Abstract
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) will be required to keep global temperature rise below 2°C based on IPCC models. Greater adoption of carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies will drive demand for CDR. Public procurement of low carbon materials is a powerful and under-utilized tool for accelerating the development and of CCUS through a targeted and well-regulated approach. The policy environment is nascent and presents significant barriers for scaling and guiding emerging technology solutions. The concrete sector has unique attributes that make it ideally suited for large-scale low-carbon public procurement strategies. This sector offers immediate opportunities to study the efficacy of a supportive policy and regulatory environment in driving the growth of CCUS solutions.
Highlights
Deploying Low Carbon Public Procurement to Accelerate Carbon RemovalArizona State University, United States Rafael Mattos Dos Santos, University of Guelph, Canada
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has identified that all pathways limiting global warming to 1.5◦C include removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in addition to aggressive mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions (Rogelj et al, 2018)
Carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere, or CDR, is defined as: “Anthropogenic activities removing CO2 from the atmosphere and durably storing it in geological, terrestrial, or ocean reservoirs, or in products. It includes existing and potential anthropogenic enhancement of biological or geochemical sinks and direct air capture and storage but excludes natural CO2 uptake not directly caused by human activities” (Masson-Delmotte et al, 2018)
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Arizona State University, United States Rafael Mattos Dos Santos, University of Guelph, Canada. Specialty section: This article was submitted to Negative Emission Technologies, a section of the journal Frontiers in Climate. Received: 27 March 2021 Accepted: 01 September 2021 Published: 27 September 2021
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