Broaden Research on Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement to Better Characterize Social Impacts.

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

Environmental science & technology 2023 Jun 20

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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.

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Sara Nawaz, Javier Lezaun, Jose Maria Valenzuela, Phil Renforth. Broaden Research on Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement to Better Characterize Social Impacts. Environmental science & technology. 2023 Jun 20;57(24):8863-8869