Achieving Net Zero emissions requires the knowledge and skills of the oil and gas industry

The research and development work reported here was supported by the UK's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) through the ADVENT project (NE/M019691/1) and FAB-GGR project to assess the feasibility of BECCS and afforestation (NE/P019951).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Greenhouse gas emissions from decommissioning manmade structures in the marine environment : current trends and implications for the future

Funding This research is funded by NZTC and the University of Aberdeen through their partnership with the UK National Decommissioning Centre. This work contributed to the NERC-funded FAB-GGR project and UKERC-4 projects.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Achieving Net Zero emissions : The oil and gas industry is a major component of the solution

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A first estimate of blue carbon associated with oil and gas industry marine infrastructure.

Oil and gas industry manmade structures (OGIMMS) in the marine environment can support thriving and biodiverse ecosystems. "Clear seabed" policies require that all OGIMMS are removed once commercial activity has ceased, thereby removing a large proportion of the ecosystem and leaving the remaining community degraded beyond repair. The environmental impact of this method of decommissioning is huge and wide ranging, but no studies have to date looked at the possible impacts that removing these ecosystems has on climate change. This first-of-its-kind study modelled biomass associated with OGIMMS and the potential Blue Carbon (BC) that these ecosystems may represent. The study found that in the UK North Sea (UKNS) there is currently 1.75 MtC of BC adhered to OGIMMS and globally there is 64 MtC. The study investigated the consequences of removing this BC and found that if it is allowed to degrade in landfill, up to 96 MtCO2e of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will be released from UK BC and globally up to 2,730 MtCO2e of GHG emissions will be released. Furthermore, forward modelling techniques were uniquely employed to look at future potential growth of these ecosystem and found that in the UKNS if the ecosystem was allowed to remain in place by decommissioning in situ, at 100 years since installation, UKNS OGIMMS BC could grow to 27 MtC and global BC could grow to 264 MtC. The study demonstrates the vast potential of BC associated with OGIMMS in the marine environment to sequester carbon over the long term and that current clear seabed practises damage these important ecosystems beyond repair, destroying current BC stocks and the vast potential BC stocks that could develop over time, as well as releasing large volumes of GHG emissions from the degradation of the biomass

What contribution can Miscanthus giganteus make to bioenergy requirements associated with IPCC climate projections ?

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Novel miscanthus germplasm-based value chains : A Life Cycle Assessment

The OPTIMISC project received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant agreement No. 289159. In addition, the study was partly supported by a grant from the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg (funding code: 7533-10-5-70) as part of the BBW ForWerts Graduate Programme. We are grateful to Nicole Gaudet for editing the manuscript.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

An approach to assessing subsea pipeline-associated mercury release into the North Sea and its potential environmental and human health impact

Open Access via the Royal Society agreement R.v.H. and A.H. are funded by the Net Zero Technology Centre and the University of Aberdeen, through their partnership with the UK National Decommissioning Centre. R.v.H. received funding from the University of Aberdeen under the interdisciplinary project funding in 2022.The research by A.H. was also undertaken as part of the UK Energy Research Centre research programme (UKERC-4, EP/S029575/1).Peer reviewe

Sustainable Design of Urban Rooftop Food-Energy-Land Nexus

Funding Information: Authors in particular M.G. would like to acknowledge the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council ( EPSRC ) for providing financial support for research under project “Resilient and Sustainable Bio-renewable Systems Engineering Model” [ EP/N034740/1 ]. A.H. would like to acknowledge financial support from Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) ADVENT project [ 1806209 ].Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Is OSPAR 98/3 science-based politics or politics-based science?

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Low emission vehicle integration : Will National Grid electricity generation mix meet UK Net Zero?

Acknowledgements This research was undertaken as part of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) research programme under the ADdressing the Valuation of Energy and Nature Together (ADVENT) project. The authors would also like to thank Dr Christian Brand, University of Oxford, for giving them access to the Transport Energy and Air Pollution Model UK (TEAM - UK). Funding The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Aberdeen, UK and the Natural Environment Research Council (grant number: NE/M019691/1).Peer reviewedPublisher PD