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• BECCS (bioenergy with carbon capture and storage): Climate saviour or dangerous hype?

  Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) has received increasing attention in recent years, with claims for its potential as a “carbon negative” technology, to reduce atmospheric CO2 concentrations.

  • 15/11/2012

  • Biofuelwatch
  • • Biofuel
    • Carbon Capture and Storage
    • Biomass
    • Biomass Gasification
    • Coal Industry
    • Ethanol
    • Biodiesel
    • Thermal Power Plants
    • Subsidies
    • Europe
    • United States Of America (US)
    • Energy Policy
    • Climate Change

• Biochar: a critical review of science and policy

  <p>As the impacts of climate change escalate, efforts to develop new technologies and new approaches to reducing emissions are promoted. One proposal is to sequester carbon in soils using biochar. Biochar is essentially fine grained charcoal.

  • 01/06/2011

  • Biofuelwatch
  • • Charcoal
    • Biomass
    • Biofuel
    • Carbon Dioxide
    • Carbon Offset
    • India
    • Global
    • Energy