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Title: | A comment to "Large-scale bioenergy from additional harvest of forest biomass is neither sustainable nor greenhouse gas neutral": Important insights beyond greenhouse gas accounting | Contributor(s): | Bright, Ryan M (author); Cherubini, Francesco (author); Astrup, Rasmus (author); Bird, Neil (author); Cowie, Annette (author); Ducey, Mark J (author); Marland, Greg (author); Pingoud, Kim (author); Savolainen, Ilkka (author); Stromman, Anders H (author) | Publication Date: | 2012 | DOI: | 10.1111/j.1757-1707.2012.01190.x | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/12050 | Abstract: | In their recent editorial, Schulze and colleagues (Schulze et al., 2012) discuss the implications of a large-scale increase in the harvest of forest biomass to provide 20% of the current global primary energy supply. They present several well-founded concerns regarding the economic and ecological sustainability of such a scenario, concerns we largely share. However, the authors express particular apprehension regarding greenhouse gas (GHG) consequences of expanded forest bioenergy production that we do not entirely share. GHGs - while important - should not be the sole evaluation criterion when the objective is climate protection. The peer reviewed literature provides important insights beyond that presented which warrants additional commentary in order to give a more holistic and balanced perspective on the subject of forest bioenergy and climate. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Global Change Biology: Bioenergy, 4(6), p. 617-619 | Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1757-1707 1757-1693 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 140205 Environment and Resource Economics 070502 Forestry Biomass and Bioproducts |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 380105 Environment and resource economics 300705 Forestry biomass and bioproducts |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 820199 Forestry not elsewhere classified 960906 Forest and Woodlands Land Management 960302 Climate Change Mitigation Strategies |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 180607 Terrestrial erosion 180603 Evaluation, allocation, and impacts of land use 190301 Climate change mitigation strategies |
HERDC Category Description: | C4 Letter of Note |
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