PhD-Thesis: Promises and Pitfalls of Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage: Actors’ Perspectives, Challenges, and Mitigation Deterrence in Sweden
Emily Rodriguez, Linköping University, DOI: 10.3384/9789180754873
The aim of this thesis is to examine challenges for the implementation of BECCS in Sweden to contribute to sustainability transitions, and to analyze the prospect for deploying BECCS through the lens of mitigation deterrence. This lens is a way to study risks of foregone emissions, overshoots, and rebound effects when relying on a future carbon removal method such as BECCS. This thesis studies how BECCS is socially constructed by key actors in Sweden by analyzing perspectives held by companies, civil servants, political parties, and other key actors, through interviews and focus groups. This study also analyzes how plans to include BECCS impact net-zero strategies in Stockholm, the first city to have a pilot and demonstration facility for BECCS in Europe.