The UKRI Strategic Priorities Fund Greenhouse Gas Removal Demonstrators (GGR-D) Programme

Authors: Philippa Westbury, Johanna Arlinghaus, Ian Bateman (NetZeroPlus), David Beerling (ERW), Rob Bellamy, Aoife Brophy, Isabela Butnar, Iain Donnison (PBC4GGR), Christopher Evans (GGR-Peat), Alyssa Gilbert, Joanna House, Navraj Singh Galeigh, Stephen M. Smith, Colin Snape (Biochar), Judith Thornton (PBC4GGR), Marsaili Van Looy, Astha Wagle.

Over the past four years or so, the Greenhouse Gas Removal Demonstrators (GGR-D) Programme has provided vital new evidence and analysis to inform decisions about greenhouse gas removal (GGR) deployment in the UK and globally.

This report provides an overview of the key research insights and cross-cutting lessons from the programme.

Key insights in the report cover:

• Our understanding of the potential of these technologies to deliver genuine greenhouse gas removals.
• A suite of policy, legal and evaluation insights and methodologies that can help build up the UK’s GGR ability to scale the most promising technologies responsibly.
• Technical trials, which have revealed insights into entirely new approaches: preliminary investigations show promising results for some co-deployments of GGR in one place e.g. biochar and peat.
• How to scale up a portfolio of sustainable GGR options in the UK (Chapter 2), increasing the current modest levels.
• CO2RE Hub’s evaluation framework, which allows assessment of GGR methods holistically on a coherent and consistent basis and can be used by a range of actors to support decision-making on sustainable scale-up.