Potentials, limitations, co-benefits, and trade-offs of biochar applications to soils for climate change mitigation

A Tisserant, F Cherubini - Land, 2019 - mdpi.com
Biochar is one of the most affordable negative emission technologies (NET) at hand for
future large-scale deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which is typically found …

Enhancing life cycle impact assessment from climate science: Review of recent findings and recommendations for application to LCA

A Levasseur, O Cavalett, JS Fuglestvedt, T Gasser… - Ecological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Since the Global Warming Potential (GWP) was first presented in the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) First Assessment Report, the metric has …

[HTML][HTML] Life-cycle assessment to unravel co-benefits and trade-offs of large-scale biochar deployment in Norwegian agriculture

A Tisserant, M Morales, O Cavalett, A O'Toole… - Resources …, 2022 - Elsevier
Limiting temperature rise below 2° C requires large deployment of Negative Emission
Technologies (NET) to capture and store atmospheric CO 2. Compared to other types of …

Quantifying the global warming potential of carbon dioxide emissions from bioenergy with carbon capture and storage

P Withey, C Johnston, J Guo - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study provides estimates of the global warming potential (GWP) of carbon dioxide
emissions from bioenergy produced from forests (termed GWP bio). The specific contribution …

Norwegian Waste-to-Energy: Climate change, circular economy and carbon capture and storage

C Lausselet, F Cherubini, GD Oreggioni… - Resources …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Recently, the European Commission has adopted a Circular Economy package. In
addition, climate change is regarded as a major global challenge, and the de-carbonization …

Analysis of the Global Warming Potential of Biogenic CO2 Emission in Life Cycle Assessments

W Liu, Z Zhang, X Xie, Z Yu, K Von Gadow, J Xu… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Biomass is generally believed to be carbon neutral. However, recent studies have
challenged the carbon neutrality hypothesis by introducing metric indicators to assess the …

Effect of biogenic carbon inventory on the life cycle assessment of bioenergy: challenges to the neutrality assumption

EI Wiloso, R Heijungs, G Huppes, K Fang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2016 - Elsevier
Biogenic carbon is defined as carbon contained in biomass that is accumulated during plant
growth. In spite of the considerable progress towards the inventory of biogenic carbon in the …

Quantifying the climate change effects of bioenergy systems: Comparison of 15 impact assessment methods

M Brandão, MUF Kirschbaum, AL Cowie… - GCB …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Ongoing concern over climate change has led to interest in replacing fossil energy with
bioenergy. There are different approaches to quantitatively estimate the climate change …

Quantifying the climate effects of bioenergy–Choice of reference system

K Koponen, S Soimakallio, KL Kline, A Cowie… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
In order to understand the climate effects of a bioenergy system, a comparison between the
bioenergy system and a reference system is required. The reference system describes the …

Climate, economic, and environmental impacts of producing wood for bioenergy

R Birdsey, P Duffy, C Smyth, WA Kurz… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Increasing combustion of woody biomass for electricity has raised concerns and produced
conflicting statements about impacts on atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations …