Negative Emissions Science
2020-2023
Lead Program Director
Administrative Contact
Sponsors
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Additional Support
Climate Pathfinders Foundation
ClimateWorks Foundation
Thistledown Foundation
Theme
The accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and in the oceans is a pressing challenge that requires rapid de-carbonization of the global economy. Negative emissions technologies, which remove carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and oceans for the purposes of sequestration or potential utilization, most likely will be needed to augment other mitigation strategies. The underlying science needed to make negative emissions technologies globally scalable still requires major scientific breakthroughs. Such breakthroughs in Negative Emissions Science (NES) almost certainly will result from multidisciplinary input, including from chemistry, physics, materials science, biology, engineering, and geophysics. This Scialog will challenge early-career scientists in these and related fields to explore together how to advance fundamental science in the design of novel approaches for rapidly removing and utilizing or sequestering greenhouse gases.
Spotlight on Scialog
Through the collaboration of Cell Press, RCSA and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and curated with iScience Consulting Editor and NES Fellow Marta Hatzell, “Spotlight on Scialog: Negative Emissions Science” contains collaborative, forward-looking perspectives and research articles by a number of Scialog NES participants.
Booklets
2023 Scialog NES Conference Booklet
2022 Scialog NES Conference Booklet
2021 Scialog-NES Conference Booklet
2020 Scialog-NES Conference Booklet