Nature Communications (May 2021)

Spatially explicit analysis identifies significant potential for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage in China

  • Xiaofan Xing,
  • Rong Wang,
  • Nico Bauer,
  • Philippe Ciais,
  • Junji Cao,
  • Jianmin Chen,
  • Xu Tang,
  • Lin Wang,
  • Xin Yang,
  • Olivier Boucher,
  • Daniel Goll,
  • Josep Peñuelas,
  • Ivan A. Janssens,
  • Yves Balkanski,
  • James Clark,
  • Jianmin Ma,
  • Bo Pan,
  • Shicheng Zhang,
  • Xingnan Ye,
  • Yutao Wang,
  • Qing Li,
  • Gang Luo,
  • Guofeng Shen,
  • Wei Li,
  • Yechen Yang,
  • Siqing Xu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23282-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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China has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality in 2060. Here the authors find a promising option to abate 1.0 Gt CO2-eq yr− 1 of carbon emissions at a marginal cost of $69 (t CO2-eq)−1 by retrofitting 222 GW of coal power plants to co-fire with biomass and upgrading to CCS operation across 2836 counties in China.