View source for Publication - Net Zero and Beyond - What Role for Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage?

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|Pub Title=Net Zero and Beyond - What Role for Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage?
|Pub Organization=Chatham House
|Pub Author=Duncan Brack, Richard King
|Pub Month=January
|Pub Year=2020
|Pub Abstract=Current climate efforts are not progressing quickly enough to prevent the world from overshooting the global emissions targets set in the Paris Agreement; accordingly, attention is turning increasingly to options for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere – ‘carbon dioxide removal’ (CDR).

Alongside afforestation and reforestation, the main option under discussion is bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS): processes through which the carbon emissions from burning biomass for energy are captured before release into the atmosphere and stored in underground reservoirs.

This pre-eminent status is not, however, based on a comprehensive analysis of the feasibility and impacts of BECCS. In reality, BECCS has many drawbacks.
|Pub Topics=Bioenergy, Climate Change, Other
|Pub Download=https://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/net-zero-and-beyond-what-role-bioenergy-carbon-capture-and-storage?utm_source=Chatham%20House&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11326505_EER%20Newsletter&dm_i=1S3M,6QRL5,UTFD5X,QXYEF,1
|Pub Newsletter=No
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