Publications
Publications from the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation.
2024
Hilser, H., Hiraldo, L., Moreau, C., Draiby, A., Cox, E., Andrews, M.G., Winks, L., Walworth, N.G. (2024) Public engagement and collaboration for carbon dioxide removal: lessons from a project in the Dominican Republic. Front. Clim. 6, 1290999. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2024.1290999. Published 14 March 2024.
Weber, J., King, J. A., Abraham, L., Grosvenor, D., Smith, C., Shin, Y., Lawrence, P., Roe, S., Beerling, D. J. and Val Martin, M. (2024) Chemistry-albedo feedbacks offset up to a third of forestation’s CO2 removal benefits, Science, 383, 860-864, 2024, DOI:10.1126/science.adg. Published 22 February 2024.
2023
H. Hilser, E. Cox, C. Moreau, L. Hiraldo, A. Draiby, L. Winks, M.G. Andrews, N.G. Walworth. (2024) Localized governance of carbon dioxide removal in small island developing states, Environmental Development, Volume 49, 2024,100942, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2023.100942. Published 30 November 2023.
Reershemius, T., Kelland, M.E., Jordan, J.S., Davis, I.R., D’Ascanio, R., Kalderon-Asael, B.K., Aseal, D., Surhhoff, T.J., Epihov, D.Z., Beerling, D.J., Reinhard, R.T. & Planavsky, N.J. (2023) Initial validation of a soil-based mass-balance approach for empirical monitoring of enhanced rock weathering rates. Environmental Science & Technology, 57, 19497-19507. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c03609. Published 14 November 2023.
Val Martin, M., Blanc-Betes, E., Fung, M.K., Kantzas, E.P., Kantola, I.B., Chiaravalloti, I., Taylor, L.L., Emmons, L.K., Wieder, W.R., Planavasky, N.J., Masters, M.D., DeLucia, M.D., Tai, A.P.K. & Beerling, D.J. (2023) Improved nitrogen cycle in a land surface model (CLM5) to quantity soil N2O, NO, and NH3 emissions from enhanced weathering with croplands. Geoscientific Model Development, 16, 5783-5801. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-5783-2023. Published 18 October 2023.
Renforth, P. Bellamy, R., Beerling, D. Boettcher, M., Bonalumi, Brandao, M., Fridahl, M., Fuss, S., Hansson, A., Heyward, C. Kolosz, B., Lamers, P., McLaren, D., Pomi, R., Sanchez, D.L., Shayegh, Sick, V., Van der Spek, M., Vishal, V. & Wilcox, J. (2023) Speciality grand challenge: renaming our section to ‘Carbon Dioxide Removal’. Frontiers in Climate, 5, https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2023.1279109. Published 18 September 2023.
Kantola, I. B., Blanc-Betes, E., Masters, M. D., Chang, E., Marklein, A., Moore, C. E., von Haden, A., Bernacchi, C. J., Wolf, A., Epihov, D. Z., Beerling, D. J., & DeLucia, E. H. (2023). Improved net carbon budgets in the US Midwest through direct measured impacts of enhanced weathering. Global Change Biology, 00, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16903. Published 17 August 2023.
Oppon, E., Koh, S., Eufrasio, R. et al. (2023): Towards sustainable food production and climate change mitigation: an attributional life cycle assessment comparing industrial and basalt rock dust fertilisers. Int J Life Cycle Assess (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-023-02196-4. Published 18 July 2023.
Beerling, D.J., Epihov, D.Z., Kantola, I.B., Masters, M.D., Reeershemius, T., Jordon, J., Planavsky, N.J., Reinhard, C.T., Thorne, S.J., Hartley, S.E., DeLucia, E.H. & Banwart, S.A. (2024) Enhanced rock weathering in the US Corn Belt delivers carbon sequestration with agronomic benefits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.05343. Published 6 July 2023.
Beerling, D., Kantzas, E., Val Martin, M., Espinosa, R., Pidgeon, N., Banwart, S. (2023): UK Government Policy Brief: Potential of enhanced rock weathering deployed with UK agriculture to sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide. Available at figshare. Online resource. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.22888646.v3. Published 17 May 2023.
West, L.J., Banwart, S.A., Val Martin, M., Kantzas, E. & Beerling, D.J. (2023) Making mistakes in estimating the CO2 sequestration potential of UK croplands with enhanced weathering. Applied Geochemistry, 151, 105591, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2023.105591. Published 20 February 2023.
2022
Oppon, E., Richter, J. S., Koh, L. S. C., and Nabayiga, H. (2022) Macro-level economic and environmental sustainability of negative emission technologies; Case study of crushed silicate production for enhanced weathering. Ecological Economics, Volume 204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107636. Published 27 October 2022.
Kemp, S. J., Lewis, A. L., and Rushton, J. C. (2022) Detection and quantification of low levels of carbonate mineral species using thermogravimetric-mass spectrometry to validate CO2 drawdown via enhanced rock weathering. Applied Geochemistry, 146, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2022.105465. Published 18 September 2022.
Vakilifard, N., Williams, R.G., Holden, P.B., Turner, K., Edwards, N.R. & Beerling, D.J. (2022) Impact of negative and positive CO2 emissions on global warming metrics using an ensemble of Earth system model simulations. Biogeosciences, 19, 4249-4265. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-4249-2022. Published 8 September 2022
Larkin, C.S., Andrews, M.G., Pearce, C.R., Yeong, K.L., Beerling, D.J., Bellamy, J., Benedick, S., Freckleton, R.P., Goring-Harford, H., Sadekar, S. & James, R.H. (2022) Quantification of CO2 removal in a large-scale enhanced weathering field trial on an oil palm plantation in Sabah Malaysia. Frontiers Climate, 4, https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2022.959229. Published 30 August 2022.
Cox, E., Spence, E., and Pidgeon, N. (2022) Deliberating enhanced weathering: Public frames, iconic ecosystems and the governance of carbon removal at scale. Public Understanding of Science. doi:10.1177/09636625221112190. Published August 2022.
Semieniuk, G., Holden, P.B., Mercure, JF. et al. (2022) Stranded fossil-fuel assets translate to major losses for investors in advanced economies. Nat. Clim. Chang. 12, 532–538. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01356-y. Published 26 May 2022.
Vienne, A., Poblador, S., Portillo-Estrada, M., Hartmann, J., Ijiehon, S., Wade, P., and Vicca, S. (2022) Enhanced Weathering Using Basalt Rock Powder: Carbon Sequestration, Co-benefits and Risks in a Mesocosm Study With Solanum tuberosum. Front. Clim. 4:869456, https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2022.869456. Published 17 May 2022.
Eufrasio, R. M., Kantzas, E. P., Edwards, N. R. et al. (2022) Environmental and health impacts of atmospheric CO2 removal by enhanced rock weathering depend on nations’ energy mix. Commun Earth Environ 3, 106. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00436-3. Published 5 May 2022.
Kantzas, E. P., Val Martin, M., Lomas, M. R. et al. (2022) Substantial carbon drawdown potential from enhanced rock weathering in the United Kingdom. Nat. Geosci. Published 25 April 2022.
Redondo-Bermúdez, M., Jorgensen, A., Cameron, R., and Val Martin, M. (2022) Green infrastructure for air quality plus (GI4AQ+): Defining critical dimensions for implementation in schools and the meaning of ‘plus’ in a UK context, Nature-Based Solutions, Volume 2, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbsj.2022.100017. Published 28 March 2022.
Fung, K. M., Val Martin, M., and Tai, A. P. K. (2022), Modeling the interinfluence of fertiliser-induced NH3 emission, nitrogen deposition, and aerosol radiative effects using modified CESM2, Biogeosciences, 19, 1635–1655, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-1635-2022. Published 21 March 2022.
2021
Mercure, J.-F., Salas, P., Vercoulen, P., Semieniuk, G., Lam, A., Pollitt, H., Holden, P. B., Vakilifard, N., Chewpreecha, U., Edwards, N. R., and Vinuales, J.E. (2021) Reframing incentives for climate policy action. Nature Energy, 6, 1133-1139. Published 6 December 2021.
James, R., Bullock, L., Larkin, C., and Matter, J. (2021) Geological solutions for carbon dioxide removal. Geoscientist (autumn), 16-22. Published 1 September 2021.
Vakilifard, N., Kantzas, E. P., Edwards, N. R., Holden, P. B., and Beerling, D. J. (2021) The role of enhanced weathering deployment with agriculture in limiting future warming and protecting coral reefs. Environmental Research Letters, 19, 094005. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1818. Published 12 August 2021.
Gomez-Casanoas, N., Blanc-Betes, E., Moore, C. E., Bernachi, C. J., Kantola, I., and DeLucia, E. H. (2021) A review of transformative strategies for climate mitigation by grasslands. Science of the Total Environment, 799, 149466. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149466. Published online 4 August 2021.
Lewis, A. L., Sarkar, B., Wade, P., Kemp, S. J., Hodson, M. E., Taylor, L. L., Yeong, K. L., Davies, K., Nelson, P. N., Bird, M. I., Kantola, I. B., Masters, M. D., DeLucia, E., Leake, J. R., Banwart, S. A., and Beerling, D. J. (2021) Effects of mineralogy, chemistry and physical properties of basalts on carbon capture potential and plant-nutrient element release via enhanced weathering. Applied Geochemistry, 132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2021.105023. Published 21 June 2021.
Spence, E., Cox, E., and Pidgeon, N. (2021) Exploring cross-national public support for the use of enhanced weathering as a land-based carbon dioxide removal strategy. Climatic Change, 165, 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03050-y. Published 19 March 2021.
Horton, P., Long, S. P., Smith, P., Banwart, S. A., and Beerling, D. J. (2021) Technologies to deliver food and climate security through agriculture. Nature Plants, 7, 250–255. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-00877-2. Published 15 March 2021.
Epihov, D. Z., Saltonstall, K., Batterman, S. A., Hedin, L. O., Hall, J. S., van Breugel, M., Leake, J. R., and Beerling, D. J. (2021) Legume-microbiome interactions unlock mineral nutrients in regrowing tropical forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 118, e2022241118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2022241118. Published 16 March 2021.
Cox, E., Spence, E., and Pidgeon, N. (2021) But They told us it was safe! Carbon dioxide removal, fracking, and ripple effects in risk perceptions. Risk Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13717. Published 2 March 2021.
Cox E., Spence, E., and Pidgeon, N. (2021) What people think about Carbon Dioxide Removal.
Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation (LC3M), University of Sheffield, UK Published 1 March 2021.
- Report: What people think about Carbon Dioxide Removal 2021 (PDF, 3.26MB)
- Methodology: What the public think about Carbon Dioxide Removal 2021 (PDF, 358KB)
- Policy brief: Public perceptions of Carbon Dioxide Removal in the UK 2021 (PDF, 667KB)
Cox, E., Boettcher, M., Spence, E., and Bellamy, R. (2021) Casting a wider net on ocean NETs. Frontiers in Climate. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2021.576294. Published 2 February 2021.
Taylor, L. L., Driscoll, C. T., Groffman, P. M., Rau, G. H., Blum, J. D., and Beerling, D. J. (2021) Increased carbon capture by a silicate-treated forested watershed affected by acid deposition. Biogeosciences, 18, 169–188. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-169-2021. Published 12 January 2021.
2020
Blanc-Betes, E., Kantola, I. B., Gomez-Casanovas, N., Hartman, M. D., Parton, W. J., Lewis, A. L., Beerling, D. J., and DeLucia, E. H. (2020) In silico assessment of the potential of basalt amendments to reduce N2O emissions from bioenergy crops. GCB Bioenergy, 13, 224-241. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12757. Published 7 October 2020.
Beerling, D. J., Kantzas, E., Lomas, M. R., Wade, P., Eufrasio, R. M., Renforth, P., Quirk, J., Sarkar, B., Andrews, G., James, R. H., Pearce, C. R., Khanna, M., Koh, L., Quegan, S., Pidgeon, N. F., Janssens, I., Hansen, J., and Banwart, S. A. (2020) Potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands. Nature, 583, 242-248. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2448-9. Published 8 July 2020.
Cox, E., Spence, E., and Pidgeon, N. (2020) Public perceptions of carbon dioxide removal in the United States and the United Kingdom. Nature Climate Change, 10, 744-749. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0823-z. Published 6 July 2020.
MacDougall, A. H., Frölicher, T. L., Jones, C. D., Rogelj, J., Matthews, H. D., Zickfeld, K., Arora, V. K., Barrett, N. J., Brovkin, V., Burger, F. A., Eby, M., Eliseev, A. V., Hajima, T., Holden, P. B., Jeltsch-Thömmes, A., Koven, C., Mengis, N., Menviel, L., Michou, M., Mokhov, I. I., Oka, A., Schwinger, J., Séférian, R., Shaffer, G., Sokolov, A., Tachiiri, K., Tjiputra, J., Wiltshire, A., and Ziehn, T. (2020) Is there warming in the pipeline? A multi-model analysis of the Zero Emissions Commitment from CO2. Biogeosciences, 17, 2987–3016. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-2987-2020. Published 15 June 2020.
Kelland, M. E., Wade, P. W., Lewis, A. L., Taylor, L. L., Sarkar, B., Andrews, M. G., Lomas, M. R., Cotton, T. E. A., Kemp, S. J., James, R. H., Pearce, C. R., Hartley, S. E., Hodson, M. E., Leake, J. R., Banwart, S. A., and Beerling, D. J. (2020) Increased yield and CO2 sequestration potential with the C4 cereal Sorghum bicolor cultivated in basaltic rock dust amended agricultural soil. Global Change Biology, 26, 3658–3676. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15089. Published 21 April 2020.
Pidgeon, N. (2021) Engaging publics about environmental and technology risks: frames, values and deliberation. Journal of Risk Research, 24:1, 28-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2020.1749118. Published 17 April 2020.
Cox, E., Spence, E., and Pidgeon, N. (2020) Incumbency, trust, and the Monsanto effect: stakeholder discourses on greenhouse gas removal. Environmental Values, 29, 197-220. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327119X15678473650947. Published 1 April 2020.
2019
Lawrence, D. M. et al (including Val Martin, M). (2019) The Community Land Model version 5: Description of new features, benchmarking, and impact of forcing uncertainty. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11, 4245-4287.
Cox, E., Royston, S., and Selby, J. (2019) From exports to exercise: how non-energy policies affect energy systems. Energy Research and Social Science, 55, 179-188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.05.016. Published September 2019.
Beerling, D. J. (2019) Can plants help us avoid seeding a human-made climate catastrophe? Plants, People, Planet. 1:310-314. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10066. Published 28 August 2019.
Andrews, M. G., and Taylor, L. L. (2019) Combating climate change through enhanced weathering of agricultural soils. Elements, 15, 253-258. https://doi.org/10.2138/gselements.15.4.253. Published 1 August 2019.
Cox, E., and Edwards, N. R. (2019) Beyond carbon pricing: policy levers for negative emissions technologies. Climate Policy, 19, 1144-1156. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2019.1634509. Published 26 June 2019.
Smith, P., Adams, J., Beerling, D. J., Beringer, T., Calvin, K. V., Fuss, S., Griscom, B., Hagemann, N., Kammann, C., Kraxner, F., Minx, J. C., Popp, A., Renforth, P., Vicente-Vicente, J. L., and Keesstra, S. (2019) Land-Management Options for Greenhouse Gas Removal and Their Impacts on Ecosystem Services and the Sustainable Development Goals. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 44:1, 255-286. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-101718-033129. Published 11 June 2019.
2018
Arnold, S. R., Lombardozzi, D., Lamarque, J.-F., Richardson, T., Emmons, L. K., Tilmes, S., Sitch, S. A., Folberth, G., Hollaway, M. J., and Val Martin, M. (2018) Simulated global climate response to tropospheric ozone-induced changes in plant transpiration. Geophysical Research Letters, 45. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079938
Eufrasio-Espinosa, R. M., and Koh, L. S. C. (2019) The UK Path and the Role of NETs to Achieve Decarbonisation. In: Shurpali N., Agarwal A., Srivastava V. (eds) Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Energy, Environment, and Sustainability. Springer, Singapore. Pages 87-109. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3272-2_7. Published 1 November 2018.
Spence, E., Pidgeon, N., and Pearson, P. (2018) UK public perceptions of Ocean Acidification – The importance of place and environmental identity. Marine Policy, 97, 287-293. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.04.006. Published November 2018.
Mercure, J.-F., Pollitt, H., Viñuales, J. E., Edwards, N. R., Holden, P. B., Chewpreecha, U., Salas, P., Sognnaes, I., Lam, A., and Knobloch, F. (2018) Macroeconomic impact of stranded fossil fuel assets. Nature Climate Change, 8, 588-593.
Cox, E., Pidgeon, N., Spence, E., and Thomas, G. (2018) Blurred lines: the ethics and policy of greenhouse gas removal at scale. Frontiers in Environmental Science, Vol. 6 (38): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2018.00038. Published 29 May 2018.
Shaw, C., Hurth, V., Capstick, S., and Cox, E. (2018) Intermediaries’ perspectives on the public’s role in the energy transitions needed to deliver UK climate change policy goals. Energy Policy, 116, 267-276.
Beerling, D. J., Leake, J. R., Long, S. P., Scholes, J. D., Ton, J., Nelson, P. N., Bird, M. I., Kantzas, E., Taylor, L. L., Sarkar, B., Kelland, M., DeLucia, E., Kantola, I., Müller, C., Rau, G., and Hansen, J. (2018) Farming with crops and rocks to address global climate, food and soil security. Nature Plants, 4, 138-147. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-018-0108-y. Published 19 February 2018.
Singh, M., Sarkar, B., Sarkar, S., Churchman, J., Bolan, N., Mandal, S., Menon, M., Purakayastha, J., and Beerling, D. J. (2018) Stabilization of soil carbon as influenced by clay mineralogy. Advances in Agronomy, 148, 33-52.
2017
Hansen, J., Sato, M., Kharecha, P., von Schuckmann, K., Beerling, D. J., Cao, J., Marcott, S., Masson-Delmotte, V., Prather, M. J., Rohling, E. J., Shakun, J., Smith, P., Lacis, A., Russell, G., and Ruedy, R. (2017) Young people’s burden: requirement of negative CO2 emissions. Earth System Dynamics, 8, 577-616. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-577-2017. Published 18 July 2017.
Beerling, D. J. (2017) Enhanced rock weathering: biological climate change mitigation with co-benefits for food security? Biology Letters, 13, 20170149. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0149. Published 5 April 2017 as part of the mini-series “Enhanced rock weathering: biological climate change mitigation with co-benefits for food security”.
Kantola, I. B., Masters, M. D., Beerling, D. J., Long, S. P., and DeLucia, D. H. (2017) Potential of global croplands and bioenergy crops for climate change mitigation through deployment for enhanced weathering. Biology Letters, 13, 20160714. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0714. Published 5 April 2017 as part of the mini-series “Enhanced rock weathering: biological climate change mitigation with co-benefits for food security”.
Edwards, D. P., Lim, F., James, R. H., Pearce, C. R., Scholes, J., Freckleton, R. P., and Beerling, D. J. (2017) Climate change mitigation: potential benefits and pitfalls of enhanced rock weathering in tropical agriculture. Biology Letters, 13, 20160715. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0715. Published 5 April 2017 as part of the mini-series “Enhanced rock weathering: biological climate change mitigation with co-benefits for food security”.
Lawford-Smith, H., and Currie, A. (2017) Accelerating the carbon cycle: the ethics of enhanced weathering. Biology Letters, 13, 20160859. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0859. Published 5 April 2017 as part of the mini-series “Enhanced rock weathering: biological climate change mitigation with co-benefits for food security”.
Taylor, L. L., Beerling, D. J., Quegan, S., and Banwart, S.A. (2017) Simulating carbon capture by enhanced weathering in croplands: an overview of key processes highlighting areas of future model development. Biology Letters, 13, 20160868. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0868. Published 5 April 2017 as part of the mini-series “Enhanced rock weathering: biological climate change mitigation with co-benefits for food security”.
Pidgeon, N. F., and Spence, E. (2017) Perceptions of enhanced weathering as a biological negative emissions option. Biology Letters, 13, 20170024. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0024. Published 5 April 2017 as part of the mini-series “Enhanced rock weathering: biological climate change mitigation with co-benefits for food security”.