Update carbon-management.yaml

definitions/variable/emissions/carbon-management.yaml

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 # Carbon Capture is grouped into two levels of aggregation based on the fate of the captured CO2.
-# Level-1 reports whether captured CO2 is stored, utilized, or leaked
-# Level-2 reports additional disaggregation for long-lived vs. short-lived utilization.
 
 - Carbon Capture:
     description: Total amount of captured carbon dioxide (CO2) from energy use in supply and demand sectors (IPCC category 1A, 1B) and from industrial processes 
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         wherin the captured carbon is reemitted to the atmosphere upon consumption of these products or within annual to decadal timescales. 
     unit: Mt CO2/yr
 
-# Carbon Removal reports the method of CDR in level-1, with additional disaggration as to the fate of removed carbon for materials in Level-2
-
-- Carbon Removal:
-    description: Gross removals of CO2 from the atmosphere through deliberate human activities
-    unit: Mt CO2/yr
-
-- Carbon Removal|Direct Air Capture:
-    description: CO2 captured directly from the atmosphere in solvent, sorbent, or other chemical processes, excluding any fossil process heat.
-    unit: Mt CO2/yr
-
-- Carbon Removal|Terrestrial Enhanced Weathering:
-    description: Carbon dioxide (CO2) removed from the atmosphere by spreading ground silicate bearing rock 
-        over croplands or terrestrial ecosystems, thereby converting aqueous CO2 into solid carbonate minerals or ocean alkalinity
-    unit: Mt CO2/yr
-
-- Carbon Removal|Ocean:
-    description: Carbon dioxide (CO2) removed from the atmopshere and stored in the ocean as alkalinity, biomass sinking, or other long-term storage
-    unit: Mt CO2/yr
-
-- Carbon Removal|Ocean|Direct Ocean Capture:
-    description: dissolved inorganic carbon that is electrochemically separated from seawater and stored in geologic reservoirs or other long-term storage
-    unit: Mt CO2/yr
-
-- Carbon Removal|Ocean|Alkalinization:
-    description: Carbon dioxide (CO2) removed from the atmopshere and stored in the ocean as alkalinity
-    unit: Mt CO2/yr
-
-- Carbon Removal|Materials:
-    description: Carbon dioxide (CO2) of atmospheric or biomass origin that is stored in long-lived materials with centenial to millenial residence times for the carbon. 
-    unit: Mt CO2/yr
-
-- Carbon Removal|Materials|Cement:
-    description: Carbon dioxide (CO2) of atmospheric or biomass origin that is stored in cement
-    unit: Mt CO2/yr
-    note: CO2 uptake from cement carbonation, if reported, should be included under this category
-
-- Carbon Removal|Materials|Plastics: 
-    description: Carbon dioxide (CO2) of atmospheric or biomass origin that is stored in plastics which are subsequently landfilled or otherwise prevented from reoxidizing for centenial or greater timescales.  
-    unit: Mt CO2/yr
-    note: Incineration or other leakage should be excluded or deducted from removal total
-
-- Carbon Removal|Materials|Timber:
-    description: Carbon dioxide (CO2) that is embodied in timber used for building construction or buried in durable repositories  
-    unit: Mt CO2/yr
-
-- Carbon Removal|Afforestation:
-    description: Carbon dioxide (CO2) stored in soils and vegetation through the expansion of forested land area
-    unit: Mt CO2/yr
-
-- Carbon Removal|Soil Carbon Management:
-    description: Carbon dioxide (CO2) stored in agricultural soils as organic carbon as a result of management practices such as low-till, organic soil amendment, or biochar application
-    unit: Mt CO2/yr
-
-- Carbon Removal|Soil Carbon Management|Biochar:
-    description: production of biochar using pyrolysis
-    unit: Mt CO2/yr
-
 - Carbon Removal|Agroforestry:
     description: Carbon dioxide (CO2) removed from the atmosphere via intentional integration of trees and shrubs into crop and animal farming systems
     unit: Mt CO2/yr