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Leon Merfort
Leibniz Association · 🇩🇪 DE

Career Stage: Mid-career

CDR Specialization

General CDR

Cross-cutting research supporting multiple CDR pathways or the general CDR field.

Metrics

Top CDR Publications

1. Impact of declining renewable energy costs on electrification in low-emission scenarios (2021) 498 citations · General CDR

2. Bioenergy-induced land-use-change emissions with sectorally fragmented policies (2023) 39 citations · General CDR

3. Food matters: Dietary shifts increase the feasibility of 1.5°C pathways in line with the Paris Agreement (2024) 30 citations · General CDR

4. Separating CO2 emission from removal targets comes with limited cost impacts (2025) 8 citations · General CDR

5. Separating CO2 emission from removal targets comes with limited cost impacts (2024) 1 citations · General CDR

6. Assessing Earth system feedbacks in deep mitigation scenarios with activity-driven simulation of carbon dioxide removal (2025) 0 citations · General CDR

7. Projecting long-term pathways of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon dioxide removal with an Integrated Assessment Model emulator (2025) 0 citations · BECCS

8. Bottom-up estimate of the carbon dioxide removal potential of land-based mitigation technologies using a coupled ESM/ land-use change model framework (2025) 0 citations · BECCS

9. Representing carbon dioxide removal in Earth System Models: towards an activity-driven framework. (2025) 0 citations · BECCS

10. Defending climate targets under threat of forest carbon impermanence (2023) 0 citations · General CDR

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