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Making biofuels from crops grown on land poses trade-offs between food and fuel. A new study looks offshore.
Zero emission? Carbon neutral? Carbon negative? What does it mean to achieve ‘net-zero’ emissions?
The Paris Agreement set countries on a path to limit global warming. Five years on, some progress has been made, but not enough. Decarbonizing the economy will take leadership and imagination.
Research by author and her students about palm oil waste water processing using Microbial Fuel Cells at the Faculty of Biotechnology, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia
Energy Minister Angus Taylor is this week expected to release the government’s first Low Emissions Technology Statement. It’s likely to include ways to remove CO₂ from the air – but do they work?
Ireland needs to stop burning peat, and wood from down under presents a surprising sustainability dilemma.
In the eastern reaches of Siberia, scientists discovered plants with exceptional cold tolerance that could be the key to sustainable bioenergy production.
Vehicles made before 2001 could suffer fuel system or engine damage if they’re run on E15.
Delays on climate action to reduce emissions means that we may have to consider technologies that strip carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But that will come at a cost.
Deriving fuel from trees costs more than wind and solar power and it emits more carbon than coal. There are many heated debates about this kind of energy, known as forest or woody biomass.
New research calculates the huge cost of 'negative emissions' technologies that will be required to avoid dangerous climate change.
International development banks are supposed to ensure adherence to human rights in the projects they fund. Instead, their practices provide fertile ground for human rights abuses.
The future of two key energy policies – the EPA’s Clean Power Plan and Renewable Fuel Standard – will decide whether bioenergy will continue to grow in US or not.
The government has issued a draft direction to the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to invest in “emerging” clean energy such as bioenergy. But what are the prospects for bioenergy?
Burning some wood waste from native forests will be counted as renewable energy under revisions to the Renewable Energy Target (RET) passed this week.
When we think of renewable energy, it’s easy to picture spinning wind turbines or rooftop solar panels. But what about bioenergy? While wind and solar are now well established – in South Australia wind…
Bioenergy and biofuels have an important role to play in lowering the use of carbon-intensive fossil fuels – a point underscored by the IPCC report which confirmed the need for further research to improve…
If you’re one of the thousands of smartphone users experiencing battery drain, you’d have been pleased to read that Tel Aviv-based start-up StoreDot recently unveiled a prototype charger that fully charges…
Biofuels have come under scrutiny in the latest IPCC report, which outlines some of the emergent risks associated with their production. In principle, biofuels seem to be an ideal solution to reducing…
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Professor of Forestry Operations, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Adjunct Professor, University of New England
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PhD Candidate, School of Forest and Ecosystem Science, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, School of Land and Food (Discipline of Geography), University of Tasmania
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Research Fellow, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer in Global Systems, University of Exeter
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Research Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Forest Ecology and Forestry, University of Vermont
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Director, Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR), University of Cambridge
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Professor, ARC Future Fellow & Founding Director, Sir Ian Potter NanoBioSensing Facility, RMIT University
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Professor of Sustainable Chemistry, RMIT University
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Professor of Catalysis and Research Director, Aston University
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Principal Research Scientist, Climate
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Professor and Principal Scientist, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Business Development and State Energy Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
