Bioenergy production and sustainable development: science base for policymaking remains limited

Autor: Carmenza Robledo-Abad, Richard J. Harper, Rasmus Kløcker Larsen, Felix Creutzig, Carol Hunsberger, S. Hanger, Christian Lauk, Simon Bolwig, Maria Nordborg, Esteve Corbera, Göran Berndes, Anna Geddes, Lena Scheiffle, Alexander Popp, Bart Muys, Jürgen Reinhard, Boris Orlowsky, Maria Ölund, Jay Sterling Gregg, Helmut Haberl, Joanna Portugal-Pereira, Stefan Leitner, John Garcia-Ulloa, Hans-Jörg Althaus, Johan Lilliestam, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Pete Smith
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Mitigation
Natural resource economics
020209 energy
Context (language use)
02 engineering and technology
Agriculture
Bioenergy
Food Security
Forestry
Sustainable development
bioenergy
7. Clean energy
12. Responsible consumption
mitigation
ddc:570
11. Sustainability
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
SDG 13 - Climate Action
Production (economics)
ddc:630
Economic impact analysis
Baseline (configuration management)
Waste Management and Disposal
agriculture
2. Zero hunger
Food security
Invited Review
sustainable development
Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
Corporate governance
Environmental resource management
1. No poverty
forestry
food security
15. Life on land
Natural resources
energy and environment
Climate change mitigation
13. Climate action
8. Economic growth
ddc:333.7
Business
Agronomy and Crop Science
570 Biowissenschaften
Biologie
Zdroj: Global Change Biology. Bioenergy
Robledo-Abad, C, Althaus, H J, Berndes, G, Bolwig, S, Corbera, E, Creutzig, F, Garcia-Ulloa, J, Geddes, A, Gregg, J S, Haberl, H, Hanger, S, Harper, R J, Hunsberger, C, Larsen, R K, Lauk, C, Leitner, S, Lilliestam, J, Lotze-Campen, H, Muys, B, Nordborg, M, Ölund, M, Orlowsky, B, Popp, A, Portugal-Pereira, J, Reinhard, J, Scheiffle, L & Smith, P 2017, ' Bioenergy production and sustainable development: science base for policy-making remains limited ', GCB Bioenergy, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 541–556 . https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12338
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, 9 (3)
Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
ISSN: 1757-1707
1757-1693
Popis: Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu MdM-2015-0552 Altres ajuts: European Research Council (ERC) consolidator grant, contract number 313533 The possibility of using bioenergy as a climate change mitigation measure has sparked a discussion of whether and how bioenergy production contributes to sustainable development. We undertook a systematic review of the scientific literature to illuminate this relationship and found a limited scientific basis for policymaking. Our results indicate that knowledge on the sustainable development impacts of bioenergy production is concentrated in a few well-studied countries, focuses on environmental and economic impacts, and mostly relates to dedicated agricultural biomass plantations. The scope and methodological approaches in studies differ widely and only a small share of the studies sufficiently reports on context and/or baseline conditions, which makes it difficult to get a general understanding of the attribution of impacts. Nevertheless, we identified regional patterns of positive or negative impacts for all categories - environmental, economic, institutional, social and technological. In general, economic and technological impacts were more frequently reported as positive, while social and environmental impacts were more frequently reported as negative (with the exception of impacts on direct substitution of emission from fossil fuel). More focused and transparent research is needed to validate these patterns and develop a strong science underpinning for establishing policies and governance agreements that prevent/mitigate negative and promote positive impacts from bioenergy production.
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