The Geoengineering course runs in block 4 and starts next time on Monday April 22, 2024. See Course description and Absalon for further details. Over the years, we have collected links to to relevant websites on the topic.
Carbon budget
Introduction to the Carbon Cycle
Global Carbon Project – monitors emissions and where C goes
Global weather patterns right now
ThinkTanks
Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative
Climate projections
Special report on 1.5°C: IPCC SR15 (2018)
Climate Action Tracker (see where we are heading with current pledges to the Paris agreement)
Climate Action Tracker Follow each country and their performance relative to ambitions
CO2 emission tracker Find the latest reported global emissions and its main sources
Fourth National Climate Assessment, USA (2018)
Sea level projections – Surging seas
Report from the National Academies US Oct 2018: Negative Emission Technology potential: BECCS (~5), agricultural soils (~3), forest mgmt (~1.5), afforestation (~1). (units: Gt CO2 per year)
Ambitious climate prediction program
Climate prediction for Denmark – DMI Climate Atlas (in Danish) shows how climate change will affect local areas in Denmark
Make simulations
IAMC max 1.5°C warming explorer (2018) – explore scenarios compatible with max 1.5°C warming by 2100.
En-Roads – MIT tool for climate and economy predictions
Global emissions
NASA simulation of CO2 emissions year 2006
Governance
Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative (C2G2)
Economy
EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS)
Price European Emission Allowance
Foresight Climate&Energy: Carbon Capture is growing, but struggles with cost. Attention needed.
Social cost
World bank: 143 million climate migrants by 2050
Politics
Paris agreement
US CO2 tax Clean Air Task Force, 45Q tax incentive for CCUS
California’s LCFS program raises C tac to 135-150$/tCO2
Denmark:
State of Green – Your Entry Point to Denmarks Green Transition
CO2 emission statistics in Denmark (in Danish)
News CCS investment in Denmark 2019 (in Danish)
Negative Emission Technologies (NETs)
· Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR)
Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)
How to profit from CDR? Scientific American
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
IEA’s status on CCS May 22, 2019: Capture from flue gas is efficient and now at a price of only 45 $/tCO2!
Global CCS institute report 2018: “The world’s 18 large-scale facilities are already capturing almost 40 Mt/y of CO2, and a total of over 230 Mt of CO2 has been safely injected underground to date”. World map of CCS facilities
CCS on coal at Boundary Dam Power Plant in Saskatchewan, Canada established in 2014 for 1.5 G$, fixing 90% of the CO2 from the flue gas at a rate of >0.5 Mt CO2 per year. More info about real world experience here. PetraNova, Texas, USA captures 33% of all CO2 emitted from coal combustion. Price ~1 b$ in 2017.
European Network for Geological CO2 storage – CO2GeoNet
International Energy Agency 2016 report: 20 years of CCS
CCS in Norway: Norwegian Petroleum Dictorate
Carbon Capture Cluster Copenhagen (C4) is a consortium aiming to reduce Danish emissions by up to -3 MtCO2/yr
CCS from cement factories: CEMCAP – OxyFuel pilot project
CO2-dissolved (France) targeted CCS for <150 kpta CO2-emitters
Bioenergy Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS)
DRAX: Pilot BECCS initiative in the UK
The world’s first 1Mt/y BECCS plant: ADM, Illinois, USA
Biorecro plan BECCS facilities in Kansas and North Dakota
STAX engineering efficiently removed CO2, SO2, particles from flue gas.
Direct Air Capture (DAC)
Mechanical trees by Silicon Kingdom Holdings & Klaus Lackner. Video
Climeworks, Founder Jan Wurzbacher popular talk
Carbon Engineering, CEO Steve Oldham TED-X talk
Carbon to Value (C2V) and Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS)
Fertiliser feedstock (SABIC in Saudi Arabia)
Soda ash (Carbon Clean Solutions in India)
Foams used in mattresses and upholstered furniture (Cavestro in Germany)
Bricks and cement (Australia’s Mineral Carbonation International)
Biochar
Geoengineering research initiatives
Ice911 – restoring sea ice by reflective sand
· Solar Radiation Management (SRM)
Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GMIP)
SCoPEx project – a test of stratospheric aerosol injections
Personal CO2 compensation
Chooose (Norway) final support for carbon credits
ClimeWorks turns atmospheric CO2 directly into rock (by DACCS)
CarbonFund (US) – support Energy efficiency, Forestry and Renewable Energy
Atmosfair (German)– supports sustainable energy
SAS (Scandinavian Airlines) CO2 compensate StarAlliance Members through Natural Partners who spend the money on protecting forests and plant new forests in South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, USA, and the UK.
Conspiracies
Helpful guides
Conversions of units
Greenhouse gas equivalents calculator
Glossary