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How much bioenergy can Europe produce without harming the environment?
EEA Report No 7/2006

Released: 2006/06/08: See the report

Abstract:
Increasing the use of renewable energies offers significant opportunities for Europe to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and secure its energy supply. However, the substantial rise in the use of biomass from agriculture, forestry and waste for producing energy might put additional pressure on farmland and forest biodiversity as well as on soil and water resources. It may also counteract other current and potential future environmental policies and objectives, such as waste minimisation or environmentally-oriented farming.

Prepared by: Tobias Wiesenthal, Aphrodite Mourelatou, Jan-Erik Petersen (EEA)and Peter Taylor (AEA Technology). It builds on the findings of three background papers being prepared for the EEA on the environmentally-compatible bioenergy potential to which several ETC/ACC Consortium staff members contributed. Furthermore, the project was supported by a project group consisting of, among others, ETC/ACC Consortium staff members.

EEA project managers: Aphrodite Mourelatou and Tobias Wiesenthal.

Publish date: 2006/06/08

Published by: © EEA (European Environment Agency)

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