Project description
Ocean-based technologies to remove carbon dioxide
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Global Warming underlines that all projected actions aiming to limit warming up to 1.5 °C also require the use of negative emission technologies (NETs). So far, the majority of NETs studies have focused on land-based technologies, which are unlikely to be a sufficient climate mitigation measure to compliment emission reductions. Knowledge of ocean-based technologies that may have a higher capacity to remove and store carbon, is still limited. The EU-funded OceanNETs project will explore the feasibility, positive and negative impacts of ocean-based NETs and demonstrate whether they can play a substantial and sustainable role in medium-to-long-term actions to limit warming. Additionally, the impacts of ocean-based NETs on society and the Earth system, as well as the effects of ocean-based and land-based NETs interactions, will be assessed.
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation action
Coordinator
24148 Kiel
Germany
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Participants (13)
5838 Bergen
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7491 Trondheim
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20148 Hamburg
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EH14 4AS Edinburgh
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27570 Bremerhaven
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04109 Leipzig
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24105 Kiel
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00560 Helsinki
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14467 Potsdam
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OX1 2JD Oxford
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35001 Las Palmas De Gran Canaria
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0313 Oslo
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2601 Acton Act
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