In light of the new standards for carbon removal techniques launched at COP27, Josh Burke outlines the risks of treating carbon removals as a homogenous group and the implications for reaching net zero. Read more
BECCS
This report consists of a submission to a UK government consultation on designing business models for greenhouse gas removal technologies. Read more
Greenhouse gas removal technologies will play an important role in the UK's net zero pathway, but it is unclear how they can be funded fairly. We assess four policy options and compare how the costs will fall to UK households. Read more
This article discusses who should pay for carbon removal technologies such as CCUS, DAC, and BECCS. Newly published research co-authored... Read more
The authors of this paper consider the distributional incidence and magnitude on household income deciles if the costs for deploying and operating BECCS and DACCS are placed on different sectors of the economy via a range of viable policy funding options. Read more
In this guest commentary, Labanya Prakash Jena and Shreyans Jain contend that governments can play a key part in the commercialisation and deployment of negative emission technologies. Read more
The UK's net-zero commitment assumes the use of greenhouse gas removal (GGR) technologies, but there is little understanding of how they might be funded and who will bear the cost. This study prepared for the National Infrastructure Commission analyses how the distribution of costs for funding these technologies impacts society across income deciles. Read more
Josh Burke examines the costs, opportunities, advantages and disadvantages of different carbon capture and negative emissions technologies. Read more
Decarbonising the power sector means reducing its carbon intensity: that is, reducing the emissions per unit of electricity generated (often... Read more
This report explains the importance of pricing carbon as a key component of any strategy to reach net-zero emissions in the UK, setting out how the price may differ sector to sector and how to incentivise negative emissions. Read more
