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Dr Miriam R. Aczel

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Centre for Environmental Policy

Honorary Research Associate
 
 
 
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16 Prince's GardensSouth Kensington Campus

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@article{O'Beirne:2020:10.1016/j.envsci.2020.06.013,
author = {O'Beirne, T and Battersby, F and Mallett, A and Aczel, M and Makuch, K and Workman, M and Heap, R},
doi = {10.1016/j.envsci.2020.06.013},
journal = {Environmental Science and Policy},
pages = {264--274},
title = {The UK net-zero target: Insights into procedural justice for greenhouse gas removal},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.06.013},
volume = {112},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Greenhouse gas removal (GGR) is increasingly seen as a key dimension of national and international climate policy.The need to deploy a portfolio of GGR technologies in order to decarbonise sectors with the ‘hardest-to-abate’emissions, particularly to achieve net-zero emissions targets, has become increasingly evident in recent years. In May2019, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) published a report outlining a pathway to net-zero emissions in theUK, which comprised significant contributions from engineered and land-based removals. The target of net-zeroemissions has since been enshrined in UK legislation, meaning that GGR will likely be part of the UK’s climatestrategy. Plans for GGR deployment will therefore need to be set in motion in the short-term, in order to align with thetimeframe proposed by the CCC. Despite a growing body of research examining the role governance could and shouldplay in GGR development and deployment, there is a gap in the literature relating to the social implications of removalactivities. In particular, the roles of procedural justice (PJ) and social legitimacy (SL) have not been closely examined.This study comprises an analysis of relevant legislation, combined with a series of interviews conducted in thecommunity of Selby (a proposed location for BECCS development) in order to investigate PJ and SL in the context ofGGR. It is found that the existing legal framework operates PJ as a ‘tick-the-box’ exercise, failing to engage a widerange of interested stakeholders or to promote meaningful engagements. Moreover, the PJ landscape for GGR isunplanned and adapted from existing legislation and cannot meet the unique needs of this novel activity, such as theneed to engage the wider national public given their interest in climate change mitigation. Research in Selbycorroborates these findings, revealing a range of issues with engagement procedures, including disinterest ordisillusionment with processes, a lack of
AU  - O'Beirne,T
AU  - Battersby,F
AU  - Mallett,A
AU  - Aczel,M
AU  - Makuch,K
AU  - Workman,M
AU  - Heap,R
DO  - 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.06.013
EP  - 274
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 1462-9011
SP  - 264
TI  - The UK net-zero target: Insights into procedural justice for greenhouse gas removal
T2  - Environmental Science and Policy
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.06.013
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/81017
VL  - 112
ER  -
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