Assessing the sustainability of bioenergy pathways through a land-water-energy nexus approach

G Pulighe, T Pirelli - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Bioenergy can significantly contribute to facilitating the transition to a self-sufficient low-
carbon energy sector in Europe. The establishment of sustainable bioenergy systems needs …

Redefining marginal land for bioenergy crop production

M Khanna, L Chen, B Basso, X Cai, JL Field… - Gcb …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Marginal land has received wide attention for its potential to produce bioenergy feedstocks
while minimizing diversion of productive agricultural land from food crop production …

Improved net carbon budgets in the US Midwest through direct measured impacts of enhanced weathering

IB Kantola, E Blanc‐Betes, MD Masters… - Global change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Terrestrial enhanced weathering (EW) through the application of Mg‐or Ca‐rich rock dust to
soil is a negative emission technology with the potential to address impacts of climate …

Bioenergy for climate change mitigation: Scale and sustainability

K Calvin, A Cowie, G Berndes, A Arneth… - GCB …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Many global climate change mitigation pathways presented in IPCC assessment reports rely
heavily on the deployment of bioenergy, often used in conjunction with carbon capture and …

Comparison of biofuel life-cycle GHG emissions assessment tools: The case studies of ethanol produced from sugarcane, corn, and wheat

LG Pereira, O Cavalett, A Bonomi, Y Zhang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
The use of alternative fuels, particularly bio-based fuels, has been an important strategy to
achieve greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions compared to petroleum-based fuels …

Plant litter traits control microbial decomposition and drive soil carbon stabilization

JR Ridgeway, EM Morrissey, ER Brzostek - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
a bstract Efforts to manage soils for carbon (C) sequestration remain limited by our
understanding of how differences in plant traits and microbial traits mechanistically drive soil …

Bio-coal: A renewable and massively producible fuel from lignocellulosic biomass

BH Cheng, BC Huang, R Zhang, YL Chen, SF Jiang… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Development of renewable energy is essential to mitigating the fossil fuel shortage and
climate change issues. Here, we propose to produce a new type of energy, bio-coal, via a …

Catalytic conversion of structural carbohydrates and lignin to chemicals

A Shrotri, H Kobayashi, A Fukuoka - Advances in catalysis, 2017 - Elsevier
Lignocellulose and chitin are the two most abundant renewable sources of organic carbon
available as alternative for chemical and fuel synthesis. Catalytic conversion of these …

Sustainable land use and viability of biojet fuels

NZ Uludere Aragon, NC Parker, A VanLoocke… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Decarbonizing aviation requires, among other strategies, use of low-carbon liquid fuels,
since electrified propulsion of large aircraft is not yet viable. However, commercialization of …

Potential of global croplands and bioenergy crops for climate change mitigation through deployment for enhanced weathering

IB Kantola, MD Masters, DJ Beerling… - Biology …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Conventional row crop agriculture for both food and fuel is a source of carbon dioxide (CO2)
and nitrous oxide (N2O) to the atmosphere, and intensifying production on agricultural land …