Bioenergy and agriculture: Promises and challenges: Environmental effects of bioenergy
As concerns about climate change and energy security rise, bioenergy is often proposed as a renewable energy source that can be cost-effectively scaled up to a level that would allow it to contribute significantly to meeting global energy demand. Given that bioenergy can be generated in myriad wa...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2006
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| author | Kartha, Sivan |
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| description | As concerns about climate change and energy security rise, bioenergy is often proposed as a renewable energy source that can be cost-effectively scaled up to a level that would allow it to contribute significantly to meeting global energy demand. Given that bioenergy can be generated in myriad ways, however, using various feedstocks and various energy technologies, few universal conclusions can be drawn about its environmental effects. One can easily imagine biomass production systems that are ideally suited to their environment, and even contribute to improving the environment by revegetating barren land, protecting watersheds, providing habitat for local species, and sequestering carbon, all while contributing to livelihoods of rural communities. Yet one can just as easily imagine biomass production systems that are fossil fuel intensive, exhaust the soil of nutrients, exacerbate erosion, deplete or degrade water resources, reduce biodiversity by displacing habitat, increase greenhouse gas emissions, and threaten the livelihoods of local communities. As with agricultural pursuits generally, the net impact of a bioenergy critically depends on how it is generated. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1605252025-11-06T04:42:13Z Bioenergy and agriculture: Promises and challenges: Environmental effects of bioenergy Kartha, Sivan biofuels climate change As concerns about climate change and energy security rise, bioenergy is often proposed as a renewable energy source that can be cost-effectively scaled up to a level that would allow it to contribute significantly to meeting global energy demand. Given that bioenergy can be generated in myriad ways, however, using various feedstocks and various energy technologies, few universal conclusions can be drawn about its environmental effects. One can easily imagine biomass production systems that are ideally suited to their environment, and even contribute to improving the environment by revegetating barren land, protecting watersheds, providing habitat for local species, and sequestering carbon, all while contributing to livelihoods of rural communities. Yet one can just as easily imagine biomass production systems that are fossil fuel intensive, exhaust the soil of nutrients, exacerbate erosion, deplete or degrade water resources, reduce biodiversity by displacing habitat, increase greenhouse gas emissions, and threaten the livelihoods of local communities. As with agricultural pursuits generally, the net impact of a bioenergy critically depends on how it is generated. 2006 2024-11-21T09:51:01Z 2024-11-21T09:51:01Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160525 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Kartha, Sivan. Bioenergy and agriculture: Promises and challenges: Environmental effects of bioenergy. 2020 Vision Focus Brief. 14(4). International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/focus14ch4. |
| spellingShingle | biofuels climate change Kartha, Sivan Bioenergy and agriculture: Promises and challenges: Environmental effects of bioenergy |
| title | Bioenergy and agriculture: Promises and challenges: Environmental effects of bioenergy |
| title_full | Bioenergy and agriculture: Promises and challenges: Environmental effects of bioenergy |
| title_fullStr | Bioenergy and agriculture: Promises and challenges: Environmental effects of bioenergy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bioenergy and agriculture: Promises and challenges: Environmental effects of bioenergy |
| title_short | Bioenergy and agriculture: Promises and challenges: Environmental effects of bioenergy |
| title_sort | bioenergy and agriculture promises and challenges environmental effects of bioenergy |
| topic | biofuels climate change |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160525 |
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