Publications

Achieving Net-Zero in the G20: a Novel Supply-Side Climate Policy to Value Carbon Sinks

T20

The Group of Twenty (G20) includes the world’s largest fossil fuel producers and consumers. Deep transformations in energy-consuming behavior and technology and widespread enhancement of carbon sinks are necessary for these countries to achieve net-zero emissions in alignment with Paris-compliant…

Paul Zakkour, Wolfgang Heidug, Eli Mitchell-Larson

Supply-side Climate Policy for Crude Oil Producers

Paul Zakkour, Wolfgang Heidug

This paper considers the potential for supply-side climate policy to increase climate action, with a focus on crude oil producers and exporting countries. To date, supply-side policies have not been widely used in efforts to tackle climate change, and the…

Zakkour, Paul

Heidug, Wolfgang

Carbon Sequestration Units (CSUs): A New Tool to Mitigate Carbon Emissions

Paul Mollet, Wolfgang Heidug, Paul Zakkour, Eric Williams

The United Kingdom’s decision to aim for net zero emissions by 2050 and to enshrine it in law raises the bar for global policymakers as the world seeks to limit the impact of climate change. A recent European Commission paper…

Mollet, Paul

Heidug, Wolfgang

Zakkour, Paul

Williams, Eric

An adaptive policy-based framework for China’s Carbon Capture and Storage development

Springer

China’s political leadership has taken an increasingly public and proactive stance on climate change since 2014. This stance includes making a commitment that Chinese carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will peak around 2030 and enacting measures through the 13th Five-Year Plan…

Xiaoliang Yang, Wolfgang Heidug, Douglas Cooke

A Mechanism for CCS in the Post-Paris Era

Wolfgang Heidug, Paul Zakkour

The Paris Agreement committed ratifying Parties to hold the increase in the global average temperature to much less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C. The Agreement also committed Parties to achieving…

Heidug, Wolfgang

Zakkour, Paul

Policy Lessons From China’s CCS Experience

Xiaoliang Yang, Wolfgang Heidug

China’s political leadership has taken an increasingly public and proactive stance on climate change since 2014. This includes a commitment that Chinese carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will peak before 2030 and enacting measures through the 13th Five-Year Plan to support…

Yang, Xiaoliang

Heidug, Wolfgang

Enhanced Oil Recovery and CO2 Storage Potential Outside North America: An Economic Assessment

Colin Ward, Wolfgang Heidug

Storing carbon dioxide (CO2 ) in oil reservoirs as part of CO2 -based enhanced oil recovery (CO2 -EOR) can be a cost-effective solution to reduce emissions into the atmosphere. In this paper, we analyze the economics of this option in…

Ward, Colin

Heidug, Wolfgang

Biophysical and economic limits to negative CO2 emissions

Nature Climate Change

To have a >50% chance of limiting warming below 2 °C, most recent scenarios from integrated assessment models (IAMs) require large-scale deployment of negative emissions technologies (NETs). These are technologies that result in the net removal of greenhouse gases from…

Wolfgang Heidug