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Carbon capture from biomass and waste incineration: Hype versus reality

Author: Biofuelwatch

Date: 2022

Location: Array

Language: English

Type of resource: Report

Topics: BECCS, Bioeconomy

Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) has been gaining traction in the debate around climate change mitigation, with governments developing funding and business frameworks to incentivise such projects. BECCS is misleadingly classified as a ‘carbon removals technology’, based on the false assumption that biomass energy is carbon neutral and that capturing and storing CO2 from burning wood or other biomass makes it ‘carbon negative’.

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Organization: Biofuelwatch