Climate Policy and Negative Emissions Technologies
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "C: Energy Economics and Policy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 16059
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Interests: renewable energy systems; climate policy; energy flow through human systems
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Dear Colleagues,
In 2015, the Paris agreement committed the world’s nations to making extraordinary changes in how they produce and consume energy. In the short term, these commitments imply that CO2 emissions need to peak by about 2025 and decline rapidly thereafter. Further, the Paris agreement implies that shortly after the middle of the century, total net emissions need to be negative, implying the removal of billions of tons of carbon dioxide via negative emissions technologies (NETs). While the technical challenges presented by the Paris commitments are considerable, the political and policy challenges are equally formidable. Energy is an input into every product used by humans, and so changes in the way we use energy will have profound implications for the rest of society. Those implications are the reason that political progress on avoiding climate change has been glacially slow.
How do we price carbon? How do we limit emissions? How do we limit hydrocarbon supply? Whose emissions and whose hydrocarbon supply do we limit? Do we compensate nations most impacted by climate change? Do we compensate individuals most impacted by decarbonization? How do we subsidize NETs? Can nations mitigate the political, and not just the biophysical impacts of climate change? None of those questions have a conclusive answer yet, but how we answer those questions will determine the history of the 21st century. Those answers are the subject of this Special Issue.
Assist. Prof. Dr. Brian F. Snyder
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Climate policy
- Social cost of carbon
- Carbon dioxide removal
- Negative emissions technology
- Supply-side climate policy
- Decarbonization vulnerability
- Just transition
- OPEC
- Energy policy
- Paris agreement
- Carbon tax
- Cap-and-trade
