Urban Farming with Enhanced Rock Weathering As a Prospective Climate Stabilization Wedge.

Environ Sci Technol

University of Guelph, School of Engineering, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Ontario Canada, N1G 2W1.

Published: October 2021

With no single carbon capture and sequestration solution able to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5-2.0 °C by 2100, additional climate stabilization measures are needed to complement current mitigation approaches. Urban farming presents an easy-to-adopt pathway toward carbon neutrality, unlocking extensive urban surface areas that can be leveraged to grow food while sequestering CO. Urban farming involves extensive surface areas, such as roofs, balconies, and vertical spaces, allowing for soil presence and atmospheric carbon sequestration through air-to-soil contact. In this viewpoint we also advocate the incorporation of enhanced rock weathering (ERW) into urban farming, providing a further opportunity for this recognized negative emissions technology that is gaining momentum worldwide to gain greater utilization.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c04111DOI Listing

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