Emergency deployment of direct air capture as a response to the climate crisis

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 368 - 13
• Main Authors: Hanna, Ryan, Abdulla, Ahmed, Xu, Yangyang, Victor, David G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 14.01.2021; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 704/106/694/682; 704/844/2175; 704/844/682; 706/689/694/682; Amortization; Carbon; Carbon dioxide; Carbon Dioxide - analysis; Carbon dioxide emissions; Carbon dioxide removal; Climate Change; Crises; Electricity; Emergency response; Emissions; Emissions control; Energy efficiency; Energy-Generating Resources; Environmental Monitoring - economics; Environmental Monitoring - methods; Environmental policy; Funding; Global Warming; Humanities and Social Sciences; Hydroelectric power; Industrial plant emissions; Industrial plants; Interest groups; Investment; multidisciplinary; Natural gas; Pandemics; Politics; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Supplies

Though highly motivated to slow the climate crisis, governments may struggle to impose costly polices on entrenched interest groups, resulting in a greater need for negative emissions. Here, we model wartime-like crash deployment of direct air capture (DAC) as a policy response to the climate crisis...