Publications

CDR

SRM

A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage.
Gidden, M.J., Joshi, S., Armitage, J.J. et al. (2025)
Nature

Who cares about carbon dioxide removal? Assessing actors, policy positions, and participation modes within European and United Nations public consultation processes
Losi, Lucilla, Fritz, Livia, and Sovacool, Benjamin K. (2025)
Climate Policy

DOI

10.1080/14693062.2025.2485204

Imputation of missing land carbon sequestration data in the AR6 Scenarios Database
Prütz Ruben, Fuss Sabine, Rogelj Joeri (2025)
Earth System Science Data

DOI

10.5194/essd-17-221-2025

Climate beliefs, climate technologies and transformation pathways: Contextualizing public perceptions in 22 countries
Fritz, Livia, Chad Baum, Elina Brutschin, Sean Low, and Benjamin Sovacool (2024)
Global Environmental Change

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DOI

10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102880

Public engagement for inclusive and sustainable governance of climate interventions
Fritz, Livia, Chad Baum, Sean Low, and Benjamin Sovacool (2024)
Nature Communications 15, 4168

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DOI

10.1038/s41467-024-48510-y

Assessing global urban CO2 removal
Quirina M. Rodriguez, Sabine Fuss, Sarah Lück & Felix Creutzig (2024)
Nature Cities

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DOI

10.1038/s44284-024-00069-x

A taxonomy to map evidence on the co-benefits, challenges, and limits of carbon dioxide removal
Ruben Prütz, Sabine Fuss, Sarah Lück, Leon Stephan & Joeri Rogelj (2024)
Communications Earth & Environment

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DOI

10.1038/s43247-024-01365-z

Public perceptions and support of climate intervention technologies across the Global North and Global South
Baum, C.M., Fritz, L., Low, S. et al (2024)
Nature Communications

DOI

10.1038/s41467-024-46341-5

Near-term deployment of novel carbon removal to facilitate longer-term deployment.
Nemet, G.F., Gidden, M.J., Greene, J., Roberts, C., Lamb, W.F., Minx, J.C., Smith, S.M., Geden, O., Riahi, K (2023)
Joule

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DOI

10.1016/j.joule.2023.11.001

Aligning climate scenarios to emissions inventories shifts global benchmarks
Matthew J. Gidden, Thomas Gasser, Giacomo Grassi, Nicklas Forsell, Iris Janssens, William F. Lamb, Jan Minx, Zebedee Nicholls, Jan Steinhauser & Keywan Riahi (2023)
Nature

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DOI

10.1038/s41586-023-06724-y

Attention, sentiments and emotions towards emerging climate technologies on Twitter.
Müller-Hansen, F., Repke, T., Baum, C., Brutschin, E., Callaghan, M., Debnath, R., Lamb, W., Low, S., Lück, S., Roberts, C., Sovacool, B., Minx, C. (2023)
Global Environmental Change

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DOI

10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102765

Dataset on the adoption of historical technologies informs the scale-up of emerging carbon dioxide removal measures.
Nemet, G., Greene, J., Müller-Hansen, F. et al (2023)
Communications Earth & Environment

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DOI

10.1038/s43247-023-01056-1

Fairness and feasibility in deep mitigation pathways with novel carbon dioxide removal considering institutional capacity to mitigate.
Gidden, M.J., Brutschin, E., Ganti, G., Unlu, G., Zakeri, B., Fricko, O., Mitterrutzner, B., Lovat, F., Riahi, K. (2023)
Environment Research Letters

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DOI

10.1088/1748-9326/acd8d5

Actors, legitimacy, and governance challenges facing negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Chad M. Baum, Roberto Cantoni & Sean Low (2023)
Environmental Politics

DOI

10.1080/09644016.2023.2210464

Expanding carbon removal to the Global South: Thematic concerns on systems, justice, and climate governance
Benjamin K. Sovacool (2023)
Energy and Climate Change

DOI

10.1016/j.egycc.2023.100103

Six bold steps towards net-zero industry
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Morgan D. Bazilian, Jinsoo Kim, Steven Griffiths (2023)
Energy Research & Social Science

DOI

10.1016/j.erss.2023.103067

Conspiracy spillovers and geoengineering
Ramit Debnath, David M. Reiner, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Finn Müller-Hansen, Tim Repke, R. Michael Alvarez, Shaun D. Fitzgerald (2023)
iScience

DOI

10.1016/j.isci.2023.106166

The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal - 1st Edition
Smith, S. M., Geden, O., Nemet, G., Gidden, M., Lamb, W. F., Powis, C., Bellamy, R., Callaghan, M., Cowie, A., Cox, E., Fuss, S., Gasser, T., Grassi, G., Greene, J., Lück, S., Mohan, A., Müller-Hansen, F., Peters, G., Pratama, Y., Repke, T., Riahi, K., Schenuit, F., Steinhauser, J., Strefler, J., Valenzuela, J. M., and Minx, J. C. (2023)

DOI

10.17605/OSF.IO/W3B4Z

Reviewing the sociotechnical dynamics of carbon removal
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Chad M. Baum, Sean Low (2023)
Joule

DOI

10.1016/j.joule.2022.11.008

The next climate war? Statecraft, security, and weaponization in the geopolitics of a low-carbon future
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Chad Baum, Sean Low (2023)
Energy Strategy Reviews

DOI

10.1016/j.esr.2022.101031

The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report WGIII climate assessment of mitigation pathways: from emissions to global temperatures.
Kikstra, J.S., Nicholls, Z.R.J., Smith, Christopher J., Lewis, J., Lamboll, R.D., Byers, E., Sandstad, M., Meinshausen, M, et al. (2022)
Geoscientific Model Development

DOI

10.5194/gmd-15-9075-2022

Exploring Enablers for an Ambitious Coal Phaseout. Politics and Governance
Brutschin, E., Schenuit, F., van Ruijven, B., & Riahi, K. (2022)
Politics and Governance

DOI

10.17645/pag.v10i3.5535

Examining the synergies and tradeoffs of net-zero climate protection with the Sustainable Development Goals
Enevoldsen P, Baum CM, Low S, Sovacool BK (2022)
Science Progress

DOI

10.1177/00368504221138443

Systematic Historical Analogue Research for Decision-making (SHARD): Introducing a new methodology for using historical case studies to inform low-carbon transitions
Cameron Roberts, Gregory Nemet (2022)
Energy Research & Social Science

DOI

10.1016/j.erss.2022.102768

Industrial clusters for deep decarbonization: Net-zero megaprojects in the UK offer promise and lessons
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Frank W. Geels, Marfuga Iskandarova (2022)
Science

DOI

10.1126/science.add0402

Beyond climate stabilization: Exploring the perceived sociotechnical co-impacts of carbon removal and solar geoengineering
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Chad M. Baum, Sean Low (2022)
Ecological Economics

DOI

10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107648

Determining our climate policy future: expert opinions about negative emissions and solar radiation management pathways
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Chad M. Baum, Sean Low (2022)
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

DOI

10.1007/s11027-022-10030-9

Undone Science in Climate Interventions: Contrasting and contesting anticipatory assessments by expert networks
Sean Low, Chad M. Baum, Benjamin K. Sovacool (2022)
Environmental Science & Policy

DOI

10.1016/j.envsci.2022.08.026

Climate protection or privilege? A whole systems justice milieu of twenty negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies
Benjamin K. Sovacool,Chad M. Baum, Sean Low (2022)
Political Geography

DOI

10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102702

Climate policy for a net-zero future: ten recommendations for Direct Air Capture
Benjamin K Sovacool, Chad M Baum, Sean Low, Cameron Roberts, Jan Steinhauser (2022)
Environmental Research Letters

DOI

10.1088/1748-9326/ac77a4

Taking it outside: Exploring social opposition to 21 early-stage experiments in radical climate intervention
Sean Low, Chad M. Baum, Benjamin K. Sovacool (2022)
Energy Research & Social Science

DOI

10.1016/j.erss.2022.102594

Rethinking Net-Zero systems, spaces, and societies: “Hard” versus “soft” alternatives for nature-based and engineered carbon removal
Sean Low, Chad M. Baum, Benjamin K. Sovacool (2022)
Global Environmental Change

DOI

10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102530

Risk-risk governance in a low-carbon future: Exploring institutional, technological, and behavioral tradeoffs in climate geoengineering pathways
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Chad M. Baum, Sean Low (2022)
Risk Analysis

DOI

10.1111/risa.13932

Between the Sun and Us: Expert perceptions on the innovation, policy, and deep uncertainties of space-based solar geoengineering
Chad M. Baum, Sean Low, Benjamin K. Sovacool (2022)
Renewable and Sustainable

DOI

10.1016/j.rser.2022.112179

Navigating Potential Hype and Opportunity in Governing Marine Carbon Removal
Miranda Boettcher, Kerryn Brent, Holly Jean Buck, Sean Low, Duncan McLaren, Nadine Mengis (2021)
Frontiers in Climate Negative Emissions Technologies

DOI

10.3389/fclim.2021.664456

Reckless or righteous? Reviewing the sociotechnical benefits and risks of climate change geoengineering
Benjamin K. Sovacool (2021)
Energy Strategy Reviews

DOI

10.1016/j.esr.2021.100656