Assessment Report from the GCEP Workshop on Energy Supply with Negative Carbon Emissions

1 Foreword 2 Introduction 3 Biomass Energy with Negative Emissions 4 Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) 4 Ethanol program in Brazil 5 Negative emissions in the bioenergy lifecycle 5 Carbon Capture, Conversion and Storage 7 Conversion 7 Capture 8 Storage 9 CCS 9 Biochar 10 Oceans and carbon storage 12 Addressing Other Contributions to Carbon Emissions 12 Methane emissions from the natural gas system 12 Wetlands: methane emissions and carbon storage 13 System Modeling of Net Negative Carbon Emissions Technologies 14 Summary 17 Conclusions 17 Acknowledgements 18 References 18

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