Bioenergy and Climate Change
| Minimising greenhouse gas emissions from biomass energy generation This report sets out the results of analysis carried out by AEA for the Environment Agency as part of its work to support the development of a sustainable bioenergy industry in England and Wales.It assesses ... |
Apr 2009 |
| RFA Quarterly Report 3: April 2008 - January 2009 To encourage suppliers to source sustainable biofuels, the RFA requires fuel suppliers claiming Renewable Transport Fuel Certificates to submit monthly reports on the lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) saving and the sustainability of the biofuels they ... |
Apr 2009 |
| Biomass: carbon sink or carbon sinner? This report summarises the results of research carried out by AEA for the Environment Agency on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from producing and using biomass to generate electricity and heat compared with using coal and ... |
Apr 2009 |
| Greenhouse gas sequestration by algae. Energy and greenhouse gas life cycle studies - Proceedings of the 6th Australian Conference on Life Cycle Assessment This paper assesses the greenhouse gas, costs and energy balance on a life cycle basis for algae grown in salt water ponds and used to produce biodiesel and electricity.Under the conditions described and data assumed ... |
Mar 2009 |
| An emergency package for tropical forests The Prince’s Rainforests Project was established in 2007 to develop consensus as to how to curb tropical deforestation. This report contains a set of proposals that could form the basis for rapid and coordinated global ... |
Mar 2009 |
| Biochar for climate change mitigation: fact or fiction? Soils are extremely diverse and dynamic, playing a fundamental role in supporting communities of plants, detritivores (which break down organic matter) and microbial communities, interacting with the atmosphere, regulating water cycles and much more. As ... |
Feb 2009 |
| An examination of the potential for improving carbon/energy balance of bioethanol – A report to the IEA Bioenergy Task 39 The energy balance and greenhouse gas emissions of biofuels remain a controversial topic in the popular press, with government policy makers, and within the academic community. Most of the discussion is based on the existing ... |
Feb 2009 |
| Bioenergy and biofuels: opportunities and constraints It is still controversial whether biofuels, particularly first generation biofuels, deliver net GHG benefits. Policies concerning biofuel production will need to require that feedstock production practices do not create net additional emissions of GHGs directly, ... |
Jan 2009 |
| Bioenergy life-cycle analysis: beyond biofuels The scope of this background paper for the EEA Expert meeting “Life-Cycle Assessment Methodologies for Greenhouse-Gas Emissions of bioenergy: Beyond biofuels” held in Copenhagen on June 10, 2008 is to present general issues and key ... |
Dec 2008 |
| Life cycle analysis of greenhouse gas emissions associated with starch-based ethanol The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential effects of a low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) on the U.S. biofuels industry and review both the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s and California's proposed ... |
Dec 2008 |
