Report: No 'show-stopping' barriers to bioenergy with CCS in UK

ETI urges government to back BECCS technology which it says could deliver negative emissions within 10 years

Michael Holder
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Systems that combine bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies are credible, scalable and demonstrable, and with government backing could begin delivering negative emissions within 10...

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