@article {1390366,
	title = {Prospective contributions of biomass pyrolysis to China{\textquoteright}s 2050 carbon reduction and renewable energy goals},
	journal = {Nature Communications},
	volume = {12},
	year = {2021},
	abstract = {Deployment of negative emission technologies needs to start immediately if we are to avoid overshooting international carbon targets, reduce negative climate impacts, and minimize costs of emission mitigation. Actions in China, given its importance for the global anthropogenic carbon budget, can be decisive. While bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) may need years to mature, this study focuses on developing a ready-to-implement biomass intermediate pyrolysis poly-generation (BIPP) technology to produce a potentially stable form of biochar, a medium for carbon storage, and to provide a significant source of valuable biofuels, especially pyrolysis gas. Combining the experimental data with hybrid models, the results show that a BIPP system can be profitable without subsidies: its national deployment could contribute to a 68\% reduction of carbon emissions per unit of GDP in 2030 compared to 2005 and could result additionally in a reduction in air pollutant emissions. With 73\% of national crop residues converted to biochar and other biofuels in the near term (2020 to 2030), the cumulative greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction could reach up to 5653 Mt CO<sub>2</sub>-eq by 2050, which could contribute 9-20\% of the global GHG emission reduction goal for BECCS (28-65 Gt CO<sub>2</sub>-eq in IPCC{\textquoteright}s 1.5 {\textdegree}C pathway), and nearly 2633 Mt more than that projected for BECCS alone. The national BIPP development strategy is developed on a provincial scale based on a regional economic and life-cycle analysis.\&nbsp;},
	url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21868-z},
	author = {Yang, Qing and Hewen Zhou and Bartocci, Pietro and Fantozzi, Francesco and Ma{\v s}ek, Ond{\v r}ej and Foster Agblevor and Wei, Zhiyu and Yang, Haiping and Chen, Hanping and Lu, Xi and Guoqian Chen and Zheng, Chuguang and Nielsen, Chris P. and McElroy, Michael B.}
}
