Open korsbakken opened 2 months ago
Thanks for reaching out @korsbakken!
First, I suggest that you look at https://github.com/IAMconsortium/common-definitions instead of this repository. The openENTRANCE project ended last year, and we are not actively developing this repository any more.
However, we are currently working on bringing together (slightly divergent) variable lists from openENTRANCE; NAVIGATE, ENGAGE and other projects to have consistent list of variables going forward.
Second, you are correct that direct air capture and removal (which is not directly linked to an emitter) should not be included in Emissions|CO2|Energy and Industrial Processes
, and I will raise the discussion in the common-definitions repository with the relevant sub-group.
Hi. We are using part of the variable definitions in this repo as a starting point for a definitions package for the Horizon 2020 project IAM COMPACT (thanks for the impressive work here so far!). One question that has come up from modellers in that project is whether negative CO2 emissions from direct air capture should be included as part of
Emissions|CO2|Energy and Industrial Processes
. Apparently that has been the norm in previous projects that they have been involved in.Looking at the descriptions, my feeling is that DACCS should be under
Emissions|CO2|Other Capture
, and not inEnergy|CO2|Energy and Industrial Processes
. Is that correct? The description of the latter only mentions carbon removals through BECCS, not DACCS, and in my mind DACCS does not belong naturally in energy or industry sectors.Could guidance on this perhaps be added explicitly to the description of
Emissions|CO2|Other Capture
if that's where DACCS belongs, or underEmissions|CO2|Energy and Industrial Processes
if it should be there?To be clear, this question is only about how to treat direct air capture under
Emissions|
. I assume that the captured and stored CO2 additionally should be reported as a positive number underCarbon Capture|Direct Air Capture
andCarbon Capture|Storage|Direct Air Capture
.