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EUBCE 2024 - Aikaterini KONTI - Options, Opportunities and Challenges for Carbon Removals: The Role of BECCS and DACCS in the EU for Achieving Negative Emissions.

Options, Opportunities and Challenges for Carbon Removals: The Role of BECCS and DACCS in the EU for Achieving Negative Emissions.

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Options, Opportunities and Challenges for Carbon Removals: The Role of BECCS and DACCS in the EU for Achieving Negative Emissions.

Short Introductive summary

DACCS and BECCS are technologies that can help reaching climate neutrality in the EU by creating the carbon sinks required to balance out residual emissions by 2050 by offsetting emissions from other sectors that cannot be decarbonised. This study proposes a critical analysis of the options, opportunities and challenges for BECCS and DACCS as options to achieve negative emissions. Various issues will be considered, including energy demand for BECCS and DACCS and the potential for carbon storage and the contribution to achieve negative emissions. This paper also attempts to delineate the carbon accounting intricacies for BECCS and DACCS within the EU policy landscape (such as the initiative on Carbon Removal) to harmonize GHG emissions assessment in order to generate crediting system and avoid double counting.

Presenter

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Aikaterini KONTI

European Commission JRC, ITALY

Presenter's biography

Aikaterini Konti is a Biologist and Economist with postgraduate studies (MSc and PhD) in Biotechnology. As a researcher, she has participated in numerous research projects in the fields of Biotechnology, Bioenergy and Bioeconomy. Currently, she is working as a Project Officer in the JRC.

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Co-authors:

A. Konti, European Commission JRC, Ispra, ITALY
M. Canova, European Commission JRC, Ispra, ITALY
N. Scarlat, European Commission JRC, Ispra, ITALY

Session reference: 4CO.15.3