Workman, Mark, Kate Dooley, Guy Lomax, James Maltby, and Geoff Darch. 2020: “Decision Making in Contexts of Deep Uncertainty - An Alternative Approach for Long-Term Climate Policy.” Environmental Science & Policy 103 (January 2020): 77–84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.10.002.

‌"Here, we critically examine both the use of BECCS in mitigation scenarios and the decision making philosophy underlying the use of integrated assessment modelling to inform climate policy."

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Favero, Alice, Adam Daigneault, and Brent Sohngen. 2020: “Forests: Carbon Sequestration, Biomass Energy, or Both?” Science Advances 6 (13): eaay6792. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay6792.

"There is a continuing debate over the role that woody bioenergy plays in climate mitigation. This paper clarifies this controversy and illustrates the impacts of woody biomass demand on forest harvests, prices, timber management investments and intensity, forest area, and the resulting carbon balance under different climate mitigation policies."

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"Drax CEO Will Gardiner spoke to Current± about why ending coal made sense, what will happen to the remaining units post-2022 and how bioenergy alongside carbon capture and storage (BECCS) fits into the future energy mix."

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Butnar, Isabela, Oliver Broad, Baltazar Solano Rodriguez, and Paul E. Dodds (2020): The Role of Bioenergy for Global Deep Decarbonization: CO2 Removal or Low‐carbon Energy? GCB Bioenergy, January. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12666.

"‌We use a global integrated assessment model, TIAM‐UCL, to investigate the role of bioenergy within the global energy system when direct air capture and afforestation are available as cost‐competitive alternatives to BECCS. We find that the presence of other CO₂ removal technologies does not reduce the pressure on biomass resources but changes the use of bioenergy for climate mitigation."

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