H.R.1892 – Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018
This bill includes a provision to amend the U.S. tax code to provide a tax credit for carbon capture projects that securely store captured CO2 in geologic formations or beneficially use captured CO2.
Using Renewable Portfolio Standards to Accelerate Development of Negative Emission Technologies
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
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
This paper evaluates low-cost, commercially ready sequestration opportunities for existing biorefineries in the United States.
Governance of Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS): Accounting, Rewarding and the Paris Agreement
This paper focuses on governance aspects of BECCS with the aim to identify pragmatic ways forward for the technology.
Opportunities and Trade-Offs Among BECCS and the Food, Water, Energy, Biodiversity, and Social Systems Nexus at Regional Scales
This paper presents an interdisciplinary research framework to examine the trade-offs as well as the opportunities among BECCS scenarios using the Upper Missouri River Basin (UMRB) as a case study.
Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS): Global Potential, Investment Preferences, and Deployment Barriers
This paper explores the influence of expertise, actor type, and origin on preferences for investing in BECCS, views of the role of BECCS as a mitigation technology, and assesses the possible domestic barriers to BECCS deployment.
Carbon Dioxide Removal Geoengineering
Using case studies of BECCS and ocean fertilization CDR techniques, this article examines the capacity of current Australian law to govern CDR research.
Policy Support for Biochar: Review and Recommendations
This paper examines the role that government policy can play in accelerating production and use of biochar at commercial scale in the United States.
Potential and Costs of Carbon Dioxide Removal by Enhanced Weathering of Rocks
This article provides a comprehensive assessment of the economic costs, energy requirements, technical parameterization, and global and regional carbon removal potential of enhanced weathering.