Social Science Insights for the BioCCS Industry

摘要: BioCCS is a technology gaining support as possible emissions reduction policy option to address climate change. The process entails the capture, transport and storage of carbon dioxide produced during energy production from biomass. Globally, most optimistic efficiency scenarios cannot avoid an average temperature increase +2 °C without bioCCS. Although very much at commencement stage, bioCCS demonstration projects can provide opportunity garner knowledge, achieve consensus build around technology’s properties. Yet many challenges face industry, including no guarantee biomass will always be sustainable sources or potentially result in stock losses. operating environment also has limited policies, regulations legal frameworks, risk safety concerns abound. Some state key problem for cultural, lacking ‘community support’, awareness credibility amongst its own stakeholders wider public. Therefore, industry benefit growing social science literature, drawing upon other resource based industries with regard choice future options. To this end, following scoping review was conducted order ascertain gaps existing public perception acceptance research focusing on