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Global Warming Potential of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Biomass Stored in the Anthroposphere and Used for Bioenergy at End of Life
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Summary: There is growing interest in understanding how storage or delayed emission of carbon in products based on bioresources might mitigate climate change, and how such activities could be credited. In this research we extend the recently introduced approach that integrates biogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) fluxes with the global carbon cycle (using biogenic global warming potential [GWP bio ]) to consider the storage period of harvested biomass in the anthroposphere, with subsequent oxidation. We then examine how this affects the climate impact from a bioenergy resource. This approach is compared to several recent methods designed to address the same problem. Using both a 100‐ and a 500‐year fixed time horizon we calculate the GWP bio factor for every combination of rotational and anthropogenic storage periods between 0 and 100 years. The resulting GWP bio factors range from −0.99 (1‐year rotation and 100‐year storage) to +0.44 (100‐year rotation and 0‐year storage). The approach proposed in this study includes the interface between biomass growth and emissions and the global carbon cycle, whereas other methods do not model this. These results and the characterization factors produced can determine the climate change benefits or impacts associated with the storage of biomass in the anthroposphere, and the subsequent release of biogenic CO 2 with the radiative forcing integrated in a fixed time window.
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“Guest et al. (2013a) expanded the GWPbio to include the effect of delayed emissions and storage, resulting in GWPbio factors specific to the rotation period and storage duration.”
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“Guest et al. (2013b) consider the role of forest residues for GWPbio factors but argue the GWPbio factors for collected residues should be the same as for primary biomass.”
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“Guest et al. (2013b) expanded the GWPbio concept to include harvest residues left to decay.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Guest, G., Cherubini, F., & Strømman, A. H.
- Affiliations
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
- Corresponding author
- Guest, Geoffrey
- Venue
- Journal of Industrial Ecology
- Published
- 2012-08-08
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 20-30
- ISSN
- 1088-1980 (ISSN-L)
- 1530-9290
- OpenAlex
- W2171121540
- Cited by
- 193
- References
- 27
- Citations by year
- 2026: 22 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 6
- FWCI
- 5.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Industrial Ecology (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Norwegian Research Council
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
- Keywords
- global warming potential, biomass storage, bioenergy, carbon sequestration, carbon cycle, radiative forcing, climate change mitigation, characterization factors
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