Decarbonizing the pulp and paper industry: A critical and systematic review of sociotechnical developments and policy options

Rio, Dylan D. Furszyfer Del; Sovacool, Benjamin K.; Griffiths, Steve; Bazilian, Morgan; Kim, Jinsoo; Foley, Aoife; Rooney, David

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2022.112706

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“…Cotton textiles, which are >95% cellulose (Subramanian et al, 2022), may be handled to produce cellulose if the right solvent is found. Paper waste contributes significantly to municipal and industrial garbage, with an estimated 400 million tonnes generated yearly, including cardboard, office documents, and newspapers (Del Rio, 2022). The regeneration of waste newspapers, which are rich in cellulose, lignin, and hemicellulose, has produced a translucent or clear film with superior mechanical properties (Xia et al, 2021).…”

Section: Biopolymers Recoverable Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Membrane Fabrication by Solid Waste: Opportunities and Challenges

Samavati

Goh

Ismail

2023

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IntroductionA significant population growth and development in industrialization has led to the concurrent expansion in many sectors including agricultural activities and daily consumption (Zhang et al, 2022). Numerous everyday activities and industrial operations create garbage, and the amount of waste generated rises proportionately to the demand for goods (Sebastian and Louis, 2021). As a result, the issues related to resource management and garbage disposal are rapidly increasing. In addition to posing serious environmental risks, poor disposal and handling can have a detrimental effect on human health (Mrozik www.resrecov.com HIGHLIGHTS ➢ This review discusses recycling solid waste into watertreatment membranes. ➢ Circular economy solid wastes can be utilized to make membranes. ➢ Suitable biopolymers, plastics, and inorganics waste for membranes is introduced. ➢ Membrane fabrication and performance with recycled materials are discussed. ➢ Future perspectives on waste-derived membranes are suggested.

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Section: Biopolymers Recoverable Resourcesmentioning

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Membrane Fabrication by Solid Waste: Opportunities and Challenges

Samavati

Goh

Ismail

2023

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“…Whether decarbonization of energy systems has positive or negative effects on environmental justice in the near term will vary depending on technology, process, scale and context-as demonstrated by impacts from solar, wind, hydro, and nuclear energy that differ in scope and kind (17,104,(106)(107)(108)(109). Low-carbon energy technologies can produce negative externalities (e.g., wind turbine shadow flicker, pollution from methane generating landfills, exacerbation of local inequality due to differing accessibility to sustainable products and services).…”

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Mitigating Climate Change and Climate Injustice Simultaneously

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Mitigating climate change and social injustice are critical, interwoven challenges facing humankind. Climate change is the result of grossly unequal greenhouse gas emissions by different societies and groups. Its impacts are also unjust, disproportionately affecting poor and less powerful nations, and the poor and the less powerful within each nation. While climate mitigation is essential, it reshapes the interacting socio-cultural, economic, political, physical and ecological processes that cause climate change, often with adverse outcomes for the most vulnerable. Answering the challenge of how to achieve climate mitigation alongside social justice mitigation and enhanced wellbeing will require improved understanding of the tradeoffs of alternative climate mitigation options with demonstrably different social justice outcomes.Herein, we present a broad framework to illustrate the interface between climate change and social justice, examining how economic, health, governance, social and policy dimensions interrelate both as cause and consequence of climate change, related emissions, and associated injustices. We then assess how specific mitigation interventions can address or exacerbate climate injustice, or more complexly, simultaneously worsen climate injustice for some and improve justice outcomes for others. In sorting through these possibilities, we identify a set of interventions that can both reduce emissions and enhance justice more broadly. These solutions highlight a range of possible ways forward, and include demographic choices, technology, a suite of natural solutions, and policy and governance. We also discuss political-economic obstacles to adoption and possible mechanisms that may support broader deployment. Addressing such possibilities has the potential to generate new ways of thinking about and mitigating inequity and power imbalance in the context of mitigating climate change.

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“…Whether decarbonization of energy systems has positive or negative effects on environmental justice in the near term will vary depending on technology, process, scale and context-as demonstrated by impacts from solar, wind, hydro, and nuclear energy that differ in scope and kind (17,102,(104)(105)(106)(107). Low-carbon energy technologies can produce negative externalities (e.g., wind turbine shadow flicker, pollution from methane generating landfills, exacerbation of local inequality due to differing accessibility to sustainable products and services).…”

Section: The Framework In Action: Opportunities To Simultaneously Mit...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Mitigating Climate Change and Climate Injustice Simultaneously

Grace

Agrawal²,

Nagendra

2022

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Mitigating climate change and social injustice are critical, interwoven challenges facing humankind. Climate change is the result of grossly unequal greenhouse gas emissions by different societies and groups. Its impacts are also unjust, disproportionately affecting poor and less powerful nations, and the poor and the less powerful within each nation. While climate mitigation is essential, it reshapes the interacting socio-cultural, economic, political, physical and ecological processes that cause climate change, often with adverse outcomes for the most vulnerable. Answering the challenge of how to achieve climate mitigation alongside social justice mitigation and enhanced wellbeing will require improved understanding of the tradeoffs of alternative climate mitigation options with demonstrably different social justice outcomes.Herein, we present a framework to illustrate the interface between climate change and social justice, examining how economic, governance, social and policy dimensions interrelate both as cause and consequence of climate change, related emissions, and associated injustices. We then assess how specific mitigation interventions can address or exacerbate climate injustice, or more complexly, simultaneously worsen climate injustice for some and improve justice outcomes for others. In sorting through these possibilities, we identify a set of interventions that can both reduce emissions and enhance justice more broadly, including demographic choices, technology, natural solutions, and policy and governance. We also discuss obstacles to adoption and possible mechanisms that may support broader deployment. Addressing such possibilities has the potential to generate new ways of thinking about and mitigating inequity and power imbalance in the context of mitigating climate change.

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Decarbonizing the pulp and paper industry: A critical and systematic review of sociotechnical developments and policy options

Cited by 71 publications

References 324 publications

Membrane Fabrication by Solid Waste: Opportunities and Challenges

Membrane Fabrication by Solid Waste: Opportunities and Challenges

Mitigating Climate Change and Climate Injustice Simultaneously

Mitigating Climate Change and Climate Injustice Simultaneously

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