Project description
Streamlining the implementation of carbon dioxide removal
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) – removal from the atmosphere and long-term durable storage – is required to meet emissions and carbon neutrality targets. There are many technologies and approaches available. The EU-funded UPTAKE project will streamline implementation via assessment of geographical, sectoral, socioeconomic, demographic and temporal trade-offs, co-benefits and opportunities from portfolios of different CDR methods. The comprehensive research will assess CDR governance and policy frameworks in the context of social acceptance, accountability, monitoring and regulations for sustainable large-scale CDR roll-out. Insights will feed into an open and interactive CDR roadmap explorer enabling stakeholders to investigate strategies that minimise the risks of failure and disruption and adverse impacts on society, economies and the environment.
Objective
UPTAKE aims to facilitate the sustainable upscaling of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods by developing a set of robust strategies through technical, theoretical, and practical analysis accompanied by interactive dialogue within a CDR stakeholder forum. As a result, UPTAKE will develop a harmonised, comprehensive, inclusive, integrated, and transparent CDR knowledge inventory to evaluate a wide range of CDR technologies and methods, quantifying their national, European, and global costs, effectiveness, and removal potential as well as risks, constraints, and side-effects at different scales, and their prospects of technological progress. The UPTAKE approach will allow the assessment of geographical, sectoral, socioeconomic, demographic, and temporal trade-offs, co-benefits, and opportunities emerging from portfolios of different CDR methods. The enhanced socio-technical understanding of CDR methods will feed into an ensemble of state-of-the-art integrated assessment models (IAMs), which will help improve the integration of CDR methods given the EU policy objectives set for 2030, 2050, and beyond climate neutrality. UPTAKE will assess CDR governance and policy frameworks considering social acceptance, accountability, monitoring, and regulations for sustainable CDR rollout at scale. As a result, UPTAKE will generate an open and interactive CDR roadmap explorer to investigate strategies that are resilient to risks of failure and disruption, and minimise adverse impacts on society, economy, and the environment, aiming for a just, inclusive, and sustainable transition.
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14473 Potsdam
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10829 Berlin
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2361 Laxenburg
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2500 EX Den Haag
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3584 CS Utrecht
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11523 ATHINA
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8000 Aarhus C
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412 96 GOTEBORG
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10719 Berlin
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24105 Kiel
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20148 Hamburg
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10179 Berlin
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02-512 WARSAW
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02-170 WARSZAWA
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20136 Milano
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8092 Zuerich
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5232 Villigen Psi
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80401 Golden
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G1 1XQ Glasgow
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AB24 3FX ABERDEEN
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