PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

Indirect effects of bio-energy worrisome

Newsitem | 18-02-2010
Photo of field with yellow rapeseed flowers, with solitary tree in background, against blue sky with white clouds

Bio-energy has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Indirect effects might partly or even completely undo this advantage. Indirect land use change (ILUC) – leading to emissions and loss of nature – is an important example, but there are other indirect effects, as well.

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