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DOI | 10.1080/14693062.2020.1803039 |
Progressive supply-side policy under the Paris Agreement to enhance geological carbon storage | |
Zakkour P.D.; Heidug W.; Howard A.; Stuart Haszeldine R.; Allen M.R.; Hone D. | |
发表日期 | 2021 |
ISSN | 1469-3062 |
卷号 | 21期号:1 |
英文摘要 | As the Paris Agreement moves towards implementation, we explore opportunities it presents to move part of the climate change mitigation challenge upstream into supply-side climate policy. Supply-side climate policies have been sparsely employed to date, although interest is growing in approaches that can curtail and end fossil fuel production. Rather than focussing on fully eliminating fossil fuel production, we set out an alternative supply-side approach that involves fossil fuel producers taking progressive action to reduce and eliminate the climate impacts of their products. Our proposal uses the Paris Agreement’s framework for finance and international cooperation to establish supply-side climate action that supplements demand-side climate policies, and thereby enhance climate ambition. The concepts presented rely on large-scale geosequestration technologies that can deposit carbon into geological reservoirs at rates progressively aligned to those at which carbon is being extracted by fossil fuel producers. Convergence of extraction and deposition rates is a necessary condition for achieving net-zero CO2 emissions while still enabling some essential uses of fossil carbon. We propose an evolutionary approach to policy development, starting as a technology-support mechanism using results-based finance before transitioning into systematic measures under, firstly, Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, and, ultimately, decarbonised fuel standards. Collectively these could incentivise fossil fuel resource holders to manage both outflows and inflows of carbon in the geosphere, and in doing so, create, foster, accelerate and maintain an urgently needed market for geological CO2 storage. Key policy insights Balancing rates of carbon extraction from the geosphere (e.g. fossil fuel production) and rates of carbon deposition in stable geological reservoirs can achieve net-zero emissions alongside efforts to reduce emission flows to the atmosphere. Framing the climate mitigation challenge around carbon stock management on the supply-side of fossil fuel markets offers new ways to enhance climate ambition by mobilizing the financial and technical resources of fossil fuel producers in deploying carbon capture and storage. International cooperation under the Paris Agreement offers a powerful opportunity to establish tradeable units that support establishment of a liquid market in verified carbon storage. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. |
英文关键词 | Article 6 mechanisms; climate finance; Paris Agreement; stock-based carbon accounting; storage crediting; supply-side climate policy |
来源期刊 | CLIMATE POLICY |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/183698 |
作者单位 | Carbon Counts, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Koru Climate, Bonn, Germany; School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Grant Institute, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; Shell International Ltd., Shell Centre, London, United Kingdom |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Zakkour P.D.,Heidug W.,Howard A.,et al. Progressive supply-side policy under the Paris Agreement to enhance geological carbon storage[J],2021,21(1). |
APA | Zakkour P.D.,Heidug W.,Howard A.,Stuart Haszeldine R.,Allen M.R.,&Hone D..(2021).Progressive supply-side policy under the Paris Agreement to enhance geological carbon storage.CLIMATE POLICY,21(1). |
MLA | Zakkour P.D.,et al."Progressive supply-side policy under the Paris Agreement to enhance geological carbon storage".CLIMATE POLICY 21.1(2021). |
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