期刊
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
卷 349, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.131477
关键词
Biofuel; Land use change (LUC); GCAM; GTAP; Carbon intensity; Climate change mitigation
资金
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [EP-C-16-021]
The representation of land has a significant impact on the carbon intensity of biofuel. Choosing different land representations can greatly influence the estimated CI-LUC in models.
Estimates of biofuel carbon intensity are uncertain and depend on modeled land use change (LUC) emissions. While analysts have focused on economic and agronomic assumptions affecting the quantity of land converted, researchers have paid less attention to how models classify land into broad categories and designate some categories as ineligible for LUC. To explore the effect of these land representation attributes, we use three versions of a global human and Earth systems model, GCAM, and compute the carbon intensity of land-use change (CILUC) from increased U.S. corn ethanol production. We consider uncertainty in model parameters along with the choice of land representation and find the latter is one of the most influential parameters on estimated CI-LUC. A version of the model that protects 90% of non-commercial land reduced estimated CI-LUC by an average of 32% across Monte Carlo trials compared to our baseline model. Another version that mimics the GTAP-BIO-ADV land representation, which protects all non-commercial land, reduced CI-LUC by an average of 19%. The results of this experiment demonstrate that land representation in biofuel LUC models is an important determinant of CI-LUC.
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