The inclusion of Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in Integrated Assessment Models: Assessing legitimacy within published climate discourses

Sammanfattning: This thesis assesses the discourses identified in the literature that is critical to BECCS and its inclusion in IAMs used in the construction of RCP2.6 through a Foucauldian inspired discourse analysis. Within this analysis, there is a recognition of the resilience and civic environmentalism discourses that challenge the dominant and incumbent discourses in climate governance; green governmentality and ecological modernisation.This study has also assessed how the literature has implicitly and explicitly confronted the legitimacy that have offered credibility to the inclusion of BECCS in the construction of IAMs used for the achievement of RCP2.6. The predominately source and process-based legitimacy has been questioned via a thorough amount of research that investigates individual assumptions that are commonplace in said IAMs.