Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage

Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage, BECCS, is a climate change mitigation technology where carbon capture and storage is applied to facilities which burn or in other ways process biomass. Examples of such facilities are power stations or pulp and paper mills. Using this technology with sustainably produced biomass would result in net-negative carbon emissions, as the carbon sequestered during the growth of the biomass would be captured and stored, thus removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
The concept of BECCS is sometimes refered to as Bio-energy with carbon storage (BECS), although BECS may also refer to a wider concept than BECCS, including technologies such as carbon sequestration with biochar.
BECCS may be an essential tool for stabilizing atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and to counter the threat of abrupt climate change .
CCS can also be applied to biomass, potentially reducing atmospheric concentrations, if the harvest and combustion of biomass is in equilibrium with carbon dioxide being sequestered
by growing plants, in which case carbon capture and storage would additionally reduce emissions from this carbon-neutral fuel. Assuming sustainable biomass production, it has been found that the use of both fossil fuel and biomass CCS will reduce overall costs of stabilizing atmospheric carbon dioxide by 40-80% compared with a technology mix relying on non-CCS technologies alone.

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