Geoscience and decarbonization: current status and future directions
Geoscience and decarbonization: current status and future directions
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DOI：
10.1144/petgeo2019-084
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发表时间：
2019-11-01
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1.7
通讯作者：
Schofield, David
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作者：
Stephenson, Michael H.;Ringrose, Philip;Schofield, David
2015年在巴黎举行的联合国国际气候变化大会（COP21）上，197个国家的缔约方承诺将全球变暖控制在远低于2摄氏度的水平。但目前的计划和进展速度仍远远不足以实现这一目标。在这里，我们根据2019年在伦敦地质学会举行的布莱恩·洛弗尔会议的贡献，回顾了地球科学和地下科学在使电力生产、工业、运输和供暖脱碳方面可能发挥的作用，以实现英国和国际气候变化目标。会议讨论的技术包括通过可再生能源发电实现电力生产脱碳、利用地热能替代家庭供暖、使用碳捕获和储存（CCS），以及以负排放为目标的生物能源和碳捕获和储存（BECCS）等更具雄心的技术。会议还指出，可再生能源供应的增长将导致对地质材料的需求增加，以维持车辆的电气化和其他低碳技术。2019年Bryan Lovell会议得出的总体结论是，地球科学对脱碳至关重要，但地球科学界必须影响决策者，以便了解地下对脱碳的价值。
At the 2015 United Nations International Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21), 197 national parties committed to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C. But current plans and pace of progress are still far from sufficient to achieve this objective. Here we review the role that geoscience and the subsurface could play in decarbonizing electricity production, industry, transport and heating to meet UK and international climate change targets, based on contributions to the 2019 Bryan Lovell meeting held at the Geological Society of London. Technologies discussed at the meeting involved decarbonization of electricity production via renewable sources of power generation, substitution of domestic heating using geothermal energy, use of carbon capture and storage (CCS), and more ambitious technologies such as bioenergy and carbon capture and storage (BECCS) that target negative emissions. It was noted also that growth in renewable energy supply will lead to increased demand for geological materials to sustain the electrification of the vehicle fleet and other low-carbon technologies. The overall conclusion reached at the 2019 Bryan Lovell meeting was that geoscience is critical to decarbonization, but that the geoscience community must influence decision-makers so that the value of the subsurface to decarbonization is understood.