Bioenergy and Climate Change
| The Bali action plan: key issues in the climate negotiations - Summary for policy makers The UNDP project, “Capacity development for policy makers to address climate change” seeks to strengthen the national capacity of developing countries to assess climate change policy options across different sectors and economic... |
Sep 2008 |
| Criteria for a sustainable use of bioenergy on a global scale The German Biokraftstoffquotengesetz, the EU Biofuel Directive and other policy making initiatives lead to promote the production and use of bioenergy, liquid biofuel for transportation in particular. Such an increase requires a... |
Aug 2008 |
| The global warming and land use impact of corn ethanol produced at the Illinois River Energy Center This study assessed the global warming impact (GWI) of ethanol produced at the Illinois River Energy ethanol plant (IRE) on a life cycle basis. IRE is located 80 miles west of Chicago. The plant currently produces 58 million... |
Jul 2008 |
| Energy and greenhouse gas balance of biofuels: biases induced by LCA modelling choices Rapid development of biofuels during last decades has induced strong concerns about possible drawbacks such as deforestation, loss of biodiversity, excessive use of water or scarce resources. in its proposal of 31st January 2007... |
Jul 2008 |
| A relevant LCA methodology adapted to biomass-based products The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology is commonly employed to assess the performances of the different uses of biomass. The range of LCA results is however very wide and prevents from having reliable and accurate results... |
Jul 2008 |
| The Gallagher review of the indirect effects of biofuels production UK support for biofuels is based on the premise that biofuels deliver considerable net reductions in GHG emissions compared to fossil fuels. As a secondary benefit, it was hoped a growing biofuels market would create economic... |
Jul 2008 |
| Review of indirect effects of biofuels - Evaluation of the drivers of land use change - Review of future demand and supply of biofuels to 2020 and their impact on GHG-emissions A core aim of this study was to examine the indirect effects of biofuels policy, particularly UK and EU policies.The work is divided into a series of separate but connected studies. These studies examined various aspects of the... |
Jun 2008 |
| Another inconvenient truth - How biofuel policies are deepening poverty and accelerating climate change The proponents of biofuels argue that they have the solution, or at least a part of it. Ethanol and biodiesel will allow us to continue our love affair with the internal combustion engine, while simultaneously reducing our... |
Jun 2008 |
| Critique of Searchinger (2008) & related papers assessing indirect effects of biofuels on land-use change Thus far life-cycle analysis (LCA) of biofuels has acknowledged but generally excluded their indirect effects on land-use change (ILUC), because of evident difficulties in their estimation and attribution.However, consequences... |
Jun 2008 |
| GHG performance jatropha biodiesel Under the RTFO and EC-proposal, obligated parties can use conservative default values as well as real values for the GHG-performance. Defaults are set conservative to stimulate parties to report actual data on their... |
Jun 2008 |
