SDG 13 aims to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. This not only includes strengthening resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries, but also integrating climate change measures into national policies, strategies, and planning, as well as improving education, awareness, and early warning.

Overview, targets and indicators of SDG 13

Forschungszentrum Jülich is helping to realize SDG 13 by working with partners to study how direct capture and storage of CO₂ from the air can be integrated into climate protection strategies and used as an effective measure to mitigate the effects of climate change.

Climate change is one of the greatest environmental problems of our time and affects society, the economy and nature. Effective climate protection requires reliable assessments of future climate developments. In addition, technologies are needed that can remove CO₂ from the air on a long-term basis. One such technology is Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage (DACCS), which captures CO₂ directly from the atmosphere and permanently stores it.

The DACStorE project is researching how this technology can be used and expanded in Germany. This includes analyzing suitable locations, assessing the environmental and social impacts, and evaluating the legal and economic framework conditions.

The project is researching three technical approaches to CO₂ capture and testing them in demonstration plants: solid adsorption, membrane adsorption and the Electro-Swing adsorption. At the same time, the process chains are being evaluated, and new materials are being developed to improve the technology’s efficiency.

The NETs@Helmholtz Research School also supports the training of early-career scientists in negative-emission technologies. In addition, the DACStorE Transformation Hub promotes exchange between research, industry, start-ups, politics and society, thereby creating important conditions for the future deployment of DACCS.

Without directly removing CO₂ from the atmosphere, neither the 1.5 nor the two-degree limit for global warming can be achieved or maintained long-term. With the Direct Air Capture and Storage (DACS) negative emission technology, we can capture and subsequently store CO₂ in deep geological formations, thereby contributing to the achievement of climate protection goals.

DACStorE

The DACStorE project is a core project of the Helmholtz Innovation and Network Fund for CO₂ Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage (DACCS) to achieve CO₂ neutrality.

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Further Information

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Transformation Hub

‘DACStorE Transformation Hub’ is a virtual platform hosting different types of events and information based on the DACStorE research.

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NETs@Helmholtz

The NETs@Helmholtz Research School trains early-career scientists in the field of negative emission technologies (NETs), with a strong focus on Direct Air Capture & Storage (DACS) for removing CO₂ from the atmosphere.

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Projct Poster

The project poster provides insights into the sub-projects and contact details for DACStorE.