Funding from BEIS, Met Office and scientific research councils will further UK research into technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at 'climatically relevant scale'
Scientific efforts to find a viable way to capture and remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere are set to receive an £8.4m funding boost thanks to a new four-year research programme launched last week by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the Met Office, and various British research councils.
Researchers are now being invited to submit proposals for proposals that could deliver carbon dioxide removal at a "climatically relevant scale" in a bid to win a share of the funding pot.
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The £8.3m will be used to fund up to four research bids from "multi-institution consortiums" with a maximum budget of £2m each, and up to six topic-specific projects with a maximum budget of £300,000 each.
Developing technology to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is seen as vital to achieving a zero emission economy and meeting the well below 2C temperature goal set out in the Paris Agreement. Experts have long warned some sources of emissions, such as agriculture, will be extremely difficult to completely eradicate and as such some form of negative emissions technology will be required later this century.
Techniques to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere include reforestation, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, and direct air capture. However, significant gaps in scientific knowledge remain, including on the technological efficiency of proposed techniques for reducing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, their environmental impact, and cost-effectiveness.
The project is being supported by BEIS, the Met Office, the National Environmental Research Council (NERC), the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC).
Applicants have until November 10 to make their submission.
The new funding follows the government's high-profile cancellation of a £1bn carbon capture and storage competition last autumn, a move heavily criticised by some green campaigners who argue carbon capture is vital for meeting our climate targets in the most cost-effective way and could prove crucial to cutting emissions from the atmosphere in conjunction with biomass power plants.
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