Atmospheric methane removal: a research agenda

Author:

Jackson Robert B.12ORCID,Abernethy Sam13,Canadell Josep G.4ORCID,Cargnello Matteo5,Davis Steven J.6,Féron Sarah1,Fuss Sabine78ORCID,Heyer Alexander J.9ORCID,Hong Chaopeng6,Jones Chris D.10,Damon Matthews H.11ORCID,O'Connor Fiona M.10ORCID,Pisciotta Maxwell12ORCID,Rhoda Hannah M.9ORCID,de Richter Renaud13,Solomon Edward I.914ORCID,Wilcox Jennifer L.12,Zickfeld Kirsten15ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2210, USA

2. Woods Institute for the Environment, and Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2210, USA

3. Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

4. Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia

5. Department of Chemical Engineering and SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

6. Department of Earth System Science, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA

7. Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin, Germany

8. Geographisches Institut, Humboldt Universität zu, Berlin, Germany

9. Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

10. Met Office Hadley Centre, FitzRoy Road, Exeter EX1 3PB, UK

11. Department of Geography Planning and Environment, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

12. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, PA, USA

13. Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier, Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon FR, USA

14. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

15. Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6

Abstract

Atmospheric methane removal (e.g. in situ methane oxidation to carbon dioxide) may be needed to offset continued methane release and limit the global warming contribution of this potent greenhouse gas. Because mitigating most anthropogenic emissions of methane is uncertain this century, and sudden methane releases from the Arctic or elsewhere cannot be excluded, technologies for methane removal or oxidation may be required. Carbon dioxide removal has an increasingly well-established research agenda and technological foundation. No similar framework exists for methane removal. We believe that a research agenda for negative methane emissions—‘removal' or atmospheric methane oxidation—is needed. We outline some considerations for such an agenda here, including a proposed Methane Removal Model Intercomparison Project (MR-MIP). This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'Rising methane: is warming feeding warming? (part 1)'.

Funder

Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Publisher

The Royal Society

Subject

General Physics and Astronomy,General Engineering,General Mathematics

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