SUSTAINABLE FORESTS IN BRAZIL. CAN PROVIDE NEGATIVE EMISSIONS FROM WOODY BIOMASS?

Author(s)

Escobar, J. F. ; Coelho, S. T. ; Diaz-Chavez, R. ; Persson, M ; Scarlat, N ; Grassi, A ; Helm, P

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: 2022 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION FUSION (FUSION 2022); v. N/A, p. 5-pg., 2018-01-01.

Abstract

Brazil is a country with several advantages to act as a leader in agro-industrial and forest sectors, particularly those dedicated to energy, featuring sustainable biomass production with significant potential for exploitation. Its natural and geographical conditions are quite favorable and there are available areas with adequate characteristics of soil and climate conditions, making it the country's largest gathering of quantitative comparative advantages to lead the sustainable production and use of biomass energy on a large scale, without competition with other crops such as food crops. If successful in institutional advancements, we can expect Brazil to accelerate the sustainable expansion of forest plantations. Considering forestry in Brazil, it is important to notice that, in this sector, the prospects for expansion of forest plantations can ensure future demand for wood that are linked to the production of high added value, given that the country has the characteristics required for the production of wood for energy, as well as great potential for structure bioproducts as (LVL and plywood technology), replacing concrete and structural steel, with wood involving the projected bioenergy demands and potentially linked to CCS technology to promote negative emissions in the power systems. However, to place Brazil in the international solid biomass area, it is necessary to remove the existing barriers and to create policies to incentive investments in this sector aiming a higher participation, as discussed in this paper. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 14/50279-4 - Brasil Research Centre for Gas Innovation
• Grantee: Julio Romano Meneghini
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Research Centers in Engineering Program