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CO2 Capture, Storage, and Environmental Sustainability: Plan, Policy, and Challenges
(Springer Nature, 2022) Abhishek Raj; Manoj Kumar Jhariya; Arnab Banerjee; Ram Swaroop Meena; Surendra Singh Bargali; B.H. Kittur
Environmental management and its sustainability are a key concern today. Anthropogenic CO2 emission and its related negative consequences on environment were observed due to industrial development, mining, deforestation, and intensive agricultural practices. This unstoppable rising CO2 concentration impairs key environmental services and its sustainability. Recently, NOAA-based Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory has reported CO2 concentration of about 419 ppm in 2021 along with 40 billion MT of CO2 pollution every year in the environment. This figures enough to represent unstoppable CO2 emissions which need global concern urgently. GHGs including CO2 emissions raised global temperature are under the discussion table of IPCC and at global policy platforms during Paris Agreement and COP-21. However, many countries have participated in Paris Agreement and COP-21 for reducing emissions and set a target to reduce 2 °C global temperature identified by IPCC. Similarly, the target of zero emission is also discussed in several climate policy papers including IPCC and during Paris Agreement and COP-21. Introducing recent and updated climate-resilient technologies, viz. carbon dioxide capture, and storage (CCS), reduces excessive emission and performs C sequestration and storage for long term in various environmental components such as lithosphere (soil/geology), hydrosphere (ocean), and biosphere. Similarly, forest-based CO2 removal (CDR) policy emphasized sustainable forest management (SFM) practices for greater CO2 sink and storage in terrestrial forest ecosystem. Monitoring CO2 concentration in environment through remote sensing is an effective tool that helps to assess CO2 sequestration at global level. An effective policy, research, and favorable political situation are needed for greater potential of CO2 removal and storage into the vegetation, ocean, and underground geological formation. Thus, a hawk eye remains constant on rising CO2 in atmosphere and its sequestration through better research technologies for sustainable environment which becomes global agenda for climate policy makers. © The Editor(s)(if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022.