Delivering Sustainable Bioenergy
Bioenergy is the main source of renewable energy today. IEA modelling also indicates
that modern bioenergy is an essential component of the future low carbon global energy
system if global climate change commitments are to be met, playing a particularly
important role in helping to decarbonise sectors such as aviation, shipping and long
haul road transport.
However, the current rate of bioenergy deployment is well below the levels required
in low carbon scenarios. Accelerated deployment is urgently needed to ramp up the
contribution of sustainable bioenergy across all sectors, notably in the transport
sector where consumption is required to triple by 2030. But bioenergy is a complex
and sometimes controversial topic. There is an increasing understanding that only
bioenergy that is supplied and used in a sustainable manner has a place in a low carbon
energy future.
This Technology Roadmap re-examines the role of bioenergy in light of changes to the
energy landscape over the past five years as well as recent experience in bioenergy
policy, market development and regulation. It identifies the technical, policy and
financial barriers to deployment, and suggests a range of solutions to overcome them.
Published on December 07, 2017
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