CO₂ Capture and Renewable Energy

Dear Colleagues,

The rapid and global development of an energy sector based on renewables and green sources is critical for its decarbonization in a climate-friendly scenario. Nevertheless, CO₂ capture and storage (CCS) remains necessary for abating CO₂ emissions from operating fossil fuel-fired power stations and from many industrial sources that are hard or impossible to decarbonize otherwise. Furthermore, CO₂ removal technologies, such as bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and direct air capture (DAC), will also be necessary to reduce the high atmospheric concentration of CO₂, if the ambitious climate goals established in the Paris Agreement are to be met. CO₂ utilization (CU), in combination with renewable energy, is also foreseen to contribute to displace fossil fuels in a carbon-neutral scenario.

This Special Issue provides an overview of the recent advances in the referred topics and contributes to the climate agenda through the dissemination of enhanced scientific and multidisciplinary knowledge by bringing focus on the decarbonization of the economy in order to meet environmental goals. We therefore invite the submission of papers on innovative technical developments, reviews, case studies, analytical studies, as well as assessment papers from different disciplines, which are relevant to CCS, BECCS, DAC, CU, and a combination of these with renewable energy production.

Dr. Marta González Plaza
Dr. Rui P. P. L. Ribeiro
Guest Editors

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