Biobased products include a vast range of traditional and innovative materials and substances for purposes other than food and energy such as wood and composite materials, bio-plastics, adhesives, lubricants, paints and many other material categories feeding large economic activities. There is international recognition that developing a climate-smart bio-based economy is essential to the continuation of economic development, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and adaptation to climatic change. However, as biobased products are ultimately obtained from land or sea, a specific attention has to be payed when considering additional exploitation. Changes of land/sea uses can rebound and cancel out environmental performances and the original purpose of sustainability. Indirect land use change (ILUC) has been defined as an unintentional, negative, displacement effect of commodities in the primary sector such as agriculture causing additional land use changes. Provided that ILUC depends on specific legacy effects stemming from land condition prior and after land use changes, overall indirect effects are connected to the 1.1 billion tons of greenhouse gases per year generated because of land use changes. However the application of ILUC provisions as for biofuels has been and stays controversial. The Project STAR-ProBio is a multi-actor collaborative research and innovation action and supports the European Commission in the full implementation of European policy initiatives, including the Lead Market Initiative in bio-based products, the industrial policy and the European Bio-economy Strategy. One of the specific goals calls for identifying and mitigating the risks of negative ILUC effects associated to production routes for bio-based products. In this contribution the authors present the conceptual model and the results of the identification of risk factors obtained from the analysis of economic models and a sensitivity analysis performed over one selected case study
Diego Marazza, E.B. (2018). A risk evaluation approach for indirect land use change associated to biobased products. SETAC Europe 28th Annual Meeting in Rome, Italy on 13-17 May 2018.
A risk evaluation approach for indirect land use change associated to biobased products
Diego Marazza
Writing – Original Draft Preparation
;Enrico BaluganiFormal Analysis
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2018
Abstract
Biobased products include a vast range of traditional and innovative materials and substances for purposes other than food and energy such as wood and composite materials, bio-plastics, adhesives, lubricants, paints and many other material categories feeding large economic activities. There is international recognition that developing a climate-smart bio-based economy is essential to the continuation of economic development, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and adaptation to climatic change. However, as biobased products are ultimately obtained from land or sea, a specific attention has to be payed when considering additional exploitation. Changes of land/sea uses can rebound and cancel out environmental performances and the original purpose of sustainability. Indirect land use change (ILUC) has been defined as an unintentional, negative, displacement effect of commodities in the primary sector such as agriculture causing additional land use changes. Provided that ILUC depends on specific legacy effects stemming from land condition prior and after land use changes, overall indirect effects are connected to the 1.1 billion tons of greenhouse gases per year generated because of land use changes. However the application of ILUC provisions as for biofuels has been and stays controversial. The Project STAR-ProBio is a multi-actor collaborative research and innovation action and supports the European Commission in the full implementation of European policy initiatives, including the Lead Market Initiative in bio-based products, the industrial policy and the European Bio-economy Strategy. One of the specific goals calls for identifying and mitigating the risks of negative ILUC effects associated to production routes for bio-based products. In this contribution the authors present the conceptual model and the results of the identification of risk factors obtained from the analysis of economic models and a sensitivity analysis performed over one selected case studyI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
