by Helen Bunting | Aug 12, 2024
Restoring ecosystems and enhancing biodiversity is one of many regulatory ambitions under the European Green Deal. The motivations to do so include, but are not limited to, enabling carbon removal by capturing and storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in land....
by Helen Bunting | Aug 7, 2024
With perspectives on climate change becoming more polarised, debates can often descend into vilification, oversimplifications, and division. There is a critical need for more constructive dialogues. Dialogues on Climate Change is a new journal that seeks to facilitate...
by Helen Bunting | Jul 16, 2024
Despite high expectations about the role of carbon removal in meeting global climate targets, many of the proposed techniques remain nascent. This is especially so for techniques with potential for large-scale, permanent removal of CO2, such as direct air carbon...
by Caroline Kennedy | Jul 10, 2024
Miscanthus is a high-yielding lignocellulosic perennial biomass crop. The low multiplication rate of clonal rhizome propagation is a bottleneck to upscaling plantation areas of feedstock needed to supply and expand the bioeconomy. Novel seeded Miscanthus hybrids are...
by Caroline Kennedy | Jul 10, 2024
The UK sixth carbon budget has recommended domestic biomass supply should increase to meet growing demand, planting a minimum of 30,000 hectares of perennial energy crops a year by 2035, with a view to establishing 700,000 hectares by 2050 to meet the requirements of...
