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Net-zero CO2 Germany - A retrospect from the year 2050

Author

  • Nadine Mengis
  • Aram Kalhori
  • Sonja Simon
  • Carina Harpprecht
  • Lars Baetcke
  • Enric Prats
  • Cornelia Schmidt-Hattenberger
  • Angela Stevenson
  • Christian Dold
  • Juliane El Zohbi
  • Malgorzata Borchers
  • Daniela Thrän
  • Klaas Korte
  • Erik Gawel
  • Tobias Dolch
  • Dominik Heß
  • Christopher Yeates
  • Terese Thoni
  • Till Markus
  • Eva Schill
  • Mengzhu Xiao
  • Fiona Köhnke
  • Andreas Oschlies
  • Johannes Förster
  • Knut Görl
  • Martin Dornheim
  • Thorsten Brinkmann
  • Silke Beck
  • David Bruhn
  • Zhan Li
  • Bettina Steuri
  • Michael Herbst
  • Torsten Sachs
  • Nathalie Monnerie
  • Thomas Pregger
  • Daniela Jacob
  • Roland Dittmeyer
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Summary, in English

Germany 2050: For the first time Germany reached a balance between its sources of anthropogenic CO2 to the atmosphere and newly created anthropogenic sinks. This backcasting study presents a fictional future in which this goal was achieved by avoiding (∼645 Mt CO2), reducing (∼50 Mt CO2) and removing (∼60 Mt CO2) carbon emissions. This meant substantial transformation of the energy system, increasing energy efficiency, sector coupling and electrification, energy storage solutions including synthetic energy carriers, sector-specific solutions for industry, transport and agriculture, as well as nature-based and technological carbon dioxide removal. All of the above was necessary to achieve a net-zero CO2 system for Germany by 2050.

Publishing year

2022

Language

English

Publication/Series

Earth's Future

Volume

10

Issue

2

Document type

Article

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Topic

  • Engineering and Technology
  • Natural Sciences
  • Social Sciences

Keywords

  • net-zero
  • Germany
  • Climate Change Mitigation
  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2328-4277