White House’s mid-century climate change strategy includes biofuels

November 17, 2016 |

In Washington, the White House released a mid-century strategy (MCS) that envisions economy-wide net GHG emissions reductions of 80 percent or more below 2005 levels by 2050. The United States MCS charts a path that is achievable, consistent with the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement, and an acceleration of existing market trends. It will require increasingly ambitious decarbonization policies and support for continued innovation. The pace of emissions reductions will need to double after 2020 to achieve the 2025 target, and the United States will need to sustain that accelerated pace through 2050. Second-generation biofuels are mentioned in the MCS as needing to reach meaningful scale by mid-century and may require deployment programs to ensure that is achieved. Combining carbon capture and storage with bioenergy is also seen as a key strategy. Five specific areas for biofuel innovation are outlined in the MCS from reducing costs and boosting efficiencies to improving the carbon performance of biofuels and promoting more development of drop in fuels.

Category: Policy

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