Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change

Carbon capture and storage (CCS): the way forward

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is vital to climate change mitigation, and has application across the economy, in addition to facilitating atmospheric carbon dioxide removal re...

Temporary reduction in daily global CO2 emissions during the COVID-19 forced confinement

The technological and economic prospects for CO2 utilization and removal

The capture and use of carbon dioxide to create valuable products might lower the net costs of reducing emissions or removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Here we review ...

A good life for all within planetary boundaries

The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels

With the worsening health impacts of climate change compounding other coexisting crises, populations worldwide increasingly rely on health systems as their first line of defence...

Negative emissions—Part 2: Costs, potentials and side effects

The most recent IPCC assessment has shown an important role for negative emissions technologies (NETs) in limiting global warming to 2 °C cost-effectively. However, a bottom-up,...