The effects of carbon dioxide removal on the carbon cycle

Keller, David P., Lenton, Andrew, Littleton, Emma W., Oschlies, Andreas, Scott, Vivian and Vaughan, Naomi E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4532-2084 (2018) The effects of carbon dioxide removal on the carbon cycle. Current Climate Change Reports, 4 (3). pp. 250-265. ISSN 2198-6061

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Abstract

Increasing atmospheric CO2 is having detrimental effects on the Earth system. Societies have recognized that anthropogenic CO2 release must be rapidly reduced to avoid potentially catastrophic impacts. Achieving this via emissions reductions alone will be very difficult. Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) has been suggested to complement and compensate for insufficient emissions reductions, through increasing natural carbon sinks, engineering new carbon sinks, or combining natural uptake with engineered storage. Here, we review the carbon cycle responses to different CDR approaches and highlight the often-overlooked interaction and feedbacks between carbon reservoirs that ultimately determines CDR efficacy. We also identify future research that will be needed if CDR is to play a role in climate change mitigation, these include coordinated studies to better understand (i) the underlying mechanisms of each method, (ii) how they could be explicitly simulated, (iii) how reversible changes in the climate and carbon cycle are, and (iv) how to evaluate and monitor CDR.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	climate change,carbon dioxide removal (cdr),mitigation,carbon cycle,negative emissions,carbon cycle feedbacks,climate feedbacks,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences Faculty of Science
UEA Research Groups:	University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Related URLs:	http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s40641-...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	31 Aug 2018 10:30
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2023 01:10
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/68173
DOI:	10.1007/s40641-018-0104-3

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