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Energy production from agricultural biomass can play an important role in combating climate change and increasing security of supply. However, different types of energy crops and energy pathways have differing environmental impacts and greenhouse gas emissions. Energy cropping can also lead to negative effects on biodiversity, water and soils in Europe (and globally). The question of indirect land use change created by additional biomass demand for energy production is a particularly important aspect that can in fact lead to an increase of greenhouse gas emissions due to deforestation.This Envirowindows site aims at providing material to support the environmental assessment of bioenergy production. It contains material that has been produced for projects of the European Environment Agency (EEA), was presented at EEA and other workshops, or has been written by EEA staff. It should be noted that these documents are not official publications of the EEA. For access to these please consult the EEA bioenergy webpage.

This site is divided in three main sections:

  1. EEA workshops and seminars: Material gathered under this heading relates to a consultation meeting on ‘Linking economic and bio-physical modeling in relation to bioenergy’ (co-organised with the OECD) and to an EEA workshop on ‘LCA GHG methodologies for bioenergy: Beyond biofuels’.
  2. Conference and academic papers: This section contains papers produced by EEA staff (and other experts) as input to conferences or as working documents.
  3. Relevant web links: This section offers a selection of web links to organisations working in the field as well as useful conference web pages.
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