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We are pleased to share the second issue of NEGEM newsletter, keeping you up to date with all the latest news and developments from the project. NEGEM is a Research and Innovation Action funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Programme, to assess the realistic potential of Negative Emission Technologies and Practices (NETPs) and their contribution to climate neutrality, as a supplementary strategy to emissions mitigation.
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The Dynamic Global Vegetation Model LPJmL (Lund-Potsdam-Jena managed Land) is a process-based model that represents the vegetation and simulates climate and land use change impacts on the terrestrial biosphere, agricultural production, and on carbon and water cycles. This model was upgraded to become highly operational for NEGEM analyses (named LPJmL5-NEGEM).
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Implementing carbon capture and storage (CCS) in a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process producing fuel from residual forest biomass would significantly improve its CO2 balance, while providing carbon negative replacements for fossil fuels. A recent study carried out by VTT and ETH from the NEGEM consortium presents the results of a techno-economic assessment (TEA) and a life cycle assessment (LCA) performed on a hypothetical plant producing biofuel from forest residue biomass through FT combined with CCS and located in northern Europe.
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As part of its effort to investigate the feasibility and sustainability of negative emission technologies and practices (NETPs), NEGEM partners carried out an assessment of three land-based NETPs – afforestation and reforestation (A/R), soil carbon sequestration (SCS) with biochar, and building with wood materials – against a set of 16 environmental, technical, health-related and social KPIs.
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In NEGEM, an entire work package is dedicated to an integrated, whole-systems approach for developing nation-specific portfolios of NETPs for Europe, aiming to optimize all member states concurrently. In this context, researchers at Imperial College London developed a comprehensive database on prominent negative emission technologies to support mathematical analyses and techno-economic and environmental assessments of different greenhouse gas removal technologies and their associated deployment implications.
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One of the objectives of NEGEM is to produce a quantitative analysis of the effectiveness, potential and impacts of deploying Negative Emission Technologies and Practices (NETPs) in the EU. In this context the Modelling and Optimisation of Negative Emissions Technologies (MONET) model, is used to simulate and optimize the performance of NETPs under various objective functions.
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On the 25th of May, a two hour NEGEM workshop was organized by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the Imperial College London (ICL), dedicated to presenting and discussing the data and scenario transfer between two models used within NEGEM: The Dynamic Global Vegetation Model LPJmL and the modelling and optimization framework for negative emission technologies MONET.
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