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Policymakers are beginning to understand the scale of carbon dioxide removal that is required to keep global warming “well below 2 °C”. This understanding must now be translated into policies that give business the incentive to research, develop and deploy the required technologies.

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Figure 1: The scale of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) across different cost-optimal integrated assessment models (IAMs) with globally harmonized climate policies starting in 2010 (refs 9,10).

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G.P.P. was supported by the Research Council of Norway (project 261785, Governance of Biomass — CCS).

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  1. CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Gaustadalléen 21, Oslo, 0349, Norway
    Glen P. Peters
  2. German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Ludwigkirchplatz 3-4, Berlin, 10719, Germany
    Oliver Geden
  3. Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford, 64 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PN, UK
    Oliver Geden

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Peters, G., Geden, O. Catalysing a political shift from low to negative carbon.Nature Clim Change 7, 619–621 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3369

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