A critique of the IPCC/OECD/IEA methodology for assessing the greenhouse gas emissions from biomass: A case study of Brazil
- Cidade Universitaria, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
The coefficients of Carbon Dioxide emissions from biomass energy release are extremely important in the case of Brazil, in view of the share of this energy in the national energy balance - accounting for 30{double_prime}% of the total primary energy in 1991. However, the last issue of OECD`s Expert Meetings, prepared for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC) did not include these coefficients, properly speaking, as we pointed out during the work meetings on Brazil with the USA Environmental Protection Agency. The revised version of the OECD Methodology, lists the coefficients for firewood, charcoal, and sugar cane bagasse. Nevertheless, a careful analysis of these coefficients, based on comparisons with Brazilian energy data, may prove useful before their being put to wider practical use. The results of the analysis carried out by the work group of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Evaluation Project of the Energy Planning Program at COPPE/UFRJ, is detailed in this paper.
- OSTI ID:
- 478732
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960958-; TRN: 97:002640-0124
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Partnerships to develop and apply biomass technologies, Nashville, TN (United States), 15-19 Sep 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Bioenergy `96: Partnerships to develop and apply biomass technologies. Volume I and II; PB: 1171 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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