Dr Paul Gilbert will be leaving the University of Manchester and the FAB-GGR team for pastures new in the public sector in Scotland. Dr Mirjam Röder will take over from Paul as work package leader and supervisor to Dr Zhongyuan Li.
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Nathan Owen joins the FAB-GGR team at the University of Exeter to work on the UK scale modelling of ecosystem impacts of afforestation and BECCS.Nathan has a PhD in Mathematics and has applied this to projects at the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute, building a connected set of economic and environmental models for the UK and a decision support tool.
The project team were in Exeter to hear about the work conducted in Year 1 and discuss research and publications that will take place in Year 2. Four of our advisory panel members were able to join us offering constructive feedback and unique insights on our work.
Blog post: Why BEECS might not produce ‘negative’ emissions after all | 14 August 2018
Anna Harper published a guest blog on Carbon Brief discussing the net carbon impact of large amounts of BECCS to meet 1.5°C targets. The blog is based on a paper written with colleagues published in Nature Communications this month.
Nem Vaughan, Clair Gough, Emma Littleton and Detlef van Vuuren are co-authors on a paper published in Environmental Research Letters. The paper evaluates the assumptions about the use of BECCS in 1.5C and 2C scenarios.