German researchers publish global biomass survey; conclude that degraded land can provide all global energy needs by 2030

In Germany, two researchers at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg and Universität Göttingen have published results of a global biomass survey in Naturwissenschaften. They found that the global energy demand for power and fuel, required under the 2030 International Energy Agency reference case projections could be produced primarily from cellulose grown “sustainably and economically” on degraded land. The study focused on land degraded by human activity “during historical times”.

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