Niall Mac Dowell

Niall Mac Dowell’s Post Professor, Expert Policy Advisor, Scientific Advisor, Consultant, Non-Executive Director 3d Following some recent articles in the media on carbon capture, I and my colleagues, Myles Allen, Tim Dixon, P.

Climate repair value (CRV) In calculating the CRV of a given CDR pathway, we start from the premise of “removed damage,” i.e., given that the main purpose of CDR is to compensate for net-positive emissions to the atmosphere, the question then becomes “what fraction of the environmental damage that would have otherwise occurred can be effectively (and permanently) removed via a given CDR pathway?” In addressing this question, we compare the behavior of the initial CO2 emission and then...

CO2 removal and 1.5 °C: what, when, where, and how? Solene Chiquier, ab Mathilde Fajardy c and Niall Mac Dowell*ab Abstract The international community aims to limit global warming to 1.5 °C, but little progress has been made towards a global, cost-efficient, and fair climate mitigation plan to deploy carbon dioxide removal (CDR) at the Paris Agreement's scale.