Whitepaper | Technologies for a Low Carbon Future: Anaerobic Digestion and the Climate Emergency

Approximately 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions are
directly caused by energy generation mostly by burning fossil
fuel. Anaerobic Digestion is often regarded as a promising option to substitute fossil fuel by renewable energy from biomass while sequestering carbon in soils through digestate spreading. Anaerobic Digestion is a ready to use technology that can cut GHG emissions in the most challenging decarbonising sectors: buildings, transport, waste management and agriculture.

According to the ADBA, if anaerobic digestion was rolled out to
process the unavoidable wastes currently left to emit methane
into the atmosphere, it could deliver a 6% reduction in total UK
GHG emissions; and, as a ready to use technology, it could do
this by 2030. That’s 30% of the carbon savings required to meet
the UK’s 2030 target set out in the 5th Carbon Budget.