The Potential for Biomass Energy and the Implications for Climate Change

1994 ◽  
pp. 17-22
Author(s):  
David C. Rinebolt
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Biomass Energy

scholarly journals Renewable energy resources in the EU (Policy scenario)

2013 ◽  
pp. 143-146
Author(s):  
Orsolya Nagy
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
European Union ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Biomass Energy ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Renewable Energy Resources ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Eu

The use of renewable energies has a long past, even though its share of the total energy use is rather low in European terms. However, the tendencies are definitely favourable which is further strengthened by the dedication of the European Union to sustainable development and combat against climate change. The European Union is on the right track in achieving its goal which is to be able to cover 20% its energy need from renewable energy resources by 2020. The increased use of wind, solar, water, tidal, geothermal and biomass energy will reduce the energy import dependence of the European Union and it will stimulate innovation.

Biomass Energy Use to Reduce Climate Change

1998 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 513-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fritz Breuss ◽  
Karl Steininger
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Biomass Energy

Climate Change and Forests

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-43
Author(s):  
Brent Sohngen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Sink ◽  
Wood Products ◽  
Biomass Energy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
The Future ◽  
Carbon Fertilization ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Advance Knowledge

Forests have become an important carbon sink in the last century, with management and carbon fertilization offsetting nearly all of the carbon emitted due to deforestation and conversion of land into agricultural uses. Society appears already to have decided that forests will play an equally ambitious role in the future. Given this, economists are needed to help better understand the efficiency of efforts society may undertake to expand forests, protect them from losses, manage them more intensively, or convert them into wood products, including biomass energy. A rich literature exists on this topic, but a number of critical information gaps persist, representing important opportunities for economists to advance knowledge in the future. This article reviews the literature on forests and climate change and provides some thoughts on potential future research directions.

scholarly journals Winners and Losers in Energy Transition: Study Case of Wood Biomass Power-Plants Implementation in France

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1139
Author(s):  
Roxane Sansilvestri ◽  
Mateo Cordier ◽  
Thibault Lescuyer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Biomass Energy ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Mediterranean Forests ◽  
Wood Biomass ◽  
Economic Goods

International policies promote renewable forms of energy to mitigate climate change. In Europe, the production of electricity using wood biomass represents one of the most popular energy alternatives. In 2012, France initiated a large-scale strategy to develop wood biomass energy. The biggest wood biomass power-plant project has been developed in the French Mediterranean area and its huge size raises several issues for the short- and long-term sustainability of local forests and associated economic sectors. The French Mediterranean forests provide four types of economic goods (private, club, common, and public goods) and multiple ecosystem services, which makes them complex to manage under an energy transition policy. In this paper, we applied three qualitative methods, namely interviews, participative workshops, and observant participation, and three conceptual models, namely (i) Ostrom’s (2010) self-organization key conditions, (ii) the types of economic goods classified according to their excludability and rivalry properties, and (iii) the ecosystem service categorization system of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005). With our methods, we show that the renewable strategy chosen in France replicates the current centralized production model based on fossil and nuclear fuels. Thus, we demonstrate that European, national, and local authorities fail to consider the multiple ecosystem services that forest management strategies should include to face the energy transition, climate change, and the other ecological challenges of the 21st century.

The Potential of Renewable Energy for the Alleviation of Climate Change in China

2013 ◽  
Vol 278-280 ◽  
pp. 2308-2312
Author(s):  
Lu Li ◽  
Zhong Fu Tan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Biomass Energy ◽  
Coal Bed ◽  
Solar Photovoltaic ◽  
Small Hydropower ◽  
Potential Capacity ◽  
Reducing Co2 Emission

With the introduction of clean development mechanism (CDM), people focus on finding the possibility of using CDM in many sectors recently. This paper presents a brief potential capacity of renewable energy for CDM in China. It analyses the current situation in renewable energy and concludes that there are a variety of possible potential, mainly in the areas of wind power, small hydropower, solar photovoltaic, biomass energy and coal-bed methane. From these different aspects, this paper discusses the potential for alleviation of climate change in corresponding areas separately. It also underlines the role of the CDM in reducing CO2 emission, which is good for the environment in global climate change.

Climate change and the economics of biomass energy feedstocks in semi-arid agricultural landscapes: A spatially explicit real options analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 192 ◽  
pp. 171-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney M. Regan ◽  
Jeffery D. Connor ◽  
Ramesh Raja Segaran ◽  
Wayne S. Meyer ◽  
Brett A. Bryan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Real Options ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Biomass Energy ◽  
Spatially Explicit ◽  
Real Options Analysis ◽  
Semi Arid

scholarly journals The Energy and Climate Change Nexus in Uganda: Policy Challenges and Opportunities for Climate Compatible Development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Revocatus Twinomuhangi ◽  
Arthur Martin Kato ◽  
Adam M. Sebbit
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Biomass Energy ◽  
Energy Poverty ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Increasing Demand

Although Uganda has abundant energy resources including hydropower, oil and gas, biomass, geothermal, and solar energy, energy poverty is still very high and constrains socio-economic transformation. Biomass energy accounts for approx. 88% of the energy mix and only up to 28% of the country population have access to electricity, and the two energy sources are climate sensitive. The reliance on biomass energy is a driver to deforestation and forest degradation that also reduces the country’s resilience to climate hazards such as flooding, drought and landslides. Besides, deforestation is driver to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adversely affects the delivery of ecosystem services. Uganda is also warming very first and rainfall patterns are becoming more variable. Coupled with increasing occurrence and severity of drought, intense rainfall, flooding and landslides, energy supply systems are becoming more vulnerable. While Uganda is currently not a major emitter of GHG, emissions will rise significantly in the future given the country’s rapidly growing population and urbanization that are increasing demand for energy and exacerbated by ongoing oil and gas development. Therefore, as Uganda strives to attain a middle-income status country, building climate resilient and transiting to decarbonized energy systems is not only a necessity but transformational to reducing energy poverty, increasing access to clean and affordable energy services, spurring investment and economic growth, job creation, improved health and poverty reduction. In this chapter, we examine the nexus between energy and climate change in Uganda, focusing on energy as both a driver and victim of climate change while at the same time exploring opportunities for achieving enhanced access to affordable, reliable and clean energy as a contribution to sustainable, green and resilient development.

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