GHG emissions from indirect land-use change in biofuels production - Brazilian case for sugarcane-based bioethanol and soybean-based biodiesel |
Dec 2007
|
The displacement for biofuels production of current land-use and biomass use in a region can induce land-use changes elsewhere. This effect is known as indirect land-use change. Due to changes in the carbon stock of the soil and the biomass, indirect land-use change has consequences in the GHG balance of a biofuel.
This PhD thesis aims at estimating the effect of biofuels production in land-use changes elsewhere; and developing a methodology to asses GHG emissions from indirect land-use change in biofuels production. Brazilian sugarcane-to-ethanol and soybean-to-biodiesel pathways will be used as case studies.
This document defines the research hypothesis and describes the potential sources of indirect land-use change. In the annex, the main fact of Brazilian biofuels production, soybean and sugarcane production and land-use dynamic used to draw up the hypothesis and define indirect land-use change sources are presented.
|
