Negative Emissions Technologies
This research was related to activities of the POLICY group on Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS), which was more tuned to bottom-up assessment and stakeholder involvement. The uncertainty study showed the importance of negative emission technologies, like BECCS or direct air capture, which can significantly lower the cost of the policy mix. One central result is that results are very sensitive to the uncertainty of the potential for BECCS, indicating that urgent research is needed in this field.
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS)
- BECCS uses biomass to produce energy
- It then captures CO2 produced during combustion/processing into a long-term geological storage facility
- This could decrease costs and increase attainability of of low stabilization levels through a negative emissions situation.
Main collaborators