Fuelling India’s future with bioenergy
Although India can produce reliable, cost-effective and environmentally sustainable bioenergy to meet its energy demand, progress has been slow. Implementing a few key action plans centred around the market
Biomass
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Dry matter losses during biomass storage: Measures to minimize feedstock degradation
<p>The degradation of biomass during storage leads to several unfavourable outcomes including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, feedstock/energy losses, and economic losses. <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/EIA-Dry-Matter-Loss_Final.pdf"
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Review of woodfuel biomass production and utilization in Africa: a desk study
A new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) desk study launched at the 17th African Ministerial Conference on the Environment in Durban, South Africa, calls for urgent action to address the production and consumption
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Status report on thermal gasification of biomass and waste 2019
IEA Bioenergy Task 33 monitors the status of thermal gasification in its member countries, and publishes a Status report every three years. This report is based on contributions from member countries representatives
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Status report on thermal gasification of biomass and waste 2019
IEA Bioenergy Task 33 monitors the status of thermal gasification in its member countries, and publishes a Status report every three years. This report is based on contributions from member countries representatives
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To save the planet, first save elephants
Wiping out all of Africa’s elephants could accelerate Earth’s climate crisis by allowing 7% more damaging greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, scientists say. But conserving forest elephants may reverse
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Household income implications of improved fertilizer accessibility and lower use inefficiency: Long-term scenarios for Ethiopia
High population growth rates in Ethiopia are likely to aggravate farmland scarcity, as the agrarian share of the population stays persistently high, but also create increasing demand for food and non-food
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Impacts of improved biomass cookstoves on child and adult health: experimental evidence from rural Ethiopia
This paper presents the three-year impacts of an improved biomass cookstove on child and adult health in rural Ethiopia. After near complete stove adoption during an initial one-year randomized controlled
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Do improved biomass cookstoves reduce PM2.5 concentrations? if so, for whom? empirical evidence from rural Ethiopia
Improved biomass cookstoves have been promoted as important intermediate technologies to reduce fuelwood consumption and possibly cut household air pollution in low-income countries. This study uses a
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Vibrio sp. dhg as a platform for the biorefinery of brown macroalgae
<p>Although brown macroalgae holds potential as an alternative feedstock, its utilization by conventional microbial platforms has been limited due to the inability to metabolize one of the principal sugars,
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Examining wood-energy systems with integrated assessment and landscape models
This paper explores how to combine models to better understand the interactions between energy, economy, and land use in regions that rely on woodfuels. Fuelwood and charcoal are critical sources of energy