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Alexander J. Stein

The most important #climate protection strategy of all remains to rapidly reduce #emissions to zero. #Climate plantations, or #bioenergy with #carbon capture & storage, is only feasible if our #foodsystem changes and focuses less on animal products… (1/2) pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest- #BECCS

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact ResearchLittle potential for “climate plantations” within planetary boundaries12.02.2025 – Planting fast-growing crops, burning them, capturing the released CO₂ and storing it: this is being discussed as a way to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and limit global heating to 1.5 degrees in the long term. But if this is done on land beyond existing agriculture, it endangers the stability of the biosphere. A study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Nature Communications Earth & Environment puts a figure on the potential of such novel “climate plantations”, also known as bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS). The study considered not only the carbon balance but also other planetary boundaries.
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Auscandoc

'Energy independent' #Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for 10 straight months
theprogressplaybook.com/2023/1 “#Renewables alone have powered the Uruguayan economy for 10 straight months.

Between 1 July 2023 and end-April 2024, the South American nation generated all of its electricity from #hydro, #wind, #bioenergy and #solar

Hydroelectric plants comprised 42.9% of the total mix, followed closely by wind farms at 40.6%. Bioenergy (12.9%) and solar (3.5%) accounted for the remainder.”

The Progress Playbook · 'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for 10 straight monthsUruguay's rapid energy transformation has shielded electricity users from global shocks.
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anlomedad

Article is about a UK #bioenergy power plant that burns imported wood pellets from the US. It received scrutiny in a report because it produced more CO2 in 2023 than the now-offline last #coal power plant. But it's not the real problem, IMO.

The UK tax payers heavily subsidise the wood-burning as sustainable and CO2-neutral, and because of the promise 😁 of 100% carbon capture and storage by 2030.
#BECCS #CCS
But the claimed sustainability, ie not felling forests for the imported pellets, is not monitored by the government, at all.
Remember: everything profitable is attracting sociopaths and requires monitoring and harsh personal sentences for managers AND shareholders as incentive to adhere to rules.

And now read this:

"The FTSE 100 owner of the Drax power plant made profits of £500m over the first half of this year, helped by biomass subsidies of almost £400m over this period. It handed its shareholders a windfall of £300m for the first half of the year." 😁 theguardian.com/environment/ar
#CapitalismKills #Econobscene #Energy

The Guardian · Biomass power station produced four times emissions of UK coal plant, says reportBy Jillian Ambrose
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Paul Guinnessy

The 3rd int. conference on #NegativeCarbonDioxide (CO2) emissions, took place last week in Oxford, UK. Hundreds of scientists gathered to discuss methods to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, including #forestry, #bioenergy with #CarbonCapture and storage (#BECCS) and biochar. carbonbrief.org/negative-emiss

Carbon Brief · Negative emissions: Scientists debate role of CO2 removal in tackling climate change - Carbon BriefThe third international conference on negative CO2 emissions focused on the latest science, policy gaps and methods of carbon dioxide removal
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The Global Plant Council

Team cracks genomic code for earliest forms of terrestrial plant life

An international team has sequenced the genomes the closest relatives of land #plants

This breakthrough illuminates how early plants adapted to terrestrial environments 550 million years ago, paving the way for all land-based life, including humans. The findings offer insights into plant evolution & potential applications in #bioenergy & climate resilience.

globalplantcouncil.org/interna #PlantScience #Science #ClimateChange

Image: Mammillaria sp. on a petri dish. Prague, Czech Republic. Credit: Juandev / Wikimedia
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Scientific Frontline

The first-ever dataset bridging #molecular information about the poplar #tree #microbiome to #ecosystem-level processes has been released. The project aims to inform research regarding how natural systems function, their vulnerability to a changing #climate, and ultimately how plants might be #engineered for better performance as sources of #bioenergy and natural carbon storage.
#Biomolecular #Bioengineering #Biochemistry #Ecology #Microbiology #Genetics #sflorg
sflorg.com/2024/04/bmol0408240

www.sflorg.comFirst-of-its-kind integrated dataset enables genes-to-ecosystems researchThe dataset represents the largest publicly available metagenomics repository on a tree endosphere
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Martin Pigeon

Burning #wood, capturing the resulting CO2 & burying it underground, aka #bioenergy with #carbon capture & storage (#BECCS) is often presented as a "solution" for "negative emissions".

But "there’s nothing about taking the decades-old carbon stored in a tree and parking it belowground that will deliver “negative emissions”.
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In fact, promoting the logging of more forests will possibly increase CO2 emissions, because logging causes forest ecosystems to leak carbon."
euronews.com/green/2023/12/13/

euronewsThe EU and UK are backing the wrong horse in the race to net zeroThere’s nothing about taking the decades-old carbon stored in a tree and parking it belowground that will deliver “negative emissions”, Dr Mary S. Booth and Elsie Blackshaw-Crosby write.
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