Bioenergy deployment offers significant potential for climate change mitigation, but also
carries considerable risks. In this review, we bring together perspectives of various …

The use of different input data, functional units, allocation methods, reference systems and
other assumptions complicates comparisons of LCA bioenergy studies. In addition …

After agriculture, wood harvest is the human activity that has most reduced the storage of
carbon in vegetation and soils,. Although felled wood releases carbon to the atmosphere in …

Globally, bioethanol is the largest volume biofuel used in the transportation sector, with corn-
based ethanol production occurring mostly in the US and sugarcane-based ethanol …

Recent analyses of the energy and greenhouse-gas performance of alternative biofuels
have ignited a controversy that may be best resolved by applying two simple principles. In a …

The lack of temporal information is an important limitation of life cycle assessment (LCA). A
dynamic LCA approach is proposed to improve the accuracy of LCA by addressing the …

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is generally described as a tool for environmental decision
making. Results from attributional LCA (ALCA), the most commonly used LCA method, often …

Life cycle analysis (LCA) of algal biodiesel production process can provide a quantitative
measure for its sustainability. In this paper, the published LCA studies of algae biodiesel …

Purpose Biological sequestration can increase the carbon stocks of non-atmospheric
reservoirs (eg land and land-based products). Since this contained carbon is sequestered …

Releases of greenhouse gases (GHG) from indirect land-use change triggered by crop-
based biofuels have taken center stage in the debate over the role of biofuels in climate …