The global economic potential of bioenergy

What is it about?

We present bioenergy supply curves ($/GJ), i.e. prices for bioenergy, for 10 world regions for two scenarios: one with taxes on emissions from the land use sector and one without emission taxes.

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Why is it important?

Bioenergy supply curves are essential to determine the trade-off against other mitigation options and to evaluate the economic potential of bioenergy for climate change mitigation. Low-stabilization scenarios consistent with the 2 °C target project large-scale deployment of purpose-grown lignocellulosic biomass. However, in general bioenergy supply curves are underresearched, in particular the available literature on bioenergy potentials does not consider GHG pricing in the land-use sector.