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Event summary: “Unlocking the potential of Bioenergy”

March 21, 2022 by Sara Stefanini

Sara Stefanini provides a written summary of our panel discussion held on Thursday March 17th 2022. It’s a full summary of the 90 minute discussion (including audience questions), but it begins conveniently with a summary of the highlights (potential for bioenergy, hard-to-abate sectors, sustainability, policy needs). Those highlights include the need to scale bioenergy up from around 50 EJ today to 150 EJ by 2050; the importance of carbon … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biofuels, Energy, Events, Videos Tagged With: aviation, BECCS, bioenergy, biofuels, biomass, CCS, CCUS, cement, chemicals, FitFor55, forestry, GreenDeal, infrastructure, policies, REDII, SAF, steel, sustainability, transport

Community Biomass: for energy independence, stable prices and local control

March 11, 2022 by Marine Perrio

Energy independence is now at the top of the EU’s agenda. Almost all Europe’s biomass is already locally produced, contributing around 60% of the EU’s renewable energy. Marine Perrio at IEECP makes the case for promoting biomass prosumer projects. She points at regions dependent on biomass that have reported stable energy prices in the midst of the drastic increases in gas, oil and coal prices. Biomass uses organic feedstock from agriculture, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biofuels, Energy Tagged With: BECoop, bioenergy, biomass, community, EU, forestry, Italy, prosumer, renewables, Russia, Ukraine

Can Carbon Offset loopholes be fixed with better evaluation and rules?

December 14, 2021 by Meredith Fowlie

Carbon offset programmes rightly get a lot of criticism. There’s plenty of evidence of offsets not delivering all the GHG emissions reductions they are credited for. Though still on the international agenda, should they be ditched? Or can they be improved with better analysis and evaluation, and making that a pre-condition for creating carbon offset credits, asks Meredith Fowlie at the Energy Institute at Haas. She starts by looking at those … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies Tagged With: analysis, California, carbon, credits, emissions, evaluation, forestry, ghg, India, offset, wind

How much Carbon Capture will Germany need? Both nature-based and technological

October 29, 2021 by Simon Göss and Hendrik Schuldt

Yet more studies have been published that show Germany needs carbon removal to meet its emissions targets. Simon Göss and Hendrik Schuldt at cr.hub add two, from the German Energy Agency and the Ariadne report (funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research), to those that already exist to shine more light on a carbon capture pathway. The main observation is that nature-based solutions (LULUCF: land use, land use change and forestry) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Carbon Capture, Energy Tagged With: BECCS, biochar, CCS, CCUS, CDR, CO2, DACCS, emissions, forestry, Germany, industry, LULUFC, storage, transport, weathering

Land Use and Forestry: existing LULUCF rules allow EU’s carbon sink to decrease. Change them

June 28, 2021 by Ulriikka Aarnio

The EU’s current Regulations for Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) allow the region’s carbon sink to decrease, explains Ulriikka Aarnio at CAN Europe. It’s due to exclusions and a lack of transparency and proper accounting for emissions. As a result, the EU’s carbon sink has already decreased significantly in the last few years, extracting only 265 Mt of CO2 in 2019. Different activities both emit and absorb carbon. 2019 saw 135 Mt … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Environment Tagged With: agriculture, biodiversity, bioenergy, circulareconomy;, EC, ESR, ETS, EU, forestry, LULUCF, regulations

Bioenergy is the undervalued pillar of the clean energy transition

December 17, 2020 by Seungwoo Kang and Elisa Asmelash

Bioenergy is already the world’s largest source of renewable energy, responsible for 70% of the supply (and around 10% of total primary energy). Burning organic matter goes back to the invention of fire and is still commonplace around the globe. Yet it gets hardly any of the attention and policy support that’s given to other clean energy technologies like solar, wind and now hydrogen. Bioenergy can and should play an even greater role, explain … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biofuels, Energy Tagged With: aviation, BECCS, bioenergy, biofuels, biojet, biomethanol, cement, chemicals, farming, forestry, shipping

10 Carbon Capture methods compared: costs, scalability, permanence, cleanness

November 11, 2019 by Ella Adlen and Cameron Hepburn

We need to understand carbon capture, storage and utilisation (CCUS) better. To do so, this article looks at 10 methods and estimates how much CO2 each will take out of the atmosphere by 2050, and the cost per tonne. In their list the authors, Ella Adlen and Cameron Hepburn at the University of Oxford, cover the industrial (e.g. CO2-EOR, synfuels) to the biological (e.g. forestry, soil carbon sequestration). They say there are six that can be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Carbon Capture, Energy Tagged With: BECCS, biochar, bioenergy, carbon, CCS, CCUS, chemicals, CO2, CO2EOR, concrete, emissions, EnhancedWeathering, forestry, microalgae, sequestration, synfuels

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