How is biodiversity protection influencing the potential for bioenergy feedstock production on grasslands?

Sep 2018

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This paper investigates how biodiversity protection may

influence the potential for bioenergy feedstock production on

grasslands. This is done by analyzing how biodiverse grass-

lands are considered in (a) assessments of biomass supply

potentials; and (b) selected governance systems in the EU

and Brazil (including the RED, the CAP, the CBD, and the

Brazilian Forest Act). The analysis includes estimates of the

amount of grassland area (and potential biomass production

volume) that would be excluded from bioenergy feedstock

production in the EU and Brazil in specific biodiversity pro-

tection scenarios.

(publication in Wiley Global Change Biology, Bioenergy – open access – https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcbb.12568)