A sustainable energy future requires strategies to allow the use of energy while enabling the near­term stabilisation and, ideally, reduction of GHG concentrations in the atmosphere. Society needs to be informed of the potential risks and opportunities associated with the mitigation options in order to decide which are the best for dealing with climate change. In addition to decarbonising energy use and food production, afforestation, ?negative emissions technologies? ­­ such as bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS), afforestation and soil carbon sequestration ­­ have been proposed as methods to actively remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Now at an early stage, this EPA­funded, climate change research project aims: to provide a detailed and rigorous assessment of the scale and speed of negative emissions technology deployment that is required by currently envisaged decarbonisation pathways (globally and nationally), consistent with the Paris agreement goal of limiting global temperature rise to ?well below +2°C? over pre­industrial; to evaluate the options and capacity for Ireland itself to directly contribute to such deployment; and to provide an evidence base (including energy­carbon modelling and bioenergy yield and lifecycle assessment) for assessing the risks attaching to reliance on such presumptive future technology deployment in designing current (5­15 year) decarbonisation policy measures. In particular, the project will focus on identifying early research or policy actions that could significantly reduce the uncertainties attaching to the feasibility and costs of negative emissions technology, both globally and nationally.

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SAFER-Data Display URL	https://eparesearch.epa.ie/safer/iso19115/display?isoID=3149
Resource Keywords	climate change, negative emission technologies, Paris Agreement, bioenergy, carbon capture and storage, deep decarbonisation, land­use, global carbon budget
EPA/ERTDI/STRIVE Project Code	2016 ­CCRP­ MS.36
EPA/ERTDI/STRIVE Project Theme	Climate Change
Resource Availability:	Public-Open
Limitations on the use of this Resource	NONE
Number of Attached Files (Publicly and Openly Available for Download):	8
Project Start Date	Monday 6th February 2017 (06-02-2017)
Earliest Recorded Date within any attached datasets or digital objects	Friday 3rd March 2017 (03-03-2017)
Most Recent Recorded Date within any attached datasets or digital objects	Sunday 1st September 2019 (01-09-2019)
Published on SAFER	Friday 24th March 2017 (24-03-2017)
Date of Last Edit	Monday 13th January 2020 at 10:51:57 (13-01-2020)
Datasets or Files Updated On	Wednesday 27th March 2019 at 18:33:26 (27-03-2019)

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