Opportunities for low indirect land use biomass for biofuels in Europe
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Abstract
Sustainable biofuels are an important tool for the decarbonisation of transport. This is especially true in aviation, maritime, and heavy-duty sectors with limited short-term alternatives. Their use by conventional transport fleets requires few changes to the existing infrastructure and engines, and thus their integration can be smooth and relatively rapid. Provision of feedstock should comply with sustainability principles for (i) producing additional biomass without distorting food and feed markets and (ii) addressing challenges for ecosystem services, including biodiversity, and soil quality. This paper performs a meta-analysis of current research for low indirect land use change (ILUC) risk biomass crops for sustainable biofuels that benefited either from improved agricultural practices or from cultivation in unused, abandoned, or severely degraded land. Two categories of biomass crops are considered here: oil and lignocellulosic. The findings confirm that there are significant opportunities to cultivate these crops in European agro-ecological zones with sustainable agronomic practices both in farming land and in land with natural constraints (unused, abandoned, and degraded land). These could produce additional low environmental impact feedstocks for biofuels and deliver economic benefits to farmers
Date Issued
2022-05-01
Date Acceptance
2022-04-29
Citation
Applied Sciences-Basel, 2022, 12 (9)
ISSN
2076-3417
Publisher
MDPI AG
Journal / Book Title
Applied Sciences-Basel
Volume
12
Issue
9
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Technology
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Physics, Applied
Chemistry
Engineering
Materials Science
Physics
land use change
low ILUC
oil crops
lignocellulosic crops
advanced biofuels
sustainability
marginal land
degraded land
BIODIESEL PRODUCTION
ALTERNATIVE FUELS
CRAMBE-ABYSSINICA
CROP-ROTATION
AGROFORESTRY
CARBON
SOIL
YIELD
NITROGEN
CYCLE
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 4623