Don't send us your waste gases: Public attitudes toward international carbon dioxide transportation and storage in Europe

Merk, Christine; Nordø, Åsta Dyrnes; Andersen, Gisle; Lægreid, Ole Martin; Tvinnereim, Endre

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2021.102450

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“…Integrative risk governance seems a prerequisite to legitimate policymaking; the procedural rule or objective regarding the development of policies thus includes deliberation among experts and epistemic communities (epistemic deliberation), societal stakeholder groups (associational deliberation), and the general public (public deliberation) (Klinke and Renn, 2021). Perception of risks and fairness (both intragenerational and intergenerational) of policies are highly interlinked with trust in the implementing actors and communicators (experts, planners, and decisionmakers; Honegger and Reiner, 2018) and with intuitive public narratives, as found by studies of the public perception of CCS in Norway and Germany (Dütschke et al, 2016;Merk et al, 2022).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Policies can pursue international cooperation for BECCS as its value-chain can be split between countries. This is an opportunity for efficiency (principle e), but it introduces challenges for distributive fairness (principle j), and the transportation and storage infrastructure may be rejected due to perceived risks despite public participation (principle o; Gough et al, 2014;Pind Aradóttir and Hjálmarsson, 2018;Merk et al, 2022).…”

Section: International Cooperation and Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The ABC of Governance Principles for Carbon Dioxide Removal Policy

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Baatz²,

Eberenz³

et al. 2022

Front. Clim.

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Climate change mitigation actions, including those aimed at developing and scaling carbon dioxide removal (CDR) activities spanning the industrial, energy, and agroforestry sector, emerge in a context of internationally shared norms that include governance objectives, legal provisions and informal expectations, and societal expectations. Established governance principles provide normative orientation for policy including when targeting the development and scaling of CDR. Knowledge of these principles can guide effective discussion and evaluation of policy options. To facilitate discussion of mitigation options among experts and CDR practitioners, this study excerpts governance principles from legislative texts, the climate governance literature, and the CDR literature with relevance to CDR policy considerations. To illustrate the relevance of the governance principles found for evaluating policy options, we apply them to three technology groups of CDR: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS), Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage (DACCS), and forestry. This exercise indicates the importance of more intensive attention to the normative dimension of mitigation policies in ongoing deliberative and planning processes. Such efforts can help disentangle normative and factual dimensions and sources of (dis)agreement on the role of CDR in specific climate policy contexts.

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Section: International Cooperation and Supportmentioning

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The ABC of Governance Principles for Carbon Dioxide Removal Policy

Honegger

Baatz²,

Eberenz³

et al. 2022

Front. Clim.

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“…A prevailing feature of societal research in CCS is that there are low levels of public awareness (Whitmarsh et al, 2019;Pianta et al, 2021; UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, 2021a; Ostfeld & Reiner, 2020). Perception also varies with geography with increasingly negative opinions the closer a storage site is located, and whether or not the source of the CO2 is domestic or imported ( Haug & Stigson, 2016;Akerboom et al, 2021;Merk et al, 2022). There is evidence that benefit perception varies depending on the particular CCS chain (Dütschke et al, 2016;Gonzalez et al, 2021;Glanz et al, 2021).…”

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Subsurface carbon dioxide and hydrogen storage for a sustainable energy future

Krevor

Coninck

Gasda

et al. 2023

Nat Rev Earth Environ

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Limiting climate change to less than 1.5 o C would require vast quantities of CO2 storage in subsurface geological formations. Global injection rates projected by integrated assessment models synthesised in IPCC reports are on the order of ten gigatonnes per year by 2050. Industrial experience with megatonne per year storage projects allows us to evaluate the feasibility and potential limitations of a transition to the gigatonne scale. The successes with CO2 have also led to interest in new energy technologies using subsurface fluids, including hydrogen storage underground. We review the role of subsurface CO2 and H2 storage in a sustainable energy transition. We have found that current deployment demonstrates the viability of CO2 storage in a variety of geological, social, economic, and technological contexts, and is making contributions to climate change mitigation today commensurate with the impact of solar photovoltaics in the USA market. The implications of this are that CO2 storage is well positioned to play an important role in the energy transition, and H2 storage may benefit from this experience. However, these are not certain outcomes, with many hurdles -the development of multi-site regional scale storage, viable business models for accelerated deployment, demonstrating environmental sustainability and achieving societal acceptability -yet to be addressed.

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“…If this is the case, Germany will probably have to rely on buying CO 2 removals from other countries as regulated under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement 32 to meet its nationally determined contributions. The questions of where to compensate domestic emissions and of who should implement the CDR methods raises several questions: Do countries live up to their climate ambitions and their historic responsibility by having the work done in other states 26,33 , or are the actors in other states or at home trustworthy 22,34 ? Therefore, public support of CDR methods can be affected by citizens' trust in countries and institutions.…”

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German citizens’ preference for domestic carbon dioxide removal by afforestation is incompatible with national removal potential

Merk

Liebe

Meyerhoff

et al. 2023

Commun Earth Environ

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Efficient and sustainable solutions for offsetting residual emissions via carbon dioxide removal are a major challenge. Proposed removal methods result in trade-offs with other Sustainable Development Goals, and the removal needs of many countries exceed their domestic potentials. Here, we examine the public acceptability of conducting afforestation and direct air capture programmes domestically in Germany or abroad. To uncover the relative importance of various programme attributes, we use a multifactorial vignette experiment. We find that afforestation receives stronger support than direct capture. Next to the costs to households, minimising environmental impacts on biodiversity in forests and the use of renewable energy for direct capture are more important for acceptability than the permanence of storage. Further, individuals strongly prefer domestic programmes to offsets in other countries. These findings suggest significant discrepancies between strong public preferences for domestic carbon removal with low environmental side-effects and the too low potential for such removals.

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Don't send us your waste gases: Public attitudes toward international carbon dioxide transportation and storage in Europe

Cited by 34 publications

References 52 publications

The ABC of Governance Principles for Carbon Dioxide Removal Policy

The ABC of Governance Principles for Carbon Dioxide Removal Policy

Subsurface carbon dioxide and hydrogen storage for a sustainable energy future

German citizens’ preference for domestic carbon dioxide removal by afforestation is incompatible with national removal potential

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