Attention to carbon dioxide removal (CDR) has grown in recent years as policymakers and companies look for additional options to meet net-zero climate commitments. Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is the only suite of technologies with the potential to produce both clean energy and net-negative carbon dioxide emissions. Yet there is currently no holistic policy framework to guide BECCS development in the United States.
At this event hosted at Resources for the Future (RFF) on June 27, 2023, the EFI Foundation presented a new report on the case for policymakers to accelerate BECCS deployment and the ways to do so, including maximizing the social, economic, and environmental co-benefits of BECCS and establishing rules of the road for responsible large-scale deployment.
Speakers
Senator Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico)
Senator Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana)
Ernest Moniz, President and CEO, EFI Foundation
Richard Newell, President and CEO, RFF
Joseph Hezir, Executive Vice President and Treasurer, EFI Foundation
Sam Savitz, Senior Research Associate, EFI Foundation
Virginia Dale, Research Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Roger Ballentine, President, Green Strategies, Inc.
Sasha Mackler, Executive Director of the Energy Program, Bipartisan Policy Center
William Pizer, Vice President for Research and Policy Engagement, RFF
