FAO Releases Paper on Wood Fuels

摘要

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has released a paper titled What Woodfuels Can Do to Mitigate Climate Change. Highlighting the centrality of wood fuels' contribution to global energy consumption, the paper addresses approaches to improve efficiency in the wood fuel sector and to manage the resource more sustainably. It also examines options for pellets, residues and feedstock supplies, as well as options for combined heat and power systems and cofiring of biomass in coal-fired power plants. The paper suggests that the use of biomass for heat and power could save more than 1 gigaton of carbon annually by 2030. It notes that savings from the traditional bio-mass sector could amount to more than 0.5 gigatons but would require high investment costs.