海洋碳封存作为气候“解决方案”的兴起、衰落与重生

The rise, fall and rebirth of ocean carbon sequestration as a climate 'solution'

Global Environmental Change · 2024
被引 37 · 同刊同年前 6%
ABS 3

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本文回顾了海洋碳封存作为气候解决方案的历史,发现其兴衰周期并非由技术突破驱动,而是受社会技术联盟和叙事影响,对理解气候治理的政治过程有启发。

Abstract

While the ocean has long been portrayed as a victim of climate change, threatened by ocean warming and acidification, it is now increasingly framed as a key solution to the climate crisis. In particular, the promising carbon sequestration potential of the ocean is being emphasised. In this paper, we seek to historicise the practices, discourses and actors that have constructed the ocean as a climate change solution space. We conceptualise the debate about the mitigation potential of the ocean as a contested site of governance, where varying actors form alliances and different sociotechnical narratives about climate action play out. Using an innovative quali-quantitative methodology which combines scientometrics with document analysis, observational fieldwork, and interviews, we outline three historical phases in the history of ocean carbon sequestration that follow recurring cycles of hype, controversy and disappointment. We argue that the most recent hype around ocean carbon sequestration was not triggered by a technological breakthrough or a reduction in scientific uncertainty, but by new socio-technical configurations and coalitions. We conclude by showing that how climate change solutions are put on the agenda and become legitimised is both a scientific and political process, linked to how science frames the climate crisis, and ultimately, its governance.

气候变化海洋科学碳封存环境治理