BECCS: the carbon capture technology the UK is relying on to reach net zero

The UK’s largest wood-burning power plant is to trial bioenergy with carbon capture and storage – but will it do enough to cut emissions?

Raffaella Ocone, Chair of Chemical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University • conversation
May 17, 2022 • ~7 min

The UK has bold plans to reach net zero emissions, but it must go beyond just turning off the CO₂ taps

The plan has plenty on reducing emissions, but less on removing already-emitted carbon from the atmosphere.

Shaun Fitzgerald, Teaching Fellow in Engineering, University of Cambridge • conversation
Nov. 19, 2020 • ~5 min

Net zero emissions targets are everywhere – we need to sort the genuine from the greenwash

Because pledges alone won't achieve net zero.

Tim Kruger, James Martin Fellow, Oxford Martin School, Environmental Change Institute and Institute for Science Innovation and Society, University of Oxford • conversation
Nov. 19, 2020 • ~7 min

An effective climate change solution may lie in rocks beneath our feet

To avoid global warming on a catastrophic scale, nations need to reduce emissions and find ways to pull carbon from the air. One promising solution: spreading rock dust on farm fields.

Benjamin Z. Houlton, Professor of Global Environmental Studies, Chancellor's Fellow and Director, John Muir Institute of the Environment, University of California, Davis • conversation
July 16, 2020 • ~8 min

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