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Geoscience and decarbonisation: current status and future directions

Michael H. Stephenson, Philip Ringrose, Sebastian Geiger and Michael Bridden
Petroleum Geoscience, https://doi.org/10.1144/petgeo2019-084
Michael H. Stephenson
1British Geological Survey, Nottingham, UK
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2Equinor ASA, Stavanger, Norway
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3Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
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At the 2015 United Nations international climate change conference in Paris (COP21), 197 national parties committed to limit global warming to well below 2°C. But current plans and pace of progress are still far from sufficient to achieve this objective. Here we review the role that geoscience and the subsurface could play in decarbonising electricity production, industry, transport, and heating, to meet UK and international climate change targets, based on contributions to the 2019 Bryan Lovell meeting held at the Geological Society of London. Technologies discussed at the meeting involved decarbonisation of electricity production via renewable sources of power generation, substitution of domestic heating using geothermal energy, use of carbon capture and storage (CCS), and more ambitious technologies such as bioenergy and carbon capture and storage (BECCS) that target negative emissions. It was noted also that growth in renewable energy supply will lead to increased demand for geological materials to sustain the electrification of the vehicle fleet and other low-carbon technologies. The overall conclusion reached at the 2019 Bryan Lovell meeting was that geoscience is critical to decarbonisation, but that the geoscience community must influence decision makers so that the value of the subsurface to decarbonisation is understood.

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Geoscience and decarbonisation: current status and future directions

Michael H. Stephenson, Philip Ringrose, Sebastian Geiger and Michael Bridden
Petroleum Geoscience, 17 July 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/petgeo2019-084
Michael H. Stephenson
1British Geological Survey, Nottingham, UK
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3Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
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