November 2019

11.11.2019

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Independent: Scientists create ‘artificial leaf’ that sucks in carbon dioxide and makes fuel

"The new technology was inspired by the way plants use photosynthesis to turn carbon dioxide into glucose and oxygen. The artificial leaf mimics this process – with the help of a cheap red powder called cuprous oxide – and produces methanol and oxygen."

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11.11.2019

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Newsletter of Week 46 of 2019

The newsletter of calendar week 46 in 2019 is now available here.


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11.11.2019

# New Publications

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Wheeling, K. (2019): Where Does the Carbon Go When Permafrost Coasts Erode?

Wheeling, Kate. 2019. “Where Does the Carbon Go When Permafrost Coasts Erode? - Eos.” Eos. November 7, 2019. https://eos.org/research-spotlights/where-does-the-carbon-go-when-permafrost-coasts-erode.

"‌Arctic coastlines have not been considered carefully in carbon cycles for long, but new research suggests that eroding permafrost may emit more greenhouse gases than previously thought."

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11.11.2019

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The Guardian: Climategate 10 years on: what lessons have we learned?

"A series of leaked emails was leapt on by climate-change deniers to discredit the data, but their efforts may have only slowed the search for solutions."

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11.11.2019

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Lockley, A. (2019): Distributed Governance of Solar Radiation Management Geoengineering: A Possible Solution to SRM’s ‘Free-Driver’ Problem?

Lockley, Andrew. 2019. “Distributed Governance of Solar Radiation Management Geoengineering: A Possible Solution to SRM’s ‘Free-Driver’ Problem?” Frontiers of Engineering Management, October. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42524-019-0055-y.

‌"We propose a novel distributed governance model of consensually-constrained unilateralism: Countries’ authority is limited to each state’s fraction of the maximum realistic intervention (e.g., pre-industrial temperature). We suggest a division of authority based on historical emissions (Rocha et al., 2015)—noting alternatives (e.g., population). To aid understanding, we offer an analogue: An over-heated train carriage, with passenger-controlled windows. We subsequently discuss the likely complexities, notably Coasian side-payments. Finally, we suggest further research: Algebraic, bot and human modeling; and observational studies."

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11.11.2019

# New Publications

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Schroeder, C.; et al (2019): “Stratospheric Aerosol Injection as a Deep Reinforcement Learning Problem

Schroeder, Christian, and Thomas Hornigold. 2019. “Stratospheric Aerosol Injection as a Deep Reinforcement Learning Problem.” ArXiv.Org. 2019. https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.07366v1.

‌"We suggest treating SAI as a high-dimensional control problem, with policies trained according to a context-sensitive reward function within the Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) paradigm. In order to facilitate training in simulation, we suggest to emulate HadCM3, a widely used General Circulation Model, using deep learning techniques. We believe this is the first application of DRL to the climate sciences."

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11.11.2019

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Gasworld: New wave of CCS activity: 10 large-scale projects announced

"As of October 2019, there are now 51 carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities globally – 19 in operation, four under construction and 28 in various stages of development."

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11.11.2019

# Projects

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Project: NERC – Greenhouse Gas Removal Demonstrators: Directorate Hub

"The Greenhouse Gas Removal Demonstrators programme will assess sustainable routes for large-scale removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, allowing the UK to take a major step towards achieving net-zero emissions, and placing the UK in a leading position to benefit from the £400 billion future global market in greenhouse gas removal."

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11.11.2019

# Calls & events

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Call for Proposals: Greenhouse Gas Removal Demonstrators Directorate Hub

Deadline: 19 November 2019

"NERC, on behalf of UKRI are inviting proposals of up to £6.1m (at 80% fEC) for the Directorate Hub of the Strategic Priorities Fund (SPF) Wave 2 Greenhouse Gas Removal Demonstrators programme. The Directorate Hub should have a start date of no later than 1 February 2021 and will have the duration of 4.5 years (54 months) to cover the full duration of the programme."

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11.11.2019

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Maxwell, S. L.; et al. (2019): Degradation and Forgone Removals Increase the Carbon Impact of Intact Forest Loss by 626%

Maxwell, Sean L., Tom Evans, James E. M. Watson, Alexandra Morel, Hedley Grantham, Adam Duncan, Nancy Harris, et al. 2019. “Degradation and Forgone Removals Increase the Carbon Impact of Intact Forest Loss by 626%.” Science Advances 5 (10): eaax2546. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax2546.

"We show that between 2000 and 2013, direct clearance of intact tropical forest areas accounted for 3.2% of gross carbon emissions from all deforestation across the pantropics. However, full carbon accounting requires the consideration of forgone carbon sequestration, selective logging, edge effects, and defaunation. When these factors were considered, the net carbon impact resulting from intact tropical forest loss between 2000 and 2013 increased by a factor of 6 (626%), from 0.34 (0.37 to 0.21) to 2.12 (2.85 to 1.00) petagrams of carbon (equivalent to approximately 2 years of global land use change emissions)."

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