Wood-ethanol for climate change mitigation in Canada |
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Authors: | Peter J Graham David J Gregg John N Saddler |
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Institution: | (1) Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, 580 Booth St., K1A 0E4 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
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Abstract: | The impetus for this paper is Canada’s commitment under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to reduce
national greenhouse gas emissions as well as reducing our dependency on fossil fuels. Wood-based ethanol offers an excellent
opportunity for greenhouse gas mitigation due to market potential, an ability to offset significant emissions from the transportation
sector, a reduction of emissions from CO2-intensive waste-management systems, and carbon sequestration in afforested plantations. While there are technological and
economic barriers to overcome, using wood-biomass as a source of ethanol can be an economically viable tool for reducing greenhouse
gas levels in the atmosphere. This paper examines the costs and mitigation potential of the production of ethanol from biomass
supplied from industrial wood waste as well as from trees harvested from afforested land. |
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Keywords: | Ethanol greenhouse gas afforestation wood waste economics |
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