CO2 Removal Hub (or CO2RE Hub)

Overview

The UK has legislated net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Achieving this target requires dramatic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, but it also requires deployment and scale up of greenhouse gas removal options. 

The CO2RE hub is funded though the UKRI SPF Greenhouse Gas Removal Demonstrators (GGR-D) Programme. It conducts research, co-ordinates demonstration projects around the UK, connects to other relevant national and international programmes, and commissions grants through a flexible fund. The GGR-D Programme also funds five GGR Demonstrator projects trialling the scale up of several GGR options: afforestation, peatland restoration, enhanced rock weathering, biochar, and bioenergy crops. 

The UCL team will co-ordinate the development of an evaluation framework which allows all the GGR options to be assessed and compared on a common basis. The evaluation framework will be reflecting key aspects of GGR scalability in the UK, e.g. permanence of carbon dioxide removal, social and ecological co-benefits and trade-offs. The framework will be applied to the five Demonstrators and other GGR options trialled in the UK and abroad, e.g. bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, direct air capture.

Impact 

• To be determined

Collaborators

• Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
• University of Oxford 

Outputs

• To be prepared

People

• Professor Paul Ekins
• Dr Isabela Butnar
• Mr Oliver Broad

Links

• Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
• University of Oxford 
• CO₂RE hub

Photo credit

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