The future of bioenergy
© 2019 The Authors. Global Change Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
| Veröffentlicht in: | Global change biology. - 1999. - 26(2020), 1 vom: 18. Jan., Seite 274-286 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2020
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Global change biology |
| Schlagworte: | Journal Article bioenergy bioenergy with CCS biofuels biomass climate change land scarcity lock-in path dependency Biofuels mehr... |
| Zusammenfassung: | © 2019 The Authors. Global Change Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Energy from biomass plays a large and growing role in the global energy system. Energy from biomass can make significant contributions to reducing carbon emissions, especially from difficult-to-decarbonize sectors like aviation, heavy transport, and manufacturing. But land-intensive bioenergy often entails substantial carbon emissions from land-use change as well as production, harvesting, and transportation. In addition, land-intensive bioenergy scales only with the utilization of vast amounts of land, a resource that is fundamentally limited in supply. Because of the land constraint, the intrinsically low yields of energy per unit of land area, and rapid technological progress in competing technologies, land intensive bioenergy makes the most sense as a transitional element of the global energy mix, playing an important role over the next few decades and then fading, probably after mid-century. Managing an effective trajectory for land-intensive bioenergy will require an unusual mix of policies and incentives that encourage appropriate utilization in the short term but minimize lock-in in the longer term |
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| Beschreibung: | Date Completed 08.01.2020 Date Revised 10.01.2021 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1365-2486 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/gcb.14883 |