Fig. 1: Integrated model of climate, carbon, and energy economics This diagram highlights the key processes resolved in the model related to bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and enhanced weathering (EW), and their interactions with the energy and climate systems. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Integrated model of climate, carbon, and energy economics This diagram highlights the key processes resolved in the model related to bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and enhanced weathering (EW), and their interactions with the energy and climate systems.

From: Leveraging ecosystems responses to enhanced rock weathering in mitigation scenarios

Fig. 1: Integrated model of climate, carbon, and energy economics This diagram highlights the key processes resolved in the model related to bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and enhanced weathering (EW), and their interactions with the energy and climate systems.The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

Round boxes are exogenous projections. Key outputs are: (1) Energy production, mix and associated costs. (2) Price-responsive energy demand (3) Resulting net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the energy sector, including negative emissions from BECCS. (4) Costs and energy requirements of EW. (5) Quantity of basalt applied on croplands or forest areas. (6) Geochemical CO2 capture from basalt weathering. (7) CO2 capture from phosphorus-driven net primary production (NPP) increases (the biotic effect). (8) Global temperature pathway.

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