BECCS technology and Paris Agreement targets.
One of the Paris Agreement's headline achievements was a new aspirational goal to 'pursue efforts' to keeping the rise in global temperatures to below 1.5 degrees centigrade, as well as a firmer commitment to keep this rise to below 2 degrees centigrade. Meeting these targets, however, will require the use of 'negative emissions' technology, especially 'bioenergy with carbon capture and storage' (BECCS), a key assumption of climate models but which is yet to be available at scale.
Governments will face new demands to produce research, policy and regulatory frameworks to support BECCS technologies.
Other negative emissions technologies, such as 'geoengineering' methods, may take on greater prominence in the absence of BECCS.
Climate adaptation and loss and damage issues will grow in political prominence as temperature targets look increasingly out of reach.
