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Joint compliance with food security and environmental constraints limits the global potential of energy crops

The last publication from Siwar Saadaoui “Joint compliance with food security and environmental constraints limits the global potential of energy…
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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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