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ORNL researchers release new Global Biomass Resource Assessment

A multi-country, government-led initiative dedicated to advancing the global transition to a sustainable, bio-based economy, unveiled a new Global Biomass Resource Assessment, providing data on current and future sustainable biomass supplies around the world.

The results from this new global sustainable supply assessment will allow scientists, policymakers, and industry leaders to explore potential sources of biomass as a foundation for a circular and sustainable global bioeconomy, supporting clean fuels, chemicals, materials and other products.

The assessment was conducted by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, with funding provided by the US Department of State and managed through DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) on behalf of the CEM Biofuture Initiative and Mission Innovation.

The assessment includes biomass resources available in many developing economies, which often do not have fully advanced biomass industries. It also aims to address the need for internationally accepted benchmarks quantifying sustainable biomass feedstock supplies that can be available to support a growing, circular and climate-smart bioeconomy.

An associated International Feedstocks data-sharing portal provides users with an aggregate analysis of sustainable biomass supplies as documented in more than 49 regional and national reports and covering 55 countries.

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A new Global Biomass Resource Assessment developed by ORNL scientists gathered data from 55 countries, shaded in green, resulting in a first-of-its kind compilation of current and future sustainable biomass supply estimates around the world. Credit: Ryan Jacobson and Andy Sproles/ORNL, US Dept of Energy


Based on these sources, more than 2,740 million metric tons of sustainable biomass supplies are currently available. Many governments also analyzed future potential of sustainable biomass. Forty-two nations that estimated supplies for 2030 identified up to 2,120 million metric tons of sustainable biomass, an increase of 431 million metric tons of biomass production over what those nations identified as currently available.

Data are hosted on the BETO-funded Bioenergy Knowledge Discovery Framework, or BioenergyKDF, data portal, maintained by ORNL. The BioenergyKDF is a centralized data hub designed to accelerate bioenergy innovation and sustainable bioeconomy practices. The BioenergyKDF data portal is also home to its premier US biomass report, the Billion-Ton 2023 series, which shares detailed geo-spatial estimates of current and future sustainable biomass resources in the United States.

The CEM Biofuture Platform Initiative was launched at the 11th Clean Energy Ministerial to lead global actions to accelerate the development, scale-up and deployment of sustainable bio-based alternatives to fossil-based fuels, chemicals and materials. Chaired by the US Department of Energy and coordinated by the International Energy Agency, the Initiative provides a forum for policy dialogue and collaboration among leading countries, organizations, academia and the private sector. The Initiative focuses on fostering collaboration, promoting innovation and driving investments in bioenergy and sustainable development.

The BioenergyKDF ensures equitable access to high-quality data that supports breakthroughs in bioenergy research. It offers comprehensive market analyses by feedstock and provides access to pivotal datasets such as the Billion-Ton reports. The portal includes intuitive tools that enable users to visualize, analyze, and download data at a county level, showing which energy crops thrive in different US regions.

Comments

Jer

Seems absurd.
A group wants 'natural' and organic-type and currently-growing feedstock and naturally-occurring resources to feed society's fuel and commodity needs/ wants -over- mineral, chemical, and non-organic-hybrid basic constituents?
If you assume that GDP will continually grow, population levels will be basically stagnant, but the 80% of the world, as poor, will want increasingly-consumerist lifestyles -and- this group wishes to go ravaging in the various biomes and crop fields in hopes of somehow creating improved sustainability? Does the palm-oil clear-cutting of southeast-asia not provide a clue of how that would go?
Truly bizarre. This group should be more focussed on re-using existing brownfield operations and optimizing low-diversity areas.

Roger Brown

Among people who feel that our commitment to consumerism and high resource use lifestyles is irrevocable, I do not see much realism on either side of the debate. Either you pretend that we can convert over to 100% "green" resources without serious impacts on the biosphere or on the human food production system, or you pretend that the negative externalities of continued reliance on brown resources are not really that serious. Pick your poison.

SJC

Non-food biomass can be used for its carbon content along with renewable hydrogen we can do this but we don't

Nirmalkumar

Whether it isAmerica, Europe , china orIndia.
,we need less consumrist life style. Circular sustainable economy. No huge SUVs, natural fertilixers , pesticides etc. America needs to learn fast as rest of world is catching up. All world cant just have consumerist life style.

SJC

If you store carbon you can make synthetic fuels and reduce urban emissions if you use the biocarbon it's even better there's so many things we can do to improve the situation but the economics says don't bother well you haven't accounted for the cost of global warming so it's not accurate accounting.

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