costs panel); and maximum estimates of negative
emis sions p otential p lotted by p ublic ation ye ar (pote ntials p ane l). Estimate s a nd range s at the top a nd bottom e nd of the d istr ibution
are lab elled; the data can be f urther explored in o ur onlin e supportin g m aterial available at htt ps://mcc-apsis.gi thub .io/N ETs-review / .
Smith et al 2016b , 2008 )) are in the range of around
3–5 GtCO 2 yr −1 , consistent with mean or median of
all estimat es. Using t he mid-point of t he range f or the
seventeen st udies qu oting ranges, and t he b est esti-
mate fo r th e six a rtic les n ot gi vin g ra ng es, the me an
and median global t echnical potent ial for SCS were
4.28 and 3.677 GtCO 2 yr −1 , respectiv ely ( n = 23), wit h
a range of 1.1–1.37 GtCO 2 yr −1 using absolute min-
imum and maximum range values, or 2.91–5.65 or
2.28–5.34 GtCO 2 yr −1 using the mean and median
of the minimum range values, respect ively ( n = 17),
with this ran ge con side re d feasible a s a techn ic al
potential.
There are few papers providing estimates of cost
per tonne of C O 2 eq uivalent (tC O 2 eq) remov ed by
SCS since this is very practice- and cont ext -specific,
and depends greatly on, for ex ample, labor costs and
degree of mechanizat ion (Smit h 2016 ). Only thre e
papers (Smith 2012 , 2016 , Smith et al 2008 )p r o v i d e d
esti ma tes of eco nom ic pote nti al for SCS , at US $ 20,
US $ 50 and 100/ tCO 2 e, all of w hich are derived from the
same analy sis. The SCS pot ential at US $ 20/tCO 2 ew a s
1.38 (1.34– 1.42) GtCO 2 yr −1 ,a tU S $ 50/ tCO 2 e was 2.32
(2.23–2.44) GtCO 2 yr −1 and at US $ 100/tCO 2 ew a s 3 . 7
(3.56–3.83) GtCO 2 yr −1 ,t h o u g h ( S m i t h 2016 )p r o -
vides a lower estimate for global SCS at US $ 100/tC O 2 e
of 1.47– 2.57 GtCO 2 yr −1 s i n c ei te x c l u d e ss o m ep r a c -
tices. The higher est imates of pot ential are associat ed
with higher carbon prices, as ex pected, since c arbon
price is an indicator of lev el of climat e change mit-
igation ambition. Using pract ices and costs listed in
(Smith et al 2008 ), (Smith 2016 ) note t hat about 20%
of t he mitigation from SCS is realized at negativ e
cost ( − 45–0 US $ /tCO 2 eq.) and about 80% realized
is between US $ 0a n d U S $ 10/tC O 2 eq. giv ing est i-
mates of global c osts for implementation of SC S
globally as − 7.7 B $ (comprising 16.9 B $ of savings,
and 9.2 B $ of positive costs).
Side effec ts. Side e ffec ts are n oted i n a n um-
ber of articles, feat uring for example, improved soil
qualit y and health (L al 2004b ), improved and more
stable crop yield (Pan et al 2009 ), increased methane
emissions when SCS is encouraged in rice paddies
through addit ion of farmyard manure (Nayak et al
2015 ), or increased emissions of nitrous oxide if SCS is
encouraged by increasing plant productivity w ith nitro-
gen f ertilizer ( Liao et al 2015 ). N onetheless, many
pra ctice s can be used with no ad vers e side e ffects .
Side effect s w ere assessed a nd summarized in Smith
( 2016 ). Though SCS is applied on large land areas, it
c a n b ed o n ew i t h o u tc h a n g i n g l a n du s e ,s ot h el a n d
footprint is zero. The w ater foot print is also negligible,
as is energy use and impact on albedo (Smith 2016 ).
Increased SC S results in more organic nit rogen in t he
soil, w hich could be mineralized t o become a substrate
for nitrous oxide (N 2 O) production, although t he eff ect
is difficu lt to quantify (Sm ith 2016 ). The stoichiome-
try of the o rg an ic matter m ean s that for e ver y t C/ha
of soil organic matt er added, nutrients, that is nitro-
gen, phosphorous and potassium, w ould increase by
80 kg ha −1 ,2 0k gh a
−1 and 15 k g ha −1 , respectively (L al
2004b ,S m i t h 2016 ). This could be deriv ed f rom the
org an ic ma tter a dde d, thou gh if it r equir es exte rn al
nutrient addition, the increased nutrient lev el could
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have knock -on eff ects on pollution if t hose nutrients
were lost to water courses.
Per manenc e an d sat urat ion . Ad r a w b a c ko fS C Si s
sin k satura tion . Tho ugh SCS ne ga tive emis sio n poten-
tial s are o ften e xpre sse d as pe r-ye ar val ues, th e pote nti al
is time limit ed. SCS potent ial is large at t he outset, but
decreases as soils approach a new, higher equilibrium
value (Smi th 2012 ), such tha t the poten tia l decre as es
to zero when the new equilibrium is reached. This sink
satur atio n occur s after 1 0–100 year s, depen din g on the
SCS option, s oil type and c limate zone (slower in colder
regions), with IPCC using a def ault saturat ion t ime of
20 years (Smit h 2016 ). As sinks derived f rom SCS are
also reversible (Smit h 2012 ), practi ces ne ed to be ma in-
tain ed, eve n whe n the si nk i s satura ted so an y yearl y
costs will persist even aft er the emission pot ential has
reduced t o zero at sink sat uration. Sink saturat ion also
means that SCS implement ed in 2020 will no longer
be effective as a NET aft er 2040 (assuming 20 years f or
sink sat uration; Smit h 2016 ).
Author s ’ assessment. The mean and median
global technical pot entials for SCS of 4.28 and
3.677 GtCO 2 yr −1 ( n = 23) represent good global est i-
mate s o f th e te chn ic al gl oba l pote ntia l for SCS, with
ranges of 2.91– 5.65 (using mean values of range mini-
mums/maximums) or 2.28–5.34 (using median values
of range minimums/max imums) GtC O 2 yr −1 ( n = 17),
providing a good estimate of t he spread of lit erature
ranges. Values below t hese ranges mostly consider only
sin gl e practi ces (e .g. n o till ag e, agr o-fo re str y, resto ra -
tion of degraded land, grazing management) , so do not
provide estimat es for full global pot ential for SC S, whil e
values above t hese ranges ( > 7G t C O
2 yr −1 )a r e c h a r -
acte riz ed by un con stra in ed estima tes (e.g . by as sum ing
that high pe r-a re a estima tes c ould be appl ied to all
cropland/ grassland areas globally with t he same eff ec-
tiveness), so provide t he very maximum, unconstrained
theoretical potent ial t hat would never be achiev able in
reality. Based on this analysis, t he best estimat e (with
range) of realistic technical pot ential is considered t o
be close to the median of the minimums of the ranges
provided, which f or SCS is 3.8 (2.3– 5.3) GtCO 2 yr −1 .
Costs are low, estima ted he re i n the rang e of US $ 0–
100/tCO 2 , and t he side eff ects are likely to be less of an
issue than for many ot her NE TS, t hough sink satu ra-
tion and rev ersibility (non-permanence) are signi ficant
dra wbacks fo r SCS. As wi th the o ther tec hno log y esti-
mates, these range s are for 2050, but once a chieved,
cannot be maintained indefinit ely due to sink satura-
tion. Since soils hav e been managed for millennia, there
is a high lev el of knowledge of practices and readiness
for adoption. Soil carbon sequestrat ion is immediately
deployable since the agricultural and land manage-
ment practices required (e.g. improv ed rotat ions with
reduced f allow that increase c arbon inputs to t he soil
and addit ion of organic materials, such as manure or
compost, and other aspects of improved cropland and
grazing land management ), are generally well known
by farmers and land managers (UNE P 2017 ).
3.8. Ot her and emergin g NETs
There is a plet hora of new ideas on how t o extract
carbon f rom the at mosphere, some of which are y et to
be exposed in the literat ure. We discuss here some of
the ne wer li tera ture bas ed on a br oad se arc h of the Web
of Science and Scopus, and expert advice, f ocusing on
thr ee aven ues that have g ai ne d trac tion i n the deb ate
around negat ive emissions.
Firstly, a recent st rand of literat ure examines the
removal of non-CO 2 GHGs (GGR) s uch as met hane
from th e atmo sph ere . Such a pro ces s would be
valuable—per unit mass, met hane is a more potent
GHG t han CO 2 (Montzka et al 2011 )—and could
compensate for emissions in t he food sect or and out-
ga ssi ng from la kes, we tlan ds, a nd oce an s (Stola roff
et al 2012 ). (Boucher and Folberth 2010 ) rev iew s everal
existing technologies f or methane removal (cryogenic
separation, molecular sieves or gates, and adsorption
filters based on zeolite minerals) and find low con-
fidence t hat any of these are currently economically
or energetically suitable for large-scale air capture,
however. More recent research (e.g. by de Richt er
et al 2017 ) ex amines ot her technologies that also
consider non-CO 2 GHGs like N 2 O.
Secondly, there is a grow ing branch of literat ure on
Blue Carbon, i.e. the management of sea grasses, man-
groves, and salt marshes along coa sts in order t o expand
their carbon sinks. ( Macreadie et al 2017 ) assess the lit -
erature f or three diff erent routes of Blue Carbon. They
find that reducing nutrient i nputs, av oiding unn aturally
high levels of bioturbat ion (i.e. the turning of soils and
sediments by animals or plants), and restoring natu-
ral hyd rology will maximize carbon sequest ration and
minimize carbon losses. Howev er, t here are to date
no robust q uant ifications of a global negat ive emis-
sions pot ential f rom Blue Carbon. Still, most of t he
options to enhance Blue C arbon also reduce human
and env ironmental impacts on coast al ecosystems—
an important co-benefit . (Johanness en and Macdon ald
2016 ) report t he Blue Carbon sink at 0.4%–0 .8% of
global human-made emissions.
Thirdly, CO 2 could be used as synthetic feed-
stock f or chemical materials because of its apparent
abundance, non-tox icity, and low c ost. Pot ential p rod-
ucts include Poly Propylene Carbonate (Q in et al
2015 ), carbon mineralizat ion, Enhanced O il Recov ery
(EOR), biodiesel and synf uel production (Ab anades
et al 2017 ) and ot her chemical applications prov iding
economic incent ives and opportunities f or techno-
logical learning for carbon capture. N ote however
that cur re nt Life Cycle Ana lys es suffer fro m at least
one o f the three fo llowi ng p itfal ls th at r ai se dou bts
as to whether carbon capture and ut ilisation can
really contribute much to achiev ing large-scale neg-
ative emissions: (i) ut ilized C O 2 might intuit ively be
considered as carbon-negativ e without actually being
so; (ii) account ing problems exist w ith respect t o the
allocation of emissions to indiv idual product s; and
(iii) there may be negligence of CO 2 st orage duration
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(von der Assen et al 2013 ). Furthermore, MacDow ell
et al ( 2017 ) voice serious concern about scale issues,
concluding that it is highly improbable that the chemi-
cal conversion of CO 2 will co ntri bute mor e than 1% to
the mitigat ion needed to achieve the Paris Agreement ’ s
long-term t emperature goal.
4. Synthesi s
In this sect ion, we synthesize the findings from the dif -
ferent NETs assessment s in section 3 and situate th em
in the scenario ev idence from section 2 .F i g u r e 14 and
table 2 show the ranges for the global pot entials and
costs in 2050 and distill the main side ef fects, subcate-
gorized as either posit ive, or at risk of being negativ e.
We condition the cost and potent ial ranges w ith the
authors ’ assessments (summarized in the cent ral plot
in figure 14 ). These assessments should be interpret ed
as deployment ranges t hat are f easible in the contex t
of generally fav orable conditions, i.e. long-t erm pol-
icy support , w ith k ey decisions made in t he technology
cycle and deployment phase t o generat e demand pull,
and f ew social, economic or environmental shock s in
the relevant agricultu ral and land use sect ors 33 .O n e
aim of this review is t o comprehensively cover the rele-
vant li tera ture bas ed on a transpa ren t liter ature se arc h
and selection process (see SI). We t herefore also com-
par e our re sults with th ose fr om exi sting , pre vious
assessments.
4.1. Pot enti als
The deploy ment pot entials in p revious N ETs assess-
ments vary considerably across st udies. This stu dy
spans the ent ire ranges of estimates for all indiv idual
NETs report ed in these p revious assessments (R oyal
Society 2009 ,M c L a r e n 2012 , Fri en ds of the Ear th
2011 , Vaughan and Lenton 2011 ,M c G l a s h a n et al
2012 , National Academy of Sciences 2015 ,C a l d e -
cott et al 2015 ,F u s s et al 2016 ,S m i t h et al 2016a ,
Rubin et al 2015 ,C i a i s et al 2013 ,L e n t o n 2010 ).
This overlap, in principle, confirms the ambit ion of
this rev iew t o provide comprehensiv eness, yet it d oes
not ensure t hat estimates are w eighted according t o
the dist ribution of evidence. In the absence of com-
par able effor ts, this c an only be j udge d in terms of
the review procedure: our general approach is sum-
marized in M inx et al ( 2017 ) and outlined in detail
in t he SI of this review.
Land-based mit igation options including biochar,
AR, EW as w ell as SCS each hav e a pot ential i n t he rang e
of 1–4 GtC O 2 yr −1 in 2050—noting that achieving the
higher end of t he ranges get s increasingly demanding
and will require higher carbon prices. There is con-
33 They do not rep re sent technic al p otentia ls, howeve r, and do tak e
cons tra ints i nto ac count, while the lar ge r range s we find in the
lite ratu re ar e pa rtia lly d ue to the fact that diffe re nt pote ntial s ar e
cons ide re d, e.g. economi c pote ntials and techni cal p otentia ls.
siderable disagreement about reasonable deployment
potentials for BE CC S and skepticism that d eployment
ranges as seen in many scenarios can be reached. To
our judgment , due to constraint s on the availability
of sust ainable b iomass, it will be ext remely dif ficult
to achieve annual carbon remov al rates of 5 Gt CO 2
with th is tec hno log y by mid-c entur y; howe ver, e nd-o f
the-century p otentials might be considerably higher,
assuming that populat ion peaks and reduces pressure
on land, alongside f urther yield improvement s. DAC CS
deployment will heavily depend on suitable energy
sources and cost developments. Given it s nascent stage
of development , it will be an option with limit ed
potential in 2050. Yet , if DACCS becomes competitive,
potential d eployment will b e driven by cost support
and rates of upscaling, with no obvious upper biophys-
ical limit, barring storage, mat erial and ther modyna mic
constraints.
Whether t hese deployment pot entials are well-
aligned with requirements identified in long-term
miti ga tion scen ar ios cons iste nt with the 1.5 ◦ Ca n d2 ◦ C
scenarios, respectively, is q uestionable. This review
shares t he wide-spread concern that reaching annual
deployment scales of 10–20 Gt CO 2 yr −1 via BECCS at
the en d of the 21 st cen tury, as i s the ca se in man y
scenarios, is not possible without severe adverse side
effect s. Deployment scales reached in 2 ◦ C scenarios
with limit ed BECCS deployment (corresponding to
about 100EJ of bioenergy) appear to be more realistic.
Opportunities f or reaching larger deployment scales
emerge when N ET port folios composed of t he various
technologies—rather than a single technology—are
developed and scaled-up ov er time. A discussion and
synthesis of development and upscaling bot tleneck s are
provided in Nemet et al ( 2018 ) and Minx et al ( 2017 ),
respectively. Such a discussion of NET port folios with
a var ie ty of te ch nol og ies con tributi ng po tenti all y at
more modest scales is import ant, but almost com-
pletely absent from t he discussion and the reviewed
body of literatu re. E xceptions such as in (St refler et al
2018a ) confirm t hat adding ot her NE Ts (in this case
terrestrial enhanced w eathering) t o BE CC S can sub-
stan tia lly red uce side effe cts (i n this ca se reduc e the
land f ootprint , while still reaching considerable nega-
tive emissions potent ials).
However, the deployment scales of individual t ech-
nologies cannot be simply added up: first, some
tech no log ie s or pr ac tice s com pete wi th o ne a no ther
for resources, e.g. land in the case of aff orestat ion,
reforestat ion and BE CCS; and competition f or biomass
in t he case of soil carbon sequ estration, biochar and
BECC S (high biomass extraction rates f or BECCS
will undermine the build-up and retention of soil
carbon via sust ainable management practices, or via
biochar p roduction). Second, scenarios t hat deploy
small p ortfolios of t wo or t hree NE Ts show that
adding anot her t echnology raises deploy ment, but at
a decreasing rate, i.e. N ETs deployment is lower for
each t echnology when t wo or more rat her t han a
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Figure 14. Evidenc e and a uthor s ’ assessment s on n egat ive em ission s co sts, deplo ym ent pot ent ials, key si de-effect s, and cos t/pot ent ial
trends b eyo nd 2050. Not e that risks o f negative side eff ects are of ten con tin gent on implementat ion, e.g. large-scale af forestat ion wit h
mon o-cult ures versus agroforest ry project s, or b ioch ar from dedicated crops versus residues. Pan els A-G cont rast auth ors ’ assessmen ts
(hatche d box, al so re prod uce d in the ce ntral ove rv iew figure) with l iter atur e estimate s (repr es ented by a distribu tion func tion a nd
de nsity plot) . Density fu nctions are c ompu ted using a Ga uss ian smoothing k er nel dens ity es timat or; gre y area s are defined by taki ng
the rang e of costs (pote ntials ) that inc lud e the maxi mum de nsity and that yi eld a bounde d integ ra l valu e of 0.5. Re fer enc e year for all
estimat es provided is 2050. As ann ual deployment s of soil carbon sequestratio n an d afforestati on cann ot be sustained as long as oth er
technol ogies (d ue to sink s atur ation) w e rep re se nt thes e technol ogies as das hed boxes in the c entra l figure wi th an aste ris k ( ∗ ).
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Table 2. Summary o f assessmen t result s (po tent ials and co st autho rs ’ assessmen t w ith th e full range acro ss t he lit erature in square b rackets, rounded n umb ers).
NET Potentials Cost Positive imp ac ts Negativ e impac ts Perma nence /
Satu rati on
GtCO 2 yr −1 US $ /tCO 2 Socio-econ omic Environmen tal Biophysical S ocio-economic En viron-mental Biogeo-physical
BECCS 0.5–5 [1–85] 100–200 [15–400] Market
opportunities,
economic
diversifi catio n,
energy
indepen den ce,
technol ogy
developmen t and
trans fer
GHG emi ssions
subs titution
Food sec uri ty,
heal th impac ts
Biodiversity losses,
deforest atio n and
forest degradat ion,
throug h air
pollution CO 2
leakage, impacts of
fertilizer use on
soil an d water
Albedo change,
direct and in direct
LUC GHG
emission s (N 2 O,
CO 2 under
leakage)
High per manency
for ade quate
geological s torage,
long-term
governance of
storag e, limits on
rates of b io energy
prod uction and
carbon
sequestration
DACCS 0.5–5 [limited by
upscaling and
costs]
100–300
[25–1000]
Business
opportunities,
subject t o a
predicta ble C O 2
price
Specific
applications could
improv e indoor air
quality
CO 2 penalty if
high (therma l)
energy dem an d
satisfi ed by f ossil
fuels; curren tly
high front-up
cap ital c osts.
Material/waste
implications not
known but c annot
be excluded
Some spat ial
requiremen ts
High per manency
for ade quate
geological s torage
Afforestation a nd
re-fores tation
0.5–3.6 [0.5–7] 5–50 [0–240] Employ ment
(cavea t: low-paid
seasonal jo bs),
local livelihood s
Biodive rsity if
nativ e and d ive rs e
species are used (in
spite of l ower C O 2
storag e)
Improved soil
carbon , nut rien t
and wat er cyclin g
impacts
Less agricultur al
exports, h igh er
food pric es
Biodiversity losses
for high-carbon
monocultur es a nd
under
displacemen t
Direct an d indirect
LUC, albedo
chang e (boreal:
offsetting imp act;
temperat e:
neutr al ized )
Satu rati on of
forest s; vulnerable
to dis tur banc e;
post- AR fo rest
manage ment
essential
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Table 2. Continued .
NET Pote ntials Cost Positive imp ac ts Negativ e impac ts Perma nence /
Satu rati on
GtCO 2 yr −1 US $ /tCO 2 Socio-econ omic Environmen tal Biophysical S ocio-economic En viron-mental Biogeo-physical
Enhanced
weather ing
2–4 [0–100] 50–200 [15–3460] Increase in cro p
yiel ds
Improved plan t
nutrition
Improved soil
fertility, nutrient
and mo isture,
increase in soil pH ,
increasing cat ion
exchang e capacity
in depleted soi ls
Human he alth
impacts asso ciated
to fine grai ned
mater ial
Ecological imp acts
of minera l
extr ac tion and
trans port on a
massive scale
Direct an d indirect
land us e cha nge if
biomass sour ced
from dedicat ed
crops, potentially
heavy m etal release
dependin g on th e
soil charact eristics,
risks o f fin e
grained material,
chang es in soil
hydr aul ic
propert ies
Satu rati on of soil;
Residence tim e
from months to
geological time
scale
Ocea n fertil iza tion extremel y limi ted
[0.5–44]
No author s ’
assessment due to
limite d pote ntial
[0–460]
Potentia l incr ea se
in fish catches
Enhance d
biological
prod uction
None Unknown imp ac ts
on marine biology
and food web
structure, ch ang es
to nutr ient ba lanc e
Anoxia in surface
ocea n, proba ble
enh anced
prod uction of
N 2 Oa n dC H
4
Fragi le, S atur ation
of ocea ns;
Perma nence from
millennia to
months/d ays
Bioch ar 0.5–2 [1–35] 30–120 [10–345] Increased crop
yields an d reduced
drough t
Reduced C H4 an d
N2O emissio ns
from soils
Improved soil
carbon , nut rien t
and wat er cyclin g
impacts
Competition for
biomass r esour ces
Down-regulation
of plan t def ence
genes may increase
plant vulnerab ility
aga inst i nse cts ,
patho gens, an d
drough t
Albedo change
par tly offsetting
mitigation e ffect,
even th ough
likelihood low, as
biochar would be
bur ied .
Residence t imes of
biocha rs be twee n
decades to
centuries
dependin g o n soil
ty pe, manag ement
& enviro nm ent al
cond itio ns
Soil carb on
sequest ration
2–5 [0.5–11] 0–100 [ − 45–100] Improved soil
resilien ce and
improv ed
agricultural
prod uction,
Nega tive c ost
options
Mostly reduced
pollution and
improve d soil
quality
Mostly po sitive
impacts on soil,
water and air
quality
None Poss ible inc re as e
in N 2 O emission s
a n dNa n dPl o s s e s
to water d ue to
more N and P
substrat e for
minera lisation
Need f or addi tio n
of N and P to
maintain
stoich iometry of
soil or ganic matte r
Soil sinks sat urate
and are reversible
when the
manage ment
practice
promoting S CS
ceases
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single t echnology is deploy ed (even if technologies are
of very diffe ren t types such as BECCS and DACCS (or
EW)) (Marcucci et al 2017 ,H u m p e n
¨
oder et al 2014 ,
Chen and T avoni 2013 ).
Beyond 2050, long t erm cumulative pot entials are
a funct ion of scalability and sink saturat ion. We sum-
marise t hese in figure 14 by indic atin g the expec ted
post-2050 trend in costs and potentials for each tech-
nology (qualitat ive arrows in the top-right of each
sub-figure). In t he case of land-based opt ions, t hese
constraints are sev ere. For instance, although SCS has a
very hi gh mid-ce ntury potenti al (4–7 GtCO 2 yr −1 )—
and can be qu ickly realised through changes in
farming and land management practices—after con-
sistent application the sink will sat urate within ∼ 20
years and will require on-going maint enance. Biochar
is similarly constrained in t erms of saturat ion, although
few studies yet poi nt to the total feas ible sink poten-
tial. C umulative af forest ation pot ential is constrained
by available land, with newly afforest ed sit es saturat ing
within ∼ 100 years. We might then consider t hese three
options ‘ 21st century NETs ’ : promising stop-gaps, but
limited in long-t erm p otential.
Whi le our revi ew h ig hli gh ts the limita tion s of
BECC S, unlik e other land-based options it does not
saturat e as quickly over t ime. The cycle of biomass
production and seq uestration could conceiv ably con-
tin ue up to the po in t that g eo log ic al storag e po ten tia l
is maximised, thereby sequestering a large cumula-
tive amount of C O 2 . Howev er, BE CC S is const rained
to maximum yearly pot entials, as det ermined by a
sustainable scale of biomass product ion on land
(though as ment ioned prev iously, t echnological
progress and a populat ion peak could ease this pressure,
allowing f or more annu al CO 2 uptake). Las tly, DACCS
emerges as a relat ively promising l ong-term option
beyond 2050, being limit ed in potent ial only by the
economic (and energet ic) feasibilit y of scale-up.
4.2. Cost s
Costs impose f urther economic limits t o NETs deploy -
ment (see Smith et al 2016a ). Acro ss technologies,
costs vary significantly (figure 14 ). Particularly, l and
management options like soil carbon sequestrat ion,
biochar, af forest ation and ref orestation have a small-
scale availability at low, zero, or even negative costs in
places. Yet, despite t echnology cost reductions from
learning, t he marginal costs of abatement tend t o
increase wit h deployment, p articularly f or land man-
agement options such as af forest ation and r efores tat ion
(due to opportunit y costs for l and) and soil carbon
man ag eme nt (due to the exh austi on of cost-effi ci ent
‘ low-hanging ’ management options). Hence we see
these opt ions increasing in cost s beyond 2050 (fig-
ure 14 ). On the othe r han d, bioch ar m ay offe r so me
prospects for modest cost decreases as pyrolysis tech-
niques are still in their infancy and ma y yet benefi t from
scale and learning dy namics.
Enhanced weathering is a relatively expensive
option due to the high energy req uirements for grind-
in g the mi ner al s to suffic ie ntl y sma ll size . Hen ce,
carbon prices of US $ 50 and more are required if larger
deployments are to be reached, with prices progres-
sively increasing as prox imate mining and deployment
locations are ex hausted. On the ot her hand, less devel-
oped technologies lik e BECC S and DA CC S (Nemet
et al 2018 ) are comparat ively cost ly (US $ 100– 200
and US $ 100–300/t CO 2 , respectiv ely), but once avail-
able can be more easily scaled up—particularly in
t h ec a s eo fD A C C S .T h el o n g - t e r m c o s tt r e n d so f
BECCS ar e a ma tter of si gn ifi can t uncer tai nty—i n
the li tera ture an d withi n the auth or s ’ assessment—
as they are shaped by mult iple dynamics. Principally
thes e in clud e the op por tuni ty cos ts fo r lan d an d
biomass, prospects for biomass yield increases and
alternativ e sources (e.g. algae), and the prospects for
bringing down plant cost s via scaling and technolog-
ical learning. Howev er, bey ond a deployment level of
5GtCO 2 yr −1 , we judge costs to increase as pressures
on land and biomass progressiv ely grow, albeit with a
heavy caveat of u ncertainty . With DACC S, however,
the literature is strongly suggestiv e of long-term cost
decreases, albeit st arting f rom a high level.
Overall, cost and pot ential considerations could
suggest a natural order for phasing in dif ferent
NETs—a discussion we will f urther elaborate in Minx
et al ( 2017 ) by infusing development and upscaling
considerations from N emet et al ( 2018 ). Interesting ly,
these clusters of technologies also differ in t erms of how
sec ure ly the y store car bon. While DACCS and BECCS
store t he carbon relatively saf ely mainly in geological
reservoirs (Bui et al 2018 , d e Coninck and Benson
2014 ), soil and biomass-sequest ered c arbon are per-
manently at risk of rapid release, should a rev ersal in
management decisions tak e place.
4.3. Side- effect s
An often n egl ecte d aspect of NETs is c on stitute d by
t h ec o - b e n e fi t st h e ym a yy i e l d .T h el i t e r a t u r es h o w s
evidence that aff orestation, soil carbon management ,
enhanced weat hering (on land), and biochar may
all contribute t o soil quality, nutrient ret ention and
water cycling under appropriate management regimes.
Where these changes result in enhance d crop y ields, the
socio-economic benefits t o local and regional liveli-
hoods may be considerable. These benefits part ially
explain the negat ive costs associated wit h soil carbon
management, as well as it s maturit y and exist ing imple-
mentation, alongside that of aff orestation. Nonetheless,
there is a clear literat ure b ias towards developed
countries concerning the land-based NETs, raising an
obvious need f or research into the generally poorer
initial site c onditions and more f ragile social institu -
tions t hat are prev alent in dev eloping nations. A nother
non-trivial considerat ion is whether trace-GHGs w ill b e
miti ga ted (poten tial ly bioc har ) or inten si fied (BECCS)
by changes to land management practices—an issue
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that wil l requi re conc er ted long -ter m studies to tra ck
fertilizer inputs, management practices, and result ing
land-use emissions.
For most NE Ts, whether co-benefits or nega-
tive impacts are realized depends on implementation
strategy and scale, at least in principle. For instance,
monocrop plantat ions of eucaly ptus may be an effi-
cient means to draw down carbon, but are inf erior to
agroforest ry init iativ es when considering a broader set
of social and env ironmental goals. More problemat -
ically, large-scale BE CCS and af forestat ion programs
will drive up demand for land, p osing risks f or
food production, biodiversit y, and land set aside f or
other purposes (liv ing space, nat ure reserves, and
other cultu ral, aesthet ic or productive uses) (Newbold
et al 2015 ,C r e u t z i g 2017 ). As these effec ts play
out in global market s, the broader success of large-
scale land-based NETs will hence crucially depend on
global gov ernance of land (C reutzig 2017 ). Cultivating
marginal land of fset s t his risk, as would exploit ing wast e
biomass f eedstocks as input s f or biochar and BECCS.
However, with in creasing scale, the opportunities
for ca re ful imple men tati on dec lin e, forci ng trade- offs
among valued land uses, and indeed between land
use N ETs themselv es. Another important considera-
tion here is t he direct w arming ef fect from a c hanging
surface albedo in Nort hern lat itudes. This issue is
principally relevant for af forest ation (planting t rees in
in hig h latitude s is effecti vely co unter pro ducti ve)—
but also for biochar and BECC S, both of which
will change prev ailing soil and crop appearances. I n
addition, it is not always clear what marginal and
degraded land really is and where it is, as defini-
tions and mappings diverge widely, so the pot ential
of biomass from marginal and degraded land is
unclear 34 .
Given t he nascent st age of direct air captu re,
enhanced weathering and ocean fert ilization opt ions,
some side-effect s are probably not yet anticipat ed—
or have already been anticipat ed, but not subjected
to s uffic ie nt re sea rc h. Resea rch o n the s ide e ffec ts of
direct air capture is basically non-existent. Conceiv ably,
a large scale DACCS program will require extensive
amounts of materials, and theref ore miner al extract ion,
refining, t ransportation and waste disposal infrastruc-
tures . The e colo gic al impac ts of the se infr astru ctures
could be even more p roblematic for enhanced weath-
ering and ocean f ertilizat ion, which would require an
extensiv e mobilization of materials at a regional or
global scale. Further issues have been ant icipated f or
enhanced weathering (local air pollut ion, heavy met al
pollution in soils) and for ocean f ertilization (surface
34 Scientist s do not agree ho w much land is actually unused an d
at the sa me time ava ilable for culti vati on (Coelho et a l 2012 ,E r b
et al 2007 ,H a b e r l et al 2010 ,F r i t za n dS e e 2008 ), and the data sets
and defin iti ons used fo r degraded and margin al land a re amb iguous
(Sonne ve ld and De nt 2009 ). E ven the termi nol ogy o f ma rgin al or
degraded lan ds is usually n ot clear .
ocean anoxia, nutrient balance shift s, pot ential large-
scale ecosyst em changes), but remain under-examined
in practice.
4.4. Kn owl edge gaps
The sys tema tic revi ew of the NETs lite ratur e con ducte d
here does not only provide us wit h a comprehensive
assessment of their pot entials, costs and side effect s,
but has also unveiled areas of uncert ainty.
For the study of t he individual opt ions to remove
carbon, all of t hem st ill need furt her work on est i-
mating t he economic cost s (and benefit s) of real
world deployment and a q uantification of environ-
mental, economic and social ext ernalities associat ed
with deployment. This will then also enable more com-
prehensive modelling. I n addition, t here is a need to
better u nderstand the barriers to implement ation of
NETs and how these can be overcome. This includes
research on policies, incentive schemes and finance,
public acceptance, governance and actual demonstra-
tion project s. For enhanced weat hering and ocean
fertilisat ion, for instance, the largest research gap iden-
tified in this assessment is the missing exist ence of
real field ex periments. Also, p otentials need to be
adj usted for ne w insig hts with re spec t to bio phys i-
cal impacts of N ETs deployment (e.g. on albedo),
changes in t he carbon cycle caused by large-scale
negative emissions (Jones et al 2016 ,T o k a r s k aa n d
Zickfeld 2015 ) and changes in land cover due t o cli-
mate change. Finally, moving from research needs to
gaps in practical knowledge, more actual pilot project s
are necessary.
Other research gaps are specific t o certain N ETs.
For ex ample, in t he case of NE Ts with high land
requirement s such as BE CCS, it w ill be important
to improve the mapping of available land, especially
marginal and degraded land. To this end, harmonized
definitions need to be developed and operationalized.
Based on t his, geographically explicit regional studies
on po tenti als a re ne ede d. The se botto m-up potenti als
furthe rm ore have to be match ed to the glo bal, top-
down ones. For aff orestat ion and reforest ation, for
example, there are t oo few studies explicit ly covering t he
tropics, y et t his is t he biome that global models associate
with the lar ge st carbon re mova l potenti als . Simi lar ly,
only f ew stu dies examine the pract ical issues of imple-
menting soil carbon sequest ration in t he developing
countries, where biophy sical as w ell as socio-economic
challenges may diverge substant ially from the exist-
ing k nowledge base. A lso in t he case of enhanced
weathering, proper management at t he global scale
would demand dat abases of possible applicat ion sce-
narios combining rock p roducts, soil condit ions, local
climates and t argeted plant syst ems.
Furthermore, there are many emerging ideas for
removing greenhouse gases, some of which have been
discussed in this review (e.g. methane removal), but
not assessed due to smaller or more fragmented bod-
ies of literature. As t he corresponding k nowledge
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matures and more st udies on their global poten tials an d
costs becomes available, t hey need t o be systemat ically
assessed as well.
Finally, for t he IAMs, the following research gaps
can be i den tifi ed: (i) the n ee d for inte gr ate d portfo lio s
of NETs in IAMs, w hich should include an ev alua-
tion of int eractions with other mit igation options and
effec ts of NETs on non-cl ima te sustain able develop -
ment goals; (ii) a bet ter underst anding of geo-phy sical
constraints of negative emissions and implementat ion
in IAMs; (iii) an analysis of NETs deployment dynam-
ics in a risk management framework , acknowledging
that ma ny d eci sio ns i n c lim ate ch an ge mi tig ati on wil l
have to be ma de in the sh or t term an d there fore
unde r unce rtai nty.
5. Outlook
The assessment conduct ed in this paper has shown
that the state o f the l iter atur e is at ver y differ en t
stages for each of the various NETs considered: there
is a rapidly growing literat ure on BE CC S, which is
closely interlink ed with t he scenario l iterature on
low-stabilization pathways. On the ot her hand, some
NETs look back at a much longer history in terms
of li tera ture —eve n if carbo n remova l from th e atm o-
sphere has not historically been the main motiv ation.
Examples of t hese are afforest ation and ref oresta-
tion, biochar and soil carbon storage. DA CC S, ocean
fert ilization and t errestrial and marine enha nced weat h-
ering st ill have t o find their w ay into the scenario
lite ratur e, though thi s is sta rtin g to happe n for som e
of the opt ions. Beyond t hat, more ideas are emerg-
ing t o withdraw C O 2 and a lso oth er GH Gs from the
atmosphere, as has been briefly discussed.
Our review highlight s some more general confu-
sion around the role of negative emissions in climate
change mitigat ion: while 1.5 ◦ C s cenarios stronlgy
depend on NETs, 2 ◦ C scenarios may rely on only
limited or zero deployment of NE Ts. This result is
in contrast t o some of the claims that have been
made in t he literature ( Williamson 2016 , Gasser et al
2015 ,P a r s o n 2017 ). Yet, ri ght- siz in g neg ative emi s-
sions towards what seems possible today (Field and
Mach 2017 ) would require rapid and sustained emis-
sion reduct ions in the short- term. T he window of
opportunity for limit ing NETs dependence is clos-
ing rapidly due t he cumulative warming eff ect of
CO 2 in the atmosphere and the lock-in of large-scale
car bon -in tens ive infr astr ucture . An emi ssi on traje c-
tory as sug ge sted by the curre nt na tion all y dete rmi ne d
contributions (N DCs) w ould already l ock remaining
2 ◦ C pathway s deeply into NETs dependence—
similar to t he NETs dependence for 1.5 ◦ C pathways
toda y (Ria hi et al 2015 ).
From a risk management perspectiv e, the uncer-
tainties and risk s around large-scale NETs deploy ment
suggest a need f or swif tly rat cheting up emissions
reductions over t he next decade in order to limit
our dependence on NE Ts for keeping t emperature
rise below 2 ◦ C. Based on our assessment, large-scale
deployment of NE Ts, as implied by some of the cur-
rent literat ure on 1.5 ◦ C scenarios, appears u nrealistic
given t he biophysical and economic limits that are
suggested by the available, y et st ill patchy, science
t o d a y .T h es a m ec o n c e r n s o f realism apply equ ally
to 2 ◦ C scenarios that delay action until 2030. The
direct policy implications of t his N ETs review are thus
that, g iven th e as ses sed unce rta inti es , stra teg ies s houl d
aim at limiting w arming to below 2 ◦ Cw i t h t h e l e a s t
possible assumed dependence on NETs. Simultane-
ously, N ETs should be further researched, but until
they are demonst rably available at the global scale
there should be no d elay in a global peak and decline
of CO 2 emissions. Whether global temperat ure can
be limited to 1.5 ◦ C as part of the Paris Agreements
long-term t emperature goal will depend on t he pace
of technological learning and would req uire posit ive
surprises compared t o the current state of k nowledge.
If NETs become available at scale over the course of
the next 50 years, t hey will still play a f undamental
role in the cont ext of 1.5 ◦ C b y enabling to revert
global mean t emperature rise from possibly higher
peak levels.
Acknowledgm ents
The authors acknowledge scientific assist ance from
Nicolas K och and Sebast ian L ¨
ubbers at the MCC.
SF has conducted the w ork for t his art icle in t he
frame of the project ‘ Comparat ive assessment and
region-specific opt imisation of GGR ’ under grant
reference NE/ P019900/1 funded by t he Nat ural E nvi-
ronment R esearch Council of the UK and led b y
Imperial College. This work furthermore has ben-
efi tted from he r acti vitie s in the Glo bal Car bon
Project (Managing Global Negat ive Emission Tech-
nol og ies ). JM and JH ha ve c ontr ibute d to th is articl e
under the Project ‘ Pathways and Entry Poi nts to limit
global warming t o 1.5 ◦ C ’ funded by the Ge rma n
Ministry of Research and Educat ion (Grant refer-
ence: 01LS1610B). The input of PS contributes t o
the UK ERC -funded Assess-BE CCS (UK ERC /FFR2/ 3)
project and t he NE RC-f unded Soils-R-GGRE AT
(NE/P019455/1) project . TA, JHa, and WOG were
funded by the German R esearch Foundation ’ s priorit y
program DFG SPP 1689 on ‘ C limate E ngineering—
Risks, C hallenges and O pportunities? ’ and specifically
the CE MIC S2 project. GL and JL VV have con-
tributed t o this manuscript under the Project ‘ Strategic
Scenario Analysis ’ funded by the Ger man Min-
istry of R esearch and E ducation (Grant ref erence:
03EK3046B).
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Glossary
Term Acron ym D efin it ion
Afforestation and
reforestation
AR Affo restat ion ref ers t o plant ing of new f orests o n lands t hat hi storic ally h ave no t
cont ain ed fo rests, wh ile ref orestat ion refers to plan tin g of f orests on lan ds wh ich h ave,
hist oricall y, previou sly cont ain ed forest s b ut wh ich have been con verted to som e ot her
use . (IPCC Spec ial Re por t on L and Us e, La nd-U se Change, and Fore str y (I PCC 2000 ))
Albedo Th e fracti on of so lar radiati on refl ected b y a surface o r ob ject, o ft en expressed as a
percent age (IP CC 2014a , AR5 W GIII G lossary) .
Alkalin ity A m easure of t he capacity o f an aqueous solutio n to neut ralize acids. ( AR5 WG I
Glo ssary): H CO 3 − + 2 ∗ CO 3 2− + OH − –H + + minor chemic al spe cie s
Arago nite satu ratio n
state
ASS Is obtain ed by the prod uct of dissolved calcium an d carbonate ions in seawater divided
by the a ragoni te solu bility i n se awate r. If AS S is higher or l ower than one se a water is
respectively over- or un dersaturat ed w ith respect to arag on ite. If A SS is equal o ne, t he
sea w ater solut ion is sat urated.
Bicarbonate A ch emical com poun d: HCO 3 −
Biochar Biochar is ch arcoal used as a soil amendm ent produced throu gh pyrosysis or gasificat ion .
Biochar turnover tim e Average lifetime biochar in a soil after application.
Bioenergy carbon
captu re and storage
BECCS The application o f carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technology to bioenergy
conversio n processes. Depending on th e to tal lifecycle emissions, in cluding tot al
margin al co nsequen tial eff ects (from indirect land-use chan ge (iLU C) and o ther
processes), BECC S has th e poten ti al for n et carbo n dio xide (C O 2 ) remov al from the
atmo sphere.
Biologic al s ynth etic
natur al gas
Bio-SNG Bio-gas made by chemical syn thesis
Biomass gasificat ion Gasific ation combines pyr olysis with further proc ess ing of genera ted ga ses to pr oduce
syn gas wi th en ergeti c pro perti es
Black liquor A liqui d re sid ue contai ning lig nin comp ound s and inorg anic che mica ls, forme d when
pulpwood is heated in alkaline solut ion in the kra ft papermaking process (Oxford
Dictionaries).
Carb on budget The cumulat ive am ount of n et carbon dioxide emission s th at can b e released while still
limiting warming wit h a specific minimum probability to below a given temperature
thre shold.
Carbo n captu re and
stor age
CCS A process i n which a rel atively pure st ream of carbon diox ide (CO 2 ) from indus tria l and
energy -relat ed sources is separated (capt ured), condi tio ned, compressed an d
transp orte d to a storage location for longte rm isolation fr om the atmosp here .
Carb on dioxide
emissi on
The r ele ase of c arbon d ioxide to the atmosphe re from var ious anthr opogenic activitie s
(e.g. foss il fuel c ombustion, c ement prod uction, land -use changes ). (AR5 WGIII
Glossary ). In t his review, we disti nguish : gross po sitive C O 2 emission s (the am ount of
CO 2 that is release d in to the atmosphere via an thropogenic activit ies), gross negative
CO 2 emissions (th e amoun t of C O 2 th at is remo ved fro m the at mo sphere via n egati ve
emission techno logies), net positive CO 2 emissions ( net CO 2 em ission s th at are
positi ve), an d net n egat ive emission s (n et CO 2 emissions that are negative ). Note that
the adj ec tive s ‘ posit ive ’ an d ‘ nega tiv e ’ refer o nly t o t he sign of C O 2 emission s. See also
definition of n et emissions.
Carb on dioxide
removal
CDR See NE Ts definition.
Cogene rat ion Cogenerat io n (also referred to as com bin ed heat an d pow er, or C HP ) is the
simultan eous gen eration an d useful applicat ion of electricity an d useful h eat. (IP CC
2014a , AR5 WG III Glo ssary)
Comp utabl e gene ral
equilibrium m odel
CGE A class of econ omic models that use act ual econ omic dat a (i.e. in put/out put data),
simplify the character ization o f economic behaviour, and solve the whole system
numerically. CGE models specify all economic re lati onships in mathe matic al terms a nd
predict th e ch anges in variables such as prices, o utput and economi c welfare resultin g
from a chang e in ec onomic poli cie s, give n infor mation about technologies and
con sumer preferen ces. (H ertel 1997 )( I P C C 2014a , AR5 W GIII Glo ssary)
Cost effec tiveness A polic y is mor e c ost-effec tive if it achieve s a goa l, such as a given p ollution a batement
level, at lower cost. (IPCC 2014a , AR5 W GIII G lossary)
Cost-ben efit a na lysis CBA Monet ary measurem ent of all neg ative and posi tive i mpacts asso ciated w ith a gi ven
action. Costs and be nefits a re c ompar ed in terms of their d iffere nce and/or r atio as an
indica tor of how a given investment or other p olicy effort pays off seen from the socie ty ’ s
point of view. (IPCC 2014a , AR5 WG III Glossary )
Dire ct air carbo n
captu re and storage
DACCS Chemica l proce ss by which dil ute CO 2 is removed from t he surro undin g atm osphere.
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Discoun ting A mathe matic al ope rati on making mone tar y (or other ) amounts r ec eiv ed or expend ed at
differen t t imes (y ears) com parable acro ss ti me. Th e discou nter uses a fixed or possibl y
time- var ying dis cou nt rate ( > 0) from y ear to y ear t hat m akes fut ure value wort h less
today. (IPCC 2014a , AR5 W GIII Gl ossary)
Enha nc ed oil rec overy E OR Enh anced oi l recovery: t he recovery of o il addit ion al t o t hat pro duced n atu rally b y fluid
injection or oth er means. (IPCC 2005 , Glossary )
Enhanced weat hering EW Artificia l stimulation of the natur al proc ess of rock de compos ition while increa sing the
catio n release to pro duce alkalin ity and geog enic n utrien ts.
Evaporative c ooling The proc ess of water trans pir ation from vege tation, which results in a local cooling effect.
Ferm entation Th e bio chemical process by wh ich organ ic subst ances, particularly carboh ydrates, are
decomposed b y the action o f en zym es to provide ch emical en ergy, as in t he product ion
of alcoh ol ( Oxford Ref erence).
Fischer -Tro psch FT A process that transf orms a gas mi xture of CO an d H2 into liquid hy drocarbo ns an d
water. (IPCC 2005 , Glo ssary)
Integr ate d assessment IA A met hod of an alysi s th at com bin es results and model s from th e phy sical, b iolo gical,
ec onomic, and s ocia l sci enc es, and the inte rac tions among thes e comp onents in a
cons iste nt fra mew ork to ev alu ate the s tatus and the conse que nce s of e nvir onmenta l
change and th e policy respon ses to it . (IPC C 2014a , AR5 WG III Glossary )
Integr ated
gasificati on co mbine d
cycl e
IGC C Pow er gen eratio n in wh ich hy drocarb on s or co al are g asified (q.v.) an d the gas is used as
af u e lt od r i v eb o t hag a sa n das t e a mt u r b i n e .
In tegrated m odel Int egrated models expl ore th e interacti on s bet ween mult iple sect ors o f the eco no my or
compon ent s of part icular sy stems, such as the energy sy stem. Th ey may also i nclude
re pr ese ntations of the fu ll economy, la nd use a nd land u se c hange (LU C), a nd the
climate sy stem ( based on IPC C 2014a , AR5 WG III glossary ).
Macronu tri ent nitrog en, pho sphorus, potassium , calcium , sulfu r, mag nesium, carb on, o xygen , and
hydro gen are m acron utrien ts for plan ts.
Mafic A rock with relative high magnesium, calcium and iron silicate cont ent.
Micro nutr ient Ir on, boron, mangane se, zinc , copp er , molybdenum or nic kel are micronutr ients for
plants.
Natural sink Process or mechan ism of th e Earth Syst em that removes CO 2 from the atmosp her e after
an initial perturbation .
Negat ive e missio n
techn ology
NET A technology or manag ement option refer ring to a se t of techniq ue s that aim to remov e
CO 2 di re ctly from the a tmosphe re by eithe r (1) incr ea sing natur al si nks for car bon or (2)
using chemical engineer ing to re move the CO 2 , with the int ent of reducing the
atmo spheric CO 2 concent ration (based on CDR definition in IPCC 2014a : Annex II:
Glo ssary).
Net e missi ons The sum of gross positiv e and gross negative CO 2 e missions . See also definition of
car bon dioxide e mission.
Ocean CO 2
perman enc e
Corre sp ond to the time, in which CO 2 would remain w ith in the different ocean l ayers as
dis sol ved inorgani c/or ga nic ca rbon.
Overs hoot
pathwa ys/sc ena rios
Emissio ns, con cent ration , or temperature path ways/scen arios in wh ich t he metric of
inter est tempora ril y excee ds , or ‘ overshoots ’ , the long-term goal. (IPCC 2014a ,A R 5
WGIII G lossary)
Oxyf uel co mbusti on Comb ustion of a fuel with pure oxygen or a mi xture of oxygen, wat er an d carbon dioxide
Pyrolysis Heatin g of biomass in th e absence of oxygen . In t his process, th e chemical compounds
of biomass de compos e into cha rcoa l and combustible gas es, and some of the m c an be
cond ens ed into bio-o il.
Represen tative
Concent rati on
Pathway
RCP RCPs are scenarios t hat include time series of em ission s and concent ration s of th e f ull
suite of green house gases (GHG s) and aeroso ls an d chemically active gases, as well as
land u se/ land cov er . The word re pr es entati ve signifies tha t ea ch RCP pr ovid es only one
of many possible scenarios that would lead to the specific radiative forcing
characterist ics. The t erm path way emph asizes t hat no t on ly the lon g-term con cent ratio n
lev els are of inter es t, but als o the tra je ctory tak en ove r time to rea ch that outc ome (Mo ss
et al 2010 ). (IPCC 2014a , AR5 WG III Glo ssary)
Shared
soci oe cono mic
pathwa y
SSP T he SSP s are n ew em ission and socio- econo mic scen ario s ( Riahi et al 2017 )t h a th a v e
been develo ped to supersede t he SRE S scen arios (IPC C 2000 ). An SSP i s on e o f a
collectio n of path ways t hat describe alt ernati ve fut ures of so cio-econ omic develo pment
in the abse nce of climate p olicy interv ention. The combination of S SP-bas ed
socio -econ omic scen arios and Represent ative Co ncen trat ion Pat hway (RC P) —based
climate projections prov ide a useful integrative frame for c limate impact and policy
analysis. (IPC C 2014a , AR5 WG III Glo ssary)
Soil amen dm ent Material wo rked int o th e soil or applied o n t he surface t o enh ance plant gro wth.
Str uctu ral tr ap A geological structure capable of r etainin g hydrocarbon s, sea led structurally b y a fault or
fold. (IPCC 2005 , G lossary )
Ultr amafic A rock with very high magnesium silicate, as well as high calcium and iron silicate
content. The high cation content of magn esium and calcium is the cause for high
dissolved in organic carbon bin ding capacity in th e form of alkalinity.
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