Future bio-energy potential under various natural constraints

Vuuren, Detlef van; Vliet, Jasper van; Stehfest, Elke

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2009.05.029

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“…[5][6][7][8] However, these factors can be crucial for the proper design of energy crop production systems and the performance of these systems. In addition, limited attention has been paid to the present use and vegetation cover of degraded and low-productive land.…”

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The global technical and economic potential of bioenergy from salt-affected soils

Wicke

Smeets

Dornburg

et al. 2011

Energy Environ. Sci.

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The global technical and economic potential of bioenergy from salt-affected soils

Wicke

Smeets

Dornburg

et al. 2011

Energy Environ. Sci.

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“…Furthermore, hydropower controversies revolve around biodiversity loss, resettlements and loss of land and natural rivers. Estimates of sustainable resource potential must be a basis for development strategies and specific targets at the regional, national, or local scale, taking into account food security trade-offs, as well as issues such as land degradation, human settlements, water scarcity and biodiversity [58]. The sustainable global potential for bioenergy production in 2050 has been estimated to around 50-150 EJ.…”

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Towards an Integrated Framework for SDGs: Ultimate and Enabling Goals for the Case of Energy

2013

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Discussions on how to define, design, and implement sustainable development goals (SDG) have taken center stage in the United Nations since the Rio+20 summit. Energy is one of the issues that enjoyed consensus, before and after Rio, as an important area for SDGs to address. Many proposals have been put forward on how SDGs should be formulated and what areas they should cover, but there have been few attempts to develop a generic integrated framework within which diverse areas can be accommodated and treated in a coherent way. The purpose of this paper is to develop such a framework for SDGs and to demonstrate its application by elaborating specific target areas for the energy sector. Based on a review and integration of global debates around SDG and energy, the framework puts human wellbeing at the center of the agenda, with the supporting resource base and global public goods forming additional tiers. A complementary set of enabling goals is suggested with four layers: capacity & knowledge, governance & institutions, public policy, and investment & finance. An energy SDG is elaborated to illustrate the application of the framework. The illustrative SDG architecture for energy includes eight target areas: basic energy access, energy for economic development, sufficiency, renewable supply, efficiency, infrastructure, greenhouse gas emissions and security. These target areas are relevant for energy for all countries, but depending on national circumstances such as levels of development, the relative emphasis will be different between countries, and over time.

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“…Those uncertainties are largely due to inconsistent definitions of the term bioenergy, large differences in the underlying assumptions of the agronomic potential of bioenergy crops on the respective types of land and limited availability of data on land use Dornburg et al 2010;Offermann et al 2011). Most assessments overestimate the land area available for bioenergy crops because constraining factors such as water, productivity, social aspects and nature conservation are not taken into account (van Vuuren et al 2009;Haberl et al 2010;Beringer et al 2011). Haberl et al (2010), in a critical review of modelling and calculation approaches, conclude that there are no scientific studies at present that resolve the scientific challenges related to the assessment of future bioenergy potentials.…”

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Bioenergy from “surplus” land: environmental and socio-economic implications

Dauber¹,

Brown²,

Fernando³

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The increasing demand for biomass for the production of bioenergy is generating land-use conflicts. These conflicts might be solved through spatial segregation of food/feed and energy producing areas by continuing producing food on established and productive agricultural land while growing dedicated energy crops on so called "surplus" land. Ambiguity in the definition and characterization of surplus land as well as uncertainty in assessments of land availability and of future bioenergy potentials is causing confusion about the prospects and the environmental and socio-economic implications of bioenergy development in those areas. The high level of uncertainty is due to environmental, economic and social constraints not yet taken into account and to the potentials offered by those novel crops and their production methods not being fully exploited. This paper provides a scientific background in support of a reassessment of land available for bioenergy production by clarifying the terminology, identifying constraints and options for ReseARCh ARtiCle BioRisk A peer-reviewed open-access journalJens Dauber et al. / BioRisk 7: 5-50 (2012) 6 an efficient bioenergy-use of surplus land and providing policy recommendations for resolving conflicting land-use demands. A serious approach to factoring in the constraints, combined with creativity in utilizing the options provided, in our opinion, would lead to a more sustainable and efficient development of the bioenergy sector. Unless the sustainability challenge is mastered, the interdependent policy objectives of mitigating climate change, obtaining independence from fossil fuels, feeding and fuelling a growing human world population and maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services will not be met. Despite the advanced developments of bioenergy, we still see regional solutions for designing and establishing sustainable bioenergy production systems with optimized production resulting in social, economic and ecological benefits. Where bioenergy production has been identified as the most suitable option to overcome the given problems of energy security and climate change mitigation, we need to determine which bioenergy cultivation systems are most suitable for the respective types of surplus land, by taking into account issues such as yields, inputs and costs, as well as potential environmental and socio-economic impacts.

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Future bio-energy potential under various natural constraints

Cited by 148 publications

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The global technical and economic potential of bioenergy from salt-affected soils

The global technical and economic potential of bioenergy from salt-affected soils

Towards an Integrated Framework for SDGs: Ultimate and Enabling Goals for the Case of Energy

Bioenergy from “surplus” land: environmental and socio-economic implications

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