Carbon Management

This report reviews a number of hybrid technologies that can be deployed to 'defossilise' economic sectors and sets out policy options to bring these technologies to commercial scale.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paris : Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development 2023.
Edición:1st ed
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations and acronyms
  • Executive summary
  • Main policy messages
  • Public policies that balance GHG reduction goals with other sustainability priorities can help meet the demand for sustainable carbon-based products
  • Selection criteria should go beyond innovation excellence
  • De-risk private investments in technology maturation
  • Public policies can help building markets for renewable carbon
  • Innovation policies may benefit from sequencing
  • Policies can stimulate multi- and interdisciplinarity and hybrid technologies
  • Technology deployment may benefit from industrial symbiosis
  • Complexity sets the scene for policy dilemmas and unintended consequences
  • Advancing climate and sustainability goals while maintaining a focus on living standards
  • Holistic policy formulation and implementation
  • Case studies revealed hybrid technology approaches
  • 1 Carbon management: Transcending the bioeconomy
  • The overall challenge goes way beyond the energy sector
  • The political and policy urgency
  • Decarbonisation may be misleading
  • The sources of renewable carbon are limited
  • Recycling as an alternative to bioproduction
  • Renewable carbon requires renewable energy
  • Climate targets depend on CCS and carbon removal
  • The need for large-scale investments
  • References
  • Notes
  • 2 Main policy implications and recommendations
  • Carbon management - balancing policy trade-offs and dilemmas
  • Sustainability tunnel vision
  • The challenge of value-based policies
  • The need to prioritise land use and bioresources
  • Further policy aspects of carbon recycling
  • Local and international access to key resources
  • Regional aspects of feedstocks and energy
  • International feedstock trading
  • Accounting for carbon in imports and exports
  • Training the workforce of the future
  • Public R&amp.
  • D support for carbon management technologies
  • Selection criteria for innovation support programmes
  • Prize competitions as an innovation driver
  • Industry clusters set to enhance innovation
  • Other financing instruments for green projects
  • The root problem: Sustainable alternatives are often less competitive
  • Public market stimulation is necessary
  • Public policies will have to make choices
  • Project assessment framework to guide public investment
  • A diversity of sustainability criteria and certification schemes
  • The importance of standards and certification in policy
  • The inadequacy of industrial classification codes
  • Market intervention to encourage private investments in renewable carbon
  • 'Stick policies' - lower dependence on continued use of fossil carbon
  • Discontinue fossil fuel subsidies
  • Fossil carbon emission taxes
  • Carbon tax is not a panacea
  • ETS versus Effective Carbon Rate
  • 'Carrot policies' - building markets for renewable carbon
  • Production targets and mandates for renewable carbon fuels
  • Stimulating markets for renewable carbon in chemicals
  • Green public procurement
  • Policies to stimulate industrial symbiosis
  • References
  • Notes
  • 3 Holistic innovation policy
  • Carbon transition policies needs whole society engagement.
  • The green transition comes at a price but with disproportionately high benefits
  • Definitions and terminology facilitate communication
  • Raising awareness and public acceptance
  • Carbon management as an overarching framework for policy making
  • Complexity sets the scene for policy dilemmas and unintended consequences
  • Governance and regulation
  • Putting the framework together: being systemic
  • Policy must address systemic business risks in value chains
  • Systems thinking in sustainability policies
  • Innovation policies should incorporate a time dimension.
  • References
  • Notes
  • 4 Carbon management technologies
  • A fresh look at bioproduction
  • Biotechnologies coming of age
  • Engineering biology, the missing link in biomanufacturing
  • Technologies for smart and precision agriculture
  • The enigma of meat
  • Fertilizer and its alternatives
  • Soil, the forgotten resource
  • Soil microbiomes
  • Carbon farming
  • Biochar and CCS
  • Compostable plastics and soil amendments
  • Recycled and atmospheric carbon
  • Recycling of wet organic material
  • Treatment and recycling of dry solid waste
  • Mechanical recycling of polymers
  • Chemical recycling of polymers and other dry waste
  • Technologies for utilisation of industry flue gases (CCU)
  • C1 pathways, especially methanol
  • C2 - C4 pathways
  • Fossil feedstocks: electrifying the process
  • Microbial single cell protein for food and feed
  • Technologies for capturing and use of atmospheric CO2 (DAC)
  • Liquid solvent-based DAC
  • Solid sorbent-based DAC
  • Carbon sequestration for compensation and removal
  • Sequestration in building materials
  • Solid wood construction
  • Injecting CO2 in cement
  • Geological storage
  • Capture in sediments (between strata)
  • Mineralisation
  • BECCS and DACCS
  • Further technological enablers in carbon-based value chains
  • Nanotechnology: potential across many CCU areas
  • Nanotechnology in plant agriculture - opportunities and challenges
  • Automated synthetic chemistry
  • Hydrogen as enabler in carbon-based value chains
  • Production of hydrogen
  • Green hydrogen
  • Blue hydrogen
  • National hydrogen strategies
  • Hydrogen policies for chemicals, materials, and fuels
  • References
  • Notes
  • 5 Case study summaries and their main policy points
  • Austria: Carbon2Product Austria (C2PAT)
  • Summary
  • Public intervention and supporting policies
  • Canada 1: Embedding carbon in the built environment
  • Summary.
  • Public intervention and supporting policies
  • Canada 2: Using innovation challenges as funding mechanisms to accelerate emerging CCUS technologies in Canada
  • Summary
  • Public intervention and supporting policies
  • Canada 3: Turning waste and emissions into food with the circular bioeconomy
  • Summary
  • Public intervention and supporting policies
  • Canada 4: Using Solid Recovered Fuels and CCUS in Industry
  • Summary
  • Public intervention and supporting policies
  • Germany: ZeroCarbon Footprint (ZeroCarbFP)
  • Summary
  • Public intervention and supporting policies
  • Italy 1: Bio-based, biodegradable and compostable bioplastics for organic recycling and the creation of compost
  • Summary
  • Public intervention and supporting policies
  • Italy 2: PON-Platform Conversion for Eco-Sustainable Multiple Uses (PlaCE)
  • Summary
  • Public intervention and supporting policies
  • Japan 1: Recycle system development of municipal and industrial waste to useful raw chemicals
  • Summary
  • Public intervention and supporting policies
  • Japan 2: Efforts of CCU by the Saga City cleaning plant
  • Summary
  • Public intervention and supporting policies
  • Korea: The transition towards a carbon-neutral economy: Sustainable chemicals and fuels production using nanotechnology in Korea
  • Summary
  • Public intervention and supporting policies
  • Norway 1: Production of fish feed by gas fermentation
  • Summary
  • Public intervention and supporting policies
  • Norway 2: Decarbonisation strategies of a ferrosilicon plant
  • Summary
  • Public intervention and supporting policies
  • United Kingdom: CCUS for Zero Carbon Fertilizer production
  • Summary
  • Public intervention and supporting policies
  • United States 1: Hybrid technologies for recycling waste carbon using gas fermentation and upgrading
  • Summary
  • Public intervention and supporting policies.
  • United States 2: Digital agriculture: Soil organic carbon networked measurements technologies
  • Summary
  • Public intervention and supporting policies
  • Notes
  • 6 Concluding remarks
  • This publication is not primarily about climate policy
  • Time and scale
  • History is the future
  • References.