Selling stories of techno-optimism? The role of narratives on discursive construction of carbon capture and storage in the Japanese media

Asayama, Shinichiro; Ishii, Atsushi

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2017.06.010

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“…Research has drawn on varied theoretical concepts including social licence to operate [22,41], media representations (e.g., [42,43]), and justice and human rights (e.g., [44]). There has been a strong emphasis on risk and risk communication; L'Orange Siego et al [26] highlight the importance of mental models and knowledge to draft risk communication material, and the importance of benefit perceptions and trust, the importance of stakeholder engagement and experience of other technologies, findings echoed by many [4,19,31,36,45,46].…”

Section: Methods and Theoretical Contextsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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Section: Methods and Theoretical Contextsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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“…Our slender newspaper results stand in stark contrast to the extensive recent deliberations on BECCS in research and policy circles, including the recent policy proposals to deploy BECCS to achieve the UK net-zero target, raising concern that the BECCS policy debate may be accelerating away from public understanding or acceptance. The number of newspaper articles that we found was also notably smaller than the numbers of newspaper articles reviewed in previous news media analyses on energy storage, offshore wind energy, fracking, CCS, and bioenergy [25,27,29,30,41]. This gap between the public and policy debate on BECCS is important: a SLO takes time to form and requires continued active public engagement whilst attempting to rush this process to deliver BECCS carries risks.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 69%

Without SLO BECCS, fast net-zero looks unlikely

Donnison

Trdlicova

Mohr

et al. 2021

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Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) discussions have been dominated by global scale assessments with very limited exploration of how and where the technology could be deployed. A social license to operate (SLO) may not be achieved if key aspects of deployment and public concerns are not addressed, as has happened with onshore wind energy and fracking. There is a crucial role for the news media in this process because of its influence over the public debate and public attitudes. The fate of the public debate on BECCS has major implications for the delivery of net-zero emissions: time is very short for policymakers to find alternative strategies to meet carbon budgets if BECCS is rejected. Our news media analysis of the UK and California explores the ‘storylines’ which frame the public debate of BECCS. Results highlight: 1) an immature public debate, significantly lagging policy objectives; 2) a distinctive set of storylines specific to California and the UK; and 3) the absence of a location-specific discussion of BECCS, which we argue is critical to community-level support necessary for a SLO.

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“…However, in the basic sense of "story telling" narratives can be one sided, partial and simplistic. In the present context, for example, Asayama and Ishii (2017) highlight one sidedly optimistic CDR narratives in several Japanese newspapers between 2006 and 2013. the next discursive step as we anticipate a world with CDR/NETs in it. But the challenge is to grapple with alternate realities, both present and future.…”

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The Discourse and Reality of Carbon Dioxide Removal: Toward the Responsible Use of Metaphors in Post-normal Times

Castree

2020

Front. Clim.

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There's little doubt that a variety of CDR techniques will be employed worldwide in the decades and centuries to come. Together, these techniques will alter the character and functioning of the biosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, pedosphere, and atmosphere. More locally, they will have immediate impacts on people and place, within diverse national state contexts. However, for the moment CDR exists more in the realm of discourse than reality. Its future roll-out in many and varied forms will depend on a series of discussions in the governmental, commercial, and civic spheres. Metaphor will be quite central to these formative discussions. Metaphors serve to structure perceptions of unfamiliar phenomena by transferring meaning from a recognized “source” domain to a new “target” domain. They can be employed in more or less felicitous, more or less noticeable, more or less defensible ways. Metaphors help to govern future action by framing present-day understandings of a world to come. To govern metaphor itself may seem as foolhardy as attempting to sieve water or converse with rocks. Yet by rehearsing some old lessons about metaphor we stand some chance of responsibly steering its employment in unfolding debates about CDR techniques and their practical governance globally. This Perspective identifies some key elements of metaphor's use that will require attention in the different contexts where CDR techniques presently get (and will in future be) discussed meaningfully. Various experts involved in CDR development and deployment have an important, though not controlling, role to play in how it gets metaphorized. This matters in our age of populism, rhetoric, misinformation, and disinformation where the willful (mis)use of certain metaphors threatens to depoliticize, polarize, or simplify future debates about CDR. What is needed is “post-normal” discourse where high stakes decisions made in the context of epistemic uncertainty are informed by clear reasoning among disparate parties whose values diverge.

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Selling stories of techno-optimism? The role of narratives on discursive construction of carbon capture and storage in the Japanese media

Cited by 59 publications

References 48 publications

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

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

Without SLO BECCS, fast net-zero looks unlikely

The Discourse and Reality of Carbon Dioxide Removal: Toward the Responsible Use of Metaphors in Post-normal Times

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