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What Shapes the Social Acceptability of BECCS?

Figure: Social Acceptability issues positioned on the acceptability scale and the BECCS value chain (purple - issues common to both projects,…
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A Favorable Context for BECCS? The Case of KVV8 in Sweden

After analysing BECCS deployment in England and the Drax case, Florian Auclair turns to a second context: Sweden, focusing on the KVV8 cogeneration…
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The Evolution of a National Locomotive

In the third chapter of his research, Florian Auclair applies his dual-grid framework to the Drax Power Station in England. Once the UK’s largest…
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Evaluation of socio-political contexts

This publication builds on our previous post on the “Poles of Acceptability” and now presents a summary of Chapter 2 of Florian Auclair’s thesis:…
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Romain Presty defends his PhD thesis on March 2nd at IFP School

🎓 The CarMa Chair is excited to announce that Romain Presty will be defending his PhD thesis, titled “Modeling Large-Scale Carbon Dioxide Removal…
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Siwar Saadaoui continues her research journey with a postdoctoral project within the CarMa Chair

Siwar Saadaoui continues her journey with us, starting her postdoctoral research under the CarMa Chair at IFPEN on February 10th, 2026. 🎉
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Market-Based deployment of Engineered Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies in Europe

This study uses a multi-country equilibrium model to explore how engineered carbon removals, such as BECCS and DACCS, can be integrated into the EU…
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Understanding the Social Acceptability of BECCS Beyond NIMBY

Social acceptability is increasingly recognized as a key factor for the success of the low-carbon transition. To explore how this parameter…
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Siwar Saadaoui defends her thesis: Revealing the realistic and sustainable potential of dedicated energy crops for net-zero

On December 9th, 2025, Siwar Saadaoui defended her PhD thesis, which proposes a comprehensive and spatially explicit framework for assessing the…
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Highlights from the 2025 CarMa Annual Seminar

We were pleased to host our annual seminar at IFP School, chaired by the members of our Scientific Council: Roger Aines, Sabine Fuss, and Volker…
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