TY - BOOK
T1 - Carbon dioxide removal: Perspectives from the social sciences and humanities
A2 - Hanssen, Anders
A2 - Fridahl, Mathias
A2 - Boettcher, Miranda
A2 - Asayama, Shinichiro
PY - 2024/7
Y1 - 2024/7
N2 - In recent years, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods have been increasingly recognized as crucial in climate policy and scientific contexts. According to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, the 1.5-degree target is unattainable without rapid and substantial investments in CDR. These methods are also crucial to counteract emissions overshoot and residual emissions. Currently, integrated assessment models (IAMs) and techno-economic research dominate the interpretive space for understanding and deliberating the future of CDR methods and translating these understandings into policy and political action (Hansson et al., 2021). A criticism of this dominance is that many important perspectives on technical development, socio-ecological challenges, local political contexts, and other complexities are relegated to a marginal role. If large-scale CDR is portrayed as achievable through its incorporation into mitigation scenarios and climate policies, this might justify less focus on crucial short-term challenges. Against this backdrop, we aimed to invite theoretical and empirical contributions from the social sciences and humanities about CDR-related policy design or analyses of recent policy developments, construction of knowledge in scientific discourses, historical and contemporary experiences of CDR in different contexts, and political and public debates over CDR. The research topic has gathered contributions that provide puzzle pieces that nuance, deepen, or challenge previous research through empirical case studies, theoretical engagement, literature reviews, policy and governance analysis, or analyses of perspectives from the public, experts, or industry. Specifically, the contributions approach this by asking questions like: how does the adoption of a “net” framing reconstruct the goals, processes, and mechanisms of climate policies? What is the industry’s view on residual emissions assumed to be compensated for in the future? What could a research agenda capable of supporting a more responsible evaluation of CDR methods look like? How is foresight knowledge produced and used among policymakers with the help of emission scenarios? What are the gaps and barriers for a specific CDR method to be integrated into a national policy regime?
AB - In recent years, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods have been increasingly recognized as crucial in climate policy and scientific contexts. According to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, the 1.5-degree target is unattainable without rapid and substantial investments in CDR. These methods are also crucial to counteract emissions overshoot and residual emissions. Currently, integrated assessment models (IAMs) and techno-economic research dominate the interpretive space for understanding and deliberating the future of CDR methods and translating these understandings into policy and political action (Hansson et al., 2021). A criticism of this dominance is that many important perspectives on technical development, socio-ecological challenges, local political contexts, and other complexities are relegated to a marginal role. If large-scale CDR is portrayed as achievable through its incorporation into mitigation scenarios and climate policies, this might justify less focus on crucial short-term challenges. Against this backdrop, we aimed to invite theoretical and empirical contributions from the social sciences and humanities about CDR-related policy design or analyses of recent policy developments, construction of knowledge in scientific discourses, historical and contemporary experiences of CDR in different contexts, and political and public debates over CDR. The research topic has gathered contributions that provide puzzle pieces that nuance, deepen, or challenge previous research through empirical case studies, theoretical engagement, literature reviews, policy and governance analysis, or analyses of perspectives from the public, experts, or industry. Specifically, the contributions approach this by asking questions like: how does the adoption of a “net” framing reconstruct the goals, processes, and mechanisms of climate policies? What is the industry’s view on residual emissions assumed to be compensated for in the future? What could a research agenda capable of supporting a more responsible evaluation of CDR methods look like? How is foresight knowledge produced and used among policymakers with the help of emission scenarios? What are the gaps and barriers for a specific CDR method to be integrated into a national policy regime?
U2 - 10.3389/978-2-8325-5156-1
DO - 10.3389/978-2-8325-5156-1
M3 - Book
SN - 978-2-8325-5156-1
BT - Carbon dioxide removal: Perspectives from the social sciences and humanities
PB - Frontiers Media SA
ER -
