Broaden Research on Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement to Better Characterize Social Impacts

Sara Nawaz; Javier Lezaun; Jose Maria Valenzuela; Phil Renforth

doi:10.1021/acs.est.2c09595

Broaden Research on Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement to Better Characterize Social Impacts

Sara Nawaz, Javier Lezaun, Jose Maria Valenzuela, Phil Renforth

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Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is being considered as a way of achieving large-scale removals of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Research on the risks and benefits of different OAE approaches is expanding apace, but it remains difficult to anticipate and appraise the potential impacts to human communities that OAE might generate. These impacts, however, will be critical to evaluating the viability of specific OAE projects. This paper draws on the authors' involvement in interdisciplinary assessment of OAE (1) to identify the factors that currently limit characterization of potential social impacts and (2) to propose ways of reconfiguring OAE research to better consider these.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	8863–8869
Number of pages	7
Journal	Environmental Science and Technology
Volume	57
Issue number	24
Early online date	6 Jun 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c09595
Publication status	Published - 20 Jun 2023

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social impacts
governance
carbon dioxide removal
ocean alkalinity enhancement
negative emissions technology

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