Biorecro finalist in the Virgin Earth Challenge
All of us at Biorecro are very excited to have been short-listed for the Virgin Earth Challenge this month! Swedish Biorecro is among around a dozen remaining groups that emerged from an extensive review process of over 2,600 submissions. Biorecro competes with a technology called BECCS (Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage). The technique builds […]
Article in Swedish Newspaper SvD about Biorecro as a finalist in Virgin Earth Challenge
In a news item in Swedish newspaper SvD CEO Henrik Karlsson is interview by Carolina Neurath about Biorecro being finalist in Richard Branson’s competition Virgin Earth Challenge. Henrik Karlsson comments their success and their prospects.
Workshop with Biorecro on BECCS, London, UK
Arena International held the 6th annual EXPPerts Europe conference at the Pestana Chelsea Bridge Hotel in central London, a two-day event on how to achieve emissions reductions in power plants through cutting-edge technologies and strategies. Biorecro hosted a pre-conference workshop, focusing on strategies with BECCS and negative emissions for power plants and large industrial emitters.
The IEA and UNIDO publishes roadmap on CCS including BECCS
The IEA and UNIDO published a new technology roadmap on Carbon Capture and Storage in Industrial Applications. It shows that carbon capture and storage (CCS) has the potential to reduce CO2 emissions from industrial applications by 4 gigatonnes in 2050. The roadmap stresses the importance of BECCS and the potential for negative emissions with this […]
Wold Wide Fund for Nature WWF: Climate Solver – Biorecro
Wold Wide Fund for Nature WWF: Climate Solver: Biorecro
Blog comments on Biorecro report
Derek Taylor and Tone Knudsen of Bellona Foundation wrote a blog post and commented on the report Global Status of BECCS Projects 2010.
Global BECCS Projects 2010
The Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute released the full report Global Status of BECCS Projects 2010, written by the Biorecro team. “Bio-energy with CCS (BECCS) is a very useful tool for the future as it is the only technology by which we can actually reduce the level of CO2 in our atmosphere, rather than […]
Swedish National Television SVT featuring BECCS and Biorecro
The evening news program Rapport 19:30 as well as the science program “Vetenskapens Värld” featured stories on Biorecro and the newly published report on BECCS in Sweden. The report shows how Sweden can become a net negative emitter of carbon as early as 2030, using readily available BECCS technology, at a cost at below present […]
Biorecro WWF Climate Solver
Biorecro was awarded the title of Climate Solver by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). In a ceremony at the TryggHansa corporate headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, the newly appointed Secretary General of WWF, Håkan Wirtén, presented the award to Biorecro CEO Henrik Karlsson. According to a study carried out by the WWF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfbeG9oo6-M
Article in Svenska Dagbladet
Biorecro Chairman Lennart Byström and CEO Henrik Karlsson published an article in the Swedish daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet together with Per Bolund (MP for the Greens), Anders Wijkman (Vice President Club of Rome and former Member of the European Parliament) and Lars Kristoferson (professor and former Secretary General WWF Sweden). The article, published in Brännpunkt […]
