GC41A:
Addressing the Carbon Challenge Through Negative Emissions, Utilization of Waste Streams, and Measurement Improvements I


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Session ID#: 58926

Session Description:
Carbon is an integral building block of life on Earth and has fueled unprecedented economic and societal progress. But with progress has come significant increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane, causing warming and other health and environmental impacts. While efforts to reduce reliance on carbon-based fuels proceed, there is also growing attention to the need to remove carbon from the atmosphere (negative emissions), reliably sequester it, and develop commercial uses for it in order to meet international climate goals. Advancements and challenges in methane emissions monitoring, measurement, and verification; utilization of carbon waste streams; and carbon dioxide removal and storage approaches will be highlighted. This session will build on Recent National Academies’ reports on these topics and more broadly explore multipdisciplinary work on negative emissions technologies and associated economic, legal and ethical challenges ranging from land-use, water withdrawals and energy consumption, among others.
Primary Convener:  April M Melvin, National Academy of Sciences, Polar Research Board & Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Stephen W Pacala, Princeton University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton, NJ, United States and Klaus S. Lackner, Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Naushita Sharma, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States
Chairs:  April M Melvin, National Academy of Sciences, Polar Research Board, Washington, DC, United States and Klaus S. Lackner, Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
OSPA Liaison:  April M Melvin, National Academy of Sciences, Polar Research Board, Washington, DC, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

James W C White, Univ Colorado, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, David Allen, University of Texas at Austin, Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis, Austin, United States, Praveen K Amar, Independent Consultant, Boston, United States, Jean E Bogner, University of Illinois at Chicago, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States, Lori Bruhwiler, NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Daniel S Cooley, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Christian Frankenberg, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Fiji George, Cheniere Energy, Inc., Houston, TX, United States, Lisa Hanle, Independent Consultant, Alexandria, United States, Alexander N. Hristov, Pennsylvania State University, Animal Science, University Park, PA, United States, Ermias Kebreab, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, April Leytem, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Kimberly, United States, Maria Mastalerz, Indiana University, Indiana Geological and Water Survey, Bloomington, United States and Steven C Wofsy, Harvard University, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, United States
Steve Hamburg, Environmental Defense Fund, New York, United States, Ramon Alvarez, Environmental Defense Fund, Austin, United States, Daniel Zavala Araiza, Environmental Defense Fund, Amsterdam, Netherlands and David Richard Lyon, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
Mark A. Barteau, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, Jennifer Dunn, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, ID, United States, David Allen, University of Texas at Austin, Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis, Austin, United States, Michael D Burkart, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Anne M Gaffney, Idaho National Lab, Idaho Falls, ID, United States, Raghubir Gupta, Susteon, Durham, United States, Nilay Hazari, Yale University, New Haven, United States, Matthew Kanan, Stanford University, Stanford, United States, Paul Kenis, University of Illinois, Urbana, United States, Howard Klee, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Geneva, Switzerland, Gaurav Sant, University of California, Los Angeles, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Cathy Tway, Dow Chemical, Midland, United States
Gregory Martin Dipple1, Kate Carroll2, Ian M Power3, Sterling Vanderzee4 and Bart De Baere4, (1)Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, (3)Trent University, Trent School of the Environment, Peterborough, ON, Canada, (4)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Steven J Davis1, Nate Lewis2, Matthew Shaner3, Sonia Aggarwal4, Douglas Arent5, Ines L Azevedo6, Sally M Benson7, Thomas Bradley8, Jack Brouwer9, Yet-ming Chiang10, Christopher Clack11, Armond Cohen12, Stephen Doig13, James Edmonds14, Paul Fennell15, Christopher B Field16, Bryan Hannegan17, Bri-Mathias Hodge18, Martin I Hoffert19, Eric Ingersoll20, Paulina Jaramillo21, Klaus S. Lackner22, Katharine J Mach23, Michael Mastrandrea24, Joan Ogden25, Per Peterson26, Daniel Sanchez27, Daniel Sperling25, Joseph Stagner28, Jessika Trancik10, Chi-Jen Yang29 and Ken Caldeira30, (1)University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, United States, (4)Energy Innovation, San Francisco, United States, (5)Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis, Golden, CO, United States, (6)Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (7)Stanford University, Geologic Carbon Storage, Stanford, United States, (8)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (9)University of California, Irvine, Irvine, United States, (10)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, (11)University of Colorado, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)Clean Air Task Force, Boston, United States, (13)Rocky Mountain Institute, Boulder, United States, (14)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (15)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (16)Stanford University, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, United States, (17)Holy Cross Energy, Glenwood Springs, United States, (18)National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO, United States, (19)New York University, Ocala, FL, United States, (20)Luci Strategy, Boston, United States, (21)Carnegie Mellon University, Engineering and Public Policy, Pittsburgh, United States, (22)Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, (23)Stanford University, Stanford Environment Assessment Facility, Stanford, CA, United States, (24)Carnegie Institution, Millbrae, CA, United States, (25)University of California, Davis, Davis, United States, (26)University of California Berkeley, Nuclear Engineering, Berkeley, CA, United States, (27)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (28)Stanford University, Stanford, United States, (29)Independent Researcher, Durham, United States, (30)Gates Ventures, Kirkland, United States
Peter B Kelemen, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Phil Renforth, Cardiff University, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Gregory Martin Dipple, Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Jennifer Wilcox, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Carbon Capture, Worcester, MA, United States and Roger D Aines, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
M Francesca Cotrufo, Colorado State University, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Fort Collins, United States, Keith Paustian, Colorado State Univ, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Mahdi Al-Kaisi, Iowa State, Soil Management, Ames, United States, Richard Birdsey, Woods Hole Research Center, New Town Square, PA, United States and John Field, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Jennifer Wilcox, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Carbon Capture, Worcester, MA, United States, Stephen W Pacala, Princeton University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton, NJ, United States, Mahdi Al-Kaisi, Iowa State, Soil Management, Ames, United States, Erica Belmont, University of Wyoming, Mechanical Engineering, Laramie, United States, Sally M Benson, Stanford University, Geologic Carbon Storage, Stanford, United States, Richard Birdsey, Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, United States, Dane Boysen, Modular Chemical, Inc., Anchorage, United States, Riley Duren, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Charles Hopkinson, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, Christopher Jones, Georgia Tech, Chemical Engineering, Atlanta, United States, Peter B Kelemen, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Annie Levasseur, École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, Canada, Keith Paustian, Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, United States, Jianwu Tang, MBL, The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Tiffany Troxler, Florida International University, Institute of Environment, Sea Level Solutions Center, Miami, United States and Michael W Wara, Stanford University, Stanford, United States