Kenneth Möllersten, who was studying at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, had spent much of the past 12 months thinking about how the Swedish paper industry might be able to financially benefit from the Kyoto carbon emissions trading system through capturing its factory emissions and sequestering them underground. In April 2001, a PhD student from Sweden travelled to the University of Cambridge to present his latest unpublished work to the 12th Global Warming International Conference and Expo. But Carbon Brief has also spoken to the scientists who were instrumental to the concept first taking hold… Beginnings of BECCS The interactive timeline above shows these moments in sequential order. Put simply, without deploying BECCS at a global scale from mid-century onwards, most modellers think we will likely breach this limit by the end of this century.īut where did the idea for this “ saviour ” technology come from? Who came up with it? Who then developed and promoted the concept?Ĭontinuing our week-long series of articles on negative emissions, Carbon Brief has looked back over the past two decades and pieced together the seminal moments – the conferences, the conversations, the papers – which saw BECCS develop into one of the key assumed options for avoiding dangerous climate change. Analysis: Is the UK relying on ‘negative emissions’ to meet its climate targets?.Guest post: Do we need BECCS to avoid dangerous climate change?.Timeline: How BECCS became climate change’s ‘saviour’ technology.In-depth: Experts assess the feasibility of ‘negative emissions’.Explainer: 10 ways ‘negative emissions’ could slow climate change.Carbon Brief's series on negative emissions
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