Land use implications of future energy system trajectories—The case of the UK 2050 Carbon Plan

D. Dennis Konadu, Zenaida Sobral Mourão, Julian M. Allwood, Keith S. Richards, Grant Kopec, Richard McMahon and Richard Fenner

Energy Policy, 2015, vol. 86, issue C, 328-337

Abstract: The UK's 2008 Climate Change Act sets a legally binding target for reducing territorial greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050, relative to 1990 levels. Four pathways to achieve this target have been developed by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, with all pathways requiring increased us of bioenergy. A significant amount of this could be indigenously sourced from crops, but will increased domestic production of energy crops conflict with other agricultural priorities?

Keywords: The Carbon Plan; Energy policy; Bioenergy; Land use change; Land–energy nexus (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2015.07.008

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