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Carbon impacts of biomass consumed in the EU


Carbon impacts of biomass consumed in the EU

This report was commissioned from Forest Research by the European Climate Foundation. (ECF) to provide an elaborated analysis to clarify the findings of a ...

Carbon impacts of biomass consumed in the EU: quantitative ...

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Carbon impacts of biomass consumed in the EU

1. A worked example illustrating the application of a decision tree for making qualitative risk assessments of GHG emissions associated with forest bioenergy.

Carbon impacts of biomass consumed in the EU

This report has been prepared in fulfilment of a European Commission project,. ENER/C1/427-2012 on 'Carbon impacts of biomass consumed in the EU'. The ...

Carbon impacts of biomass consumed in the EU

Author: Robert Matthews, Geoff Hogan and Ewan Mackie ; Date: 2018 ; Publication: Carbon impacts of biomass consumed in the EU ; Location: Europe.

Carbon Impacts of Biomass Consumed in the EU - ResearchGate

... It must be noted that uncertainty around the carbon intensity of biomass makes its role in decarbonizing electricity a point of controversy.

EU study on carbon impacts of biomass consumed in the EU - Biogas

EU study on carbon impacts of biomass consumed in the EU ... Changes have been evaluated in global GHG emissions consisting of direct GHG emissions from fossil ...

Burning up the carbon sink: How the EU's forest biomass policy ...

Findings: Biomass use and land carbon sink impacts in the EU ... 68 For any biomass fuel consumed for residential/commercial heating, as well as ...

Greenhouse gas emissions from burning US-sourced woody ...

Many national and intergovernmental policy frameworks, including those of the EU and UK, currently treat biomass energy as zero-carbon at the ...

EU votes to keep woody biomass as renewable energy, ignores ...

With that continued designation, carbon emissions from biomass go legally uncounted by EU countries at the smokestack — as if they don't exist.

03 US-sourced biomass in the EU and UK - Chatham House

58 UK production of wood pellets in 2018 was only 279,000 tonnes. Therefore almost all of its pellet consumption is supplied by imports.59 In 2019 production ...

Biomass for Carbon Removal, Explained | World Resources Institute

When it comes to fighting climate change, carbon-rich biomass material can be used to remove carbon from the atmosphere, or it can be an ...

Biomass report finds significant reductions in GHG emissions

A report recently released to the European Union Directorate-General for Energy, titled “Carbon impacts of biomass consumed in the EU: quantitative assessment,” ...

The scientific case against burning forest biomass for energy

With the departure of the UK from the EU, the share of biomass in the EU's generation of electricity fell to around 7% of EU electricity ...

Biomass governance in Europe: what is required?

The combined effect of the forecasts for consumption of biomass for these new uses could lead to a significant excess in demand for biomass ...

Latest evidence on the destructive climate and health impact of ...

According to the EEA (p.122), EU direct emissions from biomass combustion reached about 600 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) in 2022, a 27 ...

EU biomass rules could 'increase emissions', say advisors to ...

The RED thus contained no restrictions on the types of forest biomass that could be burnt for energy and no effective GHG accounting framework ...

Most Forest Biomass Worse for Climate than Fossil Fuels - WWF-CEE

Forest biomass currently being burnt for energy in the EU not only increases emissions ... carbon sinks, biodiversity, water and air pollution ...

Biomass sustainability - Forest Research

... European Commission to calculate the total carbon impacts of biomass consumed in the EU. Calculations have been performed for different types and sources of ...

Study on EU biofuel use: burning wood harms the climate

The new report partially corrects a previous research project (“Carbon Impacts of Biomass Consumed in the EU”) carried out by the agency on ...