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Recent Workshop

Throughout the academic year, GCEP holds workshops related to energy and the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

Energy Supply with Negative Carbon Emissions
June 15, 2012
Stanford University

Chair: Chris Field, Director, Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Global Ecology

Final Report (pdf)
Program (pdf)

As part of its assessment activity to identify new areas for fundamental research towards energy technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, GCEP hosted a workshop on Energy Supply with Negative Carbon Emissions. Experts in biomass energy, carbon capture and storage, direct air-capture, system modeling, and mitigation of carbon based emissions that cause climate forcing gathered to present, discuss and explore avenues to address why we need to achieve negative emissions, what are the potential co-benefits and what is needed to get there.

The overarching objective was to identify opportunities for innovative, high-risk, fundamental research towards energy supply technologies with negative carbon emissions.

Introduction
Chair: Sally Benson
GCEP Welcome and Workshop Objectives (Slides)
Jennifer Milne, Stanford University

Overview Talk (Slides)
Chris Field, Carnegie Institution for Science

Biomass Energy with Negative Emissions
Chair: Chris Field
The Current Status of BECCS (Slides)
Henrik Karlsson, Biorecro

Historical Environmental Budget of Bioethanol in Brazil and Future Expectations (Slides)
Jose R. Moreira, University of Sao Paulo

The Global Potential for Biomass Energy and CCS (Slides)
Joris Koornneef, Ecofys

Managing Bioenergy Agro-Ecosystems for Negative Carbon Emissions
Sarah Davis, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Integrating Bioenergy into the Global Forest and Forest Products Markets (Slides)
William Stewart, UC Berkeley

Carbon Capture, Conversion and Storage
Chair: A.J. Simon
Carbon-negative CO₂ Management Options (Slides)
Larry Baxter, Brigham Young University

The Role of Biochar in a Negative Emissions Portfolio (Slides)
Dominic Woolf, Cornell University

Direct Capture of CO₂ from Air
David Keith, Harvard University

Scalability of CCS Technologies (Slides)
Sally Benson, Stanford University

Addressing Other Contributions to Carbon Emissions
Chair: Sally Benson
Quantifying the Impact of CH₄ Emissions from Unconventional Well Completions in the U.S. (Slides)
Taku Ide, Koveva

Wetland Restoration and Management for Negative Carbon Emissions (Slides)
Lisamarie Windham-Myers, USGS

System Modeling
Chair: Chris Field
Modeling and Potential of Negative Emissions Technologies, including Biomass-Enhanced CCS (BECCS) (Slides)
Paul Fennell, Imperial College London

Can Low Stabilization Levels be Achieved Without Bioenergy with CO₂ Capture and Storage? (Slides)
Jae Edmonds, Joint Global Research Institute, PNNL and U of Maryland

Policy Needs for BECCS: A Cost-Effective Analysis (Slides)
Olivia Ricci, Université d'Orléans