Are wood pellets a green fuel?
Abstract
A return to firewood is bad for forests and for the climate
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The claim that burning wood is carbon neutral is increasingly disputed because it neglects the long timeframe for forests to adequately reabsorb carbon and the need for responsible forest management.
“While some argue that burning wood is carbon neutral, that is increasingly disputed as it neglects the long timeframe for forests to adequately reabsorb carbon as well as the need for responsible forest management (Daley 2018;Harvey and Heikkinen 2018;Schlesinger 2018).”
From Making embodied carbon mainstream: a framework for cities to leverage waste, equity, and preservation policy to reduce embodied emissions in buildings (2023) · cites this paper as Schlesinger 2018
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Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass
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Robust paths to net greenhouse gas mitigation and negative emissions via advanced biofuels
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“Discussion Bioenergy assessment and policy development have often been limited by the simplifying but inaccurate assumption of biomass carbon neutrality (50, 51).”
A unified framework of life cycle assessment
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- Authors
- Schlesinger, W. H.
- Affiliations
- Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies (US)
- Corresponding author
- Schlesinger, William H.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2018-03-23
- Volume
- 359
- Issue
- 6382
- Pages
- 1328-1329
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2793700940
- Cited by
- 75
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 8
- FWCI
- 21.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Forestry › Agricultural and Food Sciences
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanics of Materials › Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Forest Management and Policy
- Keywords
- wood pellets, bioenergy, firewood, forest degradation, climate change, CO2 emissions, renewable energy
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