Fig. 1: Conceptual schematic of the modelling framework.
From: Emergency deployment of direct air capture as a response to the climate crisis
The model calculates impacts on the climate system due to DAC deployment and comprises three main parts: (1) an estimate of the financial resources available to fund DAC; (2) deployment of a fleet of DAC plants, including requisite supplies of electricity and heat, and upscaling of these DAC-energy system combinations over time; and (3) the impact of these DAC-energy systems on atmospheric CO2 concentration and global mean surface temperature, given background emissions which are taken from the shared socioeconomic pathways (SSP). (See Supplementary Fig. 1 for a more detailed schematic).
