I started looking for approaches people were considering to actually fix and not just mitigate climate change and eventually found different research being done on direct air capture and other
negative emissions strategies.
Negative emissions strategies could help facilitate responses by countries that might not choose to engage in emissions mitigation.
First, it provides a preliminary estimate of anticipated reductions in temperatures per 100 PgC CO2, providing a guide to policymakers who might contemplate more limited uses of
negative emissions strategies than contemplated in this study.
Second, the study provides a pointed reminder of the fact that
a negative emissions strategy would likely necessitate a multi-generational societal commitment, with all of the implications that this would hold for governance, ethics and practical logistics.
Not exact matches
Carbon removal solutions will be necessary to transform the economy to generate
negative emissions, as more traditional climate mitigation
strategies (such as renewable energy, energy efficiency, avoided deforestation, etc.) can only get us to zero
emissions — not below zero.
As a result, it is increasingly imperative that we also develop
negative emissions technologies as part of our broader climate mitigation
strategy.
In recent years, a number of climate change commentators, non-governmental organizations, and intergovernmental organizations have discussed the potential need for so - called «
negative greenhouse gas
emissions»
strategies.
The Oxford Martin School put on a three - day Greenhouse Gas Removal Conference with support from the Virgin Earth Challenge, the Savory Institute hosted a big summit on holistic grassland management, and the NGO Belllona hosted a Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Conference (Bioenergy + CCS is a key
strategy for generating
negative emissions energy).
«We need to start thinking about how to implement a
negative -
emissions energy
strategy on a global scale.