Dr Laurie Waller joins the FAB-GGR team at the University of East Anglia to work on the societal and political aspects of feasibility of large-scale afforestation and BECCS for greenhouse gas removal. Laurie previously worked at the Technical University of Munich in Germany.
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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.
Diarmaid Clery joins the FAB-GGR team at the University of East Anglia to work on the second stakeholder workshop and our policy brief outputs. Diarmaid has submitted his PhD in chemistry and engineering at the University of Leeds where he worked on the impact of biomass combustion on amine sorbents.
Nem Vaughan was on a panel of experts for a public discussion following on from the UK premier of the film, Anote’s Ark, held at the Science Museum, London.
Anna Harper is the lead author of a paper [http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05340-z] published in Nature Communications. The paper concludes that carbon removed from the atmosphere through BECCS could easily be offset by losses due to land use change depending upon where biomass is grown.