Meeting the Targets or Re-Imagining Society? An Empirical Study into the Ethical Landscape of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage in Scotland

Mabon, Leslie; Shackley, Simon

doi:10.3197/096327115x14345368709907

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“…In this regard, CCS faces a critical challenge. As above, a key concern of the just transitions movement is the fossil fuel economy, and it has been illustrated elsewhere that a perception of CCS as somehow 'supporting' the fossil fuel industries leads some actors to adopt a more cautious stance towards the technology regardless of its climate mitigation potential (Mabon and Littlecott, 2016;Mabon and Shackley, 2015). For this reason, some cast doubt on the potential of CCS to be credited with contributing to a just transition (Edwards 2019).…”

Section: Just Transition: Scholarly Contextmentioning

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What role for CCS in delivering just transitions? An evaluation in the North Sea region

Swennenhuis

Mabon

Flach³

et al. 2020

International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

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This paper assesses the role of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) in addressing challenges in the energy transition in regions reliant on carbon-intensive industries for employment and as an economic base. The assessment is based on semi-structured interviews with relevant stakeholders and experts in the Aberdeen area in Scotland, the Rotterdam harbour (or Rijnmond) area in the Netherlands, and in Norway. The interviews explored challenges around the role of CCS in regional 'just transitions', or how to make the transformation of regions relying on carbon-intensive industries to a low-carbon society fair. While significant differences in responses between the Aberdeen area, the Rijnmond area and Norway were found, a common understanding showed that for CCS to contribute to a just transition it has to (a) make a contribution to climate change imperatives; (b) help to mitigate the economic and employment effects arising from declining or maturing industries; and (c) be undertaken in a manner that helps to redress (or at least does not increase) uneven vulnerabilities and inequalities in society. Five key themes that characterise the opportunities and challenges for CCS from a just transition perspective were drawn from the interviews: Skills for a just transition, transition as an opportunity, responsibility, scale of action and viability. We recommend that these are added to earlier work on barriers and enablers of CCS in areas relying on fossil industry.

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Section: Just Transition: Scholarly Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

What role for CCS in delivering just transitions? An evaluation in the North Sea region

Swennenhuis

Mabon

Flach³

et al. 2020

International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

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“…Thus distributive justice can be used to discuss spatial inequalities, such as reductions in social welfare imposed on local communities by infrastructure built for the benefit of larger populations [46,47]. It can also refer to temporal inequalities, whereby infrastructure benefiting those in the present carries economic and environmental impacts to be borne by future generations [23,48]. Finally, distributive justice may also point to the potential for inequalities in access to energy services, which may arise from income or position in other social hierarchies, which may itself have spatial or temporal elements [49,50].…”

Section: Energy Justicementioning

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Energy justice discourses in citizen deliberations on systems flexibility in the United Kingdom: Vulnerability, compensation and empowerment

Thomas

Demski

Pidgeon

2020

Energy Research & Social Science

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This article details the application of energy justice as an analytic lens for exploring social acceptability of energy systems flexibility and governance in the UK. Drives towards the uptake of inflexible, low-carbon generation technologies are expected to generate new challenges for balancing energy supply with demand, requiring changes in network management. From the uptake of new storage technologies to shifts in practices and governance, such changes may impact on everyday energy users in a variety of ways. Drawing on data collected from deliberative workshops conducted in England, Scotland and Wales, we examine how members of the public interpret and respond to six models for governing future, more flexible energy systems. In so doing, we illustrate the value of energy justice literature in making sense of the ways citizens identify and balance concerns relating to how distributions of needs, capacities, and benefits, may shape novel forms of energy system participation. We also draw attention to the ways in which alternative discourses about fairness rooted in neoliberal understandings of market exchange may interact with and contradict more socially salient understandings of flexibility justice rooted in concern for vulnerable groups.

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“…The literature in this area calls for a more democratic process, one which opens up critical discussion of wider implications, differentiating by scale rather than 'technology', to consider social, ethical, and political impacts of different levels of deployment and decision making (for example, 58,59). Ethical mapping of CCS has identified justice, prevention of harm, and technoscientific and regulatory competence as potential faultlines or areas of contention [71][72][73]. With extended BECCS supply chains, where biomass feedstock and storage of CO 2 potentially takes place across multiple countries and continents, in addition to technical and sustainability challenges [20,74], there are deep underlying ethical issues associated with its implementation [70].…”

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Beyond Social Acceptability: Applying Lessons from CCS Social Science to Support Deployment of BECCS

Gough¹,

Mander²

2019

Curr Sustainable Renewable Energy Rep

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Purpose of Review This paper assesses social science research relating to BECCS and considers the applicability of research on CCS to BECCS. Recent Findings In recent years, social science research on CCS and BECCS has gone beyond an evaluation of public acceptance to provide a more nuanced analysis of the wider social political, ethical, and governance contexts in which large-scale deployment might be achieved. This raises issues at global, local, and regional scales, requiring a wide array of methods and approaches. Summary Awareness of the scale and urgency needed to act on climate change is growing and the role of BECCS in delivering carbon dioxide removal forms a central argument for the use of this family of technologies. Here, framing becomes a critical factor in how society responds to BECCS technologies and we argue that making the case for BECCS as a means of extending mitigation to make a 'net zero' goal achievable could be the key to its acceptable and sustainable deployment. Keywords CCS. BECCS. Carbon dioxide removal (CDR). Negative emissions. Social responses. Acceptability This article is part of the Topical Collection on Deep Decarbonization: BECCS

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Meeting the Targets or Re-Imagining Society? An Empirical Study into the Ethical Landscape of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage in Scotland

Cited by 34 publications

References 35 publications

What role for CCS in delivering just transitions? An evaluation in the North Sea region

What role for CCS in delivering just transitions? An evaluation in the North Sea region

Energy justice discourses in citizen deliberations on systems flexibility in the United Kingdom: Vulnerability, compensation and empowerment

Beyond Social Acceptability: Applying Lessons from CCS Social Science to Support Deployment of BECCS

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