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TY - JOUR
T1 - Beyond ‘Net-Zero’
T2 - A case for separate targets for emissions reduction and negative emissions
AU - McLaren, Duncan
AU - Tyfield, David
AU - Willis, Rebecca
AU - Szerszynski, Bronislaw
AU - Markusson, Nils
PY - 2019/8/21
Y1 - 2019/8/21
N2 - Targets and accounting for negative emissions should be explicitly set and managed separately from existing and future targets for emissions reduction. Failure to make such a separation has already hampered climate policy, exaggerating the expected future contribution of negative emissions in climate models, while also obscuring the extent and pace of the investment needed to deliver negative emissions. Separation would help minimize the negative impacts that promises and deployments of negative emissions could have on emissions reduction, arising from effects such as temporal trade-offs, excessive offsetting, and technological lock-in. Benefits for international, national, local, organizational, and sectoral planning would arise from greater clarity over the role and timing of negative emissions alongside accelerated emissions reduction.
AB - Targets and accounting for negative emissions should be explicitly set and managed separately from existing and future targets for emissions reduction. Failure to make such a separation has already hampered climate policy, exaggerating the expected future contribution of negative emissions in climate models, while also obscuring the extent and pace of the investment needed to deliver negative emissions. Separation would help minimize the negative impacts that promises and deployments of negative emissions could have on emissions reduction, arising from effects such as temporal trade-offs, excessive offsetting, and technological lock-in. Benefits for international, national, local, organizational, and sectoral planning would arise from greater clarity over the role and timing of negative emissions alongside accelerated emissions reduction.
U2 - 10.3389/fclim.2019.00004
DO - 10.3389/fclim.2019.00004
M3 - Journal article
VL - 1
JO - Frontiers in Climate
JF - Frontiers in Climate
M1 - 4
ER -