Europe’s renewable energy directive poised to harm global forests

This comment raises concerns regarding the way in which a new European directive, aimed at reaching higher renewable energy targets, treats wood harvested directly for bioenergy use as a carbon-free fuel. The result could consume quantities of wood equal to all Europe’s wood harvests, greatly increa...

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Autores principales: Searchinger, Timothy D., Beringer, Tim, Holtsmark, Bjart, Kammen, Daniel M., Lambin, Eric F., Lucht, Wolfgang, Raven, Peter, van Ypersele, Jean-Pascal
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6135810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30209361
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06175-4
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author Searchinger, Timothy D.
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description This comment raises concerns regarding the way in which a new European directive, aimed at reaching higher renewable energy targets, treats wood harvested directly for bioenergy use as a carbon-free fuel. The result could consume quantities of wood equal to all Europe’s wood harvests, greatly increase carbon in the air for decades, and set a dangerous global example.
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spelling pubmed-61358102018-09-14 Europe’s renewable energy directive poised to harm global forests Searchinger, Timothy D. Beringer, Tim Holtsmark, Bjart Kammen, Daniel M. Lambin, Eric F. Lucht, Wolfgang Raven, Peter van Ypersele, Jean-Pascal Nat Commun Comment This comment raises concerns regarding the way in which a new European directive, aimed at reaching higher renewable energy targets, treats wood harvested directly for bioenergy use as a carbon-free fuel. The result could consume quantities of wood equal to all Europe’s wood harvests, greatly increase carbon in the air for decades, and set a dangerous global example. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-09-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6135810/ /pubmed/30209361 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06175-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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