Open seminar on negative emissions:
Bridging societal and mitigation needs
Wednesday 2nd September 2015, Hokkaido University, Japan

Global Carbon Project (GCP)
Tsukuba International Office
About GCP

MaGNET Initiative: Background

The Global Carbon Project (GCP) was established in 2001
in recognition of the large scientific challenges andcritical nature of the carbon cycle for Earth'ssustainability.

Diagnostics: Patterns& Vulnerability

Vulnerability:
Processes &Feedbacks

Low Carbon: Carbon
Manag. & Policy•Carbon Budget•Methane Budget•REgional Carbon
Cycle Assessmentand Processes•Component
Assessments:
forests, grasslands•Carbon pools sizeand vulnerability(permafrost,methane hydrates,global pools
assessment)•Socio-economic
drivers of emissions•Future carbon
budgets (permissibleemissions)•Urban development•Energy-carbonwater•Negative emissions

Global Carbon Project 2013; Le Quéré et al. 2013, ESSD

Raupach, 2010

Keeping global warming to no more than 2℃ above pre-industrial
levels be achieved? One core ingredient in the mitigation mix are
negative emissions (NE)—explicitly put forth as an option also by
the recent IPCC-AR5—mostly based on carbon-neutral bioenergy(due to the same amount being sequestered by feedstock growth as
being emitted when combusting biomass for energy generation)
combined with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), which inaddition captures CO2 during the energy production phase. MaGNET
explores the opportunities of and limits to BECCS and looks into
other ways of achieving sustainable NE as well.

Kraxner et al., 2015

Canadell and Schulze, 2014

Organizers

Objectives and Agenda
The main objectives of this half-day seminar of MaGNET(Management of NegativeEmission Technologies) are capacity building (e.g. at universities, research facilities) andoutreach to possible stakeholders both in terms of policymakers and in terms of thoseparts of industry that would implement NETs, especially BECCS (Bioenergy & CCS).

Date and Venue
Wednesday, 2 September, 2015
13:30-16:30
Graduate School of Environmental Science, D201
Hokkaido University
N10W5 Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810
andReferences

13:30-13:40

Welcomeaddress
outline/rationale

13:40-14:10

The Need for Negative Emissions

14:10-14:30
14:30-14:50

From Global Biomass Issues to the Japanese Florian Kraxnersituation
2nd generation agricultural biomass
Etsushi Kato

14:50-15:00

Coffee break

15:00-15:20

Current trends and issues in utilizing biomass Masahiko Fujii
energy in Hokkaido, Japanworkshop Hokkaido Univ. / NIES
Sabine Fuss and Pete Smith

15:20-15:45

CCSpilotinTomakomai Atsushi Kurosawa- Introduction of CCS and negative emissions

15:45-16:00

CCS in Korea

Yowhan Son

16:00-16:30

Panel discussion

Yoshiki Yamagata (chair)RESEARCH POSTER PRESENTATION DESIGN © 2012www.PosterPresentations.com

 Yoshiki Yamagata, NIES
 Masahiko Fujii, Hokkaido University
 Ayyoob Sharifi, NIES Sabine Fuss, MCC, Germany
 Florian Kraxner, IIASA, Austria

 Canadell, Josep G., and E. Detlef Schulze.
"Global potential of biospheric carbon
management for climate mitigation." Naturecommunications 5 (2014).
 Fuss, Sabine, et al. "Betting on negativeemissions." Nature Climate Change4.10 (2014).
Kraxner, F, et al. (2015). The role of bioenergy
with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) forclimate policy. In J. Yan (Ed.), The Handbook ofClean Energy Systems (Vol. 3, pp. 1466-1483):
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Further Information
http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/
http://www.cger.nies.go.jp/gcp/

Contact Details
Ayyoob Sharifi (Executive Director)
Yukako Ojima (Administrator)
GCP-Tsukuba International Office
National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)
16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Japan 305 8506
Tel: +81 29 850 2672, Fax: +81 20 850 2960
E-mail: sharifi.ayyoob@nies.go.jp,
ojima.yukako@nies.go.jp