Authors
Stephanie Rose Cortinovis
PhD Student
Burgess Langshaw Power
PhD Candidate
WatCISL members Stephanie Cortinovis and Burgess Langshaw Power author an op-ed on direct air capture deployment in Canadian municipalities with the Climate Insider
In tandem with their attendance at the second annual Carbon Removal Day in Ottawa, PhD student Stephanie Rose Cortinovis and PhD Candidate Burgess Langshaw Power published an op-ed with the Climate Insider that presents an overlooked scale-up strategy for direct air carbon capture and storage in Canada.
Building on the case for carbon removal as waste management presented by Professor Holly Jean Buck in a 2020 article, the authors imagine what deployment could look like if it was also managed by municipalities and how that might help to bolster deployment prospects.
"Municipalities, with federal and provincial support, should expand waste management mandates to include CO2 and develop DACCS infrastructure as part of their long-term climate strategies. This presents a promising opportunity to create a space for functional, community-based technology development in an emerging industry that experts expect to grow exponentially in the coming decades."