1st Workshop – ESSP BioenergyBioenergy and Earth.pptVIP

Earth System Science Partnership How much bioenergy can be grown in sustainable ways? 1.1. Opportunity cost 1.2. Assessment of land availability 1.3. Assessment of optimality Scenario Development How Vulnerable Bioenergy Systems are to Climate Change? How Climate-Protective are Biofuels? Sustainability Standards for Bioenergy Systems There are several approaches to address this question which are largely complementary: 1.1. Opportunity Cost (an economic approach) or through the establishment of resilient systems and pathways (a system approach). We want to pursue brining together these t