Consensus, uncertainties and challenges for perennial bioenergy crops and land use.

ABSTRACT: Perennial bioenergy crops have significant potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and contribute to climate change mitigation by substituting for fossil fuels; yet delivering significant GHG savings will require substantial land-use change, globally. Over the last decade, research has delivered improved understanding of the environmental benefits and risks of this transition to perennial bioenergy crops, addressing concerns that the impacts of land conversion to perennial bioenergy crops could result in increased rather than decreased GHG emissions. For policymakers to assess the most cost-effective and sustainable options for deployment and climate change mitigation, synthesis of these studies is needed to support evidence-based decision making. In 2015, a workshop was convene

SUBMITTER: Whitaker J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5815384 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature