Unsustainable Wood Burning, Huge Footprints… “Will Accelerate Warming For Decades” – What Increases?
“Worse than fossil fuels”… wood burning “must stop…”
Source: Klimaschau 115
Such governments and activists claim that burning wood and pellets from trees in power plants is an effective way to reduce global CO2 emissions. However, researchers now say it actually has the opposite effect.
Hat head: Klimaschau 115
A team led by Laura Bloomer concluded here in a report that “the burning of trees and other forest biomass for energy is contrary to the goals of climate mitigation, biodiversity protection and environmental equity” and that “governments must stop promoting bioenergy Forestry harms the climate”. Researchers are calling for an end to the frenzied tree burning.
It took decades to make up for it
Follow Press release from the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD)such bioenergy actually “has a large amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) and will accelerate warming for many decades” and “in fact, burning wood biomass releases a lot of carbon dioxide (CO2) ) than fossil fuels per unit of energy” and it takes decades for trees to regrow to offset those emissions.
Wrong bioenergy accounting
The researchers say that governments have used “miscalculation” when calculating emissions of forest bioenergy and it “must end”.
“Countries that must phase out forest bioenergy not only damage wetlands, but also exacerbate air pollution, biodiversity loss and environmental injustice”.
“Will accelerate the warming process”
Due to bioenergy’s emissions footprint and related deforestation, it will accelerate warming in the coming decades. The authors suggest that countries should end subsidies and move away from forest bioenergy.
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