{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Ioannou I"],"funding":["Swiss National Science Foundation","Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación"],"pagination":["113-124"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9847469"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["16(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) provides an appealing framework to turn carbon emissions into valuable fuels and chemicals. However, given the vast energy required to activate the CO<sub>2</sub> molecule, CCU may have implications on sustainable development that are still poorly understood due to the narrow scope of current carbon footprint-oriented assessments lacking absolute sustainability thresholds. To bridge this gap, we developed a power-chemicals nexus model to look into the future and understand how we could produce 22 net-zero bulk chemicals of crucial importance in a sustainable manner by integrating fossil, CCU routes and power technologies, often assessed separately. We evaluated the environmental performance of these technologies in terms of their contribution to 5 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), using 16 life cycle assessment metrics and 9 planetary boundaries (PB) to quantify and interpret the impact values. We found that fossil chemicals could hamper the attainment of SDG 3 on good health and well-being and SDG 13 on climate change. CCU could help meet SDG 13 but would damage other SDGs due to burden-shifting to human health, water scarcity, and minerals and metals depletion impacts. The collateral damage could be mitigated by judiciously combining fossil and CCU routes with carbon-negative power sources guided by optimisation models incorporating SDGs-based performance criteria explicitly. Our work highlights the importance of embracing the SDGs in technology development to sensibly support the low-carbon energy and chemicals transition."],"journal":["Energy & environmental science"],"pubmed_title":["Trade-offs between Sustainable Development Goals in carbon capture and utilisation."],"pmcid":["PMC9847469"],"funding_grant_id":["180544","BG20/00074"],"pubmed_authors":["Galan-Martin A","Ioannou I","Perez-Ramirez J","Guillen-Gosalbez G"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Trade-offs between Sustainable Development Goals in carbon capture and utilisation.","description":"Carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) provides an appealing framework to turn carbon emissions into valuable fuels and chemicals. However, given the vast energy required to activate the CO<sub>2</sub> molecule, CCU may have implications on sustainable development that are still poorly understood due to the narrow scope of current carbon footprint-oriented assessments lacking absolute sustainability thresholds. To bridge this gap, we developed a power-chemicals nexus model to look into the future and understand how we could produce 22 net-zero bulk chemicals of crucial importance in a sustainable manner by integrating fossil, CCU routes and power technologies, often assessed separately. We evaluated the environmental performance of these technologies in terms of their contribution to 5 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), using 16 life cycle assessment metrics and 9 planetary boundaries (PB) to quantify and interpret the impact values. We found that fossil chemicals could hamper the attainment of SDG 3 on good health and well-being and SDG 13 on climate change. CCU could help meet SDG 13 but would damage other SDGs due to burden-shifting to human health, water scarcity, and minerals and metals depletion impacts. The collateral damage could be mitigated by judiciously combining fossil and CCU routes with carbon-negative power sources guided by optimisation models incorporating SDGs-based performance criteria explicitly. Our work highlights the importance of embracing the SDGs in technology development to sensibly support the low-carbon energy and chemicals transition.","dates":{"release":"2023-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2023 Jan","modification":"2026-03-27T15:39:02.164Z","creation":"2025-04-05T13:31:06.125Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9847469","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36744118"],"doi":["10.1039/d2ee01153k"]}}