Prof Jason Lowe is Head of Knowledge Integration and Mitigation Advice at the UK’s Met Office and lead scientist for the government-funded AVOID2 research programme, which provided impartial advice on ...

The UK government’s advisory Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has had another look at biomass, following on from its earlier study, and thinks it could play a vital role in UK emission reduction, as ...

Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage – better known by the acronym “BECCS” – has come to be seen as one of the most viable and cost-effective negative emissions technologies. Even though they ...

What’s BECCS, and why’s it so complicated? Sucking carbon pollution out of the atmosphere is becoming a big business—companies are paying top dollar for technologies that can cancel out their own ...

Raffaella Ocone receives funding from Heriot-Watt University. I have received funding from EPSRC, but not related to the issues discussed in this article. The UK government is counting on the carbon ...