EU study on 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 ...

This project delivers a quantitative assessment of the greenhouse gas performance of different scenarios of EU bioenergy consumption post-2020.

Carbon impacts of biomass consumed in the EU

Final project report, project: DG ENER/C1/427. Forest Research: Farnham. 1 Forest Research, Alice Holt Lodge, Farnham, UK. 2 North Energy Associates Limited.

Carbon impacts of biomass consumed in the EU

The European. Commission does not guarantee the accuracy of the information given in the study, nor does it accept responsibility for any use thereof. Copyright ...

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.

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 ...

Carbon impacts of biomass consumed in the EU | Policy Commons

[...] ... [...] The qualitative assessment was based on the literature review published as the Task 1 report and the quantitative assessment involved the LCA of a ...

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

Carbon impacts of biomass consumed in the EU: quantitative assessment : final report ; part B ; appendices. Year of publication: 2015-12. Other Persons ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

26 January 2021 - A European Commission report concludes that the burning of most forest biomass produces more greenhouse gas emissions than coal, ...

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 ... - WWF

The EU's biomass plans could lead to increased greenhouse gas emissions, warns a new report from the same UK government agency which helped the European ...

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

Annotated summary of net CO2 emissions impacts and ecosystem impacts of biomass scenarios covered in the JRC report. Scenario 1 is 'coarse ...

EU bioenergy policy: debunking the myths on forest biomass | WWF

Bioenergy has a role to play in tackling climate change. But only if it - at a minimum - provides significant and rapid cuts in emissions ...

Forest biomass for energy in the EU: current trends, carbon balance ...

study we evaluate the effect of applying various additional sustainability constraints to the reference forest biomass potential. Figure 1. How each forest ...

How can solid biomass contribute to the EU's renewable energy ...

Next to additional solid biomass that the EU has to source by 2020, it is also relevant to study the impact of policies to reduce GHG's [10]. In RED-I [1], 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.