Reconciling top-down and bottom-up modelling on future bioenergy deployment

Felix Creutzig (), Alexander Popp, Richard Plevin, Gunnar Luderer, Jan Minx and Ottmar Edenhofer
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Felix Creutzig: Economics of Climate Change, Technische Universität Berlin
Alexander Popp: Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research
Richard Plevin: Transportation Sustainability Research Center, University of California–Berkeley
Gunnar Luderer: Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research
Jan Minx: Economics of Climate Change, Technische Universität Berlin

Nature Climate Change, 2012, vol. 2, issue 5, 320-327

Abstract: Abstract The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN) assesses the role of bioenergy as a solution to meeting energy demand in a climate-constrained world. Based on integrated assessment models, the SRREN states that deployed bioenergy will contribute the greatest proportion of primary energy among renewable energies and result in greenhouse-gas emission reductions. The report also acknowledges insights from life-cycle assessments, which characterize biofuels as a potential source of significant greenhouse-gas emissions and environmental harm. The SRREN made considerable progress in bringing together contrasting views on indirect land-use change from inductive bottom-up studies, such as life-cycle analysis, and deductive top-down assessments. However, a reconciliation of these contrasting views is still missing. Tackling this challenge is a fundamental prerequisite for future bioenergy assessment.

Date: 2012
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