The Renewable Energy Agency (REA) has launched a new report calling for action to ensure bioenergy paired with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) fulfils its potential in meeting the UK’s net zero targets, particularly in hard to decarbonise areas. Published on Wednesday 26 June, it made a number of recommendations, including increasing the UK total carbon price to £50t/CO2 from 2020 to promote rapid emission reductions; supporting BECCS in the Contracts for Difference auctions; establishing demonstration projects at several scales that use the lowest carbon feedstocks; and introducing a mechanism which rewards negative emissions, such as tradeable allowances under an EU-linked UK emissions trading scheme.