Project description
Emerging negative emission technology tackles global climate change
The EU-funded STEPforGGR project seeks to promote a novel technology for the removal of non-CO2 greenhouse gases, utilising large-scale atmospheric photocatalysis enabled by solar up-draft towers. The project, involving world-leading institutions in the relevant subject areas of physics, chemistry, engineering and manufacturing, will jointly evaluate the feasibility of this new but entirely untested negative emission technology and build a foundation for climate policy debate and practical application, tackling climate change at the global scale. This robust network will identify bottlenecks and provide solutions to greenhouse gas removal at a climatically relevant scale.
Objective
STEPforGGR is a research and training focused initiative consisting of world-leading institutions in the multidisciplinary and intersectoral subject areas of physics, chemistry, engineering and manufacturing. The overarching purpose is to promote a novel greenhouse gas removal technology: removal of non-CO2 greenhouse gases utilising large-scale atmospheric photocatalysis enabled by solar up-draft towers. The objective is to collaboratively evaluate the feasibility of this new but entirely untested negative emission technology and build up a foundation for climate policy debate and practical application tackling climate change at the global scale. Through comprehensive and complementary expertise and the robust network among theoreticians, experimentalists and manufacturers, STEPforGGR will identify bottle necks (rate limiting steps, work package 1 (WP1)) and provide solutions for optimization of the complex process through modelling and experiments (WPs2&3), as well as estimate the scalability (WP4) and sustainability (WP5) of the truly pioneering greenhouse gas removal technology at the climatically relevant scale. STEPforGGR will produce multiple avenues for career development, cross-sectorial experience, and academic training in a multi-cultural, interdisciplinary and intersectoral environment formed by a consortium of six world-leading research organizations and one industrial partner.
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EH8 9YL Edinburgh
United Kingdom