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Title: | The limits of bioenergy for mitigating global lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels. | Authors: | Staples, Mark MALINA, Robert Barrett, Steven |
Issue Date: | 2017 | Source: | Nature Energy, 2 (Art N° 16202) | Abstract: | In this Article we quantify the optimal allocation and deployment of global bioenergy resources to offset fossil fuels in 2050. We find that bioenergy could reduce lifecycle emissions attributable to combustion-fired electricity and heat, and liquid transportation fuels, by a maximum of 4.9-38.7 Gt CO2e, or 9-68%, and that offsetting fossil fuel-fired electricity and heat with bioenergy is on average 1.6-3.9 times more effective for emissions mitigation than offsetting fossil fuelderived liquid fuel. However, liquid fuels make up 18-49% of global optimally allocated final bioenergy in our results for 2050. This indicates that a mix of bioenergy end-uses maximizes lifecycle emissions reductions. Finally, our findings demonstrate that emissions reductions are maximized by limiting deployment of total available primary bioenergy to 29-91%, and that lifecycle emissions are a constraint on the usefulness of bioenergy for mitigating global climate change. | Keywords: | climate-change mitigation; environmental impact; sustainability | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/23021 | ISSN: | 2058-7546 | e-ISSN: | 2058-7546 | DOI: | 10.1038/nenergy.2016.202 | ISI #: | 000396303700003 | Rights: | © 2017 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved. | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2018 |
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