Quratulain’s Reviews > Confronting Climate Gridlock: How Diplomacy, Technology, and Policy Can Unlock a Clean Energy Future > Status Update

Mitigation Deterrence

“Like forests, soils may provide only temporary storage of carbon.”

“…negative emissions technologies can be expensive or environmentally damaging, yielding little benefit beyond the carbon removal itself.”

Push and pull policies reinforce each other. Government procurements and incentives stimulate demand directly, whereas emissions taxes, mandates, and standards do so indirectly by making fossil fuels costlier or banned.”

“Technologies advance in three phases: inventions, innovations, and diffusions vision deployment.”

“…some negative emissions technologies would consume enormous amounts of energy and other resources.”

“Energy efficiency shrink emissions from all sectors. Decarbonize electricity. Use clean electricity to replace fossil fuels. Control potent greenhouse gases. Use carbon sinks to offset any sources that remain.”

“The more coal-rich countries commit to keeping their coal in the ground, the costlier and scarcer coal will become.”

“If owners of large fossil fuel reserves expect prices to continue falling, they could face a perverse incentive to extract them as soon as possible to avoid leaving these assets stranded…green paradox.”

“…roughly 80% of coal, half of natural gas, and a third of oil reserves globally must ultimately be kept in the ground to hold warming below 2C.”