The role of bio-energy with carbon capture and storage in meeting the climate mitigation challenge: A whole system perspective

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Mander, Sarah, Anderson, Kevin, Larkin, Alice, Gough, Clair and Vaughan, Naomi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4532-2084 (2017) The role of bio-energy with carbon capture and storage in meeting the climate mitigation challenge: A whole system perspective. Energy Procedia, 114. pp. 6036-6043. ISSN 1876-6102

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Abstract

This paper explores the role and implications of bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) for addressing the climate change mitigation challenge. Framed within the context of the latest emissions budgets, and their associated uncertainty, we present a summary of the contribution of BECCS within the Integrated Assessment Model (IAM) scenarios used by the climate change community. Within this discussion we seek to shed light on two important areas. Firstly, that BECCS is a central, but often hidden element of many of the modelling work that underpins climate policy from the global to the national scale. The second area we address are the assumptions for BECCS embedded within IAM models, and the wider system consequences of these implied levels of deployment. In light of these challenges, we question whether BECCS can deliver what is anticipated of it within existing climate change policy.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: bio energy with carbon capture and storage,carbon budgets,iams,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
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Depositing User: Pure Connector
Date Deposited: 26 Aug 2017 05:06
Last Modified: 11 Jul 2023 09:30
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/64678
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.1739

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