Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate due to anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. This was recognised at the 2015 Paris Climate Convention (COP21) in 2015 who agreed to limit warming at 2°C or less. Emission reductions are essential to help mitigate further warming, but we are already likely to exceed this 2°C warming. In response, COP21 recognised that some form of ‘negative emissions’ is required to stay within the 2°C warming target.
Frontier 2022
It is timely to explore what negative emissions options are available or could be developed in coming decades. Climate Intervention, (also termed “geoengineering”) is one potential suite of technologies that could mitigate climate change effects through Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) or Solar Radiation Management. Therefore there is an urgent need to assess to what extent climate intervention could help mitigate or reverse the effects of climate change, and to assess the potential risks and benefits of different approaches, particularly at the regional scale.
To ensure that Australia plays a leading role and has a strong international voice, a holistic approach across the humanities, arts, and sciences is needed; bringing us into line with other nations. This conference aims to explore negative emissions technologies holistically from practicality, feasibility, and environmental/societal impact perspectives.
Phil Renforth is an engineer and geochemist interested in understanding how reacting carbon dioxide with rocks and minerals may be able to help prevent climate change. Phil currently leads two UKRI research grants on the Greenhouse Gas Removals Programme.
Biogeochemist | Assistant Professor at Wageningen University & Research
General Manager at the Climate Change Authority
Professor of Marine Biogeochemistry, University of Tasmania
Australian chemist, Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Sydney.
Lennart Bach is an ARC Future Fellow for Climate Intervention at the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies.
Pep is a Chief Research Scientist in the CSIRO Climate Science Centre and Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project
Timothy Flannery FAA is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist, conservationist, explorer, author, science communicator, activist and public scientist.
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Venue: The Shine Dome, 15 Gordon St, Acton ACT 2601, Australia
"All pathways that limit global warming to 1.5°C with limited or no overshoot project the use of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) on the order of 100–1000 GtCO2 over the 21st century."
Mitigation of Climate Change
IPCC AR6
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