Bioenergy and Climate Change
| Navigating bioenergy - Contributing to informed decision making on bioenergy issues Bioenergy has become one of the most dynamic and rapidly changing sectors of the global energy economy. Accelerated growth in the production and use of bioenergy in the past few years is attracting interest from ... |
Nov 2009 |
| Mitigating climate change in the global transport sector The paper was prepared by The Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA), as a position paper on what it was discussed in the COP15 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. ... |
Nov 2009 |
| Livestock and climate change: what if the key actors in climate change are... cows, pigs, and chickens? The environmental impact of the lifecycle and supply chain of animals raised for food has been vastly underestimated, and in fact accounts for at least half of all human-caused greenhouse gases (GHGs), according to Robert ... |
Nov 2009 |
| Energy needs and efficiency, not emissions: re-framing the climate change narrative The basic narrative on climate change between the rich and poor worlds has been problematic. The focus on emissions has made industrial countries inadequately sensitive to the unmet energy needs in developing countries. And it ... |
Nov 2009 |
| Towards sustainable production and use of resources: assessing biofuels Biofuels have received much attention from decision-makers in government and industry, and of the wider public world-wide. As the number of publications devoted to this renewable source of energy is expanding rapidly, it has become ... |
Oct 2009 |
| Summary of approaches to account for and monitor indirect impacts of biofuel production This study has four elements regarding the indirect impacts of biofuel production:1 A review of quantification initiatives of indirect impacts of biofuel production.2 A review of mitigation initiatives of indirect impacts of biofuel production.3 A ... |
Oct 2009 |
| The cost to developing countries of adapting to climate change. New methods and estimates. The global report of the economics of adaptation to climate change study. - Executive summary - Consultative draft Even with global emissions of greenhouse gases drastically reduced in the coming years, the global annual average temperature is expected to be 2°C above pre-industrial levels by 2050. A 2°C warmer world will experience more ... |
Oct 2009 |
| The RSB GHG accounting scheme. Feasibility of a meta-methodology and way forward The principal objective of this report is to discuss the feasibility of a meta‐methodology that would be compatible with existing regulatory approaches to account for lifecycle GHG emissions of biofuels. A systematic study of the ... |
Oct 2009 |
| Industrial biotechnology - More than green fuel in a dirty economy? - Exploring the transformational potential of industrial biotechnology on the way to a green economy This report concludes that the full climate change mitigation potential of industrial biotechnology ranges between 1 billion and 2.5 billion tCO2e per year by 2030, compared with a scenario in which no industrial biotechnology applications ... |
Sep 2009 |
| Bioenergy – The impact of indirect land use change - Summary and conclusions from the IEA Bioenergy ExCo63 Workshop This publication provides the summary and conclusions from the workshop ‘Bioenergy – The Impact of Indirect Land Use Change’, held in conjunction with the meeting of the Executive Committee of IEA Bioenergy in Rotterdam on ... |
Sep 2009 |
