Biorecro is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 cleantech company deploying the BECCS

Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage

Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage is a greenhouse gas mitigation technology which produces negative carbon emissions by combining biomass use with geologic carbon capture and storage....

 (Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage) technology through sales of negative emission

Negative carbon dioxide emission

A negative carbon dioxide emission or negative emission is a permanent removal of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. It is considered the direct opposite of carbon dioxide emission, hence its name...

 carbon credit

Carbon credit

A carbon credit is a generic term for any tradable certificate or permit representing the right to emit one tonne of carbon dioxide or the mass of another greenhouse gas with a carbon dioxide equivalent equivalent to one tonne of carbon dioxide....

s and carbon offset

Carbon offset

A carbon offset is a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide or greenhouse gases made in order to compensate for or to offset an emission made elsewhere....

s. Founded in 2007, it is based in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

, Sweden. Biorecro is one of the eleven finalists in the $25 million Virgin Earth Challenge

Virgin Earth Challenge

The Virgin Earth Challenge is a competition offering a $25 million prize for whoever can demonstrate a commercially viable design which results in the permanent removal of greenhouse gases out of the Earth's atmosphere, so as to contribute materially to avoid global warming...

 founded by the British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson

Richard Branson

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, best known for his Virgin Group of more than 400 companies....

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Biorecro has collaborated with the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute on an overview of global BECCS projects, with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization

United Nations Industrial Development Organization

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization , French/Spanish acronym ONUDI, is a specialized agency in the United Nations system, headquartered in Vienna, Austria...

, (UNIDO) on a roadmap for deployment of carbon capture and storage

Carbon capture and storage

Carbon capture and storage , alternatively referred to as carbon capture and sequestration, is a technology to prevent large quantities of from being released into the atmosphere from the use of fossil fuel in power generation and other industries. It is often regarded as a means of mitigating...

 in the industrial sectors of the developing world, and The Natural Step

The Natural Step

The Natural Step is a non-profit organization founded in Sweden in 1989 by scientist Karl-Henrik Robèrt. Following publication of the Brundtland Report in 1987, Robèrt developed The Natural Step framework, setting out the system conditions for the sustainability of human activities on Earth;...

, who conducted a baseline assessment of the BECCS technology using their Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development.

Biorecro published a report in 2010, stating that Sweden can be a net negative emitter

Negative carbon dioxide emission

A negative carbon dioxide emission or negative emission is a permanent removal of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. It is considered the direct opposite of carbon dioxide emission, hence its name...

 of carbon dioxide in the year 2030.

In December 2010, Biorecro was awarded the title Climate Solver 2010 by the World Wide Fund for Nature, WWF

World Wide Fund for Nature

The World Wide Fund for Nature is an international non-governmental organization working on issues regarding the conservation, research and restoration of the environment, formerly named the World Wildlife Fund, which remains its official name in Canada and the United States...

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See also

• Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage
  Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage
  Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage is a greenhouse gas mitigation technology which produces negative carbon emissions by combining biomass use with geologic carbon capture and storage....
  
  
• Carbon dioxide removal
• Carbon negative
  Carbon negative
  Carbon negative is an adjectival phrase used to describe any process that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, with the intent to avoid global warming.-Carbon dioxide sinks and carbon negativity:...
  
  
• Greenhouse gas remediation
  Greenhouse gas remediation
  Greenhouse gas remediation projects are a type of geoengineering and seek to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, and thus tackle the root cause of global warming. These techniques either directly remove greenhouse gases, or alternatively seek to influence natural processes to remove...
  
  
• Negative emissions
  Negative carbon dioxide emission
  A negative carbon dioxide emission or negative emission is a permanent removal of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. It is considered the direct opposite of carbon dioxide emission, hence its name...
  
  
• Virgin Earth Challenge
  Virgin Earth Challenge
  The Virgin Earth Challenge is a competition offering a $25 million prize for whoever can demonstrate a commercially viable design which results in the permanent removal of greenhouse gases out of the Earth's atmosphere, so as to contribute materially to avoid global warming...
  
  

External links

• www.biorecro.com, the company's official website
• WWF Climate Solver