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Add variables for carbon-capture and carbon-removal #83

Open jayfuhrman opened 3 months ago

jayfuhrman commented 3 months ago

per conversation with @danielhuppmann, I have ported most of PR #80 in the tag_carbon-management.yaml file to this new dedicated carbon-management file. See also PR #82 where I have removed most of what I had previously committed to the carbon-management.yaml file in PR #79 and #80 (and reverted back the tag name) but added several additional energy-consuming CDR tags.

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korsbakken commented 2 weeks ago

Hi. I'm very much a third-party to this discussion, but I wondered if you could clarify whether this PR or something closer to #69 is more likely to be merged in the end? We are trying to converge on a set of variables for Carbon Sequestration/Capture/Removal/etc. in the IAM COMPACT project, and would prefer to be consistent with common-definitions as far as possible.

This and #69 contain some incompatible variables for Carbon Removal. The one that will probably have the most practical significance (for us at least) is that this PR includes Direct Air Capture under Carbon Removal rather than under Carbon Capture. #69 doesn't include DAC, but that presumably means it's intended to be outside of Carbon Removal. openENTRANCE and ECEMF both have DAC under Carbon Capture, and in general look closer to #69 than to the categorizations proposed in this PR.

jayfuhrman commented 1 week ago

Apologies for the confusion. The CDR related variables in this commit do indeed conflict with #69, where I've just submitted a suggestion to pretty much follow the SOCDR definitions. My thought is that #69 would offer users looking for a higher level of detail with respect to CDR pathways as opposed to more broadly inclusive "carbon capture", which can include CDR - can use that more detailed set of variables.

For the broader Carbon Capture variable set, below is my proposed structure (I've removed the more detailed CDR specific variables, which are now defined in #69).