Global bioenergy with carbon capture and storage potential is largely constrained by sustainable irrigation

Zhipin Ai (), Naota Hanasaki, Vera Heck, Tomoko Hasegawa and Shinichiro Fujimori
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Zhipin Ai: National Institute for Environmental Studies
Naota Hanasaki: National Institute for Environmental Studies
Vera Heck: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Tomoko Hasegawa: Ritsumeikan University
Shinichiro Fujimori: National Institute for Environmental Studies

Nature Sustainability, 2021, vol. 4, issue 10, 884-891

Abstract: Abstract Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is crucial in many stringent climate scenarios. Although irrigation can enhance BECCS potential, where and to what extent it can enhance global BECCS potential are unknown when constrained by preventing additional water stress and suppressing withdrawal of nonrenewable water resources. With a spatially explicit representation of bioenergy crop plantations and water cycle in an internally consistent model framework, we identified the irrigable bioenergy cropland on the basis of the water resources reserve. Irrigation of such cropland enhanced BECCS potential by only 5–6% (

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1038/s41893-021-00740-4

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