BECCS Archives - Page 7 of 14

Technological Carbon Removal: Recent Economic and Political Trends in the United States

2019

Think Tank Report

Climate Advisers

This report assesses the current state of affairs surrounding technological CDR in the United States and provides concrete policy recommendations for action at the Federal level.

Carbon Removal: Comparing Historical Federal Research Investments with the National Academies’ Recommended Future Funding Levels

2019

Think Tank Report

The Bipartisan Policy Center

The objective of this analysis is to review the historical baseline estimates of federal RD&D investment related to carbon removal and assess how they compare with the recommended future funding levels from the 2018 National Academies Report on NETs.

Global Resources Outlook 2019: Natural Resources for the Future We Want

2019

Scientific Report

United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)

UNEP's Global Resources Outlook highlights and supports climate policies to remove atmospheric carbon in its "Towards Sustainability" scenario, specifically policies targeted towards the deployment of BECCs, DAC, and reforestation activities.

Rich man’s solution? Climate engineering discourses and the marginalization of the Global South

2019

Scholarly Work

Frank Biermann, Ina Möller

This article maps a lack of involvement of developing countries in the climate engineering discourse and highlights the degree to which their concerns remain insufficiently represented in politically significant scientific assessment reports.

Achievement of Paris climate goals unlikely due to time lags in the land system

2019

Scholarly Work

Calum Brown, Peter Alexander, Ian Holman, Almut Arneth, Mark Rounsevell

This paper suggests that improved recognition of different land-system policies and lags in land-system change is necessary to identify achievable mitigation actions and avoid excessively optimistic assumptions and consequent policy failures.

Engineered CO2 Removal, Climate Restoration, and Humility

2019

Scholarly Work

Julio Friedmann

This article lays out how using engineered CDR techniques to achieve net-zero will require substantial cooperation between groups of people who commonly do not work together, including technical experts, financiers, and government officials.

Clearing the Air: A Federal RD&D Initiative and Management Plan for Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies

2019

Think Tank Report

Energy Futures Initiative

This report provides a set of recommendations and detailed implementation plans for a 10-year, $10.7 billion research, development, and demonstration initiative in the United States to bring new pathways for technological CDR to commercial readiness.

Using Renewable Portfolio Standards to Accelerate Development of Negative Emission Technologies

2018

Scholarly Work

Anthony Chavez

This article discusses how states can use Renewable Portfolio Standards to incentivize the development of negative emission technologies.

Challenges to the Use of BECCS as a Keystone Technology in Pursuit of 1.5ºC

2018

Scholarly Work

Clair Gough, Samira Garcia-Freites, Christopher Jones, Sarah Mander, Brendan Moore, Cristina Pereira, Mirjam Röder, Naomi Vaughan, Andrew Welfle

This paper explores six key challenges in relation to large scale BECCS deployment and considers ways to address these challenges.

Near-term Deployment of Carbon Capture and Sequestration from Biorefineries in the United States

2018

Scholarly Work

Daniel Sanchez, Nils Johnson, Sean McCoy, Peter Turner, Katharine Mach

This paper evaluates low-cost, commercially ready sequestration opportunities for existing biorefineries in the United States.

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