This paper is the result of the research carried out for the course “Climate Change Mitigation”, where the topic decided was Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs), due to such an interesting part of engineering and global potential. The aim of the study was: reviewing most relevant literature to the date and trying to provide a global concept of what negative emission is, how could it be implemented and what the limitations are.
If you are not familiar with those words, I recommend you to give it a try since it will play an important and essential role in incoming generations for mitigating climate change.
Down below the abstract is presented, you can download the full text right here: Dones, D. (2019). Going deeper into negative emissions: A general review and limitations.
Abstract
Since climate target of limiting maximum temperature increase below 2 ºC has been accepted, there is a crucial necessity of reducing CO₂ total emissions in order to achieve the goal by the end of the century. This paper aims to introduce negative emissions as a helpful way for mitigation, presenting the main research carried out and a general review of the main technologies (NETs) available for a large-scale deployment. Most of these technologies’ potentials have been assessed, followed by different costs and other related problems. The limit ranges reviewed for different NETs highlight that there is still a lack of maturity, but NETs also provide a high possibility for total emissions reduction and are intended to become part of new, more efficient mitigation policies.
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