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Facilitating carbon (GHG) accreditation schemes for biofuels, feedstock production
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Executive summary
Agriculture and transport contribute around one third of global greenhouse gas emissions and both their share and gross emissions continues to grow. The growing share of emissions from transport coupled to its increasing dependence on oil, have provided powerful drivers for biofuel production growth over the last few years. However, biofuels remain contentious, not least because the GHG-abatement benefits are widely contested. The research reported here shows that very substantial reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are possible from so-called conventional bioethanol and biodiesel fuels manufactured from UK-produced feedstocks (wheat grain and oil seed rape) when substituting for mineral petrol and diesel.
Due to land constraints in the UK, providing a substantial share of the UK's transport fuels from indigenously supplied biofuels may not be possible. However, UK farmers can demonstrate how efficient, modern agriculture can deliver very low GHG emitting biofuels enabling them to be competitive in an emerging global market that rewards such low GHG options and satisfying Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) requirements. Furthermore these standards could serve as a template for crop production in general.
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pr435-final-project-report-part-iRelated research projects
- Hands Free Hectare 2: Autonomous farming machinery for cereals production
- Environmental and nutritional benefits of bioethanol co-products (ENBBIO)
- AHDB Environmental and Agricultural Resource Efficiency Tool (EAgRET)
- Modern triticale crops for increased yields, reduced inputs, increased profitability and reduced greenhouse gas emissions from UK cereal production
- Minimising nitrous oxide intensities of arable crop products (MIN-NO)
- Agronomic, economic and environmental analysis of dual-purpose wheat cultivars for bioenergy (PhD)
- Wheat straw for biofuel production (PhD)
- END-O-SLUDG- Marketable sludge derivatives from sustainable processing of wastewater in a highly integrated treatment plant
- Impact of climate change on diseases in sustainable arable crop systems: CLIMDIS
- The nutritional value of biofuel co-products for poultry (PhD)