European forests show no carbon debt, only a long parity effect

Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Eric J.M.M. Arets and Mart-Jan Schelhaas

Forest Policy and Economics, 2017, vol. 75, issue C, 120-125

Abstract: In the past the use of woody biomass for bioenergy was considered carbon neutral. However, this changed when analyses were made of cases of land use change or old growth forest logging for bioenergy purposes. These analyses showed a significant carbon debt that could take hundreds of years to be compensated by the substitution factor of the bioenergy.

Keywords: European forests; Efiscen; Carbon debt; Carbon cycle; Parity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2016.10.009

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