Perennial biomass cropping and use: Shaping the policy ecosystem in European countries
Abstrak
Abstract Demand for sustainably produced biomass is expected to increase with the need to provide renewable commodities, improve resource security and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with COP26 commitments. Studies have demonstrated additional environmental benefits of using perennial biomass crops (PBCs), when produced appropriately, as a feedstock for the growing bioeconomy, including utilisation for bioenergy (with or without carbon capture and storage). PBCs can potentially contribute to Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) (2023–27) objectives provided they are carefully integrated into farming systems and landscapes. Despite significant research and development (R&D) investment over decades in herbaceous and coppiced woody PBCs, deployment has largely stagnated due to social, economic and policy uncertainties. This paper identifies the challenges in creating policies that are acceptable to all actors. Development will need to be informed by measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of greenhouse gas emissions reductions and other environmental, economic and social metrics. It discusses interlinked issues that must be considered in the expansion of PBC production: (i) available land; (ii) yield potential; (iii) integration into farming systems; (iv) R&D requirements; (v) utilisation options; and (vi) market systems and the socio‐economic environment. It makes policy recommendations that would enable greater PBC deployment: (1) incentivise farmers and land managers through specific policy measures, including carbon pricing, to allocate their less productive and less profitable land for uses which deliver demonstrable greenhouse gas reductions; (2) enable greenhouse gas mitigation markets to develop and offer secure contracts for commercial developers of verifiable low‐carbon bioenergy and bioproducts; (3) support innovation in biomass utilisation value chains; and (4) continue long‐term, strategic R&D and education for positive environmental, economic and social sustainability impacts.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (40)
John Clifton‐Brown
Astley Hastings
Moritz vonCossel
Donal Murphy‐Bokern
Jon McCalmont
Jeanette Whitaker
Efi Alexopoulou
Stefano Amaducci
Larisa Andronic
Christopher Ashman
Danny Awty‐Carroll
Rakesh Bhatia
Lutz Breuer
Salvatore Cosentino
William Cracroft‐Eley
Iain Donnison
Berien Elbersen
Andrea Ferrarini
Judith Ford
Jörg Greef
Julie Ingram
Iris Lewandowski
Elena Magenau
Michal Mos
Martin Petrick
Marta Pogrzeba
Paul Robson
Rebecca L. Rowe
Anatolii Sandu
Kai‐Uwe Schwarz
Danilo Scordia
Jonathan Scurlock
Anita Shepherd
Judith Thornton
Luisa M. Trindade
Sylvia Vetter
Moritz Wagner
Pei‐Chen Wu
Toshihiko Yamada
Andreas Kiesel
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2023
- Sumber Database
- DOAJ
- DOI
- 10.1111/gcbb.13038
- Akses
- Open Access ✓