BECCS

Biomass

Cheers to that: Drax in talks with beer industry over CCS solution to CO2 shortage

Energy firm in talks with British Beer & Pub Association over upcoming CCS trial link up after CO2 shortages for UK industry this summer

clock 12 August 2018 • 2 min read

Biomass

'Government must provide more certainty': Drax, biomass CCS, and the end of coal

Drax Power CEO Andy Koss talks to BusinessGreen about the firm's new carbon capture project and why new gas is needed to balance the ever cleaner power grid

clock 19 June 2018 • 10 min read

CCS

'Hugely exciting': Drax to test carbon capture technology at North Yorkshire biomass plant

Drax and C-Capture say North Yorkshire pilot could be the 'first of several' in the UK aimed at delivering negative emissions

clock 20 May 2018 • 6 min read

Climate change

Less meat and more green power: Scientists cook up 1.5 degrees trajectory with minimal reliance on negative emissions

Research suggests 1.5 degrees target is within reach even without large-scale use of negative emissions technology - but would require major shift in consumer behaviour

clock 15 April 2018 • 2 min read

Climate change

'Silver bullet' to suck CO2 from air and halt climate change ruled out

Scientists say climate targets cannot be met using the technologies, which either risk huge damage to the environment or are very costly

clock 01 February 2018 • 3 min read

Climate change

Inaction on climate change risks leaving future generations $530 trillion in debt

BECCS technologies have been touted as a means of avoiding the worst impacts of climate change, but as James Dyke argues the costs of deployment would likely be gargantuan in scale

clock 24 July 2017 • 5 min read