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Are Biofuels the Answer to Kick-Start Decarbonisation in the Shipping Sector?

Andrew Welfle By Andrew Welfle Filed Under: Energy and Environment Posted: October 21, 2019

In this blog, Dr Andrew Welfle, based in Tyndall Manchester and part of the national Supergen Bioenergy Hub, looks at the current state of the global shipping sector and how it can look towards decarbonisation through a commitment to the use of biofuels. The trade and movement of goods and resources is the engine that […]

Tagged With: bioenergy, biofuels, carbon emissions

How policy instrument choice will shape attitudes to negative emissions

Terri Lucas By Terri Lucas Filed Under: Energy and Environment Posted: April 11, 2019

The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change has set out commitments to limit the increase in global average temperature to “well below 2°C and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C”. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has concluded that this is still possible, but nearly all of their scenarios assume that it will require […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Affordable and Clean Energy, #SDG Climate Action, #SDG Industry Innovation and Infrastructure, BECCS, bioenergy, Business Energy & Industry, carbon emissions, carbon reduction, climate change, energy, environment, NETs, social opinion

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Wasting the biomass opportunity

Andrew Welfle By Andrew Welfle Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted: June 18, 2014

The UK could generate almost half its energy needs by 2050 from UK biomass sources, including household rubbish, agricultural residues and home-grown biofuels. Unless we plan and invest for this, we will waste a great opportunity, argues Andrew Welfle. As much as 44% of our total energy requirement could be met by the potential abundance of […]

Tagged With: bioenergy, biofuels, biomass, climate change, Climate Change Act, energy, greenhouse gases, Kyoto, wastes

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