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This paper examines the role of electricity production from biomass with and without carbon capture and storage in … sustaining low CO2 emission pathways to 2100. It quantifies the effect of the availability of biomass resources and technologies … within a general equilibrium framework. Biomass-fed integrated gasification combined cycle technology is introduced into the …
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) because it generates electricity and absorbs emissions at the same time. However, biomass is not distributed evenly across the … mitigation policies might create the incentive to trade biomass internationally. This paper uses scenarios generated by the … integrated assessment model WITCH to study trade of woody biomass from multiple perspectives: the volume of biomass traded, its …
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This paper focuses on technologies which use thermo-chemical or biochemical processes to convert biomass into …
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The carbon mitigation literature has separately considered using forests to store carbon and as a source of bioenergy. In this paper, we look at both options to reach a 2°C mitigation target. This paper combines the global forest model, GTM, with the IAM WITCH model to study the optimal use of...
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) and controlled landfill biogas to electricity generation and their potential contribution to a CO2 emission reduction … shown that albeit in the near future WtE and landfill biogas will continue to represent a limited share of energy inputs in … electricity sector (in Italy, around 2% for WtE and 0.6% for biogas in 2020) they could play a role in a mitigation policy context …
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relying on biomass energy as a critical energy source. However, it is not clear how much woody biomass to expect across time … land to make careful forecasts of biomass supply over time. Integrating the complex dynamic demand for bioenergy from the … the market for woody biomass by combining the integrated assessment model WITCH with the global dynamic forestry model GTM …
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This paper examines biofuels from an economic perspective and evaluates the merits of promoting biofuel production in the context of the policies' multiple objectives, life-cycle implications, pecuniary externalities, and other unintended consequences. The policy goals most often cited are to...
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