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Net-zero CO2 Germany - A retrospect from the year 2050

Mengis, Nadine ; Kalhori, Aram ; Simon, Sonja ; Harpprecht, Carina ; Baetcke, Lars ; Prats, Enric ; Schmidt-Hattenberger, Cornelia ; Stevenson, Angela ; Dold, Christian and El Zohbi, Juliane , et al. (2022) In Earth's Future 10(2).
Abstract
Germany 2050: For the first time Germany reached a balance between its sources of anthropogenic CO2 to the atmosphere and newly created anthropogenic sinks. This backcasting study presents a fictional future in which this goal was achieved by avoiding (∼645 Mt CO2), reducing (∼50 Mt CO2) and removing (∼60 Mt CO2) carbon emissions. This meant substantial transformation of the energy system, increasing energy efficiency, sector coupling and electrification, energy storage solutions including synthetic energy carriers, sector-specific solutions for industry, transport and agriculture, as well as nature-based and technological carbon dioxide removal. All of the above was necessary to achieve a net-zero CO2 system for Germany by 2050.
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published
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keywords
net-zero, Germany, Climate Change Mitigation
in
Earth's Future
volume
10
issue
2
article number
e2021EF002324
pages
23 pages
publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
external identifiers
  • scopus:85125132886
ISSN
2328-4277
DOI
10.1029/2021EF002324
language
English
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  abstract     = {{Germany 2050: For the first time Germany reached a balance between its sources of anthropogenic CO2 to the atmosphere and newly created anthropogenic sinks. This backcasting study presents a fictional future in which this goal was achieved by avoiding (∼645 Mt CO2), reducing (∼50 Mt CO2) and removing (∼60 Mt CO2) carbon emissions. This meant substantial transformation of the energy system, increasing energy efficiency, sector coupling and electrification, energy storage solutions including synthetic energy carriers, sector-specific solutions for industry, transport and agriculture, as well as nature-based and technological carbon dioxide removal. All of the above was necessary to achieve a net-zero CO2 system for Germany by 2050.}},
  author       = {{Mengis, Nadine and Kalhori, Aram and Simon, Sonja and Harpprecht, Carina and Baetcke, Lars and Prats, Enric and Schmidt-Hattenberger, Cornelia and Stevenson, Angela and Dold, Christian and El Zohbi, Juliane and Borchers, Malgorzata and Thrän, Daniela and Korte, Klaas and Gawel, Erik and Dolch, Tobias and Heß, Dominik and Yeates, Christopher and Thoni, Terese and Markus, Till and Schill, Eva and Xiao, Mengzhu and Köhnke, Fiona and Oschlies, Andreas and Förster, Johannes and Görl, Knut and Dornheim, Martin and Brinkmann, Thorsten and Beck, Silke and Bruhn, David and Li, Zhan and Steuri, Bettina and Herbst, Michael and Sachs, Torsten and Monnerie, Nathalie and Pregger, Thomas and Jacob, Daniela and Dittmeyer, Roland}},
  issn         = {{2328-4277}},
  keywords     = {{net-zero; Germany; Climate Change Mitigation}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{02}},
  number       = {{2}},
  publisher    = {{John Wiley & Sons Inc.}},
  series       = {{Earth's Future}},
  title        = {{Net-zero CO2 Germany - A retrospect from the year 2050}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002324}},
  doi          = {{10.1029/2021EF002324}},
  volume       = {{10}},
  year         = {{2022}},
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