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Reports on Bioenergy and Sequestration Potential

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Resource Congress

Report, Climate Consequences of Low-Carbon Fuels

Hill et al.’s 2016 report, Climate Consequences of Low-Carbon Fuels: The United States Renewable Fuel Standard, offers insight on the economic rebound effect for global fossil fuel consumption in a sc...

Resource Congress

Report, Carbon Balance Effects of US Biofuel Production and Use

DeCicco et al.’s 2016 report, Carbon Balance Effects of US Biofuel Production and Use, suggests the carbon balance effects of starch-based fuels such as corn ethanol and biodiesel may tip toward a net...

Resource Congress

Report, Soil Health and Carbon Sequestration in US Cropland

UC Berkeley’s 2016 report, Soil Health and Carbon Sequestration in US Croplands: A Policy Analysis, estimates that while agricultural soils currently only sequester 8.4 million metric tones of CO2-e p...

Resource Executive Branch

DOE’s Billion-Ton Report

DOE’s 2016 Billion-Ton Report on Advancing Domestic Resources for a Thriving Bioeconomy identifies potential biomass resources of one billion tons or more per year in the United States. For more than ...

Resource Executive Branch

United States Mid-Century Strategy for Deep Decarbonization

The US’s Mid-Century Strategy for Deep Decarbonization (2016), which aims for emissions reductions of at least 80 percent below 2005 levels by 2050, projects a prominent role for bioenergy feedstocks ...

Resource States and State Governments

Renewable Fuels Roadmap and Sustainable Biomass Feedstock Supply for New York State

NYSERDA’s 2010 report (and 2012 update) estimates the sustainable level of woody biomass that could be harvested from forests in New York on an annual basis and used for the production of biofuels, bi...